Finally, Android is not the odd man out anymore, at least when it comes to Amazon Prime Music. After a few weeks of not being included in the platforms where their Prime Stations are available, the online retail giant has announced that Android devices can now access their music stations. This means you now have more options as to which music streaming service you can use to get your daily dose of indie music, hip hop songs, or yes, even Taylor Swift (just don’t look for her on Spotify).
The Prime Stations are the newest addition to your Amazon Prime subscription, which already includes two-day shipping, video streaming and the Kindle lending library as well. This is part of the growing trend of “unlimited” music streaming subscription services, which a lot of people are now preferring over actually purchasing digital music and building your own playlist. The Prime Music stations work more like Pandora rather than Spotify. You choose a genre or an artist as the “seed” of your playlist, and then it will start off your station, automatically creating a playlist based on that.
You also get recommendations as to which stations you should listen to, based on what you’ve listened to before or what you’ve already bought from Amazon. You also get to thumbs up or thumbs down the songs included in the station so it can help them understand what kind of songs you actually like. You can also pause and replay your stream, in case you want to go back to songs you really like, unlimited skips in case you don’t feel like listening to a particular song.
Of course to access these Prime Music stations, you need to have an Amazon Prime membership, which is at $99 per year, which includes all the perks we just mentioned. You can access the Prime stations through the Amazon Music app, which you can download from the Google Play Store or through the Amazon app store
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