Amazon Turns On Prime Music Streaming, Sans Current Hits
There have been a lot of murmurs that Amazon would turn on a new music streaming service this week, and it looks like that’s just what it quietly did a little while ago. A link to Amazon Prime Music, if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber that is, now takes you to a page heavy on playlists, promising over 1 million songs ready for your streaming pleasure, on top of the downloading service that Amazon already offered. And Amazon has also relaunched its mobile app on iOS with a new name: it’s now called Amazon Music instead of Amazon Cloud Player, which now also features access to Amazon Prime Music.\nBut, unless Amazon is going to add more features before an official unveiling, I’m not sure what we’re seeing right now is quite a Spotify killer. The service as it is right now appears to be missing the most current releases; and you have to go through several steps, including adding music to your library, before you can actually stream tracks. On a search results page, what you still get is the option to listen to an excerpt of a track.