I finally committed to paying $12 a month for Amazon Prime Music.
There’s a lot of albums by Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Clint Black, Brooks and Dunn, and more that I’ve never heard.
I only know these artists hit singles.
I’m having trouble playing albums. I search and find it. Pressing Play button only plays one song.
I figured out the lines that form a x with arrow heads plays the album but not in track order.
It only plays the album once and then the player starts randomly playing songs from my library. It’s also grabbing country Artists that aren’t in my Library. WTH? Amazon?
It’s very confusing. One minute I’m chilling to George Strait’s Pure Country album. Washing dishes or mopping. All of sudden I realize that’s not George Strait!
I’m seriously considering canceling before the Trial period ends and I get charged.
I learn to love new albums by hearing them repeatedly. I learn the songs that way. I also discover the songs that I don’t like. They get deleted from the folder on my phone. I keep a backup of that folder and all the songs.
Amazon Music seems determined not to let me do that. All this random music pisses me off.
I could create a playlist and add all the songs from an album.
That seems like a ridiculously convoluted solution.
Sometimes I open Chrome on my laptop and log into the Amazon Music web site.
I have considered making a play list and adding songs from three new albums. That’s about 2 hours of music. It’s easy removing a song that I don’t like.
At least I’d have 2 hours of George Strait or Alan Jackson without it randomly grabbing a different artist.
I see the problem now. When the album is open, click on the three horizontal dots to the right of the Shuffle button. Click on “select all” from the list.
Now all of the songs will be selected. From there click on the first one.
A service like Amazon Music is great for weeding out the bad albums with filler songs.
Artists used to sign record deals. Maybe a 4 album deal. The best songs they can find go onto the first couple albums. The pickings get leaner by the 4th album.
Unless your George Strait or another big country star. They had the best songwriters in Nashville to pick from.
I still remember the disappointment in high school. I bought a few albums that weren’t any good except for a couple chart-topping songs.
I was mowing and raking yards to make money. Wasting $ on a bad album hurt.
Don’t. The app is hot garbage, and consistently rated extremely poorly for good reason. It hangs, repeats, refuses to play, handles downloaded playlists poorly. Pretty much sucks at anything other than selling you songs and service.
In a browser window, much better, and of course on dedicated amazon devices.
A couple of things that work more generally, is that if you’re using the app, use the voice prompt/microphone and ask it to play a specific album by name (works reasonably well), play songs by a specific artist (also reasonably well), or build custom playlists by that artists or a group of artists and specify playing that playlist.
Anything more granular for whatever reason tends to give you single songs, or other grumpiness.
Once, when it was a benny from being an amazon prime member, before they spun off the “unlimited” version of music, it justified my annual prime membership, but the unspeakable degree of enshittification of their “free version” (auto randomization, adds whatever it wants as “similar” music, and crippled randomization that means it’ll play 20% of the songs out of a 50 item playlist every single time) means that when my current free/discounted trial ends next month, I’m going to seriously consider dropping the whole thing.