Amazon's music app coming soon to Windows Phone
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In a very short time, Microsoft users will be able to enjoy yet another alternative to Xbox Music, but this time not from some independent developer, but from the giant Amazon, who would be rushing tolaunch your own music app on Windows Phone, linked to Amazon Music services, Amazon Prime, and the company's MP3 store.
To get an idea of what we can expect from Amazon Music on Windows Phone we can look at what today the Amazon music application for Windows already offers(PC, download here).It is a player that gives us a more than decent collection management, with options to edit metadata, instant search, playlist management and a mini-player mode.
Along with all this, we have access to the Amazon music store, from where we can buy songs and albums at very convenient prices (compared to those of iTunes or Xbox Music), and even downloading or listening to them via streaming at no additional cost if we have an Amazon Prime subscription. We also have radio stations and personalized playlists like Spotify.
We can access all of the above for a price of $99 a year, which is exactly the same as an annual subscription of Xbox Music Pass, but with the advantage that here we also get access to Kindle book lending and unlimited storage of photos in Amazon Cloud Drive (officially there are even more benefits , but many of them apply only to the United States).
In parallel to the above, Amazon also offers music synchronization with the cloud and with other devices through aservice virtual locker similar to iTunes Cloud or what Microsoft is preparing with OneDrive + Xbox Music. In the case of Jeff Bezos&39; company, the service is free up to 250 songs stored, and from then on we are asked to pay $25 per year to extend the limit to 250,000(which equates to a music collection of about 2.5TB). In contrast, Apple charges us the same $25, but with a much lower and easier to reach limit: just 25,000 songs."
As we see, both offers are very competitive and may be interesting for many Windows Phone users, compared to what Microsoft and other companies offer today.But in case we are not interested in any of these services, it is possible that we can also use the Amazon application simply as a local music player (at least that way happens with the Amazon Music app for PC).
And how do we know that Amazon is planning to release such a music app on Windows Phone? Well, thanks to email from the same company, where the customer service team responds to a Windows Phone user who complains about the lack of support for this platform:
More Amazon apps coming to Windows Phone in 2015
But the good news does not end with Amazon Music, because thanks to other emails sent by the company to customers, we know that Amazon plans to launch other of its applicationson the Microsoft mobile platform, all during the year 2015.
What are those applications that you plan to launch? The company representatives have not revealed it yet, but the possibilities are not that great, so we can play discard. Of all the official applications of the company, the only ones that are not yet available for Windows Phone, apart from the music one, are Cloud Photos and Goodreads In case of If either (or both) make it to the Windows Phone ecosystem, they would certainly be very useful and valuable additions.
There is also the possibility that Amazon referred to updating applications that are currently a bit neglected on Windows Phone, such as the app Kindle, which lacks basic features like the dictionary and has many unresolved bugs.
Whatever the case, it's nice to see that Amazon is regaining interest in Windows Phone, thus benefiting all users of this operating system, and making things easier for us when using its services.
Via | Reddit
