{"id":170,"date":"2022-11-18T20:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2022-11-18T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:02:15","slug":"so-long-amazon-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/11\/so-long-amazon-music\/","title":{"rendered":"So long Amazon Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So it would seem Amazon Music have now nerfed its music service. I have been a prime customer for years, and a big user of Amazon Music on my Echos, and now recently &#8211; since passing my driving test, in my car.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Well, I noticed the app was all buggy, then after updating AND having to reinstall, I get a message saying &#8220;skip limit reached&#8221; after skipping a few times&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Turns out, despite paying about \u00a38.99 for prime, Amazon Music now offers more choice of music, BUT has a limit on skips, you can&#8217;t play specific songs on your playlists, can&#8217;t fast-forward, forced shuffling on playlists.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve shuffled the playlist you selected with similar songs. To listen to this specific playlist on-demand and ad-free, try Amazon Music Unlimited&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Downgrade in disguise!<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Looks like it&#8217;s time to join the girlfriend&#8217;s Spotify&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it would seem Amazon Music have now nerfed its music service. I have been a prime customer for years, and a big user of Amazon Music on my Echos, and now recently &#8211; since passing my driving test, in my car.\u00a0 Well, I noticed the app was all buggy, then after updating AND having&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[28,30,29],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/71b9gq.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}