Amazon Music: Songs & Podcasts 12+

This app is good because you can kind of have unlimited skips by pressing the bad button and you can kind of choose what you hear by pressing what you don’t like and stuff. This is the free version. You can also play radio stations, which is probably the best thing. My only issue is that most of the time you can’t listen to one particular song, you can only play similar ones. Overall really good. Also if you just got it you can get 3 months free.

I really like this app. There’s a lot of content and the functionality of the app is great. But the offline mode has some major flaws, which is why I don’t like the app as much.

My biggest issue is if I have an online playlist and have downloaded that playlist to my phone, then add a song(s) to the online playlist. The app will create a new playlist in offline mode called, “[Playlist Name] (1).” It’s a really annoying feature and means that at one point I had 56 versions of the same playlist on my phone. It would be great if the app would recognise added content and just incorporate into the existing playlist.

Another issue is the app wiping songs after 14 days if you don’t connect to the internet. I leave the app in offline mode most of the time and this means the app never connects to confirm I still have a subscription. This means after 14 days I have to re-download a playlist. It would be better if the app just locked you out of offline music until you connected to the internet and then enabled it again. And even better, would be if the app would connect to the internet to check, even in offline mode, if you connect to wifi.

The title says it all. Creating your own playlists is not easy… as they push curated music at you. The app would benefit from the ability to select multiple songs from genres, albums or other playlists to add to a playlist.

The range of music is extensive and a lot is CD quality up to 192kHz 24 bit with dolby atmos capability which allows surround sound. BUT THAT is only available on devices capable of playing surround sound. The app doesn’t have the capability. I use the FireTV device through a receiver and it works fine. The FireTV interface isn’t designed for selecting and playing music from a variety of different locations like albums or playlists so i build a list on the app and wait for it to appear on the FireTV to play.