I got a free three month subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited. From what I gathered, the music is downloadable only to portable devices and not to a pc, flash drive or dvd-rw, so I ignored it.
My subscription will expire in about a month, so I wanted to make sure---is there a legal way to download music from Amazon Music Unlimited to my pc, flash drive or dvd-rw?
Are you sure you're downloading the music at all? I think it's streaming only. Or if it does download the moment you end your subscription you won't be able to play the music anymore.
Amazon gave me a another free 90 day trial for Amazon Music Unlimited, so I have a question about it...
If I download a song from Amazon Music Unlimited to an MP3 player, then after the 90 days is up, the song will no longer be on the MP3 player, so the only way I can keep the song permanently is to buy software like TunePat Amazon Music Converter-----right?
Amazon keeps sending emails remind me I have the 90 days of free Amazon Music Unlimited.
So is the only way I can permanently keep the Amazon music is to buy software?
Are you confusing iTunes with Amazon music? In iTunes you can purchase and download music, movies and television series. Though like Amazon "Apple Music" is a streaming only subscription service.
Amazon Music you can only stream the music while you're paying a subscription. Think of it like a subscription for pay radio like SiriusXM. You can stream the music as long as you pay a subscription, but once you stop paying the fees you can't listen to music anymore.
I have never streamed any subscription, so this is unknown territory to me.
This is what Amazon says about downloading from Amazon Music Unlimited and then keeping a permanent copy via TunePat (see link). My impression is that the only way to keep a permanent song from Amazon Music Unlimited is to buy TunePac----is my impression correct?
I have never streamed any subscription, so this is unknown territory to me.
This is what Amazon says about downloading from Amazon Music Unlimited and then keeping a permanent copy via TunePat (see link). My impression is that the only way to keep a permanent song from Amazon Music Unlimited is to buy TunePac----is my impression correct?
Ive never heard of Tunepat but obviously its a third party software designed to bypass Amazons restrictive streaming service so you can save and play the music outside of Amazons service. Its a grey area were application developers can legally create and sell such software but using it is probably illegal. At the very least you'll be breaking Amazons User Agreement. Not that I am one to judge.
Amazon gave me a another free 90 day trial for Amazon Music Unlimited, so I have a question about it...
If I download a song from Amazon Music Unlimited to an MP3 player, then after the 90 days is up, the song will no longer be on the MP3 player, so the only way I can keep the song permanently is to buy software like TunePat Amazon Music Converter-----right?
Since Amazon Music Unlimited is Amazon's version of Spotify (aka it's a streaming service), why do you think you'd be able to maintain access to songs you've "downloaded" after you stop using the service?
As I posted before, I have never streamed anything before, so I don't know anything about streaming and was asking if it is possible to buy/keep the music afterwards.
As I posted before, I have never streamed anything before, so I don't know anything about streaming and was asking if it is possible to buy/keep the music afterwards.
From the service(s) themselves, streaming is just that streaming. Like turning on your radio. Unless you finagle/bye pass the system someway independent of the service, you cannot listen to the music without paying for a subscription.
There are basically two different concepts when it comes to digital music distribution:
Streaming (which is what services like Spotify and Amazon are doing).
Downloads (which is what services like HDTracks are doing)
Or a combination of the two (which is what services like Qobuz do)
Streaming means you can play the music as long as you have a subscription to the service. The music is "streamed" and played within the app of the streaming service. Music an be downloaded (temporarily stored) on a device, but can only be played back in the app of the service provider, and usually only if your subscription is valid.
There are also download stores, like Qobuz (which is both a streaming service and a download store) or HDTracks, where you can buy a digital download. The files then are yours and you can play them on any device you see fit.
I think that Amazon's situation is particularly confusing. There seems to be (at least) 3 ways of accessing music from them:
1 - The Amazon digital store: you purchase tracks or albums which you can either listen to via their site or you can download and do with what you want (since you have bought them). You can access your previously purchased digital music from your Amazon account and play it online. Isn't it the case that, if there are digital tracks available, you can also listen to digital files of CDs that you bought from Amazon?
2 - Amazon Music Unlimited - I don't use this myself but it seems to be a streaming service that you subscribe to. You have limited access to the music and it depends upon having an active subscription. I assume that this gives you access to all the albums they have in their streaming library
3 - Amazon Prime - it seems that there is also the option to stream a proportion of their music if you have an Amazon Prime account. Not sure what the Prime streaming library is but you are limited by having to have an active Prime account
I have this service and enjoy it very much. I don't have any thing I consider permanent on it; instead I use it to listen to and sample things I am considering buying. For instance I listened to Edie and for Olivia by Debbie Wiseman. It is worth the price of the subscription to be able to this.
