Amazon Music now available on Apple TV and Apple TV 4K

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Subscribers of Amazon Music are now able to use the music streaming service on the Apple TV and Apple TV 4K, in a move mirroring how Apple Music is available for listening through the retailer's Fire TV set-top box range.




Announced via a corporate blog post, subscribers can download the Amazon Music app from the App Store for the Apple TV. The app can also be installed on an Apple TV automatically if the app is already present on a user's iPhone or iPad, as well as if the setting to Automatically Install Apps is set to enabled on the device in question.

Amazon Music provides access to a catalog of 50 million songs as part of its Unlimited subscription for $9.99 per month, with songs offered with unlimited skips for offline listening, and no advertising. Amazon Prime subscribers also have their own version as part of the subscription, offered at no extra cost, but with a reduced catalog of 2 million tracks.

For the Apple Music app, users can access songs, playlists, and stations, along with music they have purchased and imported music available in the "My Music" library. Users can also view the lyrics for songs, scrolling by in time to the music.

The Amazon Music app for Apple TV is available to use in the US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and Spain.

The launch of Amazon Music on the Apple TV and Apple TV 4K is a role reversal of what is already offered by Apple Music and Alexa-powered devices, with Apple's service available to use on Echo devices and other hardware since December.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    MacProMacPro Posts: 19,728member
    Be cool if HomePods could too and using Siri no less.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    libertyforalllibertyforall Posts: 1,418member
    What took them so long?!    Now what about Apple Watch?!
  • Reply 3 of 5
    StrangeDaysStrangeDays Posts: 12,879member
    libertyforall said:
    What took them so long?!    Now what about Apple Watch?!
    Amazon often seems to play this game, like the ridiculously long time it took them to publish their VOD app on ATV. Their interests don’t seem aligned with their customers’ interests. 

    Amazon and Google are still publishing crappy ports from other platforms that fail to utilize standard platform conventions. Google’s youtube app is the absolute worst at this. 
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 4 of 5
    ITGUYINSDITGUYINSD Posts: 516member
    What took them so long?!    Now what about Apple Watch?!
    Amazon often seems to play this game, like the ridiculously long time it took them to publish their VOD app on ATV. Their interests don’t seem aligned with their customers’ interests. 

    Amazon and Google are still publishing crappy ports from other platforms that fail to utilize standard platform conventions. Google’s youtube app is the absolute worst at this. 
    Amazon's primary customers use FireTV boxes or sticks, just like Apple main interest are their customers with ATV.  If you are an Amazon Video customer and have an Apple TV, you either weren't watching Amazon Video or you bought another brand streaming box until they finally got around to it.  Same with Amazon music.

    How much of a priority are Windows users to Apple?  Same thing...

    I have to say, I was surprised when I looked on my ATV for a Spotify or Amazon Music app (really, any music app) and found none (this was a few weeks ago).  
    edited October 2019
  • Reply 5 of 5
    bestkeptsecretbestkeptsecret Posts: 4,265member
    ITGUYINSD said:
    What took them so long?!    Now what about Apple Watch?!
    Amazon often seems to play this game, like the ridiculously long time it took them to publish their VOD app on ATV. Their interests don’t seem aligned with their customers’ interests. 

    Amazon and Google are still publishing crappy ports from other platforms that fail to utilize standard platform conventions. Google’s youtube app is the absolute worst at this. 
    Amazon's primary customers use FireTV boxes or sticks, just like Apple main interest are their customers with ATV.  If you are an Amazon Video customer and have an Apple TV, you either weren't watching Amazon Video or you bought another brand streaming box until they finally got around to it.  Same with Amazon music.

    How much of a priority are Windows users to Apple?  Same thing...

    I have to say, I was surprised when I looked on my ATV for a Spotify or Amazon Music app (really, any music app) and found none (this was a few weeks ago).  


    The overlap of Apple customers and Prime subscribers is probably big enough for Amazon to care about the Apple TV. However, they really dragged their feet on getting the Prime Video app onto the Apple TV.

    Maybe they have other priorities, but history seems to indicate that they are a little antagonistic towards users of the Apple ecosystem, as shown by them stopping all Kindle purchases via the Amazon iOS app.

    We could argue all day about the rights and wrongs of Apple treating those as in-app purchases, but there seems to be some indication that Amazon isn't too keen on prioritising serving people in the Apple ecosystem.

    This is probably the basis on which @StrangeDays commented that Amazon's interests do not seem to align with their customers' interests.

    watto_cobra
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