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Although there’s something to be said for the convenience of streaming music services, there’s also something to be said for enjoying music from your personal collection, especially if it involves rare or obscure stuff not found on the streaming services. If you want to be able to access your personal music library online—for example, if you want to play it through the Amazon Echo—you can upload all your songs to Amazon Music for access anywhere. Update: Unfortunately, Amazon is on January 15, 2018. But if you upload your music now, it will stay available for streaming until January 2019, so do it now! RELATED: Sure, you could get your personal music pumping through your Echo by, but you won’t get to control the music with your voice, which is the whole point of the Echo in the first place. For most people, Google Play is probably a better bet for uploading your music—since it’s free for 50,000 songs.
But if you want integration with the Amazon Echo, you’ll have to go with Amazon’s music service. Unfortunately, you’ll probably have to pay up for that privilege. Dveryone gets storage space for 250 songs free with their Amazon account, but if you want to upload more than 250 songs, you’ll need an account ($7.99 a month for Prime members, $9.99 a month for everyone else). The Unlimited account not only gives you access to tens of millions of streaming songs, but it also boosts your personal storage limit from 250 to 250,000 songs.
That said, any music you’ve bought on Amazon does not count toward that storage. That doesn’t just apply to MP3s, either—many physical media purchases on Amazon are. This means that even if you got a CD or vinyl record in the mail, a digital copy of that album was probably automatically added to your Amazon Music collection (whether you realized it or not) and does not count against your personal storage quota.
To see all your purchased Amazon music (including the AutoRip uploads), simply log into your Amazon account and look under. Any music you see here you don’t need upload. Here’s how to upload your music. First, swing by and click on “Download Desktop App” to download a copy of the Music uploader for your operating system.
Run the installer. Once the installation is complete and the installed application has auto run, plug in your Amazon credentials and sign in. Once logged in you’ll see an iTunes-esque interface with suggested music and so on, as seen below, with a toolbar off to the right hand side. There, you’ll find a subsection of the “Actions” menu labeled “Upload (Drag & drop here)” and “Upload (Select Music)”. Both are perfectly valid ways to send music to your Amazon Music cloud storage. You can drop and drop music files onto the upper button or you can click the lower button and manually select files or entire folders to upload using your operating system’s file explorer. We’ll take advantage of the ease of drag and drop now to send a piece of music history, the Fraggle Rockin’: A Collection box set to the cloud.
53 songs about Fraggle Rock? We wish there were 5,300. Once the upload process has started, you can click on the button again to view the progress of the upload.
Once the upload process is complete, your songs will now be accessible both through any Amazon Music app on any of your devices as well as (and most importantly) through Alexa. You can now go to any of your Alexa-enabled devices like your Echo and issue commands like “ Alexa, play uploaded album name” or “ Alexa, play uploaded song name” and she will spool up the song just as fluidly as she would from a streaming service with a bonus—the bonus being there’s no “now playing song name from Prime Music” before your personal music, the song just simply starts. The music is immediately accessible too (no scanning or analysis required). We issued the command “Alexa, play the Doozer Knitting Song” immediately after the upload process was complete and the song spun up, complete with a matching confirmation card in our alexa.amazon.com dashboard: Did Alexa do what we wanted? Does a Doozer love working? At this point you’re ready to enjoy your personal music collection through your Echo and with the full power of Alexa-driven voice control. Simply repeat the simple uploading process to add more music to your Amazon Music account and enjoy.
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Not that it is relevant but I am a prince fan and his him while he was with us he did not allow his music to be found online you know he was real tough on yet been a true prince fan I have 28 hardcopies of his music. It took me about three months to download all my music. Would do this so worth it great my Beatles well my Led Zeppelin my Jedi mind tricks. My Tool collection alone! You know (if you know) they, TOOL don’t allow their music to be played at all on any steaming music service.
But being a music fan and having their music upload. And the available to listen to what the radio is incapable of broadcasting is fantastic, I love it. I was able to build playlist with music from my personal collection and explore music from an artist in multiple bands Tool, A perfect Circle & Puscifer. I know right! I threw in some Deftones and Chevelle pretty pumping playlist. It was a labor of love. I know that the upcoming Tool music upload to my collection and this platform makes it easy.
I really need to have a non-explicit screening and playlists to choose from. I listen to music with my kids in the car and we share so they can listen on their own without me hearing what they are listening to. The songs that I’m hearing are so offensive that I am to the point where I can’t use this at all and I’m uninstalling from my kids phones. (I completely understand that they are picking these playlists so I’m not nieve).
Plus, I’m telling people why I don’t like it and many teen parent groups agree that this should not be used by young teens and even older teens but we can’t be unrealistic. I am an advocate of keeping kids safe from unnecessary negative vulgar outside influences for as long as possible and this app does not keep kids safe at all.
If you had something in settings where I could select non-explicit only that would take care of it and I would prefer that. Plus, it should default to the ‘safe’ mode automatically when installed. The older kids will know where to go change it to explicit.
The adults might have a problem though. If you fix this problem, my rating will change immediately. I have tried to find this feature so if you already have it, please let me know where it is. Mom of twin 13, 15, 25, and 29 year olds. I love the app, I’ve had zero problems for the longest time.
My only issue arose when J.I.D dropped Decaprio 2 recently. I downloaded the whole album, but then he changed the album cover, requiring me to redownload the album again. Usually when this happens it’s no big deal, but for this album in particular when I go to play the new versions to the songs I previously downloaded, the app doesn’t recognize those songs as new, and tries to play the old versions, which doesn’t work.
When I try to play those songs, the “downloaded music error” message appears, giving me the options to either “start fresh” or “redownload missing songs”, neither of which amount to anything. I’m unsure if this has happened to any other albums, but this is my first experience where the album is changed and the new versions cannot be played because the app only recognizes the old versions. Please fix this issue. Other than that, I have no complaints regarding the app. I love it, but I’d love it more if I could listen to the explicit Decaprio 2- J.I.D album.