{"id":5354,"date":"2016-08-23T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T09:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/23\/amazon-might-be-working-on-a-cheap-echo-only-music-subscription-service\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T17:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T09:08:57","slug":"amazon-might-be-working-on-a-cheap-echo-only-music-subscription-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/23\/amazon-might-be-working-on-a-cheap-echo-only-music-subscription-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon might be working on a cheap, Echo-only music subscription service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f187263%2f1\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/Nlc984OCo4EKCzb79UMl9wGM_ss=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F187263%2F1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Amazon+might+be+working+on+a+cheap%2C+Echo-only+music+subscription+service&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F23%2Famazon-echo-music-service%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F23%2Famazon-echo-music-service%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Music subscription services such as Spotify and Apple Music typically cost around 10 bucks a month, but Amazon might soon be offering a service that costs half as much \u2014 if you own its Echo music player.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2016\/8\/22\/12593158\/amazon-music-echo-alexa\">report<\/a> by <em>Recode<\/em>, which cites industry sources, it would cost either $4 or $5 per month, offering unlimited, ad-free music. Typically, that price point is reserved for internet radio services, such as Pandora One, which does not let users choose individual songs to play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/07\/amazon-studios-fall-line-up-transparent-mozart-in-the-jungle-man-in-the-high-castle-woody-allen\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Amazon announces dates for &#8216;Transparent,&#8217; &#8216;Mozart in the Jungle,&#8217; other original shows<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s cheap new service would offer that, but users would not be able to access it on phones or other devices \u2014 only the Echo. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/23\/amazon-echo-music-service\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/music-subscription-service\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music Subscription Service<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/amazon-echo\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Amazon Echo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/amazon\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/gadgets\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gadgets<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/vbbsgGrYX3M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music subscription services such as Spotify and Apple Music typically cost around 10 bucks a month, but Amazon might soon be offering a service that costs half as much \u2014 if you own its Echo music player.\u00a0 According to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/23\/amazon-might-be-working-on-a-cheap-echo-only-music-subscription-service\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1036,2750,768,726,4039],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-echo","tag-business","tag-gadgets","tag-music-subscription-service"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}