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Has Amazon removed their 30 second music clips, so you can no longer listen to song clips before buying them? Can you no longer buy individual MP3 songs?
I no longer see a play icon nor an add-to-cart option by each song.
There's a "Listen Now" button at the top-right of the page. If I click that button, it opens an Amazon Music page, and if I try to click the icon to play one of the songs there, it gives a message "On-demand listening is only available with Amazon Music Unlimited. Now starting a station based on your selection". Then it plays something else than the song I wanted to preview.
So, what does this mean? Amazon doesn't want to sell music anymore? They only want to sell streaming services? Or am I not being observant enough and somehow overlooking a new way to preview clips?
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Now I've found 7digital.com, which appears to work the way Amazon used to. Though I haven't tried purchasing anything from there yet. So if Amazon doesn't work anymore, I may have an alternative. I wonder how they both compare in what they pay artists for each sale. I use Bandcamp when possible as I heard it pays better than Amazon, but it doesn't include as much as Amazon.
I no longer see a play icon nor an add-to-cart option by each song.
There's a "Listen Now" button at the top-right of the page. If I click that button, it opens an Amazon Music page, and if I try to click the icon to play one of the songs there, it gives a message "On-demand listening is only available with Amazon Music Unlimited. Now starting a station based on your selection". Then it plays something else than the song I wanted to preview.
So, what does this mean? Amazon doesn't want to sell music anymore? They only want to sell streaming services? Or am I not being observant enough and somehow overlooking a new way to preview clips?
..
Now I've found 7digital.com, which appears to work the way Amazon used to. Though I haven't tried purchasing anything from there yet. So if Amazon doesn't work anymore, I may have an alternative. I wonder how they both compare in what they pay artists for each sale. I use Bandcamp when possible as I heard it pays better than Amazon, but it doesn't include as much as Amazon.