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  "path": "/threads/amazon-music-prime-both-the-android-app-and-the-website.2608670/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-05T09:49:04.000Z",
  "site": "https://forums.anandtech.com",
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  "textContent": "Both interfaces seem to be designed around the principle of trying to stop you you playing the music you want. The website now tries its damnedest not to give a play option (my wife found it by clicking on a search result for a track in an album, rather than getting the album track listing on the screen and attempting to play from there), whereas the app wants to play tracks that share that album's name but aren't from that album, despite asking it to play that album.\n\nI realise that Amazon Prime Music isn't really a money spinner in itself, just a free service (well, part of Amazon Prime) that they hope to be a gateway drug to Amazon Music Unlimited, I just don't understand why they would make it dysfunctional to an unusable extent. It's like hoping that dog shit will be a gateway drug to cocaine.\n\n- edit - picking 'First Aid Kit - Palomino' as an example - I wanted to listen to the album a few times to see if I wanted to buy it - I've discovered on the website that if you get...\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Amazon Music (Prime) - both the Android app and the website"
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