Amazon MP3

by Amazon.com

Product Details

• ASIN: B004FRX0MY
• Original Release Date: October 21, 2008
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 6, 2011
Rated: All Ages This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (948 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #525 Free in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Free in Appstore for Android)
  • #5 in Appstore for Android > Music > Music Players

Product Features

• Access and play your Cloud Player music library wherever you go
• Choose from over 20 million songs and over a million albums
• Find what you want by searching, browsing genres, or exploring bestsellers
• Get the same low prices, special deals, and free music you can find on the Amazon MP3 website
• Check back every day for the Daily Deal and other featured music

Technical Details

• Size: 8.1MB
• Version: 2.8.0
• Developed By: Amazon.com (Privacy Policy )
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • com.amazon.mp3.CLEAR_CACHE_PERMISSION
  • com.amazon.dcp.sso.permission.account.changed
  • Request authtokens from the AccountManager
  • com.amazon.dcp.metrics.permission.METRICS_PERMISSION
  • com.amazon.permission.SET_FLAG_NOSOFTKEYS
  • Write to external storage
  • Read the low-level system log files
  • Access information about Wi-Fi networks
  • Access the list of accounts in the Accounts Service
  • Act as an AccountAuthenticator for the AccountManager
  • Read only access to phone state
  • Get notified that the operating system has finished booting
  • Open network sockets
  • Connect to paired bluetooth devices
  • Change Wi-Fi connectivity state
  • Manage the list of accounts in the AccountManager
  • Broadcast sticky intents
  • Access the vibration feature
  • Discover and pair bluetooth devices
  • com.amazon.CONTENT_PROVIDER_ACCESS
  • Access information about networks
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
  • com.amazon.CONTENT_NOTIFICATION_ACCESS
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.1
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 90 seconds

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 41 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The best music store for Android (and everyone else) March 22, 2011

By Ethan Anderson

The Amazon music store is easy to use and includes nearly every band and song available through normal retail sale. Some indie bands may be missing, but the overall selection is solid. The MP3s can be played on any of your devices so you're not locked in to a particular company's products.

380 of 477 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunate victim of "stuck on phone" syndrome. November 11, 2011

By Raven A. Wind TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Amazon Verified Purchase

I love my Amazon Cloud Drive. I have my entire music library stored in it, and for a while I really enjoyed using this app to access it. However, I had to delete the app today for one very stupid, very preventable reason: It won't install to SD card, and insists on being stuck on my phone.

Let me back up a bit... I have an LG Optimus V, and it has a very limited amount of space on the phone itself; That's why I have an 8GB SD card installed. Most apps are just fine being moved to the SD card, where they function just as well as they did on the phone. A few apps lose a little bit of functionality from the move (such as being able to automatically open when you reboot the phone), but for the most part it has been a useful feature and it makes the difference between me using an app (Mirriam Webster Dictionary) and deleting an App and giving it a low rating (Dictionary.com).

The Amazon MP3 App has great functions, great features, and works wonderfully to connect me to my Amazon Cloud Drive... But it takes up 11 MB of space on my phone! That's not a lot of space if I'm putting it on an SD card, but it's a vast, bloated beast when it's trapped on my phone with its 178 MB of space. After you consider all the bloatware (Virgin Mobile piles it on) and Google's necessary apps (Google seems to think their apps are all too good to reside on an SD card, too), I end up with a very tiny amount of space to work with before I get the dreaded warning about running out of space.

And today it came again, and I finally looked at my Amazon MP3 app and realized that have to do away with it. I don't want to! I would move it to the SD card if I could, but Amazon has disabled that function in this app, and no matter how much I LOVE this app (and I do) that means I have to knock three stars from this review, and complain loudly that it the app is hindered by a ridiculous restriction.

Should Amazon decide to allow me to move the Amazon MP3 app to my SD card, I will re-install and enjoy it. Until then, I need that 11 MB of space, and even though the logic is that I'm using 11 MB to access 30 GB, I can't justify deleting other, more essential apps just to use this one. It's actually easier just to get a bigger SD card and fill it with music.

I would also say that the same complaint can be made for the Amazon Android Market app. It, too, won't allow a move to SD card, and takes up about 7 MB on my phone. It remains in place, for now, but only because it's necessary.

GET IT TOGETHER AMAZON! Any decent developer knows that limiting apps to phone storage only is a ridiculous, unnecessary limitation. There's absolutely no reason the Amazon MP3 app couldn't work from my SD card! Stop forcing me to keep it on the phone, and let me move it, already!

I want this app. I want to give it five stars. I cannot do that in it's present form, and that's due to one very bad choice by the developers.

UPDATE: So Here I Am. Crawling back because of a WORSE experience with the Google Music app, which takes up even MORE space than the Amazon MP3 app. I will put up with this app stealing space on my phone for now... But I want to see some changes in the Android Market, darn it! STOP MAKING APPS THAT CAN'T BE MOVED TO SD CARD, AMAZON! It's not user-friendly. It's not helping your app spread around. It's not good for your bottom line.

As soon as a cloud music app comes alone that lets me move it to my SD card, IT WINS MY TIME AND MONEY. It's unforgivable that developers want to fight over my phone's limited internal space when I have essentially unlimited space available on the SD card.

UPDATE 9/2012 - This will not be updated anymore, and I may have outdated information above because I opted to stop using Amazon Cloud Drive for music. This app wasn't convenient, and I just have a much easier time with a 32GB SD card in my phone. On top of that, Google's Music storage is free (for the moment) and I can't deny that free is a pretty attractive price point. I wish Amazon luck with this product line, but for me it wasn't worth the renewal.

371 of 492 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Amazon MP3 hindered my 911 call for emergency help April 16, 2012

By jbru

I would give this application 0 stars if that were possible. It came with my Sprint phone and presumably Amazon paid Sprint so that customers couldn't remove the application.

That's fine, I just never used it. I never bought anything, I never browsed anything, I never even opened the application.

Of course, that didn't stop this worthless excuse for a piece of software from downloading random updates whenever the hell it wanted; like when I was trying to do other things with the phone. It also had a fun little feature (re: bug) where it would use 100% of the phone's processor for minutes on end. I say minutes because it would often run down the battery life on my phone. I would, randomly throughout the week, find that my phone had turned itself off due to low battery power.

Again, mind you, I had never opened or used the application.

I endured all of this with quiet patience because while it was definitely an inconvenience, I was busy and it wasn't *that* big of an inconvenience.

Then then time came when I was driving and tragically, a car in front of me struck a pedestrian. I pulled my car over in the road to block traffic from become a danger to the injured kid who was lying in the road with a compound fracture in his right leg (it looked like his leg had nearly come off), scrapes, contusions, broken teeth, and most likely a nasty concussion. The people driving the car that had struck the person got out and started freaking out. They stood around looking panic'd without a sense of direction. I got out of my car and dialed 911, spotted a street address posted on a nearby building, and ran over to the kid to see how bad it was.

Meanwhile, my phone stalled and I waited, and waited, and waited. For 2 minutes and 14 seconds I waited for my phone to call 911 while I slowly started to freak out thinking I wasn't going to be able to get help for this kid.

In the end I did get through and managed to speak to 911 personnel, get advised on what to do for the kid, and made sure that the people freaking out didn't move him (neck injuries people, neck injuries).

But for an extra 2 minutes and 14 seconds this poor kid had to lie in the street in pain saying "I just want to go home" over and over again.

Later, after I got off the phone with emergency personnel, I looked in my phone's task monitor and histories to find out why it had taken so long to call. As it turns there happened to be an application that I had never used that was, for reasons unknown, using 100% of the phone's processing power.

Tell me, readers, which application do you suppose that was? Go on, guess.

Now some of you will say that I should have rooted my phone earlier to remove the app. I know right? Some people actually think that it should have been necessary for me to break my phone and change settings, voiding my warranty, so that I could call emergency services in a timely fashion.

Amazon MP3 was forced on me. I have never used Amazon MP3. I WILL NEVER use Amazon MP3 after that.