Paid my $25 last night and installed Amazon Music. Attempted to upload my library and just became increasingly frustrated. Select folder, nothing, repeat, nothing. Select files and that seems to work. However, the program begins to bog down, click on a menu and it takes a couple minutes to react. Eventually the program indicates it's uploading 8000 files (about the size of my library). About an hour into it, there's a cute little message about something going wrong, restart the program. Restart but things are still very slow (rock solid internet connection 1Mbps up). Reboot just to be safe since I did just install the program. Then I noticed there are duplicates so I did some research and found a thread on the Amazon user's forum that is 15 pages long and began 4 years ago. It would seem Amazon Music has no efficient way of dealing with duplicates and users have been quite upset about this for 4 years.
Sorry for the long winded set up but is there an Echo friendly alternative to Amazon Music that would allow me to utilize my music library? I don't see any option in Amazon Music that allows me to select a local music library and uploading is required. Though I completely understand the advantages of the cloud based thing, it obviously isn't ready for prime time so until then, why can't I select a local library like most other programs?
Would love Spotify integration but realize that's a ways off if at all. In the meantime, I greatly appreciate any input as the music function is fairly limited without access to my library.
Thanks,
Seanj
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