Echo & Alexa Forums
General Category => Amazon Echo Discussion => Topic started by: gdennis67 on September 10, 2017, 12:25:52 pm
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Having a heck of time finding information on Alexa costs. My issues is that I like to listen to old time radio shows while doing projects. i have about 3000 of them in MP3 format. I would like to upload them to Amazon so I can take my echo wherever I am and have Alexa start and stop playing- no selection is necessary, random selection is better. I can't find anything on Amazon's site that gives me a clue. Its all about downloading music. How hard do I have to beg to spend money with these guys??
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Not sure if this might help:
https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/07/amazon-shuts-down-its-music-importer-software-points-users-to-amazon-music-app-instead/#comments
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Why do you feel it is necessary to upload all this stuff to Amazon? It is so time consuming and may cost you $$ as well. Play the shows on a smartphone and send the audio to the Echo or a BT speaker via Bluetooth. You already have all these shows stored on a drive somewhere, so why duplicate all that effort?
What I do with my music is the same principle. All my music is stored on a NAS server (but it could be stored on a hard drive in, or on a computer), so if I want to hear it on any Alexa device or BT speaker, I just play the music from that source on my smartphone or tablet and send it to the Alexa device or even to a Google Home via BT. None of my music has been uploaded to Amazon; it is a waste of time and effort.
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just a fyi - there are several alexa skills that will play old time radio shows. a few off the top of my head include, dragnet, the shadow, superman, philip marlow...
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In the US, you can upload 250 music files to Amazon Music for free. For $24.99 a year, you can upload up to 250,000 files.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201379330
That page doesn't show the price, but it was displayed once I followed the link to "Your Amazon Music Settings."
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Thanks folks, I didn't know Alexa had old time radio content, so that might be an option. I don't own a smartphone so that dog don't hunt. Cloud storage is still the ideal since I've re-mastered many of the recording to back out noise, clicks and pops, balance volume etc. Just wish it was possible to get an answer from Amazon central.
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Gary, that's brilliant! Then I can ask Alexa to play them?
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Gary, that's brilliant! Then I can ask Alexa to play them?
That's my understanding, though I have to admit I haven't tried that service out for myself.
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In the US, you can upload 250 music files to Amazon Music for free. For $24.99 a year, you can upload up to 250,000 files.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201379330
That page doesn't show the price, but it was displayed once I followed the link to "Your Amazon Music Settings."
I've used this for years. I have about 23,000 songs stored. I'm a musician and have tons of stuff that amazon doesn't have or just stuff that's obscure. For me, it's a great deal. I stream to all my devices.