Amazon Music's Artist Conflation
Our kids like listening to music on their tablets, and we decided it's worth it to pay some money so they can make playlists and don't need to listen to ads. A family account makes sense if you're more than one person, and we ended up with Amazon somewhat randomly. I've been poking around: the personalization features are pretty terrible, and they have a major artist conflation problem.
- ▪Our kids like listening to music on their tablets, and we decided it's worth it to pay some money so they can make playlists and don't need to listen to ads.
- ▪A family account makes sense if you're more than one person, and we ended up with Amazon somewhat randomly.
- ▪I've been poking around: the personalization features are pretty terrible, and they have a major artist conflation problem.
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| Original publisher | Jefftk |
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| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:15:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-27T05:47:04.825Z |
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Our kids like listening to music on their tablets, and we decided it's worth it to pay some money so they can make playlists and don't need to listen to ads. A family account makes sense if you're more than one person, and we ended up with Amazon somewhat randomly. I've been poking around: the personalization features are pretty terrible, and they have a major artist conflation problem. When you first show up it asks you to pick some artists to seed your experience with. I put in the first few bands that came to mind: I would also have included some bands like Nightingale and Nova, but since these are common band names there wasn't any way for me to find the right artist profile in search, so I left them out initially.
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