t's been nearly a year and a half since we last wrote about the Amazon
MP3 app, because that's the last time the company did anything
interesting with it. Compared to the competition at Google and
elsewhere, Amazon's iTunes competitor looks positively stale. Today the
Amazon MP3 app gets a fresh coat of paint to bring it more in line with
current visual trends, or at least, those trends that are on display in
the Kindle Fire tablets.
Below: Old and busted. Above: new hotness.
I wouldn't say that the adjusted UI is great, but it's clean and
functional, which should suit music fans just fine. The app is still
split into music stored on Amazon's cloud service and locally on your
device, with the same basic tabbed interface that lets you swipe across
playlists, artists, albums, songs, et cetera. With the new simplified UI
the tabs are really just highlighted words with the same
gray-white-orange palette on display in most of Amazon's first-party
Kindle Fire apps. The new integration with the MP3 store looks nice.
Amazon claims that the app is now "lightning fast," and indeed, it
does feel considerably more snappy than the last time I tried it. You
can also share your listening habits on Facebook, something that the
Google Play Music app recently acquired.
Amazon's music store and cloud player is still a tough sell if you're
invested in Google Play, or indeed, any other music service, but if
you've been using Amazon MP3 since the beginning your Android experience
should now be markedly improved.
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