Notes On The Amazon Music Store Beta

Notes on the public beta of the Amazon Digital Music Store—

_They’ve gone out of their way to make it as x-platform as possible-even a Linux version on the way.

_Automatically adds downloaded tracks to a user’s iTunes or Windows Media Player library

_No re-downloading.

_The user interface needs some(much) work. While your at it, do the whole Amazon site. K, thx.

_Need to use the download client to download whole albums.

_Imagine mashing some LastFM data or some such for recommendations and filtering. I can see lots of cool stuff on the horizon utilizing Amazon’s web services. How about a customizable/embed/sharable Flash UI/widget to the store for bands/labels? Or how about something like that for Amazon Affiliates? A widget like this could also possibly power a “mobile/wireless” store.

_The big question: WILL THIS WORK ON AN IPHONE?

no.

The site let me go through the entire purchasing process (including payment) w/o warning or re-directing me about using an iPhone. (I did get a popup on the Amazon home page with a link to the “beta” Amazon iPhone site.)

Poor usability/contingency design.