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Choppy Amazon Cloud player streaming performance on Evo Shift (Sprint)

xboxist

Diamond Member
I recently picked up an Evo Shift. I like it for the most part but I'm encountering an issue that is pretty much a deal breaker unless I can get it resolved.

I cannot smoothly stream the music from my Amazon Cloud Player. When I go to play a song, it might take up to 30 seconds before it starts playing. And then it might play for 10-15 seconds before it stops for another 15-30 seconds to download more of the song (at least I assume that's what it's doing). I thought that if I let my phone choppily play through a song once, that it might be cached and the next time I listened to it there would be no streaming gaps, but that has not been the case.

This is all on 3G. 4G doesn't seem to work where I live and I don't have Wi-Fi in the home.

I can use Pandora all day without a song streaming poorly on me.

I guess what I'm asking here, is what is the culprit? I don't know enough about cellular tech and mobile networks to figure this out. Is it Sprint? Is it the app? Is it a setting that I cannot find?

Just trying to understand the problem. Thank you.
 
It's because it's Sprint 3G AKA very very slow. Amazon MP3 streaming for some reason works horribly with low speed data. I have rarely been able to get it to work right with Sprint 3G.

Give Google Music a try instead... it is much better at streaming. If you have Amazon MP3's download them and load them into google music.
 
It's because it's Sprint 3G AKA very very slow. Amazon MP3 streaming for some reason works horribly with low speed data. I have rarely been able to get it to work right with Sprint 3G.

Give Google Music a try instead... it is much better at streaming. If you have Amazon MP3's download them and load them into google music.

This

100% Sprint's network. Amazon never really streamed well over their 3G for me. Google Music is much better.
 
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