Amazon Search Engine - Recent changes in Behaviour

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Lately, when I've been looking for cheap second-hand CDs, I've gone to the Music Magpie site and found some great stuff!

[jayne lee wilson]

I too have noticed that some stuff is hard to find on CD. And if you select CD/LP as "Department" it still gives streaming options

Lately, when I've been looking for cheap second-hand CDs, I've gone to the Music Magpie site and found some great stuff!

Yes, that's a very good tip if you can find the seller's own website..... but what a shame about the Amazon search engine going awry, after being so reliably helpful for so long....
Usually you can find what you want, but it takes a deal more effort recently....having said which Tippett/Brabbins or Tippett/Osborne worked fine just now...

[cloughie]

I too have noticed that some stuff is hard to find on CD. And if you select CD/LP as "Department" it still gives streaming options

Lately, when I've been looking for cheap second-hand CDs, I've gone to the Music Magpie site and found some great stuff!

All no doubt billed as Very Good but a lot are very much poorer quality.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

All no doubt billed as Very Good but a lot are very much poorer quality.

I think we've had this mentioned before, cloughie - all I can say is that of the many, many items I've bought from the Magpie, the quality has rarely been less than Very Good, and frequently has been much better.

[mathias broucek]

The visual quality is a little patchy but I rip all CDs losslessly to a NAS drive and stick the discs in the attic so I'm not bothered as long as the disc rips OK

[richardfinegold]

Amazon rarely makes changes that aren’t aimed and increasing their dominance of a market. Why the need to dominate the Classical CD market is a mystery, but perhaps it’s helping Bezos pay off his Divorce Attorney...

[visualnickmos]

What are Amazon playing at?
It is so annoying when page after page of streaming opetions come up in the same category as 'CDs and vynil'
It makes looking for anything very difficult and time-wasting.....

[vinteuil]

What are Amazon playing at?
It is so annoying when page after page of streaming opetions come up in the same category as 'CDs and vynil'
It makes looking for anything very difficult and time-wasting.....

... I agree.

Tho' sometimes there seems to be an option in a left-hand pop-up column to re-designate "CDs" as an option (even tho' you're already in a 'CDs and vinyl' selection), which then works. But I have to say - this has presented itself as an option a few times - and then sometimes doesn't seem to be available at all...

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[jpegasus]

The 'real' listing for the Tippett/Osborne is here, available at the moment for £23.53 from Amazon themselves, or cheaper via the marketplace:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tippett-Piano-Concerto-Michael/dp/B000WPJ5S6/

To find it from the Amazon website, the following strange set of steps works:
Type "Tippett Hyperion"
Scroll down and find the one with customer reviews
It says "currently unavailable" - but click on it anyway, and select "Audio CD"

Even putting in the ASIN code (which you can get from Amazon France) doesn't find it!

Edit:
...but grabbing the catalogue number from Hyperion or Presto or wherever, does
(you have to remove the forward slash - i.e. not CDA67461/2 but CDA674612).

[jayne lee wilson]

Doesn't this work, like the Deerhunter, with one shot...?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb...ippett+osborne

All fine here as before....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=Tippett+brabbins

Random example "Immerseel Brugge"...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=immerseel+brugge&rh=n%3A229816%2Ck%3Aimmerseel+brugge

...perhaps the wicked Christmas Spirits are now departed....

[Cockney Sparrow]

"kondrashin concertgebow rimsky sheherezade decca CD" worked to check the recording / price in the Oxfam bookshop this morning.

True to form, about £1 less than Am UK delivered.I conducted the search on my phone, next to the till area - there being no other space to put books/CD down, every space elsewhere full of books/vinyl/CDs/DVDs (good) or "product" (not so good) .

Staffed by gentlefolk, there seemed to be an inference it was not quite the done thing. I explained, that as I'd seen them pricing stock the same way, it has to be OK to check it wasn't overpriced, and a worthwhile recording.

[teamsaint]

Sort of related question. Has anybody found that their Amazon wish list has had market place sellers removed from thee main listing so that you have to search each item for a best market place price, rather than being able to see them on the main wish list page ?
Or is there a setting I have changed by mistake ?

[Petrushka]

Another oddity: Why have some images on the wish list disappeared with a notice in Dutch telling you the image isn't available? When you click on it it takes you to the main listing as you'd expect - and the image is there!

[akiralx]

In the case of the Strauss (which is titled, "Richard Strauss in High Fidelity"), I suspect that the CD is, simply, no longer available. A quick search using the album title on Amazon France (which for reasons of location I use far more often than the UK offshoot) produced the CD but labelled as either a US import or only available used. The snag about this is that you need to know the album title, rather than being able to find it using, "Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben Fritz Reiner", which failed to bring it up. The Tippett ("Steven Osborne Hyperion Tippett") comes up straight away on the UK site.

If you find the ASIN code (usually B+ some digits) on any amazon site (in the Product Details), you can search under that, even in Google it will bring up the product when available on most amazon sites and elsewhere.

[mikealdren]

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