If you've amassed a large collection of MP3s over the years, you'll want to use Apple Music (or even Google Play Music) instead. MORE: Amazon Prime Day: Here Are The Best Early Deals
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Apple Music is available from iPhones, iPads, Android devices, Sonos speakers, Macs, PCs, 4th Gen Apple TVs, CarPlay automobiles and the Apple Watch. While both Amazon and Spotify are both on Echo speakers, Android and iOS devices, PCs and Macs and Amazon's Fire devices, Spotify is available on so many more devices that it made to catalogue them all. Apple is introducing social sharing in iOS 11, due this fall.
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An Amazon spokesperson told us that it has "deals with all the major labels-UMG, Warner, Sony as well as hundreds of independent labels like PIAS, The Orchard, TuneCore, INgrooves and more.” How does Amazon Prime Music compare to Spotify and Apple Music?Īmazon Music Unlimited offers a library of 50 million songs, the same number as Spotify and Apple Music.Īside from their similar Amazon Prime Music and Spotify's free plan are both free, provided that you're a Prime member.Īpple Music and Spotify Unlimited (both $9.99 per month) and Amazon Music Unlimited ($9.99 per month or $7.99 per month after Prime) offer similar experiences, though Amazon's "tens of millions" song library isn't as inspiring as the "more than 30 million" that Spotify and Apple claim.Īlso, Spotify connects you to all of your Facebook friends' listening habits, whereas Amazon doesn't do social media. Still, I couldn't find any holes in Amazon Music Unlimited's selection when I ran the playlists I rely on through its search engine. MORE: 12 Cheap Earbuds (Under $20) Ranked from Best to Worst The cloud locker feature is a valued option to many Apple Music and Google Play Music users. What don't we like about Music Unlimited?Īmazon recently dropped a feature that some (myself included) will miss: user uploads.
$12.99 per month or $99 per year (which breaks down to $8.25 per month) Without Prime, you'll spend $9.99 per month for Music Unlimited, though if you only want to use Music Unlimited on an Echo, Echo Dot or Tap speaker, that costs just $3.99 per month. Music Unlimited costs an extra $7.99 per month for Prime (which costs $12.99 per month, though you can save $56.88 with its $99 (opens in new tab) per year annual billing) members. You can also ask Alexa to pull up songs from a specific decade, mood or genre. If you say "Alexa, play the song that goes, 'You see what I mean?, USDA certified lean,'" it will recognize the tune as "The Man" by The Killers.
Music Unlimited also unlocks Alexa's ability to name the song that's stuck in your head. If your needs are less specific, just ask the assistant to play music by an artist ("Alexa, play Run The Jewels") to get a playlist of that musician's most popular tracks.
For example, if a friend told me that Lorde's latest record is amazing (it is), I could just say "Alexa, play Lorde's new album," to hear it. If you love to chat with Alexa, you'll also prefer Music Unlimited, which allows for a stronger set of voice commands.
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