To download Prime Music titles from the Amazon Music app for Android or iOS:. Select the music (song, album, playlist, etc.) you want to download. Open the More Options menu ('three vertical dots' icon).; Tap the Download option.
- Pros
Large music library. Cool scrolling lyrics. Useful Alexa-specific features. Tight integration with Amazon Echo device family.
- Cons
No free version. Lacks non-music content. No longer lets you upload audio files.
- Bottom Line
Amazon's fully realized streaming music service provides an intriguing alternative to the many competing products on the market—especially for Echo device owners. X men 2000 movie watch online.
Initially, Amazon's reentry into the streaming music space with Music Unlimited didn't impress me. After all, this is a category rife with options, including Deezer, Pandora, and Editors' Choices, SiriusXM Internet Radio, Slacker Radio, and Spotify. But I was quickly swayed by Music Unlimited's varied pricing scheme, library, and Amazon Echo compatibility. No, Music Unlimited doesn't drastically change the game, but it does offer standout features that warrant a look, especially if you own one of Amazon's Alexa-powered smart speakers.
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Like Apple Music and Tidal, Music Unlimited forgoes a free version and charges the industry-standard $9.99 per month for its ad-free Individual plan. Note, however, that Amazon Prime subscribers receive a discount that drops the fee to $7.99 per month (or $79 per year)—on top of their $129 per year Prime fees. No, Music Unlimited isn't included with a Prime membership.
Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Amazon Tap owners receive a discount, too: they pay just $3.99 per month, which is the price of Slacker Radio's ad-free Plus plan. That's impressive. If you want to stream to multiple smart speakers, however, you need to pay the regular $7.99 per month fee.
Students receive a discount that drops the Music Unlimited fee to just $4.99 per month. Even better, Prime Student members enjoy six months of access for an incredibly low $6—that works out to a mere dollar per month! Apple Music, Spotify, and Tidal all offer similar deals.
Unlike Slacker Radio's low-price offering, Amazon Music Unlimited's cheaper plan for the voice-controlled devices comes with one big limitation. You cannot use it to stream music via apps or a web browser; you must use an Echo, Echo Dot, or Tap. Amazon also offers a $14.99 per month (or $149 per year) Family Plan that covers six people. This offering rivals Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify, and Tidal's similar packages (though, Slacker Radio still lacks a family plan). And a 30-day free trial is available for people who want to try before they subscribe.
Amazon Music Unlimited does not let you record audio. If you want that unique feature, check out SiriusXM Internet Radio, the Editors' Choice for streaming audio services focused on live audio.
Amazon Music Unlimited vs. Amazon Prime Music
If you're curious about the differences between Amazon Music Unlimited and Amazon Prime Music, I'll break it down. Amazon Music Unlimited is a standalone streaming music service that offers 'tens of millions' of songs. Amazon Prime Music, on the other hand, is bundled in your Prime subscription and offers 2 million songs. Both are ad-free listening experiences and are available on numerous devices.
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If you don't care too much about music, and just want to dabble in it here and there, Prime Music is a decent option. That said, you'll notice that some tracks and albums encourage you to sign up for Amazon Music Unlimited to hear them. For example, you cannot stream Taylor Swift's Reputation with Prime Music.
Signing up for Amazon Music Unlimited causes the service to replace Amazon Prime Music as your Amazon jukebox, so you needn't worry about launching the wrong streaming service.
Echo Compatibility
The increased library size makes Music Unlimited infinitely more interesting to use with an Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot, or Tap. In the past, I'd often grow frustrated with my Echo's inability to stream songs in their entirety due to licensing issues. Now, I can command my Echo, using the Alexa voice-control technology, to fire up the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Suck My Kiss,' and it does so without issue.
Amazon's smart speakers also deliver behind-the-scenes commentary, dubbed Side-by-Sides. For example, you can ask Alexa to 'play Side-by-Side with OneRepublic,' and Ryan Tedder comments on songs from the band's newest album. The Chainsmokers, Jason Aldean, Lindsey Stirling, Norah Jones, and Kongos also provide Side-by-Side content. It's reminiscent of Slacker Radio's DNA stations, but without the deep historical context that connects past and present musicians.
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In addition, you can use an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, or Tap to search for songs by lyrics, fire up playlists, and search for songs to match your mood. It's really cool to command Alexa to play up-tempo happy music and have the Echo blast the 'Pop To Make You Feel Better' playlist.
Amazon Echo Show owners receive an additional benefit: lyrics. Spotify's Alexa app, on the other hand, does not display lyrics.
Music Library
Music Unlimited boasts millions of songs and dozens of stations in its catalog, plus the expected Classical, Decades, Rock, and Hip-Hop stations. The service doesn't go out of its way to offer any surprising deep cuts, as Spotify does with its video game channel or as Slacker Radio does with its lifestyles content and live ESPN Radio stream. In a nice touch, any Amazon Prime Music playlists that you've created in the past carry over to Music Unlimited. Ms office home and student 2010 iso download. You can, of course, create new ones, too.
Several areas built into Music Unlimited's interface are designed to help you discover or buy music. In almost every part of the layout, you'll find recommended albums and playlists that are based on your listening habits. Thankfully, these suggestions don't feel forced upon you. In fact, I find them helpful.
The left navigation menu contains sections for Purchased and Imported music. The former has Amazon Music-purchased tracks that you can stream or download. The latter houses the files that you uploaded to Amazon's servers using the Amazon Music desktop app (though that functionality no longer exists). Amazon Music Storage is going away, too. You have until January 2019 to stream or download tracks that you'be uploaded to the service.
I was pleased to see 'Stairway to Heaven,' 'Kashmir,' 'When The Levee Breaks,' and other Led Zeppelin classics appear on screen after keying the band's name into Music Unlimited's large search box. And they're the real tracks, not tribute works by bands no one cares about (though those also show up in the search results). The tracks sound good, too, as they stream at a clear, 256Kbps bit rate. This lags behind Tidal's Premium (320Kbps) and HiFi (non-compressed, 1,411Kbps FLAC) plans, however, but you'd probably need to be listening to a better speaker than you get with an Amazon Echo to hear much difference.
Music Unlimited has one of the best uses of lyrics I've seen in the streaming music space. Instead of offering a static page like Deezer or Slacker Radio, Music Unlimited has karaoke-like scrolling music that moves in time with the lyrical performance. It's really cool, and I'd like other services to adopt similar lyrics integration.
Otherwise, however, Music Unlimited is relatively bare-bones. You don't get Tidal's in-depth feature stories or concert tickets, Slacker Radio's news and lifestyles content, or SiriusXM Internet Radio's live radio. In an era when streaming music services are attempting to stand out in a crowded field, Music Unlimited could do much more.
Mobile Apps
As previously mentioned, Amazon Music Unlimited has apps for both Android and iOS. I tested the Android version on my Google Pixel XL smartphone and discovered that it closely duplicates the Music Unlimited desktop experience. The app contains copious playlists, useful recommendations, and a music store for making purchases. It contains lyrics, too.
The mobile app differs from the browser-based version in one significant way: you can use Amazon's Alexa tech to search for songs by lyrics or play tracks. For example, when I asked Alexa for dinner music, it supplied a laid back, easy listening playlist.
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Amazon Music Unlimited is a worthwhile streaming music service, and that recommendation rides almost entirely on the back of the service's Echo features. If you don't have one of those smart speakers, I would suggest you fire up SiriusXM Internet Radio, Slacker Radio, or Spotify, our Editors' Choice winners. But if you own one of Amazon's Echo gizmos, you should definitely give Music Unlimited a listen.
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Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free downloads of over 2 million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels. In comparison, Apple says the iTunes Store now contains over 6 million songs.
File format and Sound Quality
While Amazon sells songs in the MP3 format with a 256 kbit/s variable bit-rate, iTunes songs are encoded 256 kbit/s AACstreams in an mp4 wrapper, using the .m4a extension.
AAC was devised as the successor to the MP3 standard. It achieves better sound quality than the MP3 format when compared at the same bit-rate [1].
Openness
Both Apple and Amazon sell songs without DRM and in open formats, AAC and MP3 respectively. Any music player will play these files.
Availability
As of 2011, The Amazon MP3 service is available for consumers in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, and Japan.
iTunes is available in France, Germany, UK, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Canada, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. See also: Map of iTunes availability Karaoke software for hindi songs with lyrics free download.
Pricing
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Between the two services, pricing is more or less the same. Most songs on Amazon MP3 range in from $0.25 to $1.29, with albums priced from as low as $4.99 to as high as $17.49, depending on artist, length of album and whether or not the album is 'Deluxe' or 'Special'. On iTunes, the pricing is approximately the same, though a quick comparison shows that some select songs and albums are more expensive on iTunes, while others are more expensive on Amazon.
Ultimately there's little to no difference.
Ease of use with iPod/iPhone
Songs sold by both music stores are compatible with the iPod and iPhone via iTunes, though due to the nature of the iTunes Store's integration within iTunes, it is arguably an easier and more seamless experience.
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If you have iTunes installed on your computer, Amazon downloads MP3 files to a location of your choice and also downloads to your iTunes library. If iTunes is not found on a Windows computer, it copies to the Music folder to be played by Windows Media Player instead.
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