100 Million Free Songs for Prime Members

Amazon Prime has change into costlier over time, now costing as much as $180 per yr. Would that value be value it should you additionally acquired free music? Amazon Prime members beforehand had entry to over 2 million free songs, however that quantity simply grew to 100 million.

Whereas access to 100 million songs may seem to be an enormous enchancment, some subscribers are sad. Previously, Prime members utilizing Amazon Music may choose and hearken to any of the offered songs on demand.

With the music library rising to 100 million songs, the service will play any albums or playlists chosen in shuffle mode. Customers who want to have direct on-demand entry to any of the offered tracks might want to improve their subscription.

Amazon follows an analogous mannequin to Spotify, providing a tier through which an intensive assortment of songs are made accessible for gratis. Nonetheless, they’ll’t be chosen on demand. You possibly can contemplate Amazon’s providing higher than Spotify’s free tier, because it doesn’t embody advertisements.

Whereas Spotify presents random, ad-supported entry to 70 million songs, Amazon Music offers random, ad-free entry to 100 million songs. If you’re a Spotify free-tier subscriber, chances are you’ll wish to contemplate switching over to Amazon.

Present Prime members who’ve beforehand taken benefit of Amazon Music could also be much less happy with the shuffle mode change. Sadly, for these members, the choice is both to reside with the change or pony up one other $8.99 a month.

The change to Amazon Music may also embody entry to most of the firm’s in-house podcasts and a number of different prime podcasts which can be advert free. Amazon Music isn’t just trying to focus on music listeners; it needs podcast followers, too.

Amazon Prime members can make the most of the brand new choices by heading to the Amazon Music webpage and starting streaming. A desktop app (PC and Mac) and cellular apps for Apple iOS and Android devices are additionally accessible at no further value.

Michael Archambault is a senior author for The HE specializing in know-how.