While Amazon Music has been around much longer, Apple Music has steadily gained in popularity since it was launched. The platforms share a number of similarities and differences. While there are very many similarities, Apple Music is said to edge out Amazon Music on music quality.Īpple Music and Amazon Music are two of the most popular music streaming services.Apple Music does not offer a free option Amazon Music does.The costs of the two options are very much in line with one another.Next: Here's why some Amazon Music users are saying the service is a shambles (opens in new tab).© Koshiro K / Key Points:

Essentially, aside from different playlists, Amazon Music is very similar to the Spotify Free tier, provided you have Prime.Īmazon Music Unlimited also gives you higher fidelity and spatial audio streaming options. Otherwise, you're waiting for the song you want to play, and that's just a slightly better version of listening to the radio.īut the big news is that Amazon Music no longer cuts out 98 million songs. Now that you'll be aware of Amazon's full library, you may want to have instant access to any song you want. This expanded music library feels like Amazon's latest gambit to get people to cough up $9 per month for Amazon Music Unlimited.

Analysis: Amazon Music is still looking to get you to pay more There's also another new feature: Podcast Previews, which lets you get 'a short, digestible soundbite from a podcast episode,' so you can check out a show before you commit to a whole episode. That's not the only news of the day: Amazon Music is now taking ads out of 'most top Podcasts.' This is, it says, 'the largest selection of ad-free top podcasts available,' and the announcement includes podcasts from CNN, ESPN, The New York Times and the whole Wondery catalogue (with shows like My Favorite Murder, Smartless and How I Built This).

In other words, Amazon Music Shuffle Mode basically now presents Prime members with the entire music catalogue - with whole artist discographies, albums and playlists - but only puts a shuffle button, not a play button, at your disposal.

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