As someone who covers Amazon products and services for a living, even I have trouble keeping up with all of the options Amazon Music offers. As someone who has an Echo Studio in his home, I can vouch for how good music sounds on the device, though my colleagues and I remain a bit skeptical that most people would appreciate (or care about) the differences that the better speaker and higher bitrates bring.Įven though Amazon provides customers with a great deal of choice by offering so many pricing options and music quality tiers, this variety is also a critique for the growing service. The final tier tops out at 3,730 kbps of lossless audio, though unlike Tidal's HiFi collection, this tier is limited to what Amazon says is 'millions of songs.'Īmazon Music HD was made to work well with its Alexa voice assistant and even helped to spawn the creation of an entirely new class of Echo in the Echo Studio smart speaker. It's easy to understand why Amazon Music Unlimited is catching on so quickly.Īmazon Music HD (itself a premium version of Amazon Music Unlimited) technically has three tiers of music, including a catalog of 50 million songs available for playback at a standard compressed 320 kbps, or a high definition lossless audio up to 850 kbps (over twice the bitrate of most standard services). With all of the options and pricing plans available, it's easy to understand why it's catching on so quickly.

Amazon Music Unlimited is also the fastest-growing streaming music service around. Not bad at all, especially if you plan on paying for Prime anyway. Not only can you save around six or seven bucks a month on an individual HD plan as compared to Tidal HiFi, but the family HD plan is over ten bucks cheaper. Source: Jeramy Johnson / Android Central (Image credit: Source: Jeramy Johnson / Android Central)Īmazon Prime membership has its advantages, including subsidized pricing on premium services like Amazon Music Unlimited and Amazon Music HD.

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