Amazon Music provides Prime members with access to 100 million songs ad-free, the largest catalog of ad-free top podcasts, and thousands of playlists and stations, included with Prime at no additional cost.

Amazon Music Unlimited is a premium music subscription service, featuring 100 million songs in HD and millions of songs in Ultra HD. Amazon Music Unlimited also has a growing catalog of music mastered in Dolby Atmos and 360 Reality Audio, and thousands of expertly crafted playlists and Stations.

There are also standard quality tracks of up to 320kbps with lossy compression. HD audio streams up to 850kbps, which is more than double the bitrate of lossy streaming services. You can enjoy over 100 million songs in 16-bit/44.1kHz CD quality - a vast lossless library to have at your fingertips.

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When it comes to streaming quality though, Amazon wins. Music Unlimited offers lossless audio streaming across many of its tracks, albums and content. This is partly because Amazon Music HD - which used to be a separate, pricier tier of Amazon's offering - is now included with Amazon Music Unlimited.

The primary purpose of the music streaming application is to play music available in the databases of the service, compose custom playlists and suggest similar songs. The main elements of music streaming apps are: Discovery.

Amazon Music Unlimited offers a library of 100 million songs, which is similar to nearest best music streaming services rivals such as Spotify and Apple Music. Amazon Prime Music offers 100 million ad-free songs as part of its Prime subscription, so it's not strictly speaking free.

What Is the New Amazon Music Experience for Prime Members? We changed the music experience because customers requested access to the entire catalog of music. We're bringing a full catalog to customers and delivering playback through shuffle playback, which intermixes the requested content with other similar content.

Music Library Spotify offers more than 82 million songs and 4.7 million podcasts, which is more than enough to keep most people busy. But Amazon has them beat. Amazon has over 100 million songs in lossless HD quality and millions in Ultra HD. They claim the most extensive catalog of ad-free major podcasts, too.

Spotify remains the No. 1 streaming audio service with a sizable lead over Apple, Amazon and YouTube Music in reported paid subscribers. It has branched out into audiobooks and podcasts and now has nearly 200 million paying customers.

Once the music is stored in Amazon Music, a user can choose to download it to one of the Android, iOS, or desktop devices using Amazon Music application.

Amazon Music and Spotify have a long list of similar features and nearly identical song catalogs. However, there are some differences that could sway potential listeners in the direction of one particular service over the other.

Both platforms feature lossless audio streaming for authentic and high-quality sounds, however Apple Music one-ups Amazon with its spatial audio support across all plans delivering crystal-clear content. Amazon only includes this feature on Amazon Music Unlimited.

Advantages

• Unlimited song downloads and Ad-free experience on up to 5 devices.
• Access to HD music of 320 KBPS for both downloading and streaming songs.
• Playlist of 45+ million songs.
• Popular songs like Bollywood, International, and Regional.
• Features like online radio, music recommendation and social interactivity.

When it comes to streaming quality, Amazon does seem to take the cake. It offers lossless audio streaming across a lot of its tracks, albums and content, aided by the fact that Amazon Music HD – previously a separate, more expensive tier – is now included with Music Unlimited at no extra cost.