Amazon Music App Review Plus It Doesnt

In order to use it, you must first fire up the app, then press the Alexa icon before speaking.

While standard Prime Music comes as part of an Amazon Prime subscription, Music Unlimited costs 9.99 a month and offers 25 times more songs.

So is it worth going all in and adding another thing to your mounting monthly Amazon bill.

There are slight variations across each one, but the general layout is divided into Home, Recommended, Stations and Playlists, with separate tabs for recently played music and stuff youve added to your library.

The mobile app swaps this for an Alexa button (more on her later).

But you really have to dig into the settings to activate it, or turn it off when youre back online its just a bit clunkier than it should be.

It can be easy to inadvertently select the wrong location here, so you do have to be careful that its looking where you think it is.

Otherwise you might think Phil Collins has taken all of his songs off the service (what a nightmare).

Dragging up on the circular now playing icon at the bottom of the mobile app is a nice touch, although things can be a bit slow to load on the web-based version.

To use multiple devices at once, youll need a 15-a-month family account.

Search for your traditional streaming refuseniks, such as Jay-Z and Taylor Swift, and youll find plenty to listen to.

Amazon Music App Review Plus It Doesnt

In fact, Jigga actually has more available here than on Spotify, plus it doesnt do that annoying thing of defaulting to radio edits that some streaming services do.

While theres a lot there to choose from, theyre pretty generic and nothing really jumps out.

By default, itll adjust automatically depending on the strength of your connection, which can be handy when out and about.

It doesnt sound as lively as Apple Music, but its certainly comparable with Spotifys highest-quality 320kbps streams, with perhaps a touch more subtlety about it when heard through a decent pair of headphones.

None of the playlists have been put together just for you, though, and you tend to see the same things over and over again.

Theres no way of telling it what you like or dont like either, so you cant actively help its recommendations to improve.

And when it does go out on a limb to suggest something new, the results often just seem lazy.

Recommending New Order to someone because they listened to Joy Division basically assumes they are a moron.

But music discovery is the main battleground for streaming services these days.

While Amazon Music Unlimited pushes plenty of albums and playlists that are for you, it just doesnt feel particularly personal.

The only thing that might stump you is choosing what to listen to it can be surprisingly difficult without anything to browse.

Smart speakers tend to be communal devices, so if you want everyone in the family to be able to play music on it, whether the account owner is streaming tunes elsewhere or not, this is a pretty affordable way to do it.

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