Amazon Music or Spotify?

NeilF

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My kids have started downloading/buying music mainly from iTunes, so I'm wondering if there's any merit in the family getting Amazon Music or Spotify? ie: Rather than pay £X per track they buy, simply pay for Amazon Music/Spotify instead?

We already have Amazon Prime and an Echo in the kitchen so if we get Amazon Music or indeed even the family version of it, that would mean on any of the devices (echo, and their ipads/phones) they could steam music and download it to play off line?

I've no experience of Spotify at all, so any able to talk from first hand experience to point out any issues that might mean one is a better choice than the other?

ps: And I am right in saying you can download music to listen to offline?

ps2: We also have amazon plumbed in around the house via TVs, Rokus and an Amazon Fire TV. But I guess Spotify could be run on these too!?
 
You get Amazon Prime Music with your Amazon Prime subscription. It's got lots of gaps compared to Google/Apple/Spotify, but unless you listen to loads and loads of music it'll probably do. It's free to test it out since you have Prime. Amazon also have a more comprehensive version for additional cost, I believe.

Your free stuff is only meant to be for one person (but I have set it up on mine and my wife's phones, the only problem being that I see that she's downloaded stuff like Cheryl and it appears in my online catalogue). You can download music, but from the sounds of it you'll need a family subscription. I've never used Spotify, but I think it's £15/month for a family membership and it should work with your Echo iirc.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
You get Amazon Prime Music with your Amazon Prime subscription. It's got lots of gaps compared to Google/Apple/Spotify, but unless you listen to loads and loads of music it'll probably do. It's free to test it out since you have Prime. Amazon also have a more comprehensive version for additional cost, I believe.

Your free stuff is only meant to be for one person (but I have set it up on mine and my wife's phones, the only problem being that I see that she's downloaded stuff like Cheryl and it appears in my online catalogue). You can download music, but from the sounds of it you'll need a family subscription. I've never used Spotify, but I think it's £15/month for a family membership and it should work with your Echo iirc.
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Yeh, I think the Amazon Family option gives you 6 devices/accounts for £15 a month.

The alternative would be the £8 a month for our single account and we can only stream to one device at a time... eg: If my daughter is streaming/listening no one else would be able too.
 
The £15 a month Spotify account is an absolute bargain imo as you can get up to six people on it. Then again I think Spotify for £10 a month on a personal subscription is bloody good value too so I'm biased. The catalogue is exceptional on Spotify and I've struggled to find many gaps. Why don't your try amazon music as you've got a prime subscription and see how it goes?
 
Its hard to justify not having spotify IMO :p my tastes are well away from mainstream and 95+% of tracks I want are on there.
 
Have both. Prefer Spotify, find it more fluid and easier to generally use. Plus I enjoy its recommended playlists.
 
I had a silly spell and tried (at the same time)

Spotify
Deezer
Amazon
Napster
Apple

After all that i settled on Spotify, And upgraded to a family sub.

That way I can A2DP in the car and the house can stream to Sonos
 
No love for Google Play Music? I think it's excellent and I'm sure they do a family account.
 
the Amazon music mobile interface is terrible, I gave it a go after finding a service to export/import playlists between services, didn't even take it up after an hour.
 
Spotify family for the price in my opinion is excellent and only a half dozen artists I listen too out of thousands that aren't on there but then they are not on any others either.
 
I've been using Amazon Music for a while and it's ample for my needs but Spotify, even in it's free guise, is better. For £15 family sub that's not bad, just wouldn't get the use out of it as my commute times are so short.
 
Does anyone know if you pay extra for Amazon unlimited, do you get more playlists/stations? I've got the basic package included with Prime and quite like listening to the artist stations to hear music by similar artists, but there's not actually that many Artist stations. For example I can listen to Music by Muse, but there's not a Muse station.

With regards to the OP's actual question I've not used Spotify for ages so can't do a recent comparison. I've been using Amazon for a while primarily because of the integration with Alexa and in turn my Sonos which is perfect for me. I occasionally use the web player at work and agree with some others that the interface feels a lot more clunky than Spotify. I'm just not sure I can justify the cost of Spotify (or upgrading to Amazon unlimited) when I get so much for free with Prime.
 
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