Amazon Music or Spotify?

[NeilF]

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!?

 

[NeilF]

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.

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.