While many people sign up for Amazon Prime primarily for its online shopping and free shipping benefits, the service offers a wealth of additional perks, including access to Amazon Music and Prime Video.
If you’re an Amazon Prime member but haven’t explored Amazon Music, this guide will introduce you to the different Amazon Music plans and their pricing, with a special focus on the free Amazon Music Prime plan included with your Prime membership.
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Yes, as an Amazon Prime member, you can access the Amazon Music Prime tier without any additional cost. This plan offers ad-free listening to millions of songs and podcasts.
However, this deal comes with significant music control restrictions. On-demand playback and offline downloading are strictly limited to your personalized “All-Access Playlists.” Music beyond these playlists will be played in shuffle mode, and you are limited to six track skips per hour. To unlock the full features of Amazon Music, including higher quality, unlimited skips, and full offline downloads, you’ll need to upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited. Fortunately, Prime members receive a discounted rate on the Unlimited plan.
Amazon Prime costs $14.99 per month or $139 per year. New members can enjoy a free 30-day trial. For college students or young adults aged 18 to 24, Amazon offers the “Prime for Young Adults” discount. This plan costs just $7.49 per month or $69 per year and includes a 6-month free trial before subscription charges begin.
Amazon Music offers three tiers of subscription: Free, Prime, and Unlimited.
Amazon Music Free offers ad-supported free listening with no credit card required to sign up. You can expect to encounter ads during your listening sessions.
Free members can now listen to All-Access playlists* on demand, but they still include ad interruptions. Additionally, this plan does not allow downloading for offline playback, so you need an internet connection to listen to music or podcasts.
Amazon Music Prime comes free with a Prime membership. With this tier, you can play all the music and podcasts ad-free. While it is a great perk for Prime members, it’s important to note that it has certain limitations:
* All-Access Playlists are playlists curated based on user likes, listens, and genre preferences.
Amazon Music Unlimited is a premium music subscription service featuring songs in HD/Ultra HD and a growing catalog of Spatial Audio. Users also access the offline listening feature and unlimited skips during listening.
You don’t need Amazon Prime to subscribe to the Unlimited plan. The price of the Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Plan is $12.99 per month. However, with a Prime membership, you can get a discount on Amazon Music Unlimited and pay just $11.99 per month or $119 per year.
Amazon Music Unlimited also offers a Family Plan, Student Plan, and Single Device Plan. For individual Unlimited subscribers or account holders of the Unlimited Family in Canada, the U.K., the U.S., France, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan, and Spain, you can access one audiobook per month from Audible directly in the Amazon Music app for free.
| Feature | Amazon Music Free | Amazon Music Prime | Amazon Music Unlimited |
| Cost | $0 | Included with Prime ($14.99/month or $139/year) | With Prime: $11.99/month or $119/year Non-Prime: $12.99/month |
| Ads | Yes | No (Except select international regions) | No |
| Playback | Shuffle Only (Except All-Access Playlists) | Shuffle Only (Except All-Access Playlists) | On-Demand (Pick any song) |
| Offline Downloads | None | All-Access Playlists Only | Unlimited (Any song/album) |
| Audio Quality | Standard | Standard | HD, Ultra HD, & Spatial Audio |
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While Amazon Music Prime offers a solid music streaming experience for Prime members, you might wonder whether you need to upgrade to the Unlimited Individual plan. Let’s break down the key differences between the two:
Audio Quality:
Music Playback Control:
Offline Listening:
If you’re a music enthusiast who values high-quality audio, complete control over your listening experience, and the ability to listen offline, Amazon Music Unlimited is the better choice. However, if you’re satisfied with curated playlists and standard audio quality, Amazon Music Prime, the free plan included with Prime membership, is a solid option.
Unlike songs you purchased from Amazon, songs you downloaded from Amazon Music Prime/Unlimited are DRM-protected and can only be played within the Amazon Music app. In fact, you won’t find playable audio files, such as the songs you purchased.
However, with Pazu Amazon Music Converter, you can download songs, albums, and playlists to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, and AIFF, even with Amazon Music Free. After downloading, you can play the songs anywhere you want, such as Apple Music/iTunes, Windows Media Player, or your MP3 player. Furthermore, with Pazu Amazon Music Converter, the audio quality and original ID3 tags will be well preserved in downloaded MP3 files.
Now follow the tutorial below to convert Amazon Music to MP3 in a few steps.
Download, install, and launch Pazu Amazon Music Converter on your computer, then click Sign In to log in to your Amazon account.
If you have purchased a license, click the key icon to register the converter. If not, continue with the trial version.
Click the Settings icon in the top right corner and select MP3 as the output format.
Go to the songs, albums, or playlists you want to download, and click the red Add button at the right side.
All songs in the playlist will be added to the download list by default. Uncheck the tracks you don’t want to download, then click the Convert button.
The Converter will automatically download Amazon Music tracks to the default folder on your computer.
After downloading, click the clock icon 
to see all the converted songs. Now you can play them with any supported player or device.
Download Amazon Music to MP3, FLAC, etc.