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 get the Amazon Music Prime plan without any additional cost. This plan offers ad-free listening to millions of songs and podcasts. However, if you want to get the full features of Amazon Music including higher quality, unlimited listening and downloading, you’ll need to upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited. Prime members can also get discounted prices for that.
Amazon Prime costs $14.99 per month or $139 per year. You can enjoy a free 30-day trial if you are new to Amazon. For students enrolled at an accredited college or university, there is also the option to sign up for Prime Student at a discounted rate of $7.49 per month or $69 per year after the trial.
Amazon Music offers three tiers of subscription:
Here is a list of Amazon Music plans and prices.
| Amazon Music Plans | Free | Prime | Unlimited Individual | Unlimited Family | Unlimited Student | Unlimited Single Device |
| Price | Free | Included in Amazon Prime | $11.99/month ($10.99/month or $109/year with Prime) | $19.99/month ($199/year with Prime) | $5.99/month | $5.99/month |
Amazon Music Free offers free access to a selection of top playlists, stations, and millions of podcast episodes without requiring a credit card to sign up. Since it is an ad-supported plan, you can expect to encounter ads during your listening sessions.
Instead of picking and playing individual songs, you can only access select songs from curated playlists. Additionally, this plan does not allow for downloading or offline playback, which means that you need to have an internet connection to listen to music or podcasts.
Amazon Music Prime is the music streaming subscription plan that comes free with a Prime membership. With this plan, you can play all the music and podcasts ad-free.
While Amazon Music Prime 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, such as My Frequent Plays, All Hits, etc.
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 $11.99 per month. However, with the Prime membership, you can enjoy a price drop on Amazon Music Unlimited and just pay $10.99 per month or $109 per year.
Amazon Music Unlimited also offers a Family Plan, Student Plan, and Single Device Plan.
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While Amazon Music Prime offers a solid music streaming experience for Prime members, you might wonder why someone would 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 like 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, like Apple Music/iTunes, Windows Media Player, or your MP3 player, etc. 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 with a few steps.
Download, install, and launch Pazu Amazon Music Converter on your computer, then click the 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 on 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 those tracks that you don’t want to download, and 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.