If you only ever plan to listen through the same Echo or Fire TV, there’s also a single-device subscription that’ll set you back just £3.99 a month. There’s also a six-account Family plan available for £14.99 a month, plus a student plan for £4.99 a month. Music Unlimited is priced at £7.99 a month for Prime members (£9.99 for non-members), making it marginally cheaper than Spotify’s offering. It has a library of over 70 million tracks and recently made higher bitrate tracks (which it calls “HD” and “Ultra HD”) available to all subscribers at no extra cost. Not to be confused with Prime Music (which is included with Prime Membership),v Amazon Music Unlimited ( sign up in the US or in the UK) is the company’s current Spotify rival. For those that make the switch, Apple has built a very solid house for them to play in – especially if you have an existing iTunes library to integrate.Īmazon Music Unlimited (from £3.99 per month)Īmazon has offered a digital music service of some kind since 2007, but it still feels like a newcomer next to Spotify. If Spotify HiFi does end up costing more, we suspect many will flock to Apple Music without feeling too sad about it.

Spatial audio has more obvious room for different compositional elements, but it doesn’t sound significantly different from the tracks mixed in Sony’s Atmos rival, 360 Reality Audio, which is available on Deezer and Tidal – so it’s not strictly unique to Apple Music.

To have lossless and Dolby Atmos tracks included at no extra cost makes Apple Music cheaper than Deezer, Tidal and possibly the forthcoming Spotify HiFi. These don’t quite hit the heights of Spotify’s discovery algorithm, but that’s really the only way in which Spotify feels like the superior service.

Like its rivals, Apple Music offers a wide selection of curated playlists based on a particular mood, genre or other unifying theme, as well as algorithm-generated playlists designed specifically for the user.

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