Spotify vs Amazon Music: Both Spotify and Amazon Music are one of the top online streaming services providers. Both are very popular and therefore have many subscribers. Due to their popularity, it turns out hard for most of the people to select one out of both.
As many are confused among these two services, so with the help of this article we are going to provide you details regarding these two so that it would be easy for you to select which one is best for you.
Spotify vs Amazon Music
Spotify Premium features
- Users can listen to an album, playlist, or podcast without ad breaks.
- Spotify let you play music by any artist, at any time on any device such as a mobile, tablet, or your computer.
- Users can download and play music for offline listening.
- Users get remarkable sound quality on personalized music and podcasts.
- With Spotify, the users get a personalized music experience like no other.
- You can also cancel at any time you like.
Amazon Music Features
- Amazon Music features more than 2 million songs along with more than 2,000 playlists and stations which are all ad-free.
- Users can access a huge number of the playlist with unlimited skips and accessible for offline playback.
- The popular playlists change with the season.
- Users can download and play music for offline listening.
Downloading features
With Spotify
The users can easily download up to 10,000 songs on 5 devices as well as can play them anywhere even if the users are offline.
With Amazon Music
Amazon Music, on the other hand, let you download music to any device that is authorized for your account but the limit is restricted to 10.
Subscribers
- Both Spotify, as well as Amazon Music, are very popular apps, having a huge number of users and subscribers.
- Spotify has 200 million users along with 100 million subscribers.
- Amazon Music, on the other hand, has more than 85 million Prime members and 10 million music subscribers.
Sound Quality
- With the 320kbps streaming, Spotify provides a good sound quality for its Premium users. However, it is restricted to 96kbps normal quality or 160kbps high quality to its free users.
- Amazon, on the other hand, does not share the streaming music quality to date but at the same time, its quite understood that it is certainly 320kbps at least.
Pricing, Packs, and Availability
Spotify
- Spotify premium can be easily available by subscribing for the premium pack.
- Its trail pack is available at $0.99/month
- Its monthly pack comprises of $9.99/month, where you can get unlimited, ad-free streaming and downloading.
- The student pack of Spotify is available at $4.99/month, here you have to re-register yourself as a student each year.
- The family pack of Spotify is available at $15/month, this lets you have a total of 6 people in one account with the same address.
Amazon Music
- Anyone can easily get Amazon Music Unlimited premium version by just subscribing for the premium pack.
- The Non-Prime Customers of Amazon Music have to pay $9.99/month
- The Prime members of Amazon Music have to pay $7.99/month or $79/year
- The Prime Members with an Amazon Echo(speaker or dot) have to pay $3.99/month
Overall, they both are best choices but it all depends on you as everyone has their own tastes and preferences. So, choose wisely as at last the choice is all yours.
