In fact, a thorough explanation of each of the four types of Amazon Music plans

If it's a good song to play in a nice cafe, you'll get some tension. In the past, it was difficult to enjoy music all day long at private homes where you could not subscribe to a cable broadcasting service for stores, except by using your own CD and playing FM radio.

However, now is the time to enjoy music by subscription. There are various services, but if you are an Amazon Prime member, you have the option of "Amazon Music", which gives you all-you-can-listen music at a great price. This time, I will explain Amazon Music thoroughly.

4 Amazon Music registration plans

Amazon Music is one of the digital content services provided by Amazon. Because it is a subscription, you can listen to it as much as you want, including songs, playlists, and podcasts.

There are four registration plans in all. Some are completely free and do not require credit card registration.

Amazon Music Free

Amazon Prime Music

Amazon Music Unlimited

Amazon Music HD

Amazon Music Free

A music streaming service launched on May 14, 2020 that does not require prime membership registration (but Amazon account is required), credit card registration is not required, and can be enjoyed completely free of charge. It can be played on smartphones and tablet devices such as iOS / Android, Amazon Fire tablet series, Amazon Fire TV series, Amazon Echo devices, and web browsers.

The method of providing music is the station or playlist method. Listen to popular playlists and thousands of radios with ads. You can skip songs up to 6 times an hour. You can also register songs as favorites.

Since it supports voice control, you can play the specified station by calling "Alexa, play a jazz station" to the Alexa app on your Amazon Echo device or smartphone.

It does not support offline playback, which is downloaded to the terminal and listened to in places with poor radio wave conditions. Only one device can be streamed at a time.

Amazon Music Free

Amazon Prime Music

This is one of the free benefits of Amazon Prime members. Officially Amazon Music Prime, but known as Amazon Prime Music. If you pay an annual membership fee (4900 yen) or a monthly membership fee (500 yen) as an Amazon Prime member, you can enjoy it at no additional charge.

Play 2 million songs, thousands of playlists, and customized streaming radio. You can enjoy these without ads. You can also register songs as favorites. You can create your own playlist of your favorite songs and play them whenever you want.

Streaming playback is only for one device at a time. For example, if you're playing on an Echo device in your living room and you try to use Amazon Music on your Echo Show in your bedroom, you'll have to choose whether to continue streaming from another device. It does not interfere with playing songs downloaded to smartphones etc., so if there is a possibility that family members at home will play music with Amazon Prime Music, download it to the smartphone in advance. The method is recommended.

Amazon Prime Music

Amazon Music Unlimited

A plan with a significantly upgraded number of songs based on the contents of Amazon Prime Music. With Prime Music's 2 million to 70 million songs, you'll find titles for your favorite artists.

For streaming playback on multiple terminals, the number of terminals that can be played simultaneously varies depending on the membership registration plan.

Personal plan

If you are not registered as an Amazon Prime member, the monthly membership fee is 980 yen. If you are a Prime member, it is 780 yen, which is 200 yen off.

Only one terminal can play simultaneous streaming playback. Up to 10 devices can be authenticated for offline playback.

Family plan

It is a plan that you can register up to 6 accounts. The monthly fee is 1480 yen for both Prime members and non-members, but if the payer is a Prime member, you can choose a payment method that is worth 14,800 yen for 2 months. Even if each family member is an individual member of Amazon Prime, you can still join the Amazon Music Unlimited family plan by inviting them to continue to be a prime individual member.

As with individual plans, you can register My Music and playlists for each account, so you can use them with different family members.

Up to 6 simultaneous streaming playbacks. If you have an Echo device in your kitchen, living room, or bedroom, you can move alone and play music on the Echo device in each room because you don't need to have a separate account for each device.

One device plan (former Echo plan)

It is a plan to register from the purchased Echo terminal or Fire TV. The terminal that can be played is limited to the one at the time of contract, and the monthly cost is set to the lowest at 380 yen. If you have multiple Echo devices and want to enjoy music on your smartphone or Fire tablet, we recommend other than the one-device plan.

Student plan

For both prime members and non-members, if you are a student, you can use all the functions of Amazon Music Unlimited for up to 4 years for 480 yen per month.

Please note that even if you are already an Amazon Prime Student member, you will need to qualify for membership, such as by issuing a certificate of enrollment. Since we are accrediting the Sheer ID, which is a third-party certification body, you will not be eligible to enroll in the Student Plan if you are enrolled in a school that is not on the list of institutions. A school addition request form is available, so ask them to add their school to the list.

Amazon Music Unlimited

Amazon Music HD

A subscription service that allows you to enjoy twice or ten times the sound quality of songs played on Amazon Prime Music and Amazon Music Unlimited. It can be used by adding it to Amazon Music Unlimited. For both individual plans and family plans, the monthly charge will be the current monthly charge plus 1000 yen. In other words, if a prime member pays 780 yen a month with Amazon Music Unlimited, the monthly fee after upgrading to Amazon Music HD is 1780 yen, if you are paying 1480 yen as a family plan, 2480 yen, etc. is.

The standard sound quality provided by Amazon Music Unlimited is up to 320kbps, while the HD sound quality of 70 million songs is up to 850kbps. The bit rate is 16-bit / 44.1kHz, which is similar to that of a CD. In addition, you can enjoy high-resolution sound sources of up to 3730kbps and up to 24-bit / 192kHz with ULTRA HD sound quality of millions of songs.

In addition, over 1000 titles mastered with the Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 Reality Audio codecs can be played in 3D audio. You will be able to listen to a wide range of music.

Since Amazon Music HD has a large amount of data during streaming, a network environment with a communication speed of 1.5 Mbps or higher is recommended.

Furthermore, in order to reproduce good sound, terminals, headphones and speakers that support sound quality of 16-bit / 44.1kHz or higher are required. In addition to Amazon's Echo Studio, brands such as DENON, Klipsch, ONKYO, Pioneer, SONY, BOSE, and Sennheiser are recommended. Amazon Echo Studio also supports 3D audio, and you can play music just by calling, so it is the most recommended if you subscribe to Amazon Music HD.

Personal plan

Prime members are 1780 yen, and even non-members are 1980 yen, and you can listen to 70 million songs with high-quality sound + millions of high-resolution sound quality as much as you want. Up to 1 device can play streaming at the same time. Up to 10 devices can be downloaded for offline playback. However, offline playback of 3D audio is not possible.

Family plan

Regardless of Amazon Prime members or non-members, 6 people can enjoy the same functions as the individual plan for 2480 yen per month. The number of simultaneous streaming playback terminals will also increase to six.

Amazon Music HD

【summary】

Amazon Music is one of the digital content services provided by Amazon. Generally, Amazon Prime Music is known at no additional charge, but there are also HD plans that deliver Unlimited songs that you can choose from more songs and high-resolution sound sources to further enhance your personal music life. can do.

If you have a lot of music lovers, you can get even more deals by registering for Amazon Music (Unlimited or HD) with a family plan.

I want to motivate myself to do housework and work at home by playing my favorite music.

Amazon Music Free

Amazon Prime Music

Amazon Music Unlimited

Amazon Music HD