Amazon announced Music Unlimited with discounts, machine learning


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If you're using Music Unlimited on an Amazon Echo, Tap, or Dot, the service only costs $4 a month. To use it on anything else--mobile devices, your computer, a Fire TV stick, or even Sonos speakers--the pricing falls more in line with Spotify or Apple Music. It's $8 per month if you're an Amazon Prime member and $10 per month if you aren't.

Amazon's Prime Music will stick around, and for the extra money per month it seems you'll get a much larger song inventory.

Saving $2/mo over Apple Music and Spotify Premium is attractive for those already with Prime, however, the bigger draw could be machine learning in the background. Amazon says you can find songs by telling its Alexia AI the lyrics. Also, you can tell Alexia to play the latest song from an artist, and it will figure out which song is at the top of the charts, for example.