If you have an Amazon Prime account, you can now stream music they have licensed for free. Streaming can be done from most devices without restriction.
Amazon Prime is indeed adding music to the mix.
On Thursday, after much speculation, the online retailer is launching a streaming service called Prime Music, at no additional cost for Prime members who pay $99 a year. Those members will automatically gain access to more than one million songs, including what Amazon says are tens of thousands of albums from top acts like Justin Timberlake, Pink, Bruno Mars, Blake Shelton, The Lumineers, Bruce Springsteen, and Madonna.
Amazon Prime has come a long way for a subscription service that was initially all about two-day free shipping. Through the nine years of Amazon Prime's existence, the company has added streaming movies and TV shows, and a Kindle lending library of more than 500,000 books.
As part of the new no-cost music benefit, Prime members will be able to listen to hundreds of pre-programmed Prime Playlists that are artist-, genre-, mood- or activity-based. Prime Playlists will typically include 20 to 50 tracks and carry names like Feel Good Country, Playdate with Toddlers, The Heaviest Metal and Hip-Hop for Your Commute.
You can create your own playlists with Prime Music tracks, receive personalized recommendations, and download any of the Prime material to mobile devices so that you can listen offline. Customers can rate and review playlists but for now there is no social networking component. Nor is Amazon doing any kind of custom Internet radio service.
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