Amazon has announced a new benefit for Amazon Prime subscribers. It consists of access ka a complete music catalog with 100 million songs (instead of the previous selection limited to 2 million songs) and the availability of most of their best podcasts, free and ad-free.

This upgrade to Amazon Music, available for free to Amazon Prime customers, is an attack on the frontier of specialized services such as Spotify or Apple Music, as well as a new improvement that increases interest in its general subscription and compensates for the recent price increase.

The growth in track count to 100 million titles puts the basic service on par with Amazon Prime Unlimited, an ad-free premium service with extra pay, downloads for offline use and better sound, “lossless” CD quality. ” and higher quality up to 24 bits and 192 kHz. Plus, it features thousands of tracks in Dolby Atmos and 360 Reality Audio expertly mixed for greater resolution and depth than stereo sound.

However, the basic Prime Music service may be enough for many In addition to increasing the number of songs available 50-fold, it will offer ad-free podcasts, putting pressure on others like Spotify, whose paying subscriber base is still frustrated that they still don’t listen to podcast ads despite paying for the service. .

In addition to more songs and ad-free podcasts, the Amazon Music app has been revamped with a new “Podcast Previews” feature that lets customers listen to short clips as a way to discover new podcasts they might like.

Amazon Prime, is it worth it?

Definitely yes. From September 15, 2022, the price of new subscriptions in Spain increased from 36 to 49 euros per year. A significant increase, true, but it should be mentioned that this was the first increase since August 2018 and that since then Amazon has increased both the services related to the products of the e-commerce platform and the rest that it offers and that it has to do with storage or entertainment.

This includes the Prime Music upgrade that prompts this article and other benefits that you are aware of that we believe compensate for paying the subscription price:

• Fast and free shipping on thousands of products.
• Selection of collection point.
• Free movies and series on Prime Video.
• Unlimited photo storage for free on Prime Photo.
• Discounts on pre-ordering video games and other benefits on Twitch.
• Discounts on further purchases of multimedia content.
• Access to Prime Day deals, the best the company has to offer all year.