For example, Tidal HiFi costs $19.99 / £19.99 / AU$23.99 a month and offers a similar level of audio quality.Īmazon Music HD offers lossless audio in two quality ranges: HD and Ultra HD, both of which are encoded by the lossless FLAC codec. The price of Amazon Music HD makes it one of the best value services for hi-res audio. There’s no student subscription, which you tend to find on other services, and no free ad-based tier, although you can sign-up to a 30-day free trial. There’s also the option of a family plan, which allows six different people to listen to music all at once, for $14.99 / £14.99 / AU$17.99 a month. These plans only allow you to listen to the service on one device at any one time. To sign up for Amazon Music HD, you’ll need an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.Īn individual plan is $7.99 / £7.99 / AU$6.99 per month if you’re a Prime member – or $9.99 / £9.99 / AU$11.99 if you don’t have Prime. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be available in Australia yet. Now it’s free for customers in the US, UK, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, and Spain. The Amazon Music HD tier was previously an additional $5 / £5 per month for Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers.

Amazon Music Unlimited starts at $7.99 / £7.99 / AU$6.99 per month.

Free for Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers.

This will give them both a leg up over the competition, like Tidal and Deezer, which charge a premium for similar quality. This means both Apple Music and Amazon Music might soon be the only music streaming services to offer hi-res audio as a standard and at no extra cost to subscribers to their current music streaming offerings.

The brand announced a slew of upgrades to its Apple Music streaming service, including Spatial Audio with support for Dolby Atmos and the ability to listen to over 75 million tracks in Lossless Audio.

Think of this as a premium add-on to Amazon Music Unlimited, which brings you all the benefits of a music streaming service, along with CD-quality audio and many Ultra HD audio files.Īmazon Music has said that from now on, its high-quality streaming tier is going to be available to all Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers without an accompanying price hike.Īmazon’s announcement came on the same day as Apple’s. With a membership, you can access more than 70 million tracks, listen to them ad-free, and download them for offline use. If that’s not enough, you can subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited – this is an extra payment, even if you’re a Prime member.

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