7 essential Amazon Music Unlimited tips to help you get started

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If you went ahead and activated a 30-day free trial for Amazon Music Unlimited but aren't sure what to do next, don't feel bad. Amazon Music's interface is far from intuitive, and the best features of Music Unlimited can be hard to find.

To help you get more out of your Amazon Music Unlimited subscription, there are a few tips and tricks you should start using right away...

1. Download songs for offline playback

Like all the best music streaming services, Amazon Music Unlimited allows you to download songs for offline playback, but only when using the Android or iOS apps. This means that offline playback is not available in the Windows, Mac, or Web applications.

There is no limit to the number of songs you can download this way. However, downloaded songs are protected and can only be played through Amazon Music, which means they cannot be exported to external storage or transferred to any other device.

To download for offline playback, simply go to any song, album, or playlist and open its “More Options” menu (the three dots), then select Download .

To see all your downloaded music, go to My Music> Offline Music on Android or go to Settings> Offline music mode on iOS. On any platform, you can also go to Recent> Downloaded to view only recently downloaded songs.

2. Change bitrate to reduce data usage

No matter what platform you're using to play Amazon music, it can alter the quality of the stream and reduce the amount of data used by the service. This is a crucial tip to know when you're listening on 4G LTE, or if your ISP imposes a monthly data limit.

In the web player, click your account name in the bottom left, then click Streaming Audio Quality . By default, this is set to Automatic, but we recommend that you set it to Low when you need to keep data and High when you don't.

In the desktop app, click your account name in the top right, then click Preferences> Advanced> Audio Quality . On mobile apps, tap the gear icon in the top left, then select Broadcast Quality . Again, choose between High or Low depending on whether you need to keep the data or not.

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3. Discover new music

The search box will be your most used feature in Amazon Music Unlimited, but searches can be limiting when it comes to discovering new music because you can't exactly search for something you don't know about, right?

Fortunately, Music Unlimited can help you with that in several ways:

• More like this: In the web player, go to any album, click the more button, and select Customers Also Listened to get recommendations for similar music that others like. You can also go to any artist page and scroll down to the bottom for Related Artists , which works on any platform, not just the web player.
• New releases: Go Browse> Home> New Releases . Here you will find all recently released songs, albums and playlists, which you can filter by genre. Check it once a day so you don't miss new and interesting music..
• Better graphics: Go Browse> Home> Charts . Here you'll find the most popular songs, albums, and playlists playing on Amazon Music, which you can filter by genre.
• Recommended: Go Browse> Recommended . Based entirely on your recent listening patterns, Amazon Music will suggest songs, albums, playlists, and stations that you might enjoy.
• Stations and playlists: Stations and playlists are the best music discovery tools, which you can access by going to Browse> Stations and Browse> Playlists . Scroll to the bottom to browse by genre. Or you can start an artist-based station by going to any artist page, clicking the plus button, and then selecting Start [artist name] station .

4. Playback control with echo voice commands

All Echo devices have dozens of music-related voice commands, but here are the most useful ones that support Amazon Music Unlimited and are worth keeping in mind:

• “Alexa, play [song title or artist name or album name].”
• “Alexa, play [emotion or genre or party] music.”
• “Alexa, play new music..”
• “Alexa, play the song that goes [lyrics].”
• “Alexa, play [station name].”
• “Alexa, play new [genre].”
• “Alexa, play some music.” (Anything from your library)
• “Alexa, play a playlist.” (Any playlist in your library)
• “Alexa, play the song of the day..”
• “Alexa, what are you playing right now?”
• “Alexa, who sings this song?”
• “Alexa, skip this song.”
• “Alexa, I'm tired of this song..”

5. Save money with a special plan

Amazon Music Unlimited costs $9.99/month for regular users and $7.99/month for Prime members, and to be honest, it's hard to recommend Music Unlimited at full price. You can get much more for the same price with Spotify or Google Play Music..

But you may be eligible for some steep discounts, in which case Music Unlimited might well be worth the price:

• the Family Plan it's the cheapest way to get Music Unlimited, but it requires finding five others who are willing to split the bill. If you can do that, you'll only have to pay $2.50/mo (or $2.00/mo if you're signed up for a Prime member).
• the Eco Plan is for users who only want to access Music Unlimited with a single Echo device, which is available at a steep discount of $3.99/month.
• the Student Plan is a special discount for students who can prove their enrollment in an eligible educational institution, available for $4.99/month. Sign up for the Amazon Music Unlimited student discount.
• the Annual Plan it's a discount for Prime members who pay for a year in advance, which comes out to around $6.58/month.

6. Migrate your music between countries

If you ever move to another country and need to start using the local version of Amazon (for example, Amazon.de), then you may run into a problem:all the music you saved is stored in your Amazon.com account.

Here's how to re-associate your account and migrate your music:

1. Opens the web player for Amazon Music.
2. In the left sidebar, click your account name at the bottom, then select Your Amazon Music Settings .
3. On the new page that opens, scroll to the bottom under the “Your country settings” section and click View music library country settings .
4. It will tell you which country your account is currently associated with and allow you to change it by clicking Change .

As of this writing, transfers are only supported to the US, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Spain.

7. Share links to songs, albums, playlists, stations

With a single click or tap, Amazon will generate URLs that you can use to share links to specific songs, albums, or playlists you want someone else's attention to.

In web and desktop players, just click Share icon, then click Copy link . In the mobile apps, tap the More button at the top right, then tap Share song , Share Album , Share playlist , or Share station (depending on the context), then Copy to clipboard .

You can also select Embedded to embed a special Amazon Music player on your website, allowing others to listen to a sample of the songs you've embedded.

Please note that the recipient must be an active Prime Music or Amazon Music Unlimited subscriber in order to listen to anything you share, but they can still see everything, even if they're not subscribers, including full track listings, track details, album art, etc.

If you don't have Amazon Music Unlimited (your questions, answered What is Amazon Music Unlimited? All your questions answered What is Amazon Music Unlimited? All your questions answered Is Amazon Music Unlimited the right streaming music service for you? You won't really know until you try it for yourself, but here are the answers to any questions you may have. Read More> . If you find the service unsatisfactory, you can cancel your subscription before it ends to avoid being charged when it renews.