Just got an email today to tell me that music is now included in my prime membership.
Lots of great albums included in Prime membership. Usual care must be taken to add included music as opposed to paid for music.
This looks good to me; I may renew my membership after all.

yeah it's definitely tempting.
My wife and I have been considering Prime for a bit, mainly for the next day delivery, but also for the instant video. I think the music as well pushes it over the top.

Add it altogether and it seems like pretty good value considering you'd pay £120 a year for just Spotify. Granted this doesn't have all the tracks that Spotify or Apple Music might have but it seems to be be a pretty large selection and most of what we'd end up listening to anyway.

They also have unlimited photo cloud storage as well as a part of Prime

Getting better value.

I wonder how long before they jack the price up

I wouldn't imagine for a few years. The expense to them isn't really the additional services but the rising cost of shipping items. When in their Annual Report last year they talked about the price rise it wasn't the additional services they mentioned as making it unprofitable to them but the rate that the price they were paying for shipping had gone up in the 7 years of no price increase from prime.

These added extras are just there to encourage more people to subscribe to the free next day delivery which in turn increases people's ordering rate of items on Amazon. There will be a trigger point where the average number of extra orders is so high that the extra orders don't offset it and where the cost to ship each item has reached a certain point

I'm curious to browse the Amazon Prime music offline catalogue, just to see if there's the kind of music I like among those 1 million songs. Is there any way, without being a Prime member, to browse the genres?

You can take a free one month Prime trail.

Any member can browse the digital music section. If there is a Prime banner in the upper left hand corner, it's eligible for Prime music. You can also filter search results in digital music to Prime eligible. Just make sure you're doing searches in digital or you will end up with CDs and albums eligible for Prime shipping.


Question from me to those with a Fire TV stick (or maybe even the full sized box):

I have been enjoying the music on Prime music, and added several Prime music albums. At first it seemed to updated automatically onto my Fire stick the next time I used it. Now I can't seem to get the newer ones to show up, even if I go down to settings and synch content. Any ideas?

Also, is there a way to add music straight from the stick? I only seem to have access to the albums it updated and playlists (and some digital music I purchased in the past).

I've got a Fire Tv Stick, and it worked for me. I added songs to my library on my computer, pressed sync on my TV stick and it appeared straight away.

Are you 100% sure you have the same account on the AFTV Stick as what you are using on the computer? Just to be sure, log out of the computer, and manually log back in. Then log out of the stick, (Deregister) and log back in (You won't lose anything).

That way you will know if you are using the same account for both devices.

2ndly, are you using any Smart DNS service?

As for the music service itself, I am very underwhelmed. Ok, it is great to have as part of the Prime package, but when compared to Spotify, the UI is rubbish. The fact you need to go to a computer to find a song, then add it to your library before listening on other devices is really stupid - especially as you can't even use the voice search.

That is how it worked initially for me as well.


I am definitely on the same account for both. I may try deregistering, but I don't think it will help. I just cleared the cache in all my apps over the weekend for an unrelated issue, so I don't feel like doing it at the moment, but if all else fails, I will try that eventually.



Definitely not something to go out to pay for Prime on its own, but a nice enough bonus. It reminds me a bit of Deezer a few years ago when they hardly had anything. I had it as a part of my Orange mobile plan, so it was a nice perk. I definitely wouldn't have gone out and subscribed to Deezer at the time on its own. It improved a bit over time, and I hope that Prime Music will too.

This worked on my box. Go to Settings / Applications / Manage Installed Applications / Amazon Music.

There are options to Clear Data and Clear Cache. I clicked both and the music then updated.

I don't think that you can add music from the stick or box. It is possible from a Kindle Fire tablet.