Spotify & Icloud or prime?

Jaguar_Skills

Am trying to weigh up the pros and cons of cancelling our Icloud and spotify subscriptions and taking out the annual prime membership.  

As far as I can see it, prime would be better based on my understanding below:

Icloud - £7 a month = £84 a year
Spotify - £10 a month = £120 a year
£204 per year total.

Prime - £95 for the year and includes music, storage, prime delivery etc (we probably wouldn't watch the TV much)

Is there anything I have missed? I was worried about not being able to transfer over my Spotify playlists but it seems you can do that too.   I guess the only thing with the storage for amazon is only 5gb worth of video?

flaneurs_lobster

Spotify is a far superior service to that offered by Prime membership (Amazon Music Prime). To get the comparable Amazon Music Unlimited service will cost an additional tenner/month. I'd double-check being able to move playlists to the Prime level.

Amazon is in the process of removing cloud storage from its Prime proffer. They will still offer unlimited online storage of photographs. If you only need 5GB of storage then just downgrade your iCloud subscription (but you are paying for 2 TB), otherwise Apple's pricing of cloud storage seems cheaper when compared with the other big players (Google One & MS OneDrive).

koru

Just to add that Prime Music now has a much bigger catalogue. But you can only listen on shuffle, so it is now more like the free version of Spotify. For most people, Prime Music is now useless.

Neil49

This is the latest offer from Amazon in more detail. 

A new music experience for Prime members

Starting today, Prime members will now be able to stream even more music than ever before, with an expanded catalogue of more than 100 million songs—up from 2 million—entirely ad-free. Prime members can discover more new music and podcasts based on their likes; shuffle play any artist, album, or playlist in the catalogue; stream a collection of All-Access playlists tailored to personalised listening preferences on demand and download them for offline listening. Members can also upgrade to the Amazon Music Unlimited tier to enjoy on-demand access to albums, playlists, and over 100 million songs in HD and a growing catalogue of songs in Ultra HD and Spatial audio.

The most ad-free top podcasts, plus new exclusive shows

Starting now, Prime members can listen to the most top podcasts ad-free and on demand, including shows they already know and love from Crowd Network and The New York Times. Ad-free shows include the +44 Podcast, binge-worthy podcasts from Wondery including British Scandal, Who Killed Daphne, SmartLess, Morbid, My Favorite Murder and Even the Rich, and Amazon Exclusive shows including Three Little Words,Built To Thrive and the MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories.

mjm3346

koru said:

Just to add that Prime Music now has a much bigger catalogue. But you can only listen on shuffle, so it is now more like the free version of Spotify. For most people, Prime Music is now useless.

Just tried and asked for an artist and a particular track, apart from a plug for the new service it played what I wanted it too.

Edit - tried again later and it found what I asked for with no plug for the service