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Amazon’s on-demand music streaming service, Amazon Music Unlimited, has launched in the UK, Germany, and Austria, TechCrunch reports.
The debut comes with a redesign of Amazon’s mobile music app, and more impressive integrations with Echo and Alexa.
Amazon Music Unlimited is the company’s main on-demand music streaming offering. It has a catalog of 40 million tracks, as opposed to Prime Music’s more limited 2-million-song library. Music Unlimited is available for £7.99-a-month ($10-a-month) or £79-a-year for Prime members, and £9.99-a-month for non-Prime members. There’s also a bargain £3.99-a-month option that limits the service to Amazon Echo, the company’s voice-controlled speaker.
Here is a primer on Amazon’s approach to the music streaming space:
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