New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

Original story (published on November 03, 2022) follows:

However, there is a catch.

This change hasn’t gone down well with its loyal customer base (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) as earlier the 2 million songs were available to stream on-demand.

This implies that customers must skip through a large number of tracks each time in order to find the ones they need. Playlists also no longer function as they once did.

Many users are saying that they are unable to listen to their downloaded music in offline mode as well (1,2,3).

Even Prime members must pay an extra fee for the ‘Unlimited’ plan ($9.99/month for regular users, $8.99 for Prime members) in order to obtain full on-demand access and offline listening.

Music streaming is already a very competitive market and not providing basic features like these to Prime users(by the way they have already paid for a Prime membership) is a bad move.

Update 1 (November 4, 2022)

Update 2 (November 8, 2022)

Update 3 (November 10, 2022)

  1. Spotify: Free with ads or Premium for $9.99/month
  2. YouTube Music: Free with ads or Premium for $11.99/month
  3. Apple Music: for $10.99/month
  4. TIDAL: Free with standard audio quality or better audio quality and ad-free experience starting at $14.99/month

Update 4 (November 11, 2022)

Update 5 (November 14, 2022)

Thanks for the tip, Lee Harrington!

Update 5 (November 15, 2022)

The big catch here is that you’ll need offline media players like VLC to play those songs.

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