Alternatives to Amazon Music Unlimited
Amazon's paid music streaming subscription with HD, Ultra HD and spatial audio tracks. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Amazon Music Unlimited
Amazon's paid music streaming subscription with HD, Ultra HD and spatial audio tracks.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Amazon Music Unlimited.
Spotify
A music streaming service with a web player and lossless audio for Premium subscribers.
Spotify offers a free tier alongside Premium, with lossless audio limited to Premium subscribers and supported devices and no Ultra HD or spatial audio listed.
Apple Music
Apple's ad-free music streaming subscription with lossless audio and Spatial Audio in Dolby Atmos.
Apple Music includes lossless and Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio, has apps for Windows, macOS and iOS, and works best with Apple devices rather than an Amazon account.
Tidal
A paid music streaming service offering lossless FLAC stereo and Dolby Atmos on supported tracks.
Tidal is a paid service with lossless FLAC stereo and Dolby Atmos on supported tracks, without the 360 Reality Audio format offered by Amazon.
Qobuz
A hi-res music streaming service with a store for buying lossless and Hi-Res album downloads.
Qobuz provides paid Hi-Res streaming plus a download store for buying lossless albums, and publishes its average pay per stream.
Deezer
A music streaming service with a free ad-supported tier and paid plans including FLAC quality.
Deezer adds a free ad-supported tier and Android and iOS apps, with FLAC CD-quality streaming on its HiFi plan and playlist transfer from other services.
IDAGIO
A classical music streaming app with search built for classical works and lossless sound.
IDAGIO covers classical music only, with lossless streaming, classical-focused search and video concerts, and a smaller catalog than general services.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Amazon Music Unlimited as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Pandora
A music and podcast streaming service with radio-style stations, plus on-demand listening on paid plans.
Amazon Music Unlimited has no free tier and requires an Amazon account, offering HD, Ultra HD, Dolby Atmos and 360 Reality Audio tracks.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Plexamp
A music player from Plex for listening to and exploring the music library on a Plex server.
Volumio
A music player operating system that turns a Raspberry Pi or PC into a network audio streamer.
dCS Mosaic Control
A mobile control app for dCS digital audio products that manages playback from multiple music sources.
Supersonic
Play music from your Subsonic or Jellyfin server.
Cider
A community-run desktop client for Apple Music on Windows, macOS and Linux.
hoopla
Library app for borrowing ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies and music free with a library card.
