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Amazon Music Unlimited will be $9.99 per month / $7.99 for Prime members and will include unlimited music uploads

Inspired by my confirmation of a soon to be released new streaming music subscription service from Amazon, called Amazon Music Unlimited, a German blogger by the name of Carsten Knobloch looked through the code of Amazon’s web-based music player and uncovered a few pieces of new information about the service. It appears the service will have a regular price of $9.99 per month. Knobloch also found reference to a $7.99 discounted price which, through some additional digging of my own, I’m confident is the price for Prime members. I also found reference to “alternative” pricing, but I’m not sure on the details of that pricing. It may refer to the rumored Echo-only plan which restricts music playback to Amazon Echo devices. Sources have told The Verge that the Echo-only plan will cost $4.99 per month and launch “within a few weeks.”

The other interesting piece of information, which Knobloch uncovered, is that subscribers of Amazon Music Unlimited will also receive unlimited music uploads to Amazon’s Cloud Drive and be able to stream that music to all of their devices. Amazon currently gives all customers the ability to store 250 songs in their Amazon Drive account for free, without counting towards their free 5GB storage. Customers also have the option to pay $24.99 per year to store 250,000 songs in their Amazon Drive. The Amazon Music Unlimited service will be the first time an unlimited music storage option has been offered by Amazon.

Exclusive: Amazon’s music subscription service will be called Amazon Music Unlimited

Amazon is rumored to be working on a new streaming music subscription service, separate from Prime Music, to compete with the likes of Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play Music. After noticing an unusual lack of “Prime” branding in the new Amazon Music app for the Fire TV, I began to suspect the app was released this week in preperation for the rumored new music service from Amazon. I did some digging through the app’s code, as I am often inclined to do, and have found clear evidence that Amazon will indeed be launching a new premium streaming music service called Amazon Music Unlimited.

The banner ad and icon image displayed above were found within the new Fire TV music app. The slogan “listen to any song” seems to imply the vast majority, if not all, of Amazon’s music store will be accessible to subscribers of Amazon Music Unlimited. The same slogan is used within the new Fire TV music app to upsell Prime members on the new music service.