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TL;DR Amazon Music Prime will start playing ads for subscribers in India.
Amazon confirms that today’s change is for India only, but its future plans remain unknown.
Amazon Prime is one subscription service that’s just packed with benefits: free shipping, Prime Video, Music Prime, and even Luna gaming. But those benefits have also become more and more restrictive in recent years — first Prime Video introduced ads, and then it paywalled 4K content. What’s going to be the next Prime perk that Amazon ends up dialing back or charging extra for? Based on what we’re seeing happening internationally, there may be reason to be worried about Music Prime.
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Right now, Amazon Music Prime is included with your Prime membership and allows listeners to shuffle play artists, albums, or playlists, ad-free. If you want more control over your music, you can get Music Standard or Music Unlimited, both available with an additional subscription.
Earlier today, one of Android Authority’s contributors received the following email, informing them of changes to their Music benefits:
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Before you start freaking out, pay attention to where this is coming from: We’re talking about Amazon India, in specific. But curious to learn if users in other nations were getting the same message, we looked around a little, and found a similar report on Reddit from a user claiming to be in Australia.
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