Amazon Retiring Music Storage Subscription Plans

Do y'all have MP3s stored in the cloud via Amazon?

As more than and more consumers sign on for music-streaming services, the visitor has announced plans to retire its Music Storage subscription service, including free and paid plans. The free plan, for the uninitiated, offered storage for upward to 250 songs for playback beyond a multifariousness of devices; the paid plan let y'all store up to 250,000 tunes.

Those limits applied to your personal music collection; purchases from Amazon's Digital Music Store didn't count.

As of Monday, those on the free programme tin no longer upload tracks to the Amazon Music for PC/Mac app, Amazon announced. Free users volition only exist able to play and download music they've already uploaded to the service through January 2022. If you have whatever tunes stored in that location, y'all should probably download them correct abroad then you lot don't lose them; here'south how.

Paid members, meanwhile, tin still upload music, and renew their subscription. Merely, if you're on a paid program and information technology expires earlier you take a chance to renew it, you're out of luck. Once it expires, your music purchases will remain stored for costless, only you won't be able to upload whatever additional tracks. For all the details of the impending changes, head here.

On a positive note, these changes will not affect music you have purchased from Amazon, just MP3s you acquired from other sources and uploaded to the service.

"Music purchased from Amazon (MP3s or AutoRip from CDs) remains securely stored for playback and download," Amazon wrote.

Virtually Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart home products. Pedagogy yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, eye rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela too tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, merely to proper name a few.