Amazon Music Prime Will Be Greater If You Make These 5 Changes!

Amazon Music Prime has the potential to be the best music streaming service out there – but it's held back by a host of limitations, design flaws, and general issues. But if it can fix these issues, there's nothing stopping it from surpassing Spotify , Apple Music , and every other competitor.

5. The skip limit should be completely removed.

Amazon Music Prime has an annoying play limit where you can only skip a limited number of times per song—even if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber. This doesn't apply to music you own or All-Access playlists, but to playlists you create and playlists from the community.

This creates a problem: What if it shuffles to the same song multiple times in a row? Then you're forced to decide whether to skip that song or not, potentially wasting your limited number of attempts. Plus, it's hard to interact with the social aspects of the app, especially the community playlists.

4. The user interface is in dire need of an overhaul

The user interface is clearly designed to resemble Spotify, but many people have never liked Amazon Music Prime's design, and Spotify isn't without its problems. The scale of Amazon Music's artist images on the screen is counterintuitive—they're just small blocks. The size reduces detail, making it harder to tell two artists apart at first glance, especially since each block uses similar borders. The text gets lost in the title tracks. Amazon Music Prime's limitations only compound these frustrations.

3. Make more optimization efforts

People have had to reinstall Amazon Music multiple times. The app shouldn't be this slow, nor should it crash so often just because you put your smartphone in sleep mode. Amazon Music gets a little hot when running, so you'll always have to try to close apps running in the background.

Amazon's goal with Music Prime users is to get them to sign up for Music Unlimited, right? But if the app crashes frequently, users won't feel confident making that decision, which is further complicated by other difficult aspects. Not to mention, you'll end up paying more because Amazon Music has increased its prices.

2. Prime Music's Shuffle Feature Is a Really Annoying Way to Enjoy Music

Listening to Amazon Music with shuffle on isn't necessarily a problem, but it's when you're forced to do so. Say you create a playlist with a dozen or so songs you like. With Music Prime, when you decide to enjoy your curated playlist, you have no choice but to turn on shuffle and limit skipping.

The shuffle feature is something that has caused a lot of frustration for Music Prime users, just to listen to your own playlists. You hope that your musical tastes will change the algorithm for the All-Access playlist, so you can pick any song and skip it at will or buy the music.

1. Amazon Music Prime doesn't have an HD audio option

This isn't meant to be a knock on CD quality—it sounds great with earbuds or headphones—but it's disappointing that that's all you get with Amazon Music Prime. Only with Amazon Music Unlimited do you get HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio options. At the very least, HD audio should be a Prime Music feature to test whether Amazon Music can handle high-quality audio. Music is reproduced with spatial audio, so it makes sense that it's exclusive to Amazon Music Unlimited.

As part of a Prime subscription, Amazon Music Prime is a solid perk. But it's best thought of as a hook for Amazon Music Unlimited. Saving $1 on Prime isn't a bargain—it's important to know what the service actually offers. If nothing changes, many people may ditch the service for YouTube Music or Spotify.

Micah Soto

Update 31 July 2025