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Amazon now has its own version of Spotify it's called Amazon music unlimited the subscription music streaming service is similar to what's offered by a Spotify Apple Google and all the others you can instantly stream any song you want on-demand starting at $10 a month but Amazon has a twist on the price if you are a member of Prime the monthly fee is knocked down to $8 a month and if you want to go cheaper there's also a $4 a month option but for that crazy low price there's a catch you can only listen to songs on an Amazon echo smart speaker the integration with echo is the real hook here echos assistant Alexa now understands new voice commands to play songs you can ask to play a mix of genre or mood based tracks from a specific decade or year and if you don't know the name of the song well Alexa can still play it if you can rattle off some of the lyrics if you're thinking wait didn't amazon already have a music service well not exactly prime subscribers had access to a limited library of music that was complementary with a prime membership but it doesn't have access to as many songs Amazon's latest expansion does go beyond music though possibly into meats Amazon is also looking into opening its own small grocery stores according to a report from The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the plans Amazon is not commenting on its convenience store dreams but it would be a natural way for Amazon to expand its grocery delivery service Amazon fresh it's not the first time we've heard of such a report two months ago geek Wire reported that Amazon was building a drive-up grocery store in Seattle Amazon has experimented with a few actual brick-and-mortar stores ever since it opened an actual bookstore in Seattle last year that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey stay on top the biggest stories at cnet.com slash you