Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. The Unlimited account not only gives you access to tens of millions of streaming songs, but it also boosts your personal storage limit from 250 to 250,000 songs. Dveryone gets storage space for 250 songs free with their Amazon account, but if you want to upload more than 250 songs, you'll need an Amazon Music Unlimited account ($7.99 a month for Prime members, $9.99 a month for everyone else). Unfortunately, you'll probably have to pay up for that privilege. But if you want integration with the Amazon Echo, you'll have to go with Amazon's music service. Sure, you could get your personal music pumping through your Echo by pairing your phone with the Echo via Bluetooth, but you won't get to control the music with your voice, which is the whole point of the Echo in the first place. For most people, Google Play is probably a better bet for uploading your music-since it's free for 50,000 songs.
Related: How to Use Your Amazon Echo as a Bluetooth Speaker But if you upload your music now, it will stay available for streaming until January 2019, so do it now! Update: Unfortunately, Amazon is shutting this service down on January 15, 2018.
