Best 2 Ways to Play Amazon Music on Linux

By ChesterUpdated on January 11, 2024

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"I am a big fan of Amazon Music and want to play my Amazon Music playlists on my Linux device. But I found that I can not find the Amazon Music app for Linux. Is there any way to play Amazon Music on Linux?"

Linux is a well-known operating system beside Windows and Mac. With its unique performance, it is widely used in many other devices and brought so much convenience for people. In recent years, streaming music services has changed the way of listening to music for people, Linux also offers some popular streaming music app for desktop, including Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, etc. However, Amazon Music is still not available on Linux, you are not able to stream Amazon Music directly with the Linux OS. Do not worry, if you still want to keep using Linux and looking for ways to listen to Amazon Music, we will offer best 2 ways to play Amazon Music on Linux, please keep reading the following parts.

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Part 1. Why You Can’t Play Amazon Music on Linux

Amazon Music actually can be used on many devices or platform, it has a partnership with many companies. But for some reasons, Amazon Music is not integrated with Linux yet, which means Amazon Music is not workable with Linux officially. However, there are unofficial ways to play Amazon Music on Linux, you can try one of the easy ways to make Amazon Music playing on Linux possible. Please keep reading the following parts if you are interested in it.

Part 2. How to Stream Amazon Music on Linux via Amazon Music Web Player

This first easy way is to stream Amazon Music on Linux is to use Amazon Music web player. There is no Amazon Music app available on Linux system, but you can go to Amazon Music official website to play music instead. You will find that using the web play is not convenient as using the Amazon Music app, but the web player is ease-to-use and good enough to achieve the basic needs for streaming, there is no storage space requirements and no extra apps to be installed. You just need to make sure your Amazon Music account is activated. Here are the simple steps.

Step 1. Start any browser on your Linux computer and search for Amazon Music web player, or you can directly go to music.amazon.com.

Step 2. Sign in to your Amazon Music account.

Step 3. Now you can easily start playing Amazon Music on Linux.

Part 3. Best Way to Download Amazon Music for Linux

Playing Amazon Music with the web player is a very convenient way, but there are lots of limitations. For example, you have to subscribe to Amazon Music Prime or Amazon Music Unlimited to download songs for offline listening. The quality of the music probably is not goog as you expected. Most importantly, you can only stream Amazon Music on the web player, even you have downloaded the Amazon Music with subscription, since Amazon Music is encrypted, you are not able to move the downloaded files to other players or devices for offline playback. If you want to get rid of all these limitations, we are here to share the best way to download Amazon Music for Linux with a third-party tool.

Tool You'll Need - UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter

UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter allows you to download Amazon Music to MP3, FLAC, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF on computer, then you can keep the converted Amazon Music on your Windows or Mac computer forever even without subscription, so that you can use a USB flash drive to plug and play Amazon Music on Linux device. Or you can play the converted Amazon Music on other unauthorized devices without any limitations. Moreover, the program preserved 100% original audio quality, or you can even set up higher audio output quality up to 512kbps, which the web player on Linux can never achieve. Most importantly, UkeySoft has a built-in Amazon Music web player, you can directly search, browse, download, convert and play in one-stop before or after conversion, there is no need to install the official Amazon Music app. Let us look at more outstanding features of the program and learn how to use it.

Key Features of UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter

• UkeySoft supports Amazon Free, Amazon Music Prime, Amazon Music Unlimited.
• Remove DRM from Amazon Music tracks and playlists.
• Convert Amazon Music to MP3, FLAC, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF.
• Preserve 100% original audio quality.
• keep ID3 tags and metadata info after conversion.
• 10X faster conversion speed.
• Convert Amazon Music for Linux via USB.
• Play Amazon Music on other unauthorized devices.
• Built-in Amazon Music player.

Guide: How to Download Amazon Music for Linux

Next we will show you the instruction guide on how to download Amazon Music for Linux with UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter. Firstly you need to download the latest version of the program and install it to your computer. Then follow the steps below.

Step 1. Launch the Program & Log in
Launch UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter and log in with your Amazon account by clicking the "Sign In" button on the top right corner.

Tips: You can log in with your Amazon Free, Amazon Music Prime or Amazon Music Unlimited account.

Step 2. Setup Output File
Click the 'gear' icon to on the top right corner to set up the output file, there are 6 types of output formats to choose from according to your needs, Auto is default as M4A, MP3 is the most compatible format for most devices, so MP3 should be selected for Linux.

There are more parameters you can setup for your output file.

Output Quality: 128kbps, 192kbps, 224kbps, 256kbps, 320kbps.
Output Folder: Select the path where you want to save the tracks.
Output file name: Name in Title, Artist, Album, Track Number, etc.
Output organized: Artist, Album, Artist/Album, Album/Artist.

Step 3. Add Amazon Music Songs/Playlists/Albums
Once you have set the output file, add Amazon tracks, playlist or album that you want to download by clicking the red '+' add button on the right side to add the songs to the converting list.

In here, you can deselect the songs that you do not want to download from Amazon Music.

Step 4. Start Converting Amazon Music
Once you have done selecting the songs, click the "Convert" button to start downloading the selected songs to MP3 at 10x faster speed. The program will keep the ID3 tags and metadata info for all output music files after conversion.

Step 5. View the Music Files
After the conversion is done, you can view the converted music files by clicking the 'History' icon, then click the blue folder icon at the back of the file list. You may also play the downloaded songs directly with the built-in Amazon Music Player.

Step 6. Transfer Amazon Music to Linux
Now you have the converted Amazon Music files in MP3 on your computer, the next step is to transfer the converted Amazon Music files to your Linux device via USB. MP3 formats is perfectly compatible with Linux. Once you have transferred the MP3 files to your Linux, you can play amazon Music with the VLC Media Player on Linux, here we'll show you the simple steps.

1. Firstly, you need to go to the official website to download the VLC Media Player.

2. Once installed, launch the VLC Media Player and load your Amazon Music tracks. There are 2 ways you can add your tracks to VLC Media Player: you can directly drag and drop to add music files, or go to the Media Library > Open Media > Open Folder to access the Amazon Music in your local storage folder.

3. Now you can start enjoying Amazon Music on Linux without limitations

Conclusion

You have known how to play Amazon Music on Linux devices. You can play Amazon Music through the web player, but there are many restrictions with this way. The best way to play Amazon Music on Linux is to use UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter to download and converter Amazon Music to MP3 format, and you can transfer the converted MP3 songs to your Linux device via USB flash drive for offline playing. Beside, you can also use UkeySoft to add Amazon Music to other devices such as cars and TV.

Chester

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Chester

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Chester

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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