How to Play Amazon Music on Squeezebox

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on December 16, 2022

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Question: Can I Play Amazon Music on My Squeezbox?
"I looked for a way to stream Amazon music on my squeezebox touch forever, but other than some convoluted workarounds that don't work well it is impossible. If not, I will consider to switch to Tidal. Please help." - from Amazon Discussion

Squeezebox is a wonderful network music players, developed by Logitech. The Squeezebox will be connected to your home audio amplifier (or DAC). It is a great instrument for playing your personal music collection in any room in your home. It also allows users to stream music from various streaming services, including Last.fm, MP3tune, Spotify, Tidal, Pandora, Slacker, Rhapsody, Napster, Last.fm, etc. But if you want to stream Amazon Music to Squeezebox, you will find it a difficult task. Currently, Amazon Music is not included in the supported list of Squeezebox. Therefore, a lot of Amazon Music users looked for a way to use Amazon Music with Squeezebox. Read on this article, you can do that seamlessly. Here we will teach you an easy way to play Amazon Music on Squeezebox and even any music devices.

CONTENTS

Part 1. Why Can't Play Amazon Music on Squeezebox?

Amazon Music is a streaming music service, it needs network connection to verify your subscription. With an Amazon Prime member account or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription, you are allowed to stream and download millions of songs and podcasts on Amazon-authorized devices. But, you are not authorized to play, use, open and transfer any Amazon song to unauthorized platforms and devices. The main reason that causes is something called DRM, a copyright protection technology used by streaming music services.

Moreover, you will loss access to all your Amazon music downloads after unsubscribed. In order to make Amazon Music available on the Squeezebox, the most important thing is to remove DRM protection from Amazon Music tracks. In addition, as Amazon Music songs are special encoded format which can't be recognized by Squeezebox. Squeezebox supports to play MP3 files from a media server via SD card or USB drive. In other words, you need to convert Amazon Music to MP3 audio files for USB drive/ SD card. So, why not ask help from a third-party tool? Here we highly recommend the powerful UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter.

Part 2. Play Amazon Music on Squeezebox Tool Required

UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter is such a professional tool specially developed to crack Amazon Music DRM, as well as converting Amazon Music songs, playlists to popular audio formats, including MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF. By adopting outstanding decryption technology, it will keep the original music quality and ID3 tags of Amazon Music tracks.

Compared to other audio converting tools on the market, UkeySoft is easy to use and comes with multiple features. For example, it has a built-in Amazon Music Web Player, Music Player and Manager. So you can browser, search, play and download songs, playlist, albums, artists & podcasts on the Amazon Music web browser. Besides, it will let you convert Amazon songs in batch and very fast (up to 10X speed). After conversion, you can transfer and save the Amazon songs to USB drive or SD card to play on Squeezebox and other external devices.

Features of UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter:

• Download songs from Amazon Music Free, Prime & Music Unlimited.
• Download and convert Amazon Music songs, albums, playlists, podcasts.
• Download Amazon songs, albums, playlists, podcasts, etc.
• Convert Amazon songs to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF.
• Maintain 100% original music quality and keep ID3 tags.
• 10X faster download speed and supports batch conversion.
• Organize output Amazon songs by album, artist, album/artist.
• Play Amazon Music offline on any device without Amazon Music app.
• Transfer Amazon songs to USB drive, SD card, MP3 player, iPod, phone, etc.

Part 3. How to Stream Amazon Music to Squeezebox with UkeySoft

3.1 How to Convert Amazon Music to MP3 for Squeezebox

Step 1. Start UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter
Fire up UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter, and login to your Amazon Music account. UkeySoft needs to work with an Amazon Music account, but it will never take any other information from your account other than the songs.

Step 2. Edit the Output Audio Parameters
Click on the "Gear" icon at the top right corner to configure the output audio parameters. In the settings window, you can choose 6 output formats (M4A-AUTO/MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF), adjust output quality, output folder, output file name, etc.

To play Amazon Music on Squeezebox with high quality, pick MP3 format and 320kbps quality for Amazon Music songs.

Step 3. Add Amazon Music Songs/Playlist to UkeySoft
Navigate the Amazon Music catalog to add Amazon Music songs to the program. Open a playlist, artist or album, and then click the "+" icon in the right side.

By default, all songs in the Amazon playlist/album/artist will be added ti UkeySoft, you can unselect the songs you don't want.

Step 4. Download and Convert Amazon Music to MP3
Click on the "Convert" button, and UkeySoft will immediately export all selected Amazon songs to the default folder on your computer. They will be converted to MP3 files.

When the conversion is finished, you can find all converted Amazon Music files by clicking the "History" icon, or go to the output folder directly

3.2 Enjoy Amazon Music on Squeezebox Freely

Way 1. Play Amazon Music on Squeezebox via SD Card/USB
1)Plug an SD card into the memory card slot or USB flash drive on your computer. Open the SD card's directory or USB drive, and copy and paste the convert Amazon Music files to it. Once done, eject your USB/SD card from computer.

2) You can plug into an SD card or USB device to Squeezebox and play the music or other audio from these external devices.

Way 2. Listen to Amazon Music on Squeezebox Freely
Another way is to import Amazon Music to Squeezebox from computer. But this method is a little complex, here's the detailed steps:

1) First, download and install the Squeezebox Server on your computer. After installation, it will scan your computer's local folders and create an index of your Amazon Music songs.

2) Open the Squeezebox Server and log in to your account.

3) Hit on the Squeezebox Server icon from your system tray, tap on the 'Open Control Panel' > 'Library' tab, and rename your music folder.

4) Go 'My Music' > 'Switch Library', and choose your computer name.

5) Then click 'My Music' button on Squeezebox, and you will see all the local Amazon Music songs. Yon can stream Amazon Music on Squeezebox freely.

Justin Sabrina

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.

Justin Sabrina

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.

Justin Sabrina

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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