How to Play Amazon Music on VLC Media Player

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on February 20, 2024

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"Can I play Amazon Music through VLC Media Player?"

As one of the biggest streaming music platform, Amazon Music provides users with a vast library of songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts at will. With a free or paid account, you can access unlimited Amazon Music songs on mobile devices, game consoles, computers, smart TVs and other supported devices through its app or web player. But this does not meet the user's playback needs. Some users would like to import Amazon Music to VLC Media Player for playback, editing or burning onto CD.

In fact, Amazon Music offers the download feature for Prime members and Music Unlimited subscribers. But this download feature is only available on Amazon Fire tablet, or the Prime Video app for iOS, Android devices. When you downloaded Amazon Music tracks on your devices, they are protected by DRM, which can only be playable within the Amazon Music app. In other words, the downloaded Amazon Music tracks can be readable on VLC Media Player. Welcome to our guide on how to play Amazon Music on VLC media player.

Does VLC Media Player Support Amazon Music Format?

No. As we mentioned above, the download Amazon Music songs are stored in DRM encrypted format, which can only be accessible through the official Amazon Music app. VLC Media Player is a free and open-source media player for playing DRM-free music, video, audio CDs, DVDs, VCDs, and various multimedia files.

VLC Media Player doesn't support encoded Amazon Music format. It supports common audio formats like MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, Vorbis, ALAC, WMV, WMA and more. To play Amazon Music through VLC Media Player, first you need to convert Amazon Music to VLC supported audio files. So, why not use a third-party Amazon Music converter to get the job done?

Tool Required: UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter

UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter is recommended here to help you get rid of Amazon Music DRM and convert them into VLC-supported audio formats. It is able to convert Amazon Music songs, playlists, albums and podcasts to MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, which are highly compatible with VLC Media Player. UkeySoft will download Amazon Music with original sound quality and ID3 tags, giving you the same listening experience as on the app/web.

It is an improved Amazon Music converter integrated with Amazon Music Web Player. You can directly browse, stream, search, add and download any music content without the Amazon Music app installed. One of the great features of it is the free music management. It allows users to sort out the output Amazon Music by artist or album. After conversion, you can effortlessly import Amazon Music to VLC, WMP, iTunes, MusicBee, MP3 player, phone, tablet, USB disk and more players and devices.

Features of UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter:

• Download any Amazon Music Free & Prime Music & Music Unlimited tracks.
• Convert Amazon Music songs, playlists to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAC, AIFF.
• 10X fast speed and supports batch mode to save your time.
• Keep original music quality and full ID3 tags metadata.
• Require no additional apps, including Amazon Music app.
• Classify output Amazon Music songs by data, artist or album.
• Import Amazon Music files to VLC, WMP, iTunes, any device/player/app.

Tutorial on How to Convert and Play Amazon Music on VLC?

Step 1. Open UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter
Click the Download button, get the UkeySoft Amazon Music Converter on downloaded on your Mac or Windows computer. If you purchased the full version, click the key icon to enter the activation code to enjoy the full service. Or continue using the free trial version. Then log in to your Amazon account to access its built-in web player.

Step 2. Set the Output Parameters for Amazon Music
Click the "Gear" icon at the upper right corner of the software interface. In the settings window, you can customize the Output Format, Output Quality, Output Folder, Output File Name, and more as you like.

By default, the output format is AUTO - M4A, so you need to change it to VLC-supported MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, or AIFF format. Here we choose MP3 format for Amazon songs.

Step 3. Add Amazon Music Songs/Playlist to UkeySoft
You can open any song, album, playlist or podcast. Or type the song title on the Search bar to find it. Then click the red "+" icon add them into the converting list.

Double check and confirm your desired Amazon Music songs. For unwanted songs, you can tick the checkbox.

Step 4. Download and Convert Amazon Music to MP3
Once your selected songs, click on the "Convert" button to remove DRM from selected Amazon songs and convert them into MP3 files.

When the conversion is finished, click on the "History" icon, and hit "Blue Folder" icon next to the song to locate the output folder.

You own these MP3 Amazon Music files locally!

Step 5. Import Amazon Music Songs to VLC Media Player
Go to "Media", select "Open File..." or "Open Folder...", then browse and select the converted MP3 Amazon songs to it.

Now you can play your favorite Amazon Music songs through VLC Media Player, or edit the music file as you like. By the way, you may also burn Amazon Music to CD on VLC!

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

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