Best Method to Play Amazon Music on VLC Media Player for Desktop/Mobile

Added with powerful features, VLC Media Player is an open-ended free media player to provide its services on a global scale. Besides the modular design and simplified interface, VLC Media Player users loves its customizable features, professional format and devices support. If you are a keen music fan and have your own music collection, VLC Media Player offers its it's an excellent experience to play your audio files with it.

How about streaming music services, such as Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music? Can you play the exclusives to them with the VLC Media Player? In this post, we've let you though how to play Amazon Music on VLC Media Player.

Part 1. Amazon Music on VLC Media Player: What You'll Need

Amazon has expanded its music catalog for Unlimited and Prime subscribers with 90 million songs. However, Prime members can only shuffle Amazon Music tracks and download music songs from the All-Access Playlist, which can be very annoying.

However, even you are an existing Unlimited subscribers, all the Amazon Music downloads are inaccessible when your subscription plan expires because they are DRM-protected. You are not able to bring them to other places than Amazon Music, such as the VLC Media Player.

To save efforts and costs, you can choose to make the desired Amazon Music contents readable in the VLC Media Player. You just need a professional Amazon Music converter to help.

ViWizard Amazon Music Converter is one of the best Amazon Music downloader to help download the DRM-free Amazon Music files. You can choose audio files formats between MP3, AAC and FLAC. The best part of this ViWizard software is that the lossless audio quality and full ID3 tags can be kept after the conversion.

Key Features of ViWizard Amazon Music Converter

• Download songs from Amazon Music Prime, Unlimited, and HD Music
• Convert Amazon Music songs to MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, FLAC, and WAV
• Retain the original ID3 tags and lossless audio quality of Amazon Music
• Support customizing the output audio parameters for Amazon Music

2,000,000+Downloads

Download Download

Part 2. How to Download Amazon Music Files for VLC

Download this ViWizard Amazon Music Converter to your Windows PC or MacBook, and then follow this step-to-step instruction to get DRM-free Amazon Music files.

Step 1Select Amazon Music Contents

Launch the ViWizard Amazon Music Converter, confirm the ViWizard software launches the Amazon Music desktop app. You can now choose to drag and drop the music tracks to the ViWizard screen.

Step 2Customize Format Settings

In ViWizard, open the apps menu > Preferences. On the top of the pop-up, choose Convert, then select MP3 from the drop-down list. Click OK to save this setting.

Step 3Download DRM-free Amazon Music

Back to the ViWIzard screen, click the Convert button. This will start the conversion of the added music tracks. When it's done, a pop-up will appear on the computer screen. You can access all the converted Amazon Music files.

Part 3. How to Transfer Amazon Music to VLC for Desktop

Now you can add the converted Amazon Music files to the VLC Media Player on your device.

To Add Amazon Music to VLC Media Player:

Step 1 On Windows, launch the VLC Media Player.

Step 2 From the top menu of VLC Media Player, click on Media > Open File/Open Multiple Files/Open Folder.

Step 3 In Windows File Explorer or Finder to navigate to the file/folder you want to add to the VLC Media Player. Click Open.

Step 4 Once added, the selected music file will be played automatically in the VLC Media Player.

To Add Amazon Music to Playlist on VLC Media Player:

Step 1 From the top menu of VLC Media Player, click on View > Playlist.

Step 2 In the side menu, click Playlist. Right-click on the blank section > Add File/Add Folder/Advanced Open.

Step 3 In Windows File Explorer or Finder to navigate to the you want to add to the VLC Media Player. Click Open.

Step 4 Now the selected music file is added to the VLC Media Player.

Part 4. How to Transfer Amazon Music to VLC for Mobile

If you wish to take your Amazon Music files to more places with your mobile device, here're 2 options to transfer the files to the VLC Media Player app.

To Transfer Amazon Music to VLC Media Player:

Option 1. Transfer VLC Files via iTunes

For iOS:

If you wish to transfer the Amazon Music files to your iOS device via the iTunes app, you should start to upload the files to it.

Step 1 On the iOS device, download and install the VLC Media Player from the App Store.

Step 2 Use a USB cable to connect your iOS device to your computer.

Step 3 Open the iTunes app on the computer device.

Step 4 In Finder or the iTunes app, select your device. You may also need to trust your computer device if asked.

Step 5 Go to the Files section inside Finder or iTunes.

Step 6 Drag and drop the files to Finder or iTunes. Depending on the file size, it will take a while to complete the transfer. When it's done, the file will appear inside the VLC app on the iOS device from where you can play it.

Option 2. Transfer VLC Files via Wi-Fi Sharing

For iOS:

You can also transfer the VLC files via Wi-Fi sharing.

Step 1 On the iOS device, open the VLC Media Player app.

Step 2 Go to Network > Sharing via Wi-Fi. VLC Media Player will show 2 URLs. Once will have a string of numbers, and the other will be your device's name.

Step 3 On another device, use a browser to enter any one of the URLs to go to that website.

Step 4 When you are viewing VLC's Sharing via Wi-Fi screen. Drag the files you wish to transfer on the browser screen or click the Add button to upload the select files.

Extra Tips: How to Rip Music from an Audio CD with VLC

To Burn Amazon Music to Audio CD with VLC Media Player:

Step 1 From the top menu of VLC Media Player, click on< strong>View > Convert / Save.

Step 2 Select the Disc tab at the top.

Step 3 Under Disc Selection, select Audio CD.

Step 4 Select the Amazon Music tracks you want to Convert from the CD.

Step 5 The VLC Media Player will open the Convert window. Select the output destination of the file and the file's name.

Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.