How to Turn On/Off the Shuffle Mode on Amazon Music

Part 1. Can You Turn On/Off Shuffle on Amazon Music?

Yes if you have the Amazon Music Unlimited subscription since you have the full control of your music playback on all Amazon Music's platforms. You can play any music on demand in queue, repeat or shuffle mode.

If you have the Prime membership instead, you should be aware of the unexpected changes with the Amazon Music service that allows you to access the full music catalog but in shuffle-only mode. If you want to stop Amazon Music from shuffling, head to Part 3 to have some workarounds.

Part 2. How to Turn On Shuffle on Amazon Music Unlimited

You can choose to turn on the Shuffle mode to listen to random music. Pick your device to learn how to enable the Shuffle mode within several clicks or taps.

How to enable the Shuffle mode for desktop:

1. Open the Amazon Music desktop app.
2. Head to the desired content to shuffle, such as playlist, album, artist and more.
3. Go into the content's profile. Find and click on the Shuffle button.
4. If you find the shuffle is not satisfying, feel free to click on the Shuffle button again. Amazon Music will shuffle the playback with another song.

You can choose to enable the shuffle mode from the music control.

1. Head to Amazon Music and stream something.
2. To open the music control, notice the Now Playing bar at bottom and click on the album art (extended). This will open the Now Playing view.
3. Click on the Shuffle button to make it blue.



4. Once the Shuffle mode is enabled, the entire queue will be shuffled.

How to enable the Shuffle mode for mobile:

1. Open the Amazon Music mobile app.
2. Select the desired Amazon Music content you wish to shuffle.
3. When you enter the content's profile, you see various options from the top bar such as Shuffle, Edit, Download and More (options menu). To enable the Shuffle Mode, tap on the Shuffle button. And Amazon Music will start a random song included and open its Now Playing view for you.

Or you can turn on the Shuffle mode from the music control:

1. Tap the song that's playing on the Amazon Music mobile app.
2. When you're see the Now Playing view, tap on the Shuffle button at the bottom-right. If the Shuffle mode is enabled, the Shuffle button would be highlighted.

Part 3. How to Turn Off Shuffle on Amazon Music Unlimited

If you wish to turn off the Shuffle mode when you're listening to Amazon Music, you can disable it easily.

How to disable the Shuffle mode for desktop:

1. Tap the Now Playing bar for the song that's shuffling on the Amazon Music desktop app.
2. Check if the Shuffle button is highlighted. To turn off the Shuffle mode, just click on the Shuffle button (at this time the Shuffle button should be highlighted).

How to disable the Shuffle mode for mobile:

1. Tap the song that's playing on Amazon Music. This will open its Now Playing view on a bigger screen.
2. Check if the Shuffle button at the bottom-right is highlighted at this time. To disable the Shuffle mode, just tap on the Shuffle button and make it not to be highlighted.
3. Once the Shuffle mode is turned off, Amazon Music will play the songs in your queue by order.

Part 4. How to Get Rid of Shuffle on Amazon Prime Music

As it stands now, all Prime members have the access to the full Amazon Music catalog in the Shuffle-only mode. You're offered with the "Shuffle" button instead of the "Play" button. Just head to the playlist, album, artist and more to shuffle.

1. All-Access Playlist

If you wish to get rid of the Shuffle-only mode when you're playing Amazon Music on all your devices from phone, computer to speaker (ex: Amazon Alexa), for starters you have the access to All-Access playlist that Amazon Music created for you based on your likes, listens and genre preferences. Learn how to find All-Access playlists on Amazon Prime Music.

The selection of All-Access playlists are accessible to both Prime and Free users under the Listen Your Way through the Search categories. Once you got your All-Access playlists, you can pick and play any song on-demand from them with no skip limits. If you have the Prime membership, you can also download the playlist songs for offline play.

If you're not satisfied with the All-Access playlists, all you can try is to like as many songs as you want when you're listening to the radio stations (ex: My Soundtrack), then Amazon Music will offer something fresh to you. Learn how to like or dislike a song on Amazon Music.

2. Go to Unlimited

Another workaround would be to try Amazon Music Unlimited. While new starters can benefit from Amazon Music's time-limited free trial, Amazon Music Prime may not have the ability to try Amazon Music Unlimited for free but upgrade to Unlimited with a discounted price instead for $8.99/month for a monthly subscription or $89/year for an annual subscription. Non-Prime customers would have to pay $9.99/month for Amazon Music Unlimited. Learn how to try Amazon Music Unlimited for free.

3. Download On-Demand Contents from Amazon Music

However, even you have Amazon Music Unlimited subscription, you may encounter with issues that the download queue won't work to download a selection of contents in your list. Then you must try the best alternatives to download any on-demand contents from Amazon Music. That way you won't lose access to your Amazon Music downloads even after your Prime or Unlimited subscription is ended, since you have the access to the actual audio files of your favorite Amazon Music contents. Go ahead.

Part 5. How to Download On-Demand Music Contents Amazon Music

While most Amazon Music Prime members are frustrated with the shuffle-only mode, a powerful tool called ViWizard Amazon Music Converter can ensure you the full access to any on-demand contents from Amazon Music. Since it helps you download your favorite contents such as songs, albums, playlists, artist music and even your entire Amazon Music library from the desktop app to your computer. You can even customize the audio file format as MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, and FLAC. Just pick either the Windows or Mac version of this ViWizard software and make the Amazon Music desktop app up-to-date and you're good to go.

Key Features of ViWizard Amazon Music Converter

Free Trial Free Trial

* Security verified. 5, 481,347 people have downloaded it.

• 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

How to download on-demand contents from desktop:

Step 1Select Your Favorite Amazon Music Contents

Launch the ViWizard Amazon Music Converter and it helps launch or relaunch the Amazon Music desktop app. Head to the desired contents in the desktop app and add the music tracks to ViWizard.

Step 2Customize Format Settings

Once added, head to the app menu of the ViWizard software. Click on the menu icon from the top menu > Preferences. Choose the Output tab from the top and open the drop-down menu for the Output format. From there select MP3 and click OK to save.

Step 3Download Amazon Music On-Demand Contents

Now click the Convert button and ViWizard will start downloading and converting the added Amazon Music tracks. Once it's done, the output folder that contains all the converted Amazon Music files will appear on the screen. You have the access to music on demand. You can choose to readd them to the Amazon Music desktop app or transfer them to a mobile device. Learn how to import local files to the Amazon Music desktop app.