Amazon Music users can do more with their favorite songs in their playlists, especially in their own ones. Normal case is that there's a new preferred order of songs in them. No more for endless scrolling down to find a particular song to start streaming, since now Prime members can only shuffle the songs, albums, playlists on Amazon Music. However, you're still able to change the order of your playlists on your devices.
In this post, we'd like to share respective instructions of 3 most-used methods - sort and customize to change the order of Amazon Music playlist songs. You can pick either desktop or mobile device to see how to do this. Plus, we will share with you a way to change the Amazon Music playlist order even you are Amazon Music free or prime user.
Part 1. How to Change Oder of Amazon Music Playlists on Windows/Mac
Amazon Music offer 3 options for you to change the order of your playlists on Amazon Music desktop app.
You need to note:
- Only Amazon Music Unlimited users can rearrange the order of the Amazon Music Playlist. You can read the post to know how to get Amazon Music free trial.
- Reorder the playlist under the mode of Online music. If you edit the order of the playlist in offline mode, the change won't sync across all your devices.
- All-access playlist can't be edited. But you can add all the tracks from the All-access playlist to the Amazon Music playlist you created. And then you can reorder the tracks from Amazon Music All-access playlist.
Option 1: Randomize Your Playlists
Since the change of Amazon Music Prime, Prime members can only shuffle playlist songs. However, Amazon Music provides an option for Prime members to randomize your playlist. Then you are able to listen to the Amazon Music playlist in a changed songs order.
On Windows PC or Mac, open the Amazon Music desktop app.
In the Amazon Music menu, select LIBRARY > Music.
Select the playlist to edit.
Open the More Options menu (horizontal 3 dots icon) on the playlist's profile. Select Randomize Playlist. You will find your playlist order is randomized.
Option 2: Sort Your Playlists by Column Header
You can also sort your playlists by some columns.
In the Amazon Music desktop app, select LIBRARY > Music from the top menu.
Select the desired playlist.
Here're 5 columns supported to sort your playlist. Feel free to click on Default, Title, Artist, Album or Duration. You can also click the ↓↑ (Arrow down or up icon) icon nest to the column to revert the order.
Option 3: Sort Your Playlists by Track Number
- On Windows PC or Mac, open the Amazon Music desktop app.
- From the menu bar, select LIBRARY > Music.
- Select PLAYLISTS.
- Select the playlist to edit.
- Drag and drop the songs in the desired order. When pin a special an item to the desired position, also see the white line and the information like "1" in case of there's a mistake.
📝PLEASE NOTE: You can only reorder tracks in your playlist if it is sorted by track number. If an pop-up window like this appears on the screen, click OK and repeat some steps to sort your playlists by track number.
Part 2. How to Change Order of Amazon Music Playlists on iOS/Android
To sort your Amazon Music for iOS/Android app playlists and change the playback order, please follow these steps properly.
On iOS or Android, open the Amazon Music app.
Select Library.
Select the playlist to edit.
Open the More Options menu (horizontal 3 dots icon) nest to a song or album.
Select Edit.
You will see 6-dot icon on the left panel of the song. Press it to drag the song to your desired order.
Tap Done to finish the edit of playlist order..
Part 3. How to Fix Amazon Music Playlist Changing Not Working
Situation 1: Amazon Music Playlist can't be rearranged via drag and drop
If your 6 dots icon or More option is disappearing from your screen, it's Amazon Music's poor UI design that's causing it. Although the icon disappears, you can still click the 3-dot icon at the top of the list > Edit > Press and hold in the track's blank area at the far right > move it to your desired order > release it > Tap on Done.
Situation 2: Amazon Music Playlist randomize mode not working
If this issue occurs after Amazon Music updates, you can consider downgrading the Amazon Music version to the older one.
Or, you can go Amazon Music settings to reload the library. After reloading, close Amazon Music and force stop its service. Open Amazon Music again and create a new playlist of 4 songs. Verify the Randomize mode works on the new and small playlist. Normally, it will work, and then you can open the playlist you want to randomize.
Common Situation: How to Solve
- Make sure your WiFi or cellular data is stable. Turn off any VPN or Ad-locker software on your device.
- Make sure your Amazon Music Unlimited subscription is active.
- Make sure your PC or phone's system is running without bugs. You can restart your device to remove the temporary glitches.
- Make sure your device system version is updated to the newest one.
- Uninstall Amazon Music and reinstall the latest version.
- Try to clean Amazon Music cache .
- Try to free up your device storage space.
Part 4. Part 4. Change Amazon Music Playlist Order without Amazon Music Unlimited
Editing Amazon Music lists doesn't matter because you come for the methods above for either sorting, customizing, or randomizing to change orders of songs. However, for Prime members, the shuffle mode is the biggest frustration. Prime members will find they are no longer able to play Amazon Music contents including an artist, album or playlist on-demand. To play the music on demand, Prime members will need to find All-Access Playlists curated based on your likes, listens and genre preferences. But there's the best alternative to help you get rid of this. All you need is a powerful Amazon Music downloader.
ViWizard Amazon Music Converter is the best Amazon Music downloader that helps both Prime and Unlimited customers to download whatever you like from Amazon Music catalog. You can drag and drop music tracks from Amazon Music desktop app to ViWizard, and then customize some format settings to download DRM-free Amazon Music files. You can choose to download them in 6 audio file formats: MP3, M4A, M4V, WAV, AIFF and FLAC. Once the conversion is complete, the files are yours for keeping forever.
Key Features of ViWizard Amazon Music Converter
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- Download songs from Amazon Music Prime, Unlimited, and HD Music
- Convert Amazon Music songs to MP3, AIFF, 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
Step 1Add Amazon Music Tracks
Ensure to download either the Windows or Mac version of this ViWizard Amazon Music Converter and also the Amazon Music desktop app. Launch the ViWizard software, and it will launch and relaunch the Amazon app. Go to the items to add. You can drag and drop them to ViWizard.
Step 2Adjust Output Settings
Now from the top menu of the ViWizard software, click the menu icon > Preferences. Choose the Convert tab and adjust the output format as MP3. You can also choose to adjust sample rate, bit rate and channel. Don't forget to click OK to save these settings.
Step 3Convert Amazon Music Tracks
Now back to the main interface of the ViWizard Amazon Music Converter and click Convert to start the conversion at 5x speed. Feel free to open the converted menu to check for the downloaded music tracks.
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