Download Amazon Music to MP3 Player? 2 Methods Available!

Now popular streaming music services like Spotify, Amazon Music and Tidal provide millions of songs for their users. It's natural that users want to keep their favorite songs in a device, one usual choice is a MP3 player.

To pick up and download songs from popular streaming music services is great to fill your MP3 player up. If you are a decades-long user of Amazon Music and happen to have an amazon music compatible MP3 player, it's great to have your favorite songs listening from an MP3. However, if you don't have an Amazon Music compatible MP3 player, can you download Amazon Music to an MP3 player? Of course, you can, but this progress is not easy as expected.

If you want to know how to download music from Amazon to MP3 player without an Amazon Music compatible MP3 player, this article will tell what you should know about Amazon Music MP3 Player and the best alternative for letting Amazon Prime music download to MP3 Player.

Part 1. What You Should Know about Amazon Music MP3 Player

Without an Amazon Music compatible MP3 player, there are more things you should consider: cost, compatibility and ID3 tag.

Cost

To download music from Amazon to MP3 player, you should first have access to your favorite Amazon music. If there is a collection of Amazon Music files on your computer, it's free. However, there will be a cost from Amazon Music to get access to its songs. In Amazon Music, the average cost per album is $9.50.

Compatibility

Still, if you have a collection of Amazon Music files, you have to make sure they are in MP3 or other audio formats that are supported by your MP3 player. However, if you want to get a collection of MP3 from Amazon Music, things can be difficult. Even your membership of Amazon Prime Music doesn't make sense to download Amazon Music in MP3 format because Amazon Music have the downloaded songs stored in a different format. This means the MP3s you purchased from Amazon Music's music store will be available for streaming and download but not for converting to your MP3 player. You'll need a third-party program to assist you in this task.

ID3 Tag

You should also make sure that your MP3s are tagged correctly because Amazon Music MP3 player read artist, song, and other information from ID3 tag that is embedded in a MP3 file. If the ID3 tags are read as blank or incorrect, you can find it difficult to navigate through a music collection in your MP3 player.

Part 2. How to Add Purchased Amazon Songs to MP3 Player

As stated before, it's inconvenient to transfer purchased Amazon songs to your MP3 Player. One of the reasons is Amazon doesn't have a media player that will syn with an MP3 player and allow you to add purchased Amazon songs. However, you can still manage to finish this task with Windows Media Player. Followings are the 2 steps need you to go through.

Step 1Download Purchased Music from the Amazon Music

There are two options to learn how to download purchased music songs depending on your most-used way to stream Amazon Music.

Download Purchased Music Using a Web Browser

1. Go to the website of Amazon Music and log into your Amazon account to access to the music songs.

2. Go to the library, and then select the albums or songs you want to download, and then click Download.

3. Click No thanks, just download music files directly, if you are prompted to install the app.

4. Choose Save if your browser asks whether you want to open or save one or more files.

5. The music songs you have downloaded is saved by default to your browser's "Downloads" folder. For convenience, you can move the music songs from "Downloads" folder to the preferred location on your computer like "Your Music" or "Music".

Download Purchased Music Using the Amazon Music for PC and Mac App

1. Select Library and click on Songs. Select Purchased to see all the music you have Amazon Prime Music download to MP3 player.

2. Click the 'download' icon next to the song or album. You can also drag and drop songs and albums to the Download section under Actions in the right sidebar.

3. The music songs you have downloaded is saved by default to an Amazon Music folder on your computer. For PC computers, this folder is typically stored under "My Music". For Mac computers, it is typically stored in the "Music" folder.

Step 2Sync Purchased Amazon Music to MP3 Player

1. Get the correct version of Windows Media Player for your Windows-based device. For Mac user, you can download Windows Media Components for QuickTime to play Windows Media files.

2. Open Windows Media Player and click the File menu, then choosing the Add to Library selection, then selecting the Add button.

3. Find the folder where the downloaded Amazon MP3 files are stored, then clicking OK to add Amazon MP3s to Windows Media Player.

4. Plug the MP3 player into a USB port on the computer using the USB cord, then connecting the MP3 player with the computer.

5. Press the Sync button in the bar at the top of Windows Media Player, then choosing Songs under the Library category at the far left of the program window.

6. Drag the downloaded Amazon MP3s you want to add to the MP3 player to the Sync List located on the right side of the program window.

7. Click Start at the bottom of Sync List to move Amazon MP3 files to the MP3 player.

Part 3. How to Download Amazon Songs to MP3 Player with Ease

However, difficulties still can happen at the start. When you search several artists and the only options are for physical media (Cd/Vinyl) or just streaming. You can't find a specific MP3 because of a licensing deal Amazon Music has with the artist or the rights holder. Therefore, it seems that you have to turn to other streaming music services to get this song with an extra cost.

What's more, even you don't have this problem, you may find from time to time Amazon Music can push for a upgraded subscription to Amazon Unlimited for some certain songs, which will cost $9.99/month for prime customer.

Best Alternative to download music from Amazon: ViWizard Amazon Music Converter

If you want to get rid of the control of Amazon Music and download your favorite Amazon Prime music to your MP3 Player with absolute ease, a powerful Amazon Music Converter like ViWizard Amazon Music Converter will be the best alternative of purchasing music from Amazon Digital Music Store. ViWizard Amazon Music Converter enables Amazon Music subscribers to download and convert Amazon music tracks into MP3 and other plain audio formats that compatible with MP3 player. What's more, this music converter can save the MP3s with full ID3 tags for MP3 player, so you don't have to checked them again.

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

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You are available to download two versions of ViWizard Amazon Music Converter for free trial: Windows version and Mac version. Just hit on the 'Download' button above to download music from Amazon.

Step 1Select and Add Amazon Music to ViWizard Amazon Music Converter

Choose the right version of ViWizard Amazon Music Converter and download it to Windows or Mac. Also, a pre-installed Amazon Music app on windows or Mac is needed. On Windows, once ViWizard Amazon Music Converter is open, the Amazon Music app will also launched automatically. Next you should make sure your Amazon Prime Music account have signed in. Browse the songs by playlist, artist, albums, songs, genres or search for a specific title to find the music songs. Just drag the tracks to the center screen of ViWizard or copy and paste the relevant link to the search bar. Then you can see the songs are added and listed in the center screen, waiting to be downloaded and converted for MP3 Player.

Step 2Set the Output Audio Parameters

Click the menu icon and next to click 'Preference'. You can choose to convert the songs into MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, WAV and FLAC format. Here we recommend you to choose MP3 format. Besides, you can feel free to change the bit rate from 8 to 320 kbps. The maximum bit rate is 256kbps in Amazon Music. However, in ViWizard you can choose to maximize MP3 format's output bit rate to 320kbps, which ensures better audio quality and thus contributes to your better listening experience with MP3 player. What's more, you can also customize the song's sample rate and channel as you need. Before click the '×', check the output format and other output audio parameters again and click the 'OK' button to save your settings.

Step 3Convert and Download Amazon Music Songs

Check the songs on the list again. You can see the output format is shown next to the song's time. If it is not the compatible format with your MP3 player, you can just go back to the 'preference' and reset it again. Also notice that there is an output path at the bottom of the screen, which shows where the output files will be saved after the conversion. For later use, you should select the output folder that is easy to locate as the output path. Then click the 'Convert' button and ViWizard Amazon Music Converter will start to download and convert Amazon Music tracks. Once the conversion completes, you can browse the converted music files at the 'converted' icon that next to the output path's bar.

Step 4Transfer Amazon Music Tracks to MP3 Player

Plug the MP3 player into a USB port on the computer using the USB cord, then connecting the MP3 player with the computer. When your MP3 player is detected successfully, create a music folder, then moving the converted Amazon Music files to it. After the transfer completes, plug your MP3 player out of the computer and you can easily locate your favorite music songs with full ID3 tags are playable on your MP3 player.

Conclusion

Now you should have learnt what you should know about Amazon Music MP3 Player and what to consider before downloading Amazon Music to MP3 player. Remember there is a best alternative for letting Amazon Prime Music download to MP3 player forever - to have ViWizard Amazon Music Converter. Have a try, and you'll find it out.

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