How to upload music to Amazon Music in 2023

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December 12, 2023

“I used to be able to upload my personal songs to my Amazon library but am not finding the option to do so. Goggle guides say that I need to click on the 3 horizontal bars icon on my Amazon Music app but I do not see that icon.”- reddit user asked. If you have the same confusion. Here you will find the solution.

The quick answer is that Amazon has shut down this feature in Amazon Music app. BUT Amazon does allow users to access own local files. You can import your local music to Amazon Music desktop app. In this article, you will find detailed steps about importing music to Amazon Music.

How to upload local music to Amazon Music on Windows/Mac?

  1. Launch Amazon Music app on your Mac or Windows.
  2. Click Profile icon on the top right corner – Settings.
  3. Scroll down and click “Automatically Import Music From”.

4. Click Select Folder and choose the music you want to add to Amazon Music.

Amazon Music import music

5. To play the upload local music with Amazon Music app, go to Library – Music – Songs. Click Locations and choose Offline.

Amazon Music offline

It’s important to mention that Amazon Music desktop app’s ability to play local files is limited to the devices on which the files are stored. Amazon Music does not store or sync these local files across different devices like it does with its streaming catalog.

How to upload Apple Music songs to Amazon Music?

However, some Apple Music subscribers found that songs downloaded from Apple Music can’t be upload to Amazon Music. Files from Apple Music streaming service are DRM protected, and won’t be playable in any other software, hence why these files do not upload to Amazon Music.

To upload Apple Music songs to Amazon Music, the alternative is to extract MP3 songs from Apple Music and then upload them to Amazon Music as ordinary local music. All you need is Pazu Apple Music Converter, which allows you to easily extract MP3s from Apple Music, then upload them to Amazon Music local library with ease.

Step 1 Launch Pazu Apple Music Converter

Download, install and run Pazu Apple Music Converter on your Mac or Windows.

Apple Music Converter

Step 2 Choose output format

The default format is M4A in 256kbps. Apple Music Converter also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. Click the gear icon if you want to change output format or output folder.

Apple Music Converter settings

Step 3 Choose a playlist, artist or album you want to download

Follow the on-screen instructions to choose a playlist, artist, or album that you want to download.

add Apple Music songs

Step 4 Start to download Apple Music songs

Click “Convert” button to start downloading Apple Music songs, albums and playlists to mp3. After downloading, you can upload the download Apple Music songs to Amazon Music.

convert Apple Music to MP3

How to upload Spotify songs to Amazon Music?

Spotify songs you downloaded with Premium can’t be imported to Amazon Music as local songs since they are DRM protected and can only be recognized by Spotify app. To import Spotify music to Amazon Music, you will need a professional Spotify music downloader to download Spotify to mp3 first.

Pazu Spotify Converter is a professional Spotify music downloader for you to download Spotify songs, albums, playlists and podcast to common format including MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF with the 100% original quality kept. After downloading, all ID3 Tags and metadata including title, artwork, artist, album, track number will be preserved. Pazu Spotify Converter allows you to download Spotify to MP3 with either free or Premium account, so you can import Spotify music to Amazon Music even with Spotify free.

Key features of Pazu Spotify Converter:

  • Download Spotify songs without Premium.
  • Convert Spotify to MP3/M4A/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF.
  • Best possible quality song download without any type of loss.
  • Keeps all the original ID3 tags: title, artist, artwork, etc.
  • No Requirement for the Spotify app.
  • Multilingual interface: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, 日本語, 简体中文.
  • Archive downloaded songs by album or artist.

1. Run Pazu Spotify Converter

Download, install and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in web player.

spotify converter

2. Choose output format

Click the ” Options ” button on the top right corner. Here you can select output format (MP3/M4A/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF), output quality, customize the output path, organize the output files in various ways, rename output files and more.

Spotify converter settings

3. Select Spotify songs, albums or playlists

Select the songs, album or playlist you want to download. Spotify Converter will detect and display all songs. Uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any. Click “Show All” icon to toggle “Hide Converted” on in case some songs have been downloaded before.

drag&drop spotify songs

4. Download and Convert Spotify Songs to Local

Click Convert button to start downloading the Spotify songs to your local computer.

remove Spotify DRM

5. Upload Spotify music to Amazon Music

Follow above steps to upload the downloaded Spotify songs to Amazon Music on Mac or Windows.

  1. Launch Amazon Music app on your Mac or Windows.
  2. Click Profile icon on the top right corner – Settings.
  3. Scroll down and click “Automatically Import Music From”.
  4. Click Select Folder and choose above output folder.
  5. Then downloaded Spotify songs will be imported to Amazon Music.
upload music to Amazon Music

Amazon Music Converter

Amazon Music Converter

Download Amazon Music to MP3, FLAC, etc.