Rebart69 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 I am new to this forum and am looking for some help. I have been using Poweramp for about 2 years on my android phone and really love this app. It does everything I want and need and then some. I have been purchasing and downloading music from Amazon Music for many years now. I am "old school" and believe in owning my songs. About last January 2022, Amazon threw me a curve ball and changed the folder to which it was downloading the music files. I was able to locate the new folder and copy the files to the folder that Poweramp could see. Now recently, Amazon changed its downloads again and I cannot find the folder too which the downloads are going and I believe they may be encrypting the files. How can I get Poweramp to see the new downloads from Amazon Music ?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotleyG Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Rebart69 said: How can I get Poweramp to see the new downloads from Amazon Music ? Is there a place in the Amazon app that lets you define this storage location? I would start there. 1 hour ago, Rebart69 said: and I believe they may be encrypting the files If this is the case, Poweramp will not be able to play these files. But DRM has been removed from most download vendors. I would be surprised if Amazon put it back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebart69 Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 MotleyG - Thanks for your reply ... No there is not a place in the Amazon Music app to define download location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Android apps are meant to use their own assigned folder in Android/data/ and store any content within subfolders of that location. As a starting point, try android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/music on internal memory (or SD Card if you have one). Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebart69 Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 Andrewilley - I have done that and previously the files were in a subfolder of com.amazon.mp3 called "purchased". Now (as of two weeks ago) the purchased folder does not exist. Under the com.amaazon.mp3 folder are hundreds of subfolders like "01" or "10" , "11", "a1", etc. in these folders are files like "B09WTJJCNL.High.0" .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 There are a few discussions on the wider internet about Amazon Music's change of storage policies from a few months ago. How recently did you Amazon Music app get updated? e.g. Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebart69 Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 I noticed the change about 1 month ago .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 People have been asking the same thing of Amazon directly, perhaps worth checking there too? https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q00008anDjASAU/why-did-the-music-download-location-change Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebart69 Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 Thanks for the info ..I will defiantly check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w3wilkes Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 On Windows Amazon Music downloads to my PC just fine for purchased music and files are not encrypted. Also, amazon music on the PC allows you to specify where you want your music downloads to be saved. The only time I've seen the folders like @Rebart69 mentions (01, 10, 11, a1, etc) is if you attempt to download something you are allowed to play in Amazon Music but have not purchased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Verret Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 I've also been trying to find my amazon music recently. I pay for the songs and the amazon app says it's downloading them but I can't find them and neither can Poweramp. I really don't want to have to use amazon's player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 @Mark Verret Amazon appear to have recently deliberately obfuscated their storage location structure, see: You can still find things and copy them to your chosen music location, but its nowhere near as straight-forward as it used to be. Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w3wilkes Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 For music I've bought from Amazon Music it places it in the folder I specified in Amazon Music for downloads which I set as "Music\Amazon Music Downloads", works perfectly every time. If you happen to click the download button for music that is free to listen, but you have not purchased, it creates some unheavenly encrypted directory structure that will allow you to "play the music offline" in Amazon Music (to me this seems fair). But for the music you've bought it downloads as a folder of the artist and a folder under that for the album and then the track(s) and cover art in the album folder. You are then free to copy/move that anywhere just like any other files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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