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How to Play AMR Files in This Premium AMR Player

Posted by Kaylee Wood | Last update: April 28, 2020

Often, you noticed that there is an AMR file but you have no idea of such format and which AMR player to open it correctly. Strictly speaking, AMR files are divided into two kinds – the AMR-WB files that can be played by most AMR file players, and other AMR-NB files which opens only by mobile-based AMR players. Even though such AMR files are all suffixed by .amr, their interior are not exactly the same. To play AMR(Adaptive Multi-Rate) files on Windows 10/7/8.1 and Mac as well as play WAV, MP3 files, take a look at this premim free AMR player - 5KPlayer.

What is AMR and How to Play?

AMR file format (Adaptive Multi-Rate) is mainly used as audio formats in mobile devices. With high compression rate comes low memory occupation, AMR files (including AMR-NB, AMR-WB and GSM-AMR) inevitably have poorer quality when compared to other compressed audio formats. By default, the Voice Memo in iPhone and Blackberry save recordings in AMR format. If you play AMR files with an inferior AMR file player, the audio quality may degrade, signals may stutter, distort, or even messed up with much noise when AMR files are being played. However, 5KPlayer is the most stable AMR player for you to play any AMR files without glitches on Windows 10/7/8.1 or Mac.

Under some circumstances, a part of AMR files come with the extension *.3ga, and all of them have variable bit rates ranging from 4.75 to 12.2 kbit/s with toll quality speech starting at 7.4 kbit/s, thus requiring a flexible AMR player to tave over.

That been said, 5KPlayer is your best choice since it's a multi-functional and steady free media player for .AMR files. For one reason, this AMR file player is 100% free and clean containing no adware, spyware, virus and plug-in, free of threat to your PC/Mac. For another, this AMR file player shipped with a professional kernel is extremely helpful when playing any AMR files. Occupying low memory on your system which facilitates a faster running speed. Most importantly, it offers incomparable highest audio experience when playing AMR codec files on Windows 10/8.1/7 and macOS. Better still, you can rely on the audio player freeware to play AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, M4V with extra-ordinary audio enjoyment.

Top 3 Free, Easy-to-Use AMR Players Review

Because the default player Windows Media Player for Windows and QuickTime Player for Mac OS failed to live up users' expectation in MKV video playback, you need to choose a powerful third party MKV player. Here below is a review about the top free MKV players which you should take into account in choosing a suitable MKV player to play all your MKV files. The review focuses on the file types of MKV (video/audio/subtitle codec) that they support as well as MKV playback problems those MKV media players usually meet. Take a look at it in case you run into the wrong video player.

NO.1 5KPlayer for Windows (Windows 10 Compatible) Mac (macOS Mojave Compatible)

5KPlayer is perhaps the simplest AMR player on this list, which means it is fairly easy to use. Besides playing AMR file, it handles a variety of formats and can play HD 4K/5K/1080P videos. You can make a playlist of you AMR file and this AMR player will play AMR file one after another from the list, and you can also choose to reply one AMR audio trackor loop the AMR file in a specific playlist. It also incorporates a radio station player and a multimedia library in which you could customize your own AMR playlist and with the one-tap on the Heart icon feature, you could easily add your favorite AMR track to the "Favorites". Moreover, 5KPlayer haves convert options with which you could convert AMR to MP3 as well as converting MP4 to MP3 and downloading YouTube to MP3 directly.

Pros:
Adaptive to multi bitrates from low to high;
Multi-formats supports such as AAC, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, OGG, etc;
Convert AMR to MP3.

Cons:
High CPU-demand

NO.2 AMR Player 1.3 for Windows

AMR Player 1.3 is a light-weight AMR video player for Windows XP, 98, 2003. As a professional and exclusive AMR player and converter, it does its own task pretty fast, and rarely ANY error occurs during AMR file playback. AMR Player is straightforward and efficient which allows you to convert audio into common media file formats such as MP3 or WAV AMR/AWB format and vice versa.

Pros:
Relatively low CPU-demand;
Support free audio conversion.

Cons:
Very lmited formats support range;
Not many preferences setting;
Only "playing AMR files" as its name suggests;
Not usable on Windows 10.

NO. 3 VLC Media Player - Full-fledged AMR Player

We put VLC media player pretty much on every best multi-formats player list as it plays almost all video and audio file with no trouble. VLC is a free and open sourced program for playing audio files as WAV, PCM, AMR, AWB, WMA, MP3, AAC, MS ADPCM, PLS, CUE with FLAC, CUE with APE, etc. Plus the interface of this AMR player is so direct that you can do everything in just a few clicks. In most cases, AMR files are good to go with VLC media player, yet you may bookmark this guide on [solved] AMR files won't play, or convert AMR to MP3, a format which almost any mainstream video players are able to play.

Pros:
Open source and completely free;
Play AMR without codec packs.

Cons:
High CPU-demand;
Basic interface design, not very user-friendly.

Does the Top 3 AMR Players Support All AMR Related File Types?

File Type	5KPlayer	AMR Player 1.3	VLC Media Player
AMR-NB	Y	Y	Y
AMR-WB	Y	Y	Y
3GA	Y	-	Y
WAV	Y	-	Y
MP3	Y	-	Y

Multitalented AMR Player - Play AMR Files to Perfection

Quick as draw, the free 5KPlayer plays AMR files either saved in AMR-WB or AMR-NB. Since Some Adaptive Multi-Rate files may also use the .3GA file extension, 5KPlayer sees to it that any existing form of AMR is supported. In addition, this AMR player is not limited to playback of this small range of audio formats. Other formats including WAV, MO3 FLAC, OGG, M4A are all compatible with this music player for Windows 10 and Mac. So, no worries at all, as your music journey is only widened with broader formats support.

For music DIY lovers, this AMR player, they can easily convert self-recorded voice recordings in AMR to MP3 and make it their unique ringtones or alarm songs instead of using the underwhelming default chords. On top of that, with 5KPlayer, if you are fond of hot new vibes of, say, The Weeknd/DRAKE/Taylor Swift/Justin Bieber, you can free download their songs, playlists and whole albums at your own disposal from over 300+ online video music sites including YouTube, VEVO, Vine, Metacafe etc. Get this AMR player now to unleash all the fascinating features immediately!

How to Play AMR Files in This AMR Player Easily?

With its straightforward and clean UI, this free AMR player's operation is as simple as ABC.

Step 1: Free Download This Best AMR Player First.

Before you can enjoy the high quality AMR files, it will only take seconds long to download this best AMR player. Then install it.

Step 2: How to Open AMR Files by This AMR Player.

Launch this best audio player freeware and click "Music" on the main interface to open your AMR files folder. Or you can also drag-and-drop AMR file to this AMR codec player directly.

Tip: You can also right click on the playback area for opening the media file directly.

Step 3: Customizable Settings.

When you playing AMR files you can also set the AMR player as you like. You are free to close AMR file by tap the little Cross button and it won't shut down this AMR player. If you want to add AMR file as your favorite, just click the Heart button.

Tips: AMR to MP3 Conversion
1. Locate the AMR file in 5KPlayer Library
2. Click the "Convert" button to see a drop-down menu.
There are three options for you to choose from - "Convert to MP3", "Convert to AAC", and "Convert to MP4".
3. Click "Convert to MP3" and the file will automatically convert your MOV video in seconds.

Note: 5KPlayer works more than a professional AMR player to losslessly play AMR files including AMR-WB, mobile-based AMR-NB and 3GA files, it's also a versatile video music player enabling you to play any MP4, MOV, WMV, MKV, etc format with extremely high quality and play HD 1080p UHD 4K 8K videos smoothly without stutters. Moreover, this AMR file player is also featured as a remarkable video music downloader – free download any AMR MP3 WAV etc audio, HD UHD SD videos from 300+ video sites easily and quickly.

* Furthering Reading: AMR-NB vs. AMR-WB

There are two different versions of AMR: AMR-Narrowband (AMR-NB) and AMR-Wideband (AMR-WB), both of them are audio format that could be play by AMR player like 5KPlayer. AMR-NB (AMR or GSM-AMR) is mainly intended for use by GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), while AMR-WB by UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System). AMR-NB has a file extension like .amr or .3ga, and AMR-WB is .awb. For the container format, AMR-NB is as same as AMR-WB that is used in 3GP container format in 3GPP specifications.

* Table of Specs: AMR-NB (aka AMR or GSM-AMR) vs AMR-WB

	AMR or AMR-NB or GSM-AMR	AMR-WB
Type	Vocoder	Wideband audio (HD voice) speech audio coding standard
Methodology	ACELP, DTX, VAD and CNG	ACELP
Bit rate	4.75 kbit/s to 12.2 kbit/s	12.65 kbit/s to 23.85 kbit/s
File extension	.amr, .3ga	.awb
Internet media type	audio/amr, audio/3gpp, audio/3gpp2	audio/amr-wb, audio/3gpp
Employed in	Low-bitrate applications i.e. mobile phones; storing spoken audio using the AMR codec and short audio recordings	Higher bitrates for mobile handsets, speech in noise environments, combined speech and music, and multi-party conferencing.