Your Kindle can do double duty as a very nice Mp3 player...
Put your Mp3 music files into the music folder on your Kindle. You can't really control this folder or sort the files (other than by file name) to play in any special order, but this folder is great for your favorite music files.
Use these keyboard commands to play your music:
- Alt+F Next file
- Alt+P Play/stop (Kindle 1)
- Alt+Spacebar (Kindle DX, 2 and 3) play/pause music. Also pauses Text to Speech function
- Spacebar pause audio file
Listen to your favorite music in the background as you read using either the built in speakers on your Kindle, or plug in your ear buds for more private listening.
Where to get music files...
- You can purchase music from Amazon.com one song at a time (in an mp3 file) or an entire album of mp3 files.
- You may even have friends who have amazing music collections (mp3 files) and don't mind sharing.
- You can take your personal CD collection and "rip" songs from each CD and save them as mp3 files for you to use on your Kindle or mp3 player. My favorite software for this sort of thing is from Acoustica.com. MP3 CD Burner is one of my favorite applications for music files. My husband has fallen in love with it too, and has combined hundreds of songs from various CDs of ours into one cd. We use these MP3 CDs when we go on road trips. The newer CD players will play mp3 cds, and the neat thing is you can get hundreds of mp3 files on a recordable cd, but only a handful of traditional music files will fit on the old fashioned type cd.
- Music file types the Kindle can handle are .mp3. You can get them just about anywhere, including Amazon.
- Connect your Kindle to your computer with the USB cable
- Mac - When the Kindle icon appears on your desktop, double click it to see the folders inside.
- PC - When the little popup box appears asking what you want to do with what you just plugged into your computer, chooseview files using Windows Explorer
- Drag the files to the audible or music folder. They won't do you a bit of good anywhere else.
- Disconnect your Kindle and enjoy! Be sure to use the Safely remove option (eject) for the PC or drag the Kindle icon to the trash if you have a Mac before you disconnect the usb cable.
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