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5.3 Playing Music on Your Kindle Fire
Once music has been copied to your device from your PC, you will be able to play it back in the Music section of the
Newsstand. Music is sorted by Playlists, Artists, Albums and Songs, while a Search tool is also provided.
To play a song, tap the title or album art. The player will display a progress bar (which you can use to jump through the
track), options to pause and skip back and forth through your collection as well as a volume control, continuous/repeat
play and random mode.
To continue working on your Kindle Fire – perhaps you want to listen to a good album while reading a truly great book
– tap the Hide button. You can then return to the Newsstand and your book!
Of course, this isn’t the only way to enjoy music on your Kindle Fire. If you have ever purchased MP3s from Amazon,
these can be added to your Cloud Drive, where they will then be synced to your tablet. The best way of doing this
is visiting www.cloudplayer.com, signing in with your Amazon account and following the instructions for loading your
Amazon-purchased music collection into the Cloud Drive.
You will then be able to play these back in the Music screen of your tablet – the tracks will be listed under Cloud.
Files in the AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG and WAV formats can be played on your Kindle Fire.
5.4 Finding and Downloading Videos
The above instructions cannot be used to sync video clips to your Kindle Fire, however.
This is due to the specic video format that the tablet demands. In order to sync your video clips from your computer
you will need a third party conversion tool. For Windows, the best option is the open source Miro media player, avail-
able from www.getmiro.com.
Similar to iTunes, this media player will convert your video clips into a suitable format for viewing on the Kindle Fire. To
do this, connect your Kindle Fire to your computer with the USB cable, open Miro and you should see the tablet listed
on the left-hand pane.
Using the Videos view in the app, select the les that you wish to sync (for larger items it is preferable to do this one at
a time) and drag them to the Kindle Fire > Video folder listed on the left.