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Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:54:49 GMT

I was wondering if anyone has any comments?

so far my Kindle HD only has books but I'm curious about music.

Sound quality? Any free music?

I'm a '70s girl....

Re: Music on your Kindle?

chrystaltree — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:04:58 GMT

I don't know about free music but I buy albums and single songs. My Kindle HD is my constant companion, so all my music is on it. I have no problems with sound quality. I'm not a techie and I'm not a musician, my stuff sounds great too me. That's all I need. I love that when I think about an old song or a favorite singer from the old days, I can go to Amazon; find it, buy it and it takes just minutes.

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:14:12 GMT

On 3/22/2014 chrystaltree said:
I don't know about free music but I buy albums and single songs. My Kindle HD is my constant companion, so all my music is on it. I have no problems with sound quality. I'm not a techie and I'm not a musician, my stuff sounds great too me. That's all I need. I love that when I think about an old song or a favorite singer from the old days, I can go to Amazon; find it, buy it and it takes just minutes.

thank you for your reply chrystaltree. I'm in the same league as you. I was looking at Bobby Vinton songs, then I think The Eagles..... thank you again.

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:20:35 GMT

Do I order as MP3?

Re: Music on your Kindle?

gardenman — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:41:57 GMT

If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:19:56 GMT

On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

I have over 2300 songs on my ipod from CDs that I owned. I didn't buy them from Itunes. I can't back them up and deathly afraid of losing them. (I've donated the CDs since then)

How easy is it for a non-techie to load music to their cloud?

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Nuttmeg — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:20:39 GMT

Sorry double post.

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Nuttmeg — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:20:40 GMT

On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

Amazon gives customers free storage of 250 tracks of your own music. You pay to storage the rest. A track is one song. If you buy music (mp3's) from Amazon, storage is free. A better suggestion would be to play music with an app(s) Pandora or Tune in Radio.

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:27:23 GMT

On 3/22/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

Amazon gives customers free storage of 250 tracks of your own music. You pay to storage the rest. A track is one song. If you buy music (mp3's) from Amazon, storage is free. A better suggestion would be to play music with an app(s) Pandora or Tune in Radio.

How do I do Pandora or Tune in Radio?

I am not tech savy at all

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Nuttmeg — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:51:14 GMT

On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

Amazon gives customers free storage of 250 tracks of your own music. You pay to storage the rest. A track is one song. If you buy music (mp3's) from Amazon, storage is free. A better suggestion would be to play music with an app(s) Pandora or Tune in Radio.

How do I do Pandora or Tune in Radio?

I am not tech savy at all

Pandora Radio You need to go to Pandora .com and signup for a free account.
http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24643-create-an-account

For your Kindle: http://www.pandora.com/everywhere/mobile

Tune In Radio Go the web and listen to your favorite radio station. You do not have to sign up. http://tunein.com/

App for Tune In Radio Kindle from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/TuneIn-Radio/dp/B004GYY714/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1395532227&sr=1-1&keywords=tunein

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:57:54 GMT

On 3/22/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

Amazon gives customers free storage of 250 tracks of your own music. You pay to storage the rest. A track is one song. If you buy music (mp3's) from Amazon, storage is free. A better suggestion would be to play music with an app(s) Pandora or Tune in Radio.

How do I do Pandora or Tune in Radio?

I am not tech savy at all

Pandora Radio You need to go to Pandora .com and signup for a free account.
http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24643-create-an-account

For your Kindle: http://www.pandora.com/everywhere/mobile

Tune In Radio Go the web and listen to your favorite radio station. You do not have to sign up. http://tunein.com/

App for Tune In Radio Kindle from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/TuneIn-Radio/dp/B004GYY714/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1395532227&sr=1-1&keywords=tunein

Thank YOU nutmeg3!!!

where are they on my Kindle? I also did Iheartradio

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Lynnj — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:26:22 GMT

On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

I have over 2300 songs on my ipod from CDs that I owned. I didn't buy them from Itunes. I can't back them up and deathly afraid of losing them. (I've donated the CDs since then)

How easy is it for a non-techie to load music to their cloud?

You could actually get those songs from your iPod to your computer. I had the same problem as you, I downloaded hundreds of CDs years ago. At the time, you could sync it with iTunes, then plug your iPod into computer and sync iPod with iTunes. iTunes stopped that feature years ago. They wanted you to pay to buy songs from their site. So I did some research last year online and found the steps to plug iPod into computer and save all of the songs to my computer hard drive. Then I paid for the iTunes Match service, which is $25 for a year. This enabled me to load all the songs from my hard drive to iTunes. Then I plugged my iPod back in and synced with iTunes again. You can cancel iTunes Match service after the year is over. But the songs will always be yours now and in your iTunes library. For me, the cost of $25 for iTunes Match was much cheaper than paying $1 something for every song I had.

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Lynnj — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:29:46 GMT

On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

Amazon gives customers free storage of 250 tracks of your own music. You pay to storage the rest. A track is one song. If you buy music (mp3's) from Amazon, storage is free. A better suggestion would be to play music with an app(s) Pandora or Tune in Radio.

How do I do Pandora or Tune in Radio?

I am not tech savy at all

Pandora Radio You need to go to Pandora .com and signup for a free account.
http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24643-create-an-account

For your Kindle: http://www.pandora.com/everywhere/mobile

Tune In Radio Go the web and listen to your favorite radio station. You do not have to sign up. http://tunein.com/

App for Tune In Radio Kindle from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/TuneIn-Radio/dp/B004GYY714/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1395532227&sr=1-1&keywords=tunein

Thank YOU nutmeg3!!!

where are they on my Kindle? I also did Iheartradio

You need to download the app. I don't have a kindle, rather an iPad, so it's hard to provide you with specific instructions. However, you should have an App that you use to download app. On am iPad it's called App Store. Not sure what it's called on kindle. Anyway, go to that app, look for pandora radio and tune in radio apps and download. You then access them on your kindle in the same way you open any other app you have on there.

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 03:35:15 GMT

On 3/22/2014 Lynnj said:
On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

I have over 2300 songs on my ipod from CDs that I owned. I didn't buy them from Itunes. I can't back them up and deathly afraid of losing them. (I've donated the CDs since then)

How easy is it for a non-techie to load music to their cloud?

You could actually get those songs from your iPod to your computer. I had the same problem as you, I downloaded hundreds of CDs years ago. At the time, you could sync it with iTunes, then plug your iPod into computer and sync iPod with iTunes. iTunes stopped that feature years ago. They wanted you to pay to buy songs from their site. So I did some research last year online and found the steps to plug iPod into computer and save all of the songs to my computer hard drive. Then I paid for the iTunes Match service, which is $25 for a year. This enabled me to load all the songs from my hard drive to iTunes. Then I plugged my iPod back in and synced with iTunes again. You can cancel iTunes Match service after the year is over. But the songs will always be yours now and in your iTunes library. For me, the cost of $25 for iTunes Match was much cheaper than paying $1 something for every song I had.

Thank you Lynnj I will definitely look into this. I have it book marked!

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 03:48:28 GMT

On 3/22/2014 Lynnj said:
On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

Amazon gives customers free storage of 250 tracks of your own music. You pay to storage the rest. A track is one song. If you buy music (mp3's) from Amazon, storage is free. A better suggestion would be to play music with an app(s) Pandora or Tune in Radio.

How do I do Pandora or Tune in Radio?

I am not tech savy at all

Pandora Radio You need to go to Pandora .com and signup for a free account.
http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24643-create-an-account

For your Kindle: http://www.pandora.com/everywhere/mobile

Tune In Radio Go the web and listen to your favorite radio station. You do not have to sign up. http://tunein.com/

App for Tune In Radio Kindle from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/TuneIn-Radio/dp/B004GYY714/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1395532227&sr=1-1&keywords=tunein

Thank YOU nutmeg3!!!

where are they on my Kindle? I also did Iheartradio

You need to download the app. I don't have a kindle, rather an iPad, so it's hard to provide you with specific instructions. However, you should have an App that you use to download app. On am iPad it's called App Store. Not sure what it's called on kindle. Anyway, go to that app, look for pandora radio and tune in radio apps and download. You then access them on your kindle in the same way you open any other app you have on there.

Thanks again Lynnj! Pandora is working already. I'm working on the others now. Awesome!!

Re: Music on your Kindle?

NYC Susan — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:05:32 GMT

On 3/22/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

Amazon gives customers free storage of 250 tracks of your own music. You pay to storage the rest. A track is one song. If you buy music (mp3's) from Amazon, storage is free. A better suggestion would be to play music with an app(s) Pandora or Tune in Radio.

I love Pandora, and have been listening to it on my laptop for awhile. I never thought about using it on my Kindle. Great suggestion!

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:12:58 GMT

Thanks for all the help. I'm so happy I asked!!!

I can add it to my laptop?!

Re: Music on your Kindle?

gardenman — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:13:20 GMT

On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

I have over 2300 songs on my ipod from CDs that I owned. I didn't buy them from Itunes. I can't back them up and deathly afraid of losing them. (I've donated the CDs since then)

How easy is it for a non-techie to load music to their cloud?

Wow! This thread got busy since last night! If the music is on your computer, it's a snap. You simply download Amazon's Cloud software and install it and then click on "Import your music" and it'll search your computer for all of your music files and allow you to upload them to the Amazon cloud. It can take a while (about ten days for my 8000+ songs using my ISP) and I did have to buy more storage space, but it's nice having full access to all of my music all of the time.

Re: Music on your Kindle?

Mary Bailey — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:27:36 GMT

On 3/23/2014 gardenman said:
On 3/22/2014 Mary Bailey said:
On 3/22/2014 gardenman said:
If you already own any music it's a snap to transfer it to your Kindle Fire HD. Amazon has their Cloud Player that lets you upload your music to Amazon's servers from your computer and then download it to your Kindle Fire HD. Or you can keep it on the cloud and stream it to your player when you want to hear it. I've got thousands of songs on Amazon's cloud (so many that I had to buy more space than the free space they give everyone) and it's amazing to be able to listen to any song I own from any of my albums in just a few seconds. I love it!

I have over 2300 songs on my ipod from CDs that I owned. I didn't buy them from Itunes. I can't back them up and deathly afraid of losing them. (I've donated the CDs since then)

How easy is it for a non-techie to load music to their cloud?

Wow! This thread got busy since last night! If the music is on your computer, it's a snap. You simply download Amazon's Cloud software and install it and then click on "Import your music" and it'll search your computer for all of your music files and allow you to upload them to the Amazon cloud. It can take a while (about ten days for my 8000+ songs using my ISP) and I did have to buy more storage space, but it's nice having full access to all of my music all of the time.

It's only on my Ipod. I was on a computer that died a few years ago.

I may have to try the Ipod Match that Lynnj suggested. I don't know that I'm that tech-savy or have that much patience.

I'm loving Pandora so far. I haven't gotten IHeartRadio to download yet.

I truly appreciate all the responses. I told DH that this is the place to come for help!

Re: Music on your Kindle?

gardenman — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:07:23 GMT

Pandora's great and if you use the "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" (up for music you like and down for that you don't care for) it'll get better and better for you. They're pretty clever at finding exactly the music you like and the more you guide them, the better they get.