Fire Tablets For Dummies

Chapter 9

Playing Music

In This Chapter

Checking out the Music library

Getting music from your computer to the Cloud

Listening to music using your Fire tablet

Music surrounds us as we go through our days. Portable devices provide us with decent-quality sound systems for listening to everything from Lady Gaga to Mozart, everywhere from the subway to the jogging path.

The ability to tap into Amazon’s tremendous Music store (with more than 20 million songs at the time of this writing) and access it from any device, including your Fire tablet, means that you can build up your ideal music library and take it with you wherever you go. You can also sideload (transfer) music from other sources into your Fire tablet by using the provided micro USB cable.

Also, the addition of Dolby Digital Plus, audio powered through dual-driver stereo speakers (except for the 6-inch Fire, which has mono speakers), provides one of the finest listening experiences in the world of tablets. This system even optimizes sound for what you’re playing so that music sounds like music rather than movie dialog and vice versa.

Music played through your Fire tablet’s speakers sounds great, and music you experience through ...