Listening to Music and Podcasts
To be clear from the start, when you bought your Kindle you didn’t buy much of an MP3 player. You barely bought an MP3 player. You might be accustomed to music players than have playlists, track information, equalizer settings, and all kinds of other bells and whistles. As an MP3 player, your Kindle can:
- Play and pause songs, and
- Skip to the next song.
This list wasn’t accidentally cut short. Your Kindle can’t go back to a previous track. It can’t fast-forward or rewind within a song. It can’t even show you what song you’re listening to.
Before you send Jeff Bezos threatening emails, remember that MP3 playback is another “experimental” feature of your Kindle. It comes with no promises or guarantees. In this case, it doesn’t even come with the features you’d find on a budget MP3 player.
All that said, your Kindle does play music, and you can listen to it while you read, so there’s no sense dwelling on what it can’t do.
Kindle Music Basics
Because there isn’t much to the MP3 player in the Kindle, there isn’t a lot to cover, just how to put music on your Kindle and how to play it.
Putting Music on Your Kindle
To play music on your Kindle, you first need to put music on your Kindle. There’s no Kindle music store, nor can you send music to your Kindle via WhisperNet. Instead, you’ll have to connect your Kindle to your Mac or PC with the Kindle’s USB cable and transfer your MP3 files manually.
In Chapter 2, you read about connecting your Kindle to ...
