HD New 2014 Kindle Fires - discuss

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

I plan to use mine for my audibles, my apps and backup reading. Oh and as the Cloud Collections Manager so that I can turn off the wifi on my pw2. But I will only be able to do that if it has the feature like the pw to show those books not in a collection in Collections view. Oh and maybe some minor music, but I do not have a lot of music on Amazon.

Audible will be a biggie for me too; and so will music - either cloud or radio (AOL, Pandora, etc). I have nearly 8,000 songs in Amazon's cloud; a good chunk of that is Prime Music. I won't do anything ebook related with this device, other than using the OverDrive app to get library books for my K4.

[conan50]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible will be a biggie for me too; and so will music - either cloud or radio (AOL, Pandora, etc). I have nearly 8,000 songs in Amazon's cloud; a good chunk of that is Prime Music. I won't do anything ebook related with this device, other than using the OverDrive app to get library books for my K4.

I plan on using mine for music, text-to-speech Kindle books, Overdrive, and perhaps as something of a pda for notes and calendar, etc. My Galaxy Light phone at 4" is fine for calls, but the screen is too small for my eyes and text input. Eventually I will get a phone with a larger screen, but this tab will help fill in the gap till then I think.

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

27 days without a case?

You like to live dangerously, dontcha?

Nah, I am hoping in the meantime it will fit into one of my old pw, pw2, kfire1, k4, k3 cases. one of those old cases better fit, otherwise it will stay in the house until it arrives.

EDIT: I forgot the Touch case too!

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by conan50

I plan on using mine for music, text-to-speech Kindle books, Overdrive, and perhaps as something of a pda for notes and calendar, etc. My Galaxy Light phone at 4" is fine for calls, but the screen is too small for my eyes and text input. Eventually I will get a phone with a larger screen, but this tab will help fill in the gap till then I think.

I haven't fully jumped on board with Amazon's music service yet. I have @200 of my songs on their cloud as backup music in case my phone isn't available (where I listen to my music during my commute, and @50 which I've purchased from Amazon.

[conan50]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

I haven't fully jumped on board with Amazon's music service yet. I have @200 of my songs on their cloud as backup music in case my phone isn't available (where I listen to my music during my commute, and @50 which I've purchased from Amazon.

I've bought music from Amazon over the years, so that music is already there, supplemented with Spotify, iHeart radio, Pandora, and Plex server which has my complete music collection, so there is plenty of music to listen to :-)

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by conan50

I've bought music from Amazon over the years, so that music is already there, supplemented with Spotify, iHeart radio, Pandora, and Plex server which has my complete music collection, so there is plenty of music to listen to :-)

I'm still offline with my music via the mediamonkey music player app. I am just too picky with my music listening to go online. I like iHeart or Pandor occasionally but like I said, I am not fully onboard yet with streaming.

[conan50]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

I'm still offline with my music via the mediamonkey music player app. I am just too picky with my music listening to go online. I like iHeart or Pandor occasionally but like I said, I am not fully onboard yet with streaming.

I will download some select music to have for off line use, one reason I wanted the 16 gig model Fire. But most music I listen to is streamed one way or another. My daughter subscribes to Rhapsody and I think if I had it to do over again I wouldn't buy any music, but stream it all with a subscription service. As it is I'm having to convert old formats, fix mp3 tags, and back it up in several places so it is not lost if a computer crashes. I wouldn't do it again, much easier to get a service and stream it all IMO.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

I'm still offline with my music via the mediamonkey music player app. I am just too picky with my music listening to go online. I like iHeart or Pandor occasionally but like I said, I am not fully onboard yet with streaming.

I pay $25 a year for Amazon's Cloud Player and probably have close to 200,000 songs on there. I also use Slacker Radio. I don't like Pandora too many ads and I don't get what's so great about it. I also use Tune In Radio Pro.

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I pay $25 a year for Amazon's Cloud Player and probably have close to 200,000 songs on there. I also use Slacker Radio. I don't like Pandora too many ads and I don't get what's so great about it. I also use Tune In Radio Pro.

I tried Amazon's cloud player but they didn't have the option to upload playlists, and I listen by playlist 95% of the time. Which is why I am only uploading 200 tracks.

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by conan50

I will download some select music to have for off line use, one reason I wanted the 16 gig model Fire. But most music I listen to is streamed one way or another. My daughter subscribes to Rhapsody and I think if I had it to do over again I wouldn't buy any music, but stream it all with a subscription service. As it is I'm having to convert old formats, fix mp3 tags, and back it up in several places so it is not lost if a computer crashes. I wouldn't do it again, much easier to get a service and stream it all IMO.

I am the same way, I bought most of my digital music from Napster, then they were bought by Rhapsody.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

I tried Amazon's cloud player but they didn't have the option to upload playlists, and I listen by playlist 95% of the time. Which is why I am only uploading 200 tracks.

No you have to make those yourself which is super easy to do.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by conan50

I will download some select music to have for off line use, one reason I wanted the 16 gig model Fire. But most music I listen to is streamed one way or another. My daughter subscribes to Rhapsody and I think if I had it to do over again I wouldn't buy any music, but stream it all with a subscription service. As it is I'm having to convert old formats, fix mp3 tags, and back it up in several places so it is not lost if a computer crashes. I wouldn't do it again, much easier to get a service and stream it all IMO.

This is why I have Amazon Cloud Player so I always have a copy of my music and you can download if needed the mp3 files if you don't want to stream.

[sirmaru]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

I'm still offline with my music via the mediamonkey music player app. I am just too picky with my music listening to go online. I like iHeart or Pandor occasionally but like I said, I am not fully onboard yet with streaming.

If you change one setting in MediaMonkey, you can stream to Grace Internet Radios. I have half a dozen of those radios and stream all my music to them via MediaMonkey.

You go to Tools / Options / Library / Media Sharing and just turn on MediaMonkey Library and you are good to go.

The MediaMonkey server appears on every radio and you can choose which playlists to run.

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by sirmaru

If you change one setting in MediaMonkey, you can stream to Grace Internet Radios. I have half a dozen of those radios and stream all my music to them via MediaMonkey.

You go to Tools / Options / Library / Media Sharing and just turn on MediaMonkey Library and you are good to go.

The MediaMonkey server appears on every radio and you can choose which playlists to run.

If you do this is your music still private just for you or does anyone have access to listen to it? The only time I turn my server on is when I want to sync my phone wirelessly.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

What's your intended use for it? I plan to use mine primarily as an audio device and a time waster (waiting for appointments, etc); but that could change once I get it.

To be honest, I'm not sure yet. I have to get it and see if I like the size and other things about it enough to offset the hideous carousel and unimaginative deep space black hole wall paper. It's possible that I might become bored with it and hand it over to my daughters permanently. The last Fire I had, the 2013 Fire HD, I got on that payment plan, before I was through with the last payment, I decided I didn't like it anymore. The Nexus 7.2 was just so much better! So I gave it to my girls.....but I sold it to get the Fire 6. I'm hoping I just love the size, hoping I'll like reading on it. It's probably too small to do the web on, but I do play a couple of games and it would be fine for that. I'm hoping it will be comparatively fast as the Nexus.

So it remains to be seen. I'd like to use it as a reader, and as a portable tablet to take in my purse for when I might be near free wifi. I'll definitely give it a good try. If I like the size and screen for reading on, that would be ideal, since I can use Calibre Companion and Moon+ Reader and store thousands of books. But if I don't like it, the girls will get it sooner rather than later. (I plan to get one for them for Christmas, if I just love the Fire 6). Right now, I just want to see it! LOL