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Amazon Fire 7 (8GB) & Music

Started by baptist, September 02, 2017, 06:47:37 PM

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baptist

Hi

Got a cheapo Fire 7 from Amazon last year and have fitted a micro SD Card.

I am able to plug the tablet into my laptop and transfer files without issue.

However, the music app on the tablet does not seem to identify any of the music on the card. I have tried searching google for an answer but am unable to find one that works.

Does anyone know how I can solve this, or is it set up so that you have to actually purchase the music or Prime in order to play music on the thing. My music is all from ripped CDs.

I am a tech luddite so if you do have a solution, could you please relay it in Janet & John terms.

Ta

Noddy Tomkey

Hi!

Are you using a music player app, or just the pre-loaded one?

If not, get one. If so, I dunno.

Replies From View

I have one of these devices and I use VLC player to play all my downloaded music, videos etc.  You can stick everything into folders, open them within VLC and play the entire track listing or a single track.

baptist

Thanks both. Downloaded the VLC Player, works a treat now.

Small Man Big Horse

I just noticed this is down to £29.99 on Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01J90O0N4/ref=gw_rtl_tbl_shoveler_Au_BF17?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=2C3ZFCZW5MG1XSHW33V8&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2567fec8-d6c2-4d49-9347-2d74d3f34e20&pf_rd_i=desktop - I've been poor for decades so know very little about tablets, but I'm just looking for something very basic to watch tv on whilst travelling on public transport, so would this do the job okay? And can it play 720p or 1080p files or do they have to be a smaller size? And what about porn? Am I allowed to watch porn on the tube?

canadagoose

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on November 23, 2017, 02:26:52 AM
I just noticed this is down to £29.99 on Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01J90O0N4/ref=gw_rtl_tbl_shoveler_Au_BF17?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=2C3ZFCZW5MG1XSHW33V8&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2567fec8-d6c2-4d49-9347-2d74d3f34e20&pf_rd_i=desktop - I've been poor for decades so know very little about tablets, but I'm just looking for something very basic to watch tv on whilst travelling on public transport, so would this do the job okay? And can it play 720p or 1080p files or do they have to be a smaller size? And what about porn? Am I allowed to watch porn on the tube?
It should be just fine for watching videos on, although I don't have one myself. I can't imagine it'll have a problem with 720p video, but the screen isn't that high a resolution - it's only 600 pixels tall, so it'll only display at that resolution. There's a version which is going for £49.99 rather than £29.99 if you wanted a higher-res display, but it sounds like you just need a basic thing so it should be OK.

Z

7 inch tablets had a boom a few years ago before everyone realised they wanted 6 inch screens on their phones. They always seemed way too small for their purpose to me.

Meanwhile, my 9 inch Nook HD+ is still going strong 3 years later for around the same price as this. 10 inch would probably be ideal but they cost so fucking much more...

Consignia

I don't know, my experience with tablets is that they aren't that great at playing video files, at least the ones you'd download off the bit-torrents. It's been a while since, I recall they have trouble with generically handling codecs and you'd probably need to transcode to something that's natively handled by the tablet. Again, out of date experience, but I believe the lower end tablets still have issues. So I'd advise looking around before buying.

canadagoose

Quote from: Consignia on November 23, 2017, 09:56:55 PM
I don't know, my experience with tablets is that they aren't that great at playing video files, at least the ones you'd download off the bit-torrents. It's been a while since, I recall they have trouble with generically handling codecs and you'd probably need to transcode to something that's natively handled by the tablet. Again, out of date experience, but I believe the lower end tablets still have issues. So I'd advise looking around before buying.
I remember my old Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (from 2013) had bother with 720p video, but I think even low-end tablets have come on a lot in terms of video playback since then. They might not score very well in CPU benchmarks, but it's amazing how even cheap tablets can decode HD video now.

Z

Quote from: Consignia on November 23, 2017, 09:56:55 PM
I don't know, my experience with tablets is that they aren't that great at playing video files, at least the ones you'd download off the bit-torrents. It's been a while since, I recall they have trouble with generically handling codecs and you'd probably need to transcode to something that's natively handled by the tablet. Again, out of date experience, but I believe the lower end tablets still have issues. So I'd advise looking around before buying.
My Nook has custom Android firmware on it and the version of MX Player I've installed plays h264 720p mkv whatever videos pretty flawlessly, has some occasional issues with 1080p if you've other stuff playing but I never download 1080p anyway.

This is a device that struggles to run recent versions of Chrome mobile and even just navigating the firmware (think it's Lollipop, not sure), mind.