I turned my Kindle into an old-fashioned iPod music participant (and you’ll too)

Once I was in school, I did not go anyplace with out my iPod. On the prepare, within the automobile, whereas learning within the library, my pink iPod Nano was my fixed companion. And whereas I do not assume I would commerce the liberty that an iPhone plus a Spotify Premium subscription has afforded me in 2025, there’s a sure nostalgia I’ve for creating the proper playlist and jamming out to Fall Out Boy, Panic on the Disco and My Chemical Romance in my headphones whereas studying a e-book.

Whereas the expertise is not precisely the identical, I lately discovered a method to create playlists and play music on my jailbroken Kindle. The method is definitely rfairly easy, and you’ll be up and operating together with your old skool music participant in minutes.

Jailbreaking your Kindle is step one

Sorry, this may not work in Amazon’s walled backyard

Although your Kindle is able to loads of issues by itself, taking part in music is sadly not certainly one of them except you jailbreak your gadget. If you have not already, I like to recommend following YouTuber Dammit Jeff’s video guide for jailbreaking a Kindle, particularly as he contains directions for each Mac and PC customers — the jailbreaking course of is a bit of completely different relying in your OS.

Additionally, if you have not up to date your Kindle to the newest software program but, just remember to DO NOT set up any obtainable updates earlier than you jailbreak your gadget as customers have been reporting points with installing the jailbreak post-update.

No obtain or restart required

Upon getting accomplished your jailbreak and have the KindleForge various app retailer put in, it’s time to set up your media participant. Faucet on the KindleForge icon and scroll down till you see Sox Media Participant after which faucet the Set up Bundle button. The method ought to take just some moments, after which you may transfer on to the following step, no reboot or restart required.

Join your Kindle to your laptop and cargo in your playlist

Ensure you are loading MP3 recordsdata solely

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Join your Kindle to your laptop utilizing the USB File Supervisor after which find the folder that claims music in your file listing. Then drag and drop your whole MP3 recordsdata into this folder. That is the place any Elder Millenial expertise you might have will come in useful, as the shortage of a media interface for this app means you may want so as to add songs within the order through which you need to hear them. So should you do not need to hear only one album play after the following, you may must channel your internal DJ and determine a tune order that matches your vibe. While you’re finished including songs, you may disconnect your Kindle out of your laptop.

Join your headphones to Bluetooth and hearken to the tunes

The interface is not probably the most intuitive however it works while you need to hearken to music as you learn

As a result of the Kindle does not have onboard audio system, you may must hearken to your music by way of Bluetooth headphones. Fortuitously, connecting headphones to your Kindle may be very simple. Out of your Kindle’s residence display screen, faucet the three dots within the prime proper nook. Then faucet Settings, adopted by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Allow Bluetooth in your gadget by toggling the swap subsequent to the phrase Bluetooth. A brand new setting will seem beneath that claims Bluetooth gadgets. Faucet it after which join your headphones. You may as well join a Bluetooth speaker should you like.

As soon as your headphones are related, faucet on the Kual icon in your Kindle, adopted by Sox Media Participant after which Play all recordsdata in Music Listing. Your playlist will then begin taking part in so as. Sadly, there is no such thing as a method to skip forward however you may pause your media by utilizing the Cease Taking part in with Bookmark command which is able to droop your playlist till you are able to return to the tunes. From right here you may be happy to exit the Kual app after which learn in your app of selection because the music will preserve taking part in till you flip it off.