iTunes to Kindle Fire

How to Convert iTunes to Kindle Fire (Lion included)

Amazon Kindle Fire is one of the hottest tablets in the market now. Compared with Apple iPad, another hot tablet, Kindle Fire gains more and more fans with its lower price, decent design, similar elegance and more. And if you wanna enjoy your iTunes items, like music, movies on Kindle Fire, so you needn’t to pay again for these contents, here are some tips for you:

Get Started with transferring iTunes to Kindle fire

First, transfer iTunes music to Kindle Fire.

iTunes music are commonly in MP3 which is also the supported audio format of Kindle fire. Well, it seems that you can import these iTunes MP3 songs to Kindle Fire now. No, it isn’t. iTunes music can be divided into several kinds:

1. Music purchased in iTunes store. Those songs, if you purchased years ago, may be DRM protected according to Apple’s Terms, and some songs may be DRM-free (Apple iTunes Music store is DRM-free now.) And if you wanna play DRMed iTunes music on Kindle Fire, you will get failed, but those DRM-free iTunes songs are playable on the device.
2. Music not purchased in iTunes store. iTunes songs which are not purchased in Apple store are not DRM protected, but this doesn’t mean you can transfer all songs to your kindle fire for entertainment: not all iTunes audio formats are supported by kindle fire. For example if you wanna play iTunes audio in MOV, AIFF, CAF etc. you have to convert the audio formats to Kindle fire compatible one first. It’s not a tough work if you have installed a professional Video Converter like iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac. The detailed guide about the audio conversion is introduced below.

Or transfer iTunes movies, videos to Kindle Fire:

iTunes movies and videos also may be iTunes purchases or videos not purchased in iTunes store. And the iTunes purchases are normally protected by Apple FairPlay which are unplayable on Kindle fire only if you removed the DRM. (Learn more: Remove DRM Protection from iTunes)

And if your video files in iTunes are DRM-free, you may notice that iTunes videos are saved in MOV, MP4 or M4V, but only those MP4 iTunes videos are playable on Kindle fire. That’s to say, if your iTunes movies are in MOV, you have to convert the iTunes MOV to MP4 first before you transfer the videos to the device. And to convert incompatible iTunes formats to Kindle fire, you can also use iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac for help if you are using Mac.

iTunes to Kindle fire Mac conversion

To convert iTunes songs, movies, videos to Kindle file files, iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac here is used. With ultra-fast conversion speed, the Mac app can easily convert videos within 3 steps:

• Download Mac version
• Download Windows version

1. Add iTunes videos to the Mac Video Converter: you can directly drag and drop your videos to the Mac app. Batch conversions are supported so you can import several files to convert.
2. Set the output format. Kindle fire compatible video format is MP4, so here you can open the format list and choose MP4 under the Common Video section.
3. Click the Convert button to start the iTunes to Kindle fire Mac task.

After the conversion, you can transfer your output files to the device without any problem. Enjoy yourself.