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[Q] How do you sync your music (Itunes?) with the Galaxy Nexus with this MTP stuff?

Just got the Galaxy Nexus today (LTE). Huge upgrade from my LG touch. When I wanted to sync my music with my LG, I just had a single playlist in Itunes and I used Itunes Agent (now called notpod). Put the phone into mass storage mode, pointed Notpod to the Music folder on the SD card, done. Synced no problems.
So that was the first thing I tried with my Nexus, no luck. The "Ok" button would just blank out once I entered the Galaxy Nexus file tree. I started reading up on MTP and realized it wouldn't work with Notpod.
I realized that Win 7 didn't install the MTP drivers or something, as I had an unknown device in devmgmt. I grabbed the Samsung driver out of a root pack. Installed it, then the unknown driver went away.
I came across the Media Monkey thread on this forum about media monkey, but I didn't exactly want to hijack a thread or anything (even though I posted a response ). Someone said that you can use doubletwist and it would work fine. But it doesn't for me. When its in MTP mode, it tells me to put it in USB mode, and when its in PTP mode, it doesn't do anything. :/ I like how doubletwist scans itunes every time you open it, so syncing won't be a pain in the ass, but it doesn't want to work with me. D:
I have a little work around for right now, I used Notpod and had it sync with a folder on my computer (even though it reminds you like 10 times not to do this, lol ) then I just copied everything in that folder and dropped it on my phone in MTP mode. I will not settle for this, its like syncing twice, which is rather annoying.
Please, someone, help me out. I'm like a windows Vet, but a Android Noob. Adjust vocab as needed.

I use Google Music. It syncs iTunes to the cloud so your music is available everywhere.
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Try isyncr from the market. They have a wifi add on also.
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[Q] Manage music

IT guy but Android noob here and although I love the ATT s3, I hate to say I miss the iPhone when it comes to managing music. As much as I am against computers and pones as appliances, it just works in apple world. I am struggling with managing and loading music. Currently on rc9 of liquidsmooth rom based on 4.1.2.
Music monkey will not transfer to the sd card on windows 7 64bit and kies will simply not see the phone. Does not matter if I am in USB debug or not. Media monkey acts odd in that it sometimes sees the internal storage as external and vice versa. Mostly though it just fails to copy music over to the sd as if it does not have permission to write. Checked permissions in the platform.xml file and all is well and correct. I simply want to transfer music with playlists built and I am struggling. Am I dealing with a jelly bean issue or is it due to custom rom?
Any advice is greatly appreciated or an alternative procedure.
Thanks
Aeronaut

aeronaut964 said:
IT guy but Android noob here and although I love the ATT s3, I hate to say I miss the iPhone when it comes to managing music. As much as I am against computers and pones as appliances, it just works in apple world. I am struggling with managing and loading music. Currently on rc9 of liquidsmooth rom based on 4.1.2.
Music monkey will not transfer to the sd card on windows 7 64bit and kies will simply not see the phone. Does not matter if I am in USB debug or not. Media monkey acts odd in that it sometimes sees the internal storage as external and vice versa. Mostly though it just fails to copy music over to the sd as if it does not have permission to write. Checked permissions in the platform.xml file and all is well and correct. I simply want to transfer music with playlists built and I am struggling. Am I dealing with a jelly bean issue or is it due to custom rom?
Any advice is greatly appreciated or an alternative procedure.
Thanks
Aeronaut
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Get Astro or root explorer. To transfer within the phone.
If you are having connectivity issues with your pc...get a free drop box account...or two. Upload your music and download with your phone. Easy.

Am I the only one in the world that just does drag-and-drop in windows explorer to manage my music? Never had a problem with it and I have 70+GB of music. iTunes is so overrated.

I have always just copied music into a "Music" folder on SD card. Like manske90 said above me just drag and drop with windows explorer. If you have your music organized in itunes and want to stick with itunes there are a couple options I have found helpful. You can make a music folder on the desktop and drag the songs you want from itunes itself into there (which will just make copies of the files) and clean out the folder afterwards. Or you can figure out what music you want in itunes right click the song and choose "open in explorer" and copy/paste to the SD card. There also seems to be a few stand alone applications if you google around, but I personally have never used any of them. Best of luck!

Have you tried Easy Phone Sync? It uses your itunes library to sync music onto android devices. You can sync the whole library or just certain playlists. It also lets you choose where you want the songs to be copied to ie internal memory or sd card.
http://easyphonesync.com/en/itunes/index.html
This is the link to the desktop application and then you just need to download easy phone sync from the play store in order for the desktop application to make contact with your phone. Also it's absolutely free.

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napkun said:
Have you tried Easy Phone Sync? It uses your itunes library to sync music onto android devices. You can sync the whole library or just certain playlists. It also lets you choose where you want the songs to be copied to ie internal memory or sd card.
This is the link to the desktop application and then you just need to download easy phone sync from the play store in order for the desktop application to make contact with your phone. Also it's absolutely free.
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Thanks for the replies folks...I really don't want this to be a two step process (copy to phone and use a file manager on the phone to move the music again) and honestly it should not be this hard to move music.
This is intensely frustrating....just connected a non rooted, Tmobile S3 with stock 4.1.1 ROM and it will allow me to write to the SD card on that device with no trouble, from Media Monkey....makes no sense whatsoever especially since the permissions appear to be correct for the Rooted problem phone. it very much appears to be a permissions issue....

aeronaut964 said:
Thanks for the replies folks...I really don't want this to be a two step process (copy to phone and use a file manager on the phone to move the music again) and honestly it should not be this hard to move music.
This is intensely frustrating....just connected a non rooted, Tmobile S3 with stock 4.1.1 ROM and it will allow me to write to the SD card on that device with no trouble, from Media Monkey....makes no sense whatsoever especially since the permissions appear to be correct for the Rooted problem phone. it very much appears to be a permissions issue....
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Isyncr. It uses iTunes and tranfers music, playlists...etc. it is flawless. You won't be sorry.
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[Q] Perfect Multimedia center?? torrents are the last piece of the puzzle

hi guys!
I was a backer for OUYA project because I wanted to replace a chinese device I bouhgt long time ago. Basically that device had a mini linux on it with a transmission client running as a service. It was possible to conect via web to the client and add torrent files into it. very easy but the fallback was that the device often got stuck, it was not able to manage several downloads at once...so I heard about OUYA!!
An android console that it will let install any APK. immediately I saw the opportunity of replacing my chinese device....until here my story.
Now with my OUYA, on top of the games, I run XMBC to see the movies that I downloaded using aTorrent Pro or uTorrent, both sideloaded without any issue. For the subtitles I use Subtitle Droid Pro. Everything kind of works, the three apps are not really prepared for the ouya controller but you can use the touch area to control them. but in order to look for a movie becomes a nightmare typing with the screen keyboard using the controller... and this is exactly the step I would like to improve if possible. Basically the steps will be the following.
Turn on the OUYA and run the torrent client with web interface
take my laptop, look for the torrent files
upload them using the web interface
OUYA downloads them in peace and quiet.
Did someone find a solution for that?
Thanks a lot in advance.
J

have you tried Blue Board?
install it on ouya from the play-store and your android-phone from the play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alienmantech.blue_board_tablet&hl=de
then you can use your phone as keyboard for the ouya.

nice solution but it doesnt seem to work for me. I have a new Nexus 7 .
I first set buetooth in ouya to be discoverable and I paired the two devices succesfully.
But when I try to connect to it it always says:
Unable to connect:read failed, socket might closed or timeout, read set -1
do you have any idea what could be the issue?
thanks!

You can use something like droidmote client/server or a bluetooth keyboard as the logitech dinovo mini.

hey, working on that too!
just mounted my 3tb with paragon's ntfs tool! works like a charm!
xbmc gotham alpha8 for dts playback.
and u should use the mobile xbmc remote for some options!
now working on samba share for the 3tb and the transmisson solution with working webinterface!
cheers

I use this: OUYA in StockPlus (for the Cifs support) + Mount Manager (play store) + Time Capsule 3T + MELE f 10 pro control ($30) + uTorrent
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I posted the reply below on the thread about the file server.
In addition to below you could have your remote downloads automatically transfer over FTP to the OUYA using GoodSync (google it).
In essence you would remotely start your torrents to download onto a PC, then goodsync would send those files to your OUYA USB drive.
Personally i don't do this because I like to rname and clean up the downloads first before putting them in my library.
I've tried nearly all the set-ups above but the one I find most reliable uses ES File Explorer. No need for root or anything else.
Sideload ES File Explorer
Open ES File Explorer
Go to Remote Manager, under tools
Go to Settings (for remote manager)
Turn off 'Close on exit'
Set root directory as your external USB drive connected to the OUYA
Exit settings, and turn on WLAN
I then use an Filezilla to transfer all my downloaded files from my Desktop directly to the correct folder locations on the USB drive connected to the OUYA. I get really solid speeds on the transfer between the two devices.
I can then leave the OUYA in XBMC mode, while being able to transfer any downloads very quickly to the USB drive whenever I want.
Note: I found this worked best when OUYA was connected via wi-fi. Ethernet was problematic
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chadley78 said:
I posted the reply below on the thread about the file server.
In addition to below you could have your remote downloads automatically transfer over FTP to the OUYA using GoodSync (google it).
In essence you would remotely start your torrents to download onto a PC, then goodsync would send those files to your OUYA USB drive.
Personally i don't do this because I like to rname and clean up the downloads first before putting them in my library.
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Oi, i kno this is old, but you can actually download the magnet link .torrent archive instead of running it, then upload them to dropbox and open them from your ouya, that way you can do it

Transfer music from Mac to Note 3

Most of my music is on my Mac but I noticed that you can't transfer music from a Mac to a Note since the drive won't come up. Is there a way to do it?

Hello,
You will need to use Android File Transfer utility.
Hope this helps

i transfer music all the time from my mac to the note. use android file transfer and just drag it over from iTunes or the folder.

Not a Mac but this should work with any OS - set up file sharing on your computer (Windows/Mac/Linux) to share the folder containing your music and then on your phone use ES File Explorer or another app that supports LAN servers to log on, then you don't even need to be at your computer to copy stuff to your phone as long as your computer is on and you're connected to the same network as the computer.

Kies does this for you. But I hate kies and don't use it personally. Double twist (music player) from market acts just like Itunes. You can try that it if you miss the iPhone type transfers.
Edit: but everyone else here mentioned correct answers. If you can't use android file transfer, probably because an old version of kies is blocking it. You have to download latest version and click uninstall, you can't just delete the app.
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Yes, Kies (download the latest version) and it works flawlessly. Drag and drop.
* I don't get how some people are so bashful about Kies. The truth is it's simple, clean, straight forward and it WORKS.
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Samsung Kies works fine. I like AirDroid better for all file transfers - music, pictures, documents etc.

HTC M8 Music transfer help

Hey guys, I finally switched my phone from an iPhone to an M8 because through my work I got one out of contract for $250 so I really couldn't pass the offer...
Anyways, I'm having trouble transferring my music from my iTunes (mac) to my new phone. Google music blows, it doesnt even get all the songs and playlist after trying 2950 times. So what else can I use that WILL get every single song and playlist CORRECTLY to my M8?
Thanks!
Also thinking about rooting it soon. Anyone have a link to how to do it on a Mac? I used to know how to root pretty well a couple years ago when I had my tablet but havent touched it in many years.

I had this issue too
I had the same problem - havent done it with masses of music yet, but in iTunes if you right click the song you want to copy, you can select to convert the song to an aac file - once youve done that open the memory card or internal storage and copy files to your music folder - simples

xploitUK said:
I had the same problem - havent done it with masses of music yet, but in iTunes if you right click the song you want to copy, you can select to convert the song to an aac file - once youve done that open the memory card or internal storage and copy files to your music folder - simples
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Thats the issue though. I cant connect it to my mac for some reason. Android Transfer wont find it and neither will like DoubleTwist

Mac does not play nice with MTP, which is the protocol used to transfer files back and forth between PC/Mac and Android.
If you are bone stock, just use HTC Sync and point it to your iTunes media folder in Finder.
If you are rooted and/or prefer ADB, download DriveDroid from the Play Store. Once downloaded, give it Super User permissions, then go to Settings > USB Settings > Manually Change Permanent USB Mode, then select Media Transfer Protocol. After that, go to your phone's Settings > Developer and enable USB Debugging.
Now, download Android File Transfer on your Mac. Plug your phone to your Mac and it'll load up and let you add/delete files at a whim.
With all that said... If you don't use ADB, HTC Sync will be the easiest and allow you to copy playlists from iTunes. With Android File Transfer, you can copy all the music, videos, whatever, but the actual playlists don't transfer over. If there is a way, I'd love to know.
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