Here's the situation...
My wife wants to listen to music at work without using the data plan. She would like to have all of her music on the phone at all times. When she rips CDs (yes she still buys CDs) or buys new music on Amazon she'd like it to just show up on her phone. The CD rips and Amazon purchases go to a folder on a PC which automatically gets uploaded to Google. She has 9500 songs and a 128gb card so there's no space issue. I have tried two plans but am not happy with either one. If you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.
Plan 1:
Use Google Play Music. The only way I could figure out how to get all of her music to her phone was to create a playlist that had every song in it and then click on the download icon. That works but it's static. Any new songs aren't downloaded and she must manually go in and download any new songs. That doesn't make her happy. (Happy wife, happy life.)
Plan 2:
Use any other MP3 music player. Lots of good choices out there. However, maintaining the music is a pain in the buttocks. To get the files there initially I just put the 128g chip in my computer and drag all of the files to the chip. That works. But I can't find out a way to get new songs onto the chip without manual intervention. I thought I could use a folder sync application but none of them have the authority to write to the external SD card (thank you Google) and new files won't get to the SD card without a lot of manual hand holding. That's a no go. I guess I could root and then use a folder sync application but this is her phone, not mine, and I'm not going there.
So, if any of you have any brainiac solutions, I'd love to hear them.
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I'm looking for an App that I can use that will sync all the music that is on my PC onto my EVO. I haven't been able to find anything yet. All of the ones that I have found you have to hook up your phone to your computer.
I'm looking for one that is similar to Dropbox except for music...where I can just drag and drop music and have it air sync to my Droid.
Also, what is a good music syncing app that I have to hook my phone to my computer to sync?
Thanks!!
Why do you need a syncing app? Just drag and drop your files, it's way easier than using any app.
As for OTA syncing- look into doubletwist, pretty sure I read something somewhere sometime that they were implementing OTA syncing.
I use winamp.
I've heard mSpot will do that from the market, however I haven't messed with it much, so you'll have to look for yourself.
isyncr is pretty good. Even has a wireless plugin.
I like Winamp Wifi Sync and USB Sync. OTA would take forever IMO.
Subsonic is the absolute bomb. You don't need to "sync" your music. You just play whatever you want from your collection. It can cache as much as you want to keep locally, but it's all available. You need to have a PC that's always on and always connected, but if you do, it's a great option. No cloud storage to pay for or be limited by. Just your home collection streamed directly to your phone.
I have a 100GB collection of over 16000 songs. I've stuck with my iPod classic because I never have to choose what to take with me. I'm not sure I'm going to totally give up the iPod. But the iPod was always something extra to carry around, whereas my phone is always with me. With a 32GB card, I can have a good selection of my music ready to go for offline listening, but the entire collection available as long as I've got a data connection.
The Android app could use a little more UI refinement, but it works. You can also play any music that's been cached using the app of your choice. After a 30 day trial, you do have to donate to continue using it. It's kind of a weird model...it's open source and he advertises it as "free," which it is if you just want to use it in a browser. But you have to register, or "donate" to use certain features, including the Android client. Suggested donations are 10 Euros, or around $14. You can even manually send a smaller amount.
Audiogalaxy is a similar option, though it doesn't appear to let you download songs and cache them locally, so you're out of luck when offline. I also thought Google was supposed to be creating their own similar program back when Froyo was announced, but it doesn't seem anything has come yet.
I use Mediamonkey which requires a computer connection but does do a true sync function. It is great for finding Album Art and great for insuring it gets to the sd card if that is important to you. I use the stock music player on the EVO which I find does a good job for me.
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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I mean this is ridiculous that a top tier phone is so difficult (impossible) to sync playlists on, I am also pretty knowledgable regarding digital music, phones, and computers and still cannot get this working after months. Using MTP i can occasionally get ONE playlist to sync using winamp but when i try to do more it will erase the other ones or clear them out. I then got an app that puts my external SD card ino mass storage mode and that almost works but after adding about 20 songs to a playlist only 5 or so actually showed up. Doubletwist does not work. Windows Media player did not work. Using Kies it puts the songs on my phone but not the playlists.
If anybody can actually do this please share how. I used to have a captivate and this was as simple as it should be. So frustrating that i have spent this much time on it and still haven't gotten anywhere.
I just copy music over WiFi with es file explorer. Shared off some folders on my Windows box and I'm good to go
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mymusicathome said:
I just copy music over WiFi with es file explorer. Shared off some folders on my Windows box and I'm good to go
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it's not getting the music on there that is the problem it is the actual playlists. I want to be able to go through all my music on my computer and make playlists then transfer them onto my phone and it is damn near impossible.
steelcity said:
it's not getting the music on there that is the problem it is the actual playlists. I want to be able to go through all my music on my computer and make playlists then transfer them onto my phone and it is damn near impossible.
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hm, i never got around to it myself, i just dump all my music on a 64GB MicroSD and there they are, but my mom sync'ed playlists i think with windows media player on my old GS3. MTP mode, debug in developers options ON.
It's more about what program you're using. I personally use isyncr. Though I find it strange that winamp isn't working.
Try "easyphonesync" from the playstore.
i'll check out a couple of the suggestions. It's actually not even so much an issue of 'syncing' the playlists either, more so just being able to transfer them one way from my computer to my phone
+1 for rsync
I shopped around for a couple of weeks for software to sync my playlists AND music. (I'm on Mac OS)
I couldn't find anything better. Give it a shot.
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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
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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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Here's the situation...
My wife wants to listen to music at work without using the data plan. She would like to have all of her music on the phone at all times. When she rips CDs (yes she still buys CDs) or buys new music on Amazon she'd like it to just show up on her phone. The CD rips and Amazon purchases go to a folder on a PC which automatically gets uploaded to Google. She has 9500 songs and a 128gb card so there's no space issue. I have tried two plans but am not happy with either one. If you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.
Plan 1:
Use Google Play Music. The only way I could figure out how to get all of her music to her phone was to create a playlist that had every song in it and then click on the download icon. That works but it's static. Any new songs aren't downloaded and she must manually go in and download any new songs. That doesn't make her happy. (Happy wife, happy life.)
Plan 2:
Use any other MP3 music player. Lots of good choices out there. However, maintaining the music is a pain in the buttocks. To get the files there initially I just put the 128g chip in my computer and drag all of the files to the chip. That works. But I can't find out a way to get new songs onto the chip without manual intervention. I thought I could use a folder sync application but none of them have the authority to write to the external SD card (thank you Google) and new files won't get to the SD card without a lot of manual hand holding. That's a no go. I guess I could root and then use a folder sync application but this is her phone, not mine, and I'm not going there.
So, if any of you have any brainiac solutions, I'd love to hear them.
Have you played with Samsung link yet? It will allow you to link your (her) phone to your computer (provided it's turned on and connected to the internet) so any new music loaded on to the computer will be available to the phone.
TabGuy said:
Here's the situation...
My wife wants to listen to music at work without using the data plan. She would like to have all of her music on the phone at all times. When she rips CDs (yes she still buys CDs) or buys new music on Amazon she'd like it to just show up on her phone. The CD rips and Amazon purchases go to a folder on a PC which automatically gets uploaded to Google. She has 9500 songs and a 128gb card so there's no space issue. I have tried two plans but am not happy with either one. If you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.
Plan 1:
Use Google Play Music. The only way I could figure out how to get all of her music to her phone was to create a playlist that had every song in it and then click on the download icon. That works but it's static. Any new songs aren't downloaded and she must manually go in and download any new songs. That doesn't make her happy. (Happy wife, happy life.)
Plan 2:
Use any other MP3 music player. Lots of good choices out there. However, maintaining the music is a pain in the buttocks. To get the files there initially I just put the 128g chip in my computer and drag all of the files to the chip. That works. But I can't find out a way to get new songs onto the chip without manual intervention. I thought I could use a folder sync application but none of them have the authority to write to the external SD card (thank you Google) and new files won't get to the SD card without a lot of manual hand holding. That's a no go. I guess I could root and then use a folder sync application but this is her phone, not mine, and I'm not going there.
So, if any of you have any brainiac solutions, I'd love to hear them.
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I use iTunes and isyncr. Haven't tried it with an external SD but does what you want. Syncs just new tracks. Only had iTunes cause I came from iPhone but to me is the best for managing playlists.
stevenj05 said:
I use iTunes and isyncr. Haven't tried it with an external SD but does what you want. Syncs just new tracks. Only had iTunes cause I came from iPhone but to me is the best for managing playlists.
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I went with plan 1. Turns out that to download music a playlist can only have 1,000 songs. I created 10 playlist to get all of the filed to her phone. Sending new music is relatively easy as there's a "recently added" playlist to use to download new music.
Plan 2 doesn't work well as KitKat and external SD cards are not user friendly.
I use SyncMe Wireless to transfer all files to my phone anymore. You can set a schedule to automatically sync any file from a shared folder on your PC to any directory on your device (not sure about an external sd card, i just use the internal storage). It's worked seamlessly for me. I just drop files in my "Send to Android" folder I made on my computer and in the middle of every night it will check to see if files need to be sent over. It can work in reverse too and send files from your phone to your PC.
Here's the link to the app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bv.wifisync&hl=en
It's nothing too flashy but it works very well. :good: