I'm looking for a method of syncing my music files to my phone so I can use it as my main MP3 player. There are some things that you should know first:
I use the stock Music Player that comes with the Galaxy S3, as it does everything I want it to (embedded album art, lossless formats). The only problem is with gapless playback; if Jelly Bean brings gapless playback to this player I'll keep it but if not, I'll switch to GoneMad
I keep my entire music library in one unorganized folder, with all the individual files just thrown into a folder. The files are all properly tagged though.
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I want to keep my music on my phone and have it be a carbon copy of my mp3 folder. For instance, Foobar2000 recognizes immediately whenever I make a change to the folder (change a song's tags, add a song, remove a song). I'd like to sync my phone like this; run a script or something and it'll sync to be exactly like my music folder.
My music totals up to be about 13GB. My phone is 16GB and the card is 8GB, which totals up to about 19.2GB. This is where most methods I've tried fail; they aren't smart enough to recognize my phone as one drive with combined memory. I'm actually not sure if any software can do this, that'd be great if it could. Otherwise it looks like I'll have to shell out money for a bigger SD card just so I can have all of the files on one drive
It's a long shot, but I'm desperate here. Seems like syncing things to Android is harder than it should be. Google Music is not an option for me, sorry.
Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.
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I'm looking for a method of syncing my music files to my phone so I can use it as my main MP3 player. There are some things that you should know first:
I use the stock Music Player that comes with the Galaxy S3, as it does everything I want it to (embedded album art, lossless formats). The only problem is with gapless playback; if Jelly Bean brings gapless playback to this player I'll keep it but if not, I'll switch to GoneMad
I keep my entire music library in one unorganized folder, with all the individual files just thrown into a folder. The files are all properly tagged though.
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I want to keep my music on my phone and have it be a carbon copy of my mp3 folder. For instance, Foobar2000 recognizes immediately whenever I make a change to the folder (change a song's tags, add a song, remove a song). I'd like to sync my phone like this; run a script or something and it'll sync to be exactly like my music folder.
My music totals up to be about 13GB. My phone is 16GB and the card is 8GB, which totals up to about 19.2GB. This is where most methods I've tried fail; they aren't smart enough to recognize my phone as one drive with combined memory. I'm actually not sure if any software can do this, that'd be great if it could. Otherwise it looks like I'll have to shell out money for a bigger SD card just so I can have all of the files on one drive
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It's a long shot, but I'm desperate here. Seems like syncing things to Android is harder than it should be. Google Music is not an option for me, sorry.
Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.
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This is a stretch but in early days of ics we used an app called directory bind. You could theoretically make one huge directory by binding external and internal directories into one.
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This is a stretch but in early days of ics we used an app called directory bind. You could theoretically make one huge directory by binding external and internal directories into one.
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I have a few gripes with using that software. It requires root, it's outdated which makes me believe that it won't work on later versions of ICS and/or Jelly Bean, and by reading the description I don't think that it does what I'm looking for. Besides, there must be some reason you guys stopped using it
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I have a few gripes with using that software. It requires root, it's outdated which makes me believe that it won't work on later versions of ICS and/or Jelly Bean, and by reading the description I don't think that it does what I'm looking for. Besides, there must be some reason you guys stopped using it
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If you don't want to root and want to have all of your music in one folder and have it "sync" then either get a bigger SD card or buy an iPhone. Simple.
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If you don't want to root and want to have all of your music in one folder and have it "sync" then either get a bigger SD card or buy an iPhone. Simple.
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Okay, let's say I did get a bigger SD card.
Can you recommend a syncing method?
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Okay, let's say I did get a bigger SD card.
Can you recommend a syncing method?
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Personally I organise my music collection into album folders so I don't need to sync anything.
When I download something I copy the folder over.
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Actually I have my entire PC collection synched to play music on the web ~12k songs and I'm overseas. I only keep 2gb in my phone. If you want to know secret pm me
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Actually I have my entire PC collection synched to play music on the web ~12k songs and I'm overseas. I only keep 2gb in my phone. If you want to know secret pm me
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If you actually read the OP you would see that Google play isn't an option.
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Personally I organise my music collection into album folders so I don't need to sync anything.
When I download something I copy the folder over.
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That is Sucked
I have waited a TWO WAY SYNC option (FOR FLAC MUSIC) for very very long time on ANDROID
Doubletwist, i-sync etc are not useful here because they are stick to Itune.
I have used many time to search but it is nothing there.
My situation is
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I am using FOOBAR2000 as my major player. My entire Library is FLAC and APE music with tag and organized well
I am using an Galaxy S now
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What I want is:
TWO WAY SYNC from FOOBAR to ANDROID. (rating and playcount changes from the Phone can be synced back to FOOBAR)
Just LOSSLESS, don't transcode it.
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I have some ideas to search for but it is nothing
1/ Let Itune watch changes in FOOBAR (playlist, tag etc, but it is impossible) and sync to Android phone using isync or douletwist. That OK for two way sync but you need transcode all FLAC file to APPLE LOSSLESS
2/ Use Winamp, but this soft cannot have 2 way sync
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Ahhhhhhhh, I just need a way to sync my lossless library to my Samsung. What the hell ANdroid only let you copy and paste music like very simple think. Music is a kind of thing that sticks to our feeling. so Smart playlist, rating, playcount should be REQUIRED for Synchronization
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Fyi the Defy music app is prob best music app on the market..
Everyone should take a look at that and export it to all android os phones
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Get powerAMP, this one is totally awesome with equalizers, bass and trebela and stuff...totally awesome.
Is there a way to include additionnal codecs for the default player, instead of installing another music player?
For instance to add Flac, ogg and m4a support.
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Is there a way to include additionnal codecs for the default player, instead of installing another music player?
For instance to add Flac, ogg and m4a support.
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i haven't used the music player app yet - am waiting for my 16GB sdcard and car mount - but lack of flac/ogg is a bit of a no brainer for me - it's minimum requirement.
i guess i'd better start hunting around. I noticed WinAmp has released a beta that syncs over WiFi but i guess that will only be with WinAmp Windows version - i run Ubuntu.
I have tried pretty much all of the readily available players. Ended up with PowerAMP, as it's the only one where you have the equalizer so that you can compensate for some lousy headphones (yes, my DEFY is my main music player).
The builtin music player is intresting, but I feel everything is just tooo many taps away. Also I find it utterly confusing how you get out of one Album and search for the next one ...
Most of the other player apps are just rehashes of the existing players without anything new featurewise that makes them compelling.
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I have tried pretty much all of the readily available players. Ended up with PowerAMP, as it's the only one where you have the equalizer so that you can compensate for some lousy headphones (yes, my DEFY is my main music player).
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I'm looking into getting a defy and I was only lurking these forums, but your post made me register. You say you use your defy as your main music player? can I inquire as to how long straight it can play music for? from 100%-0% (or close to) battery?
As I plan on replacing my mp3 player as well when/if I get a defy. I'm tired of carrying around both my phone and music player all the time.
The defy battery status is in increments of 10%... i have a one hour commute and didn't lose anything while using mp3 mode on airplane mode(bc i take the subway)
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so i guess it is right to assume you could get at least 10 hours then? this is acceptable... Id probably only use about 4 hours a day. pretty much set on this phone now... had any grievances with it?
As i use my Defy as my only mp3-player, i would like to inform you, that there is a equalizer in the phone.
Settings --> Sound and Display--> Audio-Effects for Media --> then the first one.
Sorry, my english is bad, my settings are in german language. Hope you find it.
For me, the sound is great, using the Equalizer with the filter "Bass-Schlag" (the 2. Filter).
Sorry for my English, but i think, this one is important.
Best regards
Stefan
Thank you for your input your english is fine.
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As i use my Defy as my only mp3-player, i would like to inform you, that there is a equalizer in the phone.
Settings --> Sound and Display--> Audio-Effects for Media --> then the first one.
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it is very basic and only has 5 presets but it's better than nothing!
I like the phone and I was glad to have DSP effects (it's supposed to have powerful DSP's).
Unfortunately when I tried them with Streamfurious, I could hear a fairly loud noise. It's only there with the EQ/DSP effects enabled and while the effect would be good with the earphones the noise is often unbearable.
Well whaddayaknow, it's pretty easy to extract, using the MotoDev software. And it installs on other Android devices just fine...
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As i use my Defy as my only mp3-player, i would like to inform you, that there is a equalizer in the phone.
Settings --> Sound and Display--> Audio-Effects for Media --> then the first one.
Sorry, my english is bad, my settings are in german language. Hope you find it.
For me, the sound is great, using the Equalizer with the filter "Bass-Schlag" (the 2. Filter).
Sorry for my English, but i think, this one is important.
Best regards
Stefan
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Hey man, your English is good. Thanks for sharing the tips. I never knew it before.
hi,
is there any way to get the music app to rescan the sd card for music files?
I changed my card from the stock 2GB card to a new 16GB. I copied all the files on the old card over to the new card then switched them over.
I have now switched on my Defy, the music files are all visible in astro and can be played by clicking on them but when i go into my library in the media player app i get a message saying there are no music files on the sd card.
edit : the gallery app picks up the photo's just fine so it appears to be only the media app
edit 2 : it appears to sorted itself now. i guess it was just taking a bit of time to rescan in the background.
I was looking for another player to be able to read ogg files, but the Defy reads them without issues!
So that's perfect, i'm gonna convert a ton of my Flac collection into Ogg, and get one of those huge µSD cards!
Only thing that could be better, is the fact that i have to put the volume at about half the bar to get a good volume, whatever earphones i use. I wonder if there's a way to make the player raise the sound volume a bit more?
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I'm looking into getting a defy and I was only lurking these forums, but your post made me register. You say you use your defy as your main music player? can I inquire as to how long straight it can play music for? from 100%-0% (or close to) battery?
As I plan on replacing my mp3 player as well when/if I get a defy. I'm tired of carrying around both my phone and music player all the time.
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Sorry for this late respons.
Yes, I use the DEFY as my main music player. I have used my phones always for this, since my first D750i ;-) I cannot really say how much it runs with the music player on. Looking at the battery stats the player shows up in the very low range (<= 5%) compared to standy/idle, which are 95%. So I'd say you are more bound by other things. The phone itself survives for me 2 days without recharging.
Couple of more comments. I do use for our cars here either a 3.5mm connector to the stereo, or one of those cassette inserts (make sure you turn of the dolby noise reduction). With this setup, you have a hands free as well. The incoming call gets put onto your speaker system, and the mic is good enough to directly work. No fiddeling around required. The other thing is that with PowerAMP the Scullcandy kits for my Smith Ski helment works nicely. You can use 1 to 3 button pushes on the little control that comes with it to pause/play, forward, backward. Of course at the same time you can take phone-calls. Actually with PowerAMP you also can select a short-push/long-push setup as alternative, which I found easier to deal with if you ski in the trees and the current song just does fit your rythm.
Ah, one more thing. I am kind of old-school. I am using winamp to maintain my music database on the PC. Main reason originally was that the pro version thereof had good AAC-HE encoding. With that encoding you can use 64k over the normal AAC-LE with 256k. With most speaker systems you cannot tell the difference (at least I cannot). At the end of the day it saves however a HUGE chunk of space on the SD card. You might want to use mp3tag along with winamp.
As somebody else noted in the thread, there is some other setting available in the system settings. What I do there (or did there) is to add some bass so that other apps don't sound so ultra bad. This is very useful for listening to FM radio, or say pandora/last.fm/di.fm (online music, that plays rather nicely, even in the car).
Can't use radio with Chinese Froyo..
Is this version different than the one that comes with the Defy by default?
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Well whaddayaknow, it's pretty easy to extract, using the MotoDev software. And it installs on other Android devices just fine...
Ironically, this was shot with an HTC Desire
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Get PowerAMP...
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Oh yeah, its really nice, beautiful Bass...
I'm mostly using MortPlayer (beta), cause of the Pop-up.... than, I shouldn't go out of my App
I just found out about the Media Go program by Sony, which let's you sync music, video and pictures and view/play them.
It looks much better than Winamp and Mediamonkey, and works easier too.
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Download at the Sony Website:
http://mediago.sony.com
It works with other brands too, a SGSII user reported this working great.
It works with any Sony multimedia device,kinda surprised you found out about this now
also to add album art to mp3's use this program,all the players will read album arts correctly
Hi,
I've been using the program since it's launch a few years ago. I think it's visually the best program of it's kind...I agree it's easy to use and for phones it's pretty good software I think.
But...it duplicates songs a lot, and I don't always know why. I know that if I imported music by CD without connection to the internet, then look up song info in Media Go it keeps the old songs AND finds the info of the new songs...it duplicates some songs on my SD and I don't know why.
I've been chatting about this on the Sony Forum. Many 2011 Sony devices have a problem with version 2.1. No matter what your sync settings, every time you connect your phone it resyncs everything in your library...I've a lot of music/tv/podcasts...that's a nightmare. I wish I could tell it that some of my music is not music but actually podcasts.
Overall it's a great program, just a few issues left......
p.s. downgrade to version 2.0 if you have these problems, they go away, find it on softwareinformer.com past versions.
Album art
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I've been using the program since it's launch a few years ago. I think it's visually the best program of it's kind...I agree it's easy to use and for phones it's pretty good software I think.
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I would like to ask, that do you know how to embed album art to the mp3 file itself (using Media Go)?
I know, that I can link album art, but it is not always embedded in the file.
My test is: I add the album art to the song properties is Media Go, and then play the music in VLC. If it shows the album art, then I assume it embedded.
I am running the 1.6 version (higher versions fail to retreive info from Gracenote database for me).
Hi ^^ I think that will work; download album artwork, then sync to your device, the artwork becomes embedded after download is complete. Does that answer your question?
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Hi ^^ I think that will work; download album artwork, then sync to your device, the artwork becomes embedded after download is complete. Does that answer your question?
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I was hoping for a solution, that doesn't require to send my song to the device, but I'll definitely give this method a try!
Strange story: I had an album, which I set art to. Later, I use the 'VLC check" I mentioned before, and only 1 song had the art. So I selected all the songs in the album, and set the artwork for them together. After this, the covers were there with every song?!?! ... Tried to do this with other albums also, but without any luck. I have noooooo idea how this works anymore!
One solution
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Hi ^^ I think that will work; download album artwork, then sync to your device, the artwork becomes embedded after download is complete. Does that answer your question?
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It worked!
Now I only have to send all my music to a device and transfer it back!
If someone has a solution, that doesn't include so much copying, please don't keep it to yourselves!
Strange
Hi all!
I am having this strange issue, with one of my mp3-s.
I set the album art in MediaGo, and transfer it to my thumb drive to make it embedded.
After that, when I play the music from the thumb drive, an another picture is embedded, always the same one, which I don't even have.
I tried different downloads of the mp3, different drives, different pictures ... this keeps happening!
Anyone can think of a solution?
Hi, one solution which usually works for artwork and playlist problems is deleted Android's build of those details. Go to apps, all apps, media storage, delete. Now restart the phone. Album artwork, thumbnails and playlists recount from the very start.
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Hi, one solution which usually works for artwork and playlist problems is deleted Android's build of those details. Go to apps, all apps, media storage, delete. Now restart the phone. Album artwork, thumbnails and playlists recount from the very start.
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I use a pendrive / storage unit / thumb drive / usb stick (or idk what you call it) for this embedding. But the mentioned same image gets embedded, even if I use a usb stick, that has never had that mp3 on it! ... this is why I'm confused
Hi, just recently switch from IOS to android and loving it. The note is so wonderful. One question, how can I transfer all my music, playlist, play count from iTunes to my note. I have about 7 gigs of music on iTunes and have no clue how to transfer the file over. Please help!
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Hi, just recently switch from IOS to android and loving it. The note is so wonderful. One question, how can I transfer all my music, playlist, play count from iTunes to my note. I have about 7 gigs of music on iTunes and have no clue how to transfer the file over. Please help!
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Try double twist or isync on market. U ain't saving them play counts though
Easier way:
Go to itunes and consolidate files (search Google on howto)
Then go to that file directory on your computer (perhaps C: >iTunes>media>music)
COPY AND PASTE THE MUSIC TO THE MEDIA FOLDER OF YOUR ANDROID PHONE
Or if you have an external sd card (which I highly suggest you get) just copy and paste with no orginization
That's IT.
When you buy new music from itunes (which in practice it only makes sence to buy it from Google now) repeat this process!
NOTE: CONSOLIDATING YOUR MUSIC WILL ADD MEMORY TO YOUR COMPUTER. NOT A BIG DEAL WHATSOEVER BUT I THOUGHT ID TELL YOU.
P.s.: don't use doubletwist its a pain in the ass unless you want 2 programs doing the same thing
Playlists function the same way except you must copy the music first onto your phone. once that's complete you have to export the playlist from itunes
(Right click playlist>export>search>choose file directory [wherever your music/media is])
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Hi, just recently switch from IOS to android and loving it. The note is so wonderful. One question, how can I transfer all my music, playlist, play count from iTunes to my note. I have about 7 gigs of music on iTunes and have no clue how to transfer the file over. Please help!
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Go to music.Google.com.
You can open a Google music account for free and download " music manager". (It will give you this option when you register). It will automatically add your entire iTunes library to Google server and you can then listen to your music anywhere on the stream with Google play music app. Might take a while to upload everything depending on the size of your library. And you can set it to automatically upload any files you add to your iTunes library from this point forward. It works flawlessly.
A gamechanger.
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I use iSyncr. I let it automatically sync to iTunes every night at 12. It also syncs playlists too.
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You can go onto Samsung Kies, Then connect your device Scroll down and then there's an option for back ups find your itunes iPhone back up and Convert it
Sorry That I can't go indepth my Phone is rooted / new rom So I can't connect. x)
There are many options(almost too many), but your best bet is google music. My wife has an iPod and every time she gets a new song it automatically uploads with music manager. You can't go wrong with this option because you never have to worry about it again. If you have no need for your iTunes account anymore then you can start buying all your content from google from here on out. Another plus is no space is taken up on your sd.
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OK, but...
Please correct me if I am wrong, but one big downside I see to Google Music is that you are streaming (and not syncing) all your music, correct?
I don't mind putting another copy of my library in Google Music, but it would be much more useful to me if it had some sort of iCloud/iTunes Match functionality where the local library on the phone was automatically updated when on WiFi, etc.
I have "unlimited" data, so I really don't care, but I never liked the notion of streaming my music. I would prefer to have it local.
If there is an option to sync within Google Music and not a 3rd-party app, I would really like to hear more.
Thanks!
-Rob
It is absolutely that. A cloud service that stores all your media online. There is a way to make songs available offline on your phone, but I've never used it. I absolutely love it. Just download music manager to your PC or Mac and it will do the rest. Download the google music app to your phone(not a third party app) and all your iTunes songs will be there waiting for you.
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It is absolutely that. A cloud service that stores all your media online. There is a way to make songs available offline on your phone, but I've never used it. I absolutely love it. Just download music manager to your PC or Mac and it will do the rest. Download the google music app to your phone(not a third party app) and all your iTunes songs will be there waiting for you.
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To add to your good post, u select what songs u want available offline, and it caches em to your sd card. in case u have no or slow data somewhere
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To add to your good post, u select what songs u want available offline, and it caches em to your sd card. in case u have no or slow data somewhere
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Very nice to know. I assumed it did just that, but never tried. Thanks
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Is there a setting that just automatically downloads all songs locally to the SD card though? I have tried manually making select songs available, but that isn't the point (for me). I want more automatic, iTunes-like syncing. If you have ever used iCloud or Match you would know what I am talking about.
I don't mind using iTunes to manage my media, I just want a way to sync all my devices (iOS and Android) and keep them in automatic sync. I don't mind downloading the song once, but I am not interested in streaming. I put 32 or 64GB SD cards in my devices because I want the content local at all times.
If anyone has a more automated workflow for that, I am very interested.
Thanks again!
-Rob
I use notpod on my PC. Its easy to sync any android device and u just drag music to ur gnote from iTunes.
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I use tunesync because I buy my music from Amazon, but still use itunes to manage my old jokes and ipad.
I also have a central sound system connected to my netbook, so the iOS remote app comes in handy.
Tunesync lets you automatically upload songs purchased from your phone to iTunes, and maintains play counts in itunes as well.
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TUTORIAL: USE LG L9 PHONE AS DLNA MEDIA STORAGE DEVICE TV TO PC.
THIS EXPLAINS, HOW DID I PLAYED THE VIDEOS SAVED ON L9, ON MY PC AND VICE VERSA, BUT NO WIRES ATTACHED AND FULL HD VIDEOS PLAYED.
DLNA of L9 with PC and L9 as Remote Control. It really WORKS well! "
Connect PC with your WireLess Router either with wire or wireless.
Start WiFi on your L9 and let it connect to network as usual.
Start "Windows Media Player" (WMP).
Select "Stream" Menu
Select "Allow Remote Control of my player"
A dialogue box will appear asking "Allow Remote Control" Select "Allow Remote Control....."
Now you may see Phone Name "P765" in WMP Left side device list and now WMP can show any Photo, Video, etc saved in Phone. Full HD Videos and Photos.
Now lets use Phone as.....REMOTE CONTROL (Play from Phone to PC)
Now Run SmartShare App on Phone
Click "FROM" and select "My Phone"
Click "To" and select "My PC: MyHome PC" (whatever name of your pc)
Now you can see media folders (Video, Photo, etc)
Just Start playing anything (example, video) on Phone from these folders seen in smartshare and WOW...VIDEO WILL BE SEEN PLAYING IN WMP ON COMPUTER.
You can control (play, pause, next, prev) media from Phone.
Enjoy!!!
KNOWN ISSUE: One sided audio in Video and Audio Playback. Problem solved in V10E and later
PS: One more good one suggested by donk165 in this post but needs small windows installation.
TUTORIAL: USE LG L9 PHONE AS DLNA MEDIA STORAGE DEVICE TV AND PLAYER.
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THIS EXPLAINS, HOW DID I PLAYED THE VIDEOS SAVED ON L9, ON MY 32" LED TV VIA SAMSUNG BLU-RAY PLAYER (DLNA CERTIFIED). NO WIRES ATTACHED AND FULL HD PLAYED
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OMG it works flawlessly, only about 5 steps, took 1 minute to set up, 1080p video streaming as smoothly as possible, just have to chech how much battery it uses ...
mitraark said:
OMG it works flawlessly, only about 5 steps, took 1 minute to set up, 1080p video streaming as smoothly as possible, just have to chech how much battery it uses ...
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DLNA is most ignored BEST WIRELESS MEDIA LINK between mobile devices and TV/DVDPlayers. I tested perfectly with PC and my SAMSUNG BD-D5300 Blueray player. Its really very easy and simple thing you can do with very few mouse clicks. Glad you tried.:good:
thanx bro for useful post. ..
Re: How to use DLNA and use L9 as Media Server and Remote Control of your PC?
galaxyfitankit said:
thanx bro for useful post. ..
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Oh please don't mention it. Just click it.
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NFC in P760 but not in P765?
A question comes in my mind, why did they give NFC on P760 and not on P765??? Well all hardware is same, except camera and NFC. Even the kdz can be flashed on each other.
Have someone flashed any kdz for P760 on P765 and test NFC? Nothing wrong in trying. What if it works on P765 too. lolz
Hi very cool that dnla thingy but can i stream games alsp?.
Because videos or music etc.... i dont care. Its more interesting if we can miror the screen on pc or what ever.!
reggiexp said:
Hi very cool that dnla thingy but can i stream games alsp?.
Because videos or music etc.... i dont care. Its more interesting if we can miror the screen on pc or what ever.!
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There is one lenovo android phone which can stream video of Games to DLNA device. Dont have details at the moment, you can search in google and especially in YouTube.
I dont have much information about L9 but technically there should be a Driver Application which should stream the display of Games on TV via DLNA. It is also possible that some applications DLNA SERVER (http://www.appszoom.com/android_applications/dlna) may help you in this case. Google it.
Eh, few questions:
1. For remote control, I use VLC Remote (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.peterbaldwin.client.android.vlcremote), is there any differences other than playing files ON your phone? Which leads to the 2nd question anyways.
1. Why do you store video files on your mobile ? All my video files are either rips (stored on PC, few GBs each) or my captures which are uploaded to G+ immediately, and I can access from any where. And to access these file, I use Emit, uPnP or SplashTop.
I never used DLNA before, so pardon me for my lack of knowledge.
chicguy said:
Eh, few questions:
1. For remote control, I use VLC Remote (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.peterbaldwin.client.android.vlcremote), is there any differences other than playing files ON your phone? Which leads to the 2nd question anyways.
1. Why do you store video files on your mobile ? All my video files are either rips (stored on PC, few GBs each) or my captures which are uploaded to G+ immediately, and I can access from any where. And to access these file, I use Emit, uPnP or SplashTop.
I never used DLNA before, so pardon me for my lack of knowledge.
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DLNA is only a wireless streaming of media files. Rest how you use it is your wish. It is not always necessary that I will stream it to my PC/TV at home. Suppose I am visiting my friend, relative, office, anywhere, etc. and I wish to share my KARAOKE video, where I am really singing well, I can easily stream it to the TV on large screen and hey!! Everyone (hundreds of them) can watch it and appreciate it. Most of us show Home/Picnic Photos, Videos, etc to friends on mobile itself wherever they go. What if DLNA allows you to share it on BIG screen. And yes, DLNA does not need to copy your files on recipient device, its just a SlideShow.
Well if you dont share your music, photos and videos, with your friends/relatives/office pals, THEN DLNA IS USELESS FOR YOU. YOU MAY SAFELY FORGET IT. :laugh: Lol
EDIT: In my city I noticed all BlueRay Players from branded companies, are DLNA-certified.
cmahendra said:
Well if you dont share your music, photos and videos, with your friends/relatives/office pals, THEN DLNA IS USELESS FOR YOU. YOU MAY SAFELY FORGET IT. :laugh: Lol
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This is where the part "my captures which are uploaded to G+ immediately, and I can access from any where" come in handy . I assume you know about Google Plus automatic upload feature, it is good for back up and SHARING as well :highfive:. Of course, not every smart TV can show music, photos or videos from google plus, or not everyone (your friends/relatives/office pals) might know about G+ I guess.
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This is where the part "my captures which are uploaded to G+ immediately, and I can access from any where" come in handy . I assume you know about Google Plus automatic upload feature, it is good for back up and SHARING as well :highfive:. Of course, not every smart TV can show music, photos or videos from google plus, or not everyone (your friends/relatives/office pals) might know about G+ I guess.
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Yes I know automatic upload service of G+
Well people who know DLNA in phone know DLNA in TV or BD/DVD players too.
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I went to my friends house and i showed him a video captured from my phone on his WMP, with almost no setup ( just the one step, Allow other devices... )
mitraark said:
I went to my friends house and i showed him a video captured from my phone on his WMP, with almost no setup ( just the one step, Allow other devices... )
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Great. He might have surprised how it happens so quickly without wires.
Re: How to use DLNA and use L9 as Media Server and Remote Control of your PC?
Another way to control your PC with your L9 is to use Unified Remote. It doesn't have a live preview of the screen, but you can use the touch screen as a touch pad, and bring up the on screen keyboard of the phone to type on the PC. There are also remotes for media keys, WMP, VLC, YouTube and a few more. You can get it on the play store.
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donk165 said:
Another way to control your PC with your L9 is to use Unified Remote. It doesn't have a live preview of the screen, but you can use the touch screen as a touch pad, and bring up the on screen keyboard of the phone to type on the PC. There are also remotes for media keys, WMP, VLC, YouTube and a few more. You can get it on the play store.
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+1 Hey, thanks for http://www.unifiedremote.com/
VLC and WMP remote apps were already there since quiet a time. All useful. Thanks.:good:
With ArkMc app I stream video from my phone to TV also, you could try
Bill Fresher said:
With ArkMc app I stream video from my phone to TV also, you could try
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seems good by description, but its paid app.
***NOTE***: I take absolutely no credit for developing this app or supporting it. Flash at your own risk. Developer's thread here. Stop by and thank him if you use and like the app.
That being taken care of, most of you on this board know how much I love music. This app allows all your music stored on Google Music to be mounted on a virtual hard drive on your internal sdcard. This allows a number of popular players to play all your music stored in the cloud as if its on your internal memory. This save precious internal memory space for movies, pictures, etc.
Besides freeing up storage space, another added bonus for Viper4Android users is that V4A processes 100% of the time when streaming with GMusicFS. As many have posted, V4A intermittently and randomly stops processing tracks when streaming with Google Play Music. Tricked into thinking all the music is on the internal sdcard, V4A works flawlessly. No more spikes in volume/sound quality! :good:
While you'll be fooling the hardware as to where things are stored, you will NOT be fooling Verizon data usage tracking nor your battery into providing enough juice to play nonstop. You're still streaming the music from Google, you're just using a different player. So if you have data plan or battery concerns, this app is not your solution. I've found the battery drain to be in between Pandora and iHeartRadio.
Installation is very straightforward with one exception. You must grant TWO superuser permissions. The first is to create the virtual hard drive itself (the metadata) and the second is for adb shell to actually mount the drive. A visual walkthrough:
When you first install the app, it immediately asks for superuser permission. Grant it and then log onto your Google Play account (mine is blacked out in these screenies). It will automatically start syncing your music's metadata to your internal sdcard. This will fail. Expect it to fail and do not close the app:
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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This is due to the shortcuts to all the cloud music being created, but the virtual hard drive is not mounted yet. It's funny to see this transition period when you look in settings\storage. Notice my 16GB internal sdcard has 71.98GB of miscellaneous files :silly:
After you get the failed to mount message, keep the app open. Wait for another superuser request from ADB shell and grant it:
Once this is properly done, the virtual drive is mounted and it will automatically scan the metadata. Once it completes, you can use any media player to access your new virtual library of music. Even though it seems logical to point the player to the metadata folder, you must point your player to the blank /gmusicfs folder:
I have Google Play's All Access feature and while the free version of the app allows you to play 5 All Access tracks per launch, for $2.49 it a no-brainer to get the unlocker for this app and have access to your entire library without restrictions. As you can see here, I'm playing Eminem's new single "Bezerk" released only days ago. You can also see I now have full access to my 12,049 songs stored on Google's servers in PowerAmp
I want to emphasize one last time that the last two screens show the music is streaming. This WILL suck up your data plan and it will suck up your battery because the music is streaming and it prevents your phone from properly sleeping:
When it's all said and done, for me, this is an easy choice to install. I have more room on internal memory because I don't have to store music on it. I also get the assurance that Viper4Android will work consistently 100% of the time and I'm getting amazing sound from my phone.
Grab the app from here and don't forget to stop by @bubbleguuum's thread and thank him for a great app!
This is very interesting, but will it also allow cached/downloaded music from Google Play to play in other players as well?
farenteria said:
This is very interesting, but will it also allow cached/downloaded music from Google Play to play in other players as well?
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No, this caches it's own tracks seperate from play music. You can use any music player, even Play Music to play the tracks, but some of the players have different problems. Player Pro for instance has to be open first before you start GmusicFS, or it won't see the drive. I also noticed, it took 10 minutes or so for Player Pro to see everything. As far as caching, it can only cache entire albums, and all that can be done from the notification window.
I do like what the app does, because I hate Google's player, but I have not been using it lately, just because I hate having a process to do every time I reboot my phone.
twolasrnames said:
I do like what the app does, because I hate Google's player, but I have not been using it lately, just because I hate having a process to do every time I reboot my phone.
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I've never used Player Pro and I see your comment about having to start the player first, but there's an option within GMusicFS mount the drive on reboot. Perhaps this will help you?
twolasrnames said:
No, this caches it's own tracks seperate from play music. You can use any music player, even Play Music to play the tracks, but some of the players have different problems. Player Pro for instance has to be open first before you start GmusicFS, or it won't see the drive. I also noticed, it took 10 minutes or so for Player Pro to see everything. As far as caching, it can only cache entire albums, and all that can be done from the notification window.
I do like what the app does, because I hate Google's player, but I have not been using it lately, just because I hate having a process to do every time I reboot my phone.
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I had taken a look at this briefly and didn't see a way to cache files to an external sd so I wound up uninstalling. Is that still the case?
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Ironclad Lou said:
I had taken a look at this briefly and didn't see a way to cache files to an external sd so I wound up uninstalling. Is that still the case?
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Try FolderMount to map it to a directory on an SD Card. That my do the trick.
roboots21 said:
Try FolderMount to map it to a directory on an SD Card. That my do the trick.
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are the cached files named with song and artist? it would be nice to have a way to take these songs and move them to a usb stick for use in other players without internet access
ddarvish said:
are the cached files named with song and artist? it would be nice to have a way to take these songs and move them to a usb stick for use in other players without internet access
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No, that won't work. The databases created by this app are just pointers to the actual files on the Google servers. They still stream from there. This app just allows you to use other players besides Play Music to do so.
still available?
wwonka69 said:
still available?
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Sure. Just click the developer's thread link in my OP and download the apk to sideload.