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Music playlists - How do i sync them to my N1?

Ok this is the biggest annoyance I've had with android since getting rid of my iPod touch and using this instead.
How do I get my playlists from iTunes, WMP, or Foobar2000 to work with Android? I can sync over folders, files, music, etc, just fine.. playlists show up but they're empty with no music in them!
Halp? I googled around and nothing seems useful/worth spending money on.

look up doubleTwist. i think it does itunes playlists

Foobar: right click playlist, save as, save it on the nexs phone.

bmansfeld said:
look up doubleTwist. i think it does itunes playlists
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great program i use it. i also say go with Double Twist, I just dont like the face i gotta mount it everytime i connect it. might just down load the program in the market so it auto mounts when connected to DT

I use Salling Media Sync on my mac and it works great for synching iTunes playlists and iPhoto albums.

double twist isn't detecing the playlists I made in iTunes... How do I fix this?

There are many Windows programs that will do this, one or two for the Mac for ZERO for Linux. ON A LINUX BASED DEVICE! (sorry for yelling, this has just driven me crazy for over a year...sigh)

rickstone said:
There are many Windows programs that will do this, one or two for the Mac for ZERO for Linux. ON A LINUX BASED DEVICE! (sorry for yelling, this has just driven me crazy for over a year...sigh)
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not to start an OS war but this is why people still use windows and not Free, 'stable', more capable, less resource hungry, Linux systems.

i use vlc. i make my playlists with vlc and save it as m3u. drag and drop in the microsd.

maktucali said:
i use vlc. i make my playlists with vlc and save it as m3u. drag and drop in the microsd.
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The music app recognizes the playlist?

I sync my entire music folder with my nexus one, with sync toy
i use Zune for music on the PC, and the Nexus One reads the .wpl playlist that i made with the zune software

Your issue might be that you are trying to sync DRM protected music. You can rebuy them from the iTunes store without it for half the price of each song. It has a little icon in there for that process. Apple took off DRM, but was of course stubborn about it.

Brajin said:
The music app recognizes the playlist?
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Yup, as long as your file names are identical between your computer and phone.
Directory structure doesn't matter.

Brajin said:
The music app recognizes the playlist?
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yes it does

Best Program For N1 Media Syncing

To save everyone all the reading below here is the bottom line up front:
In my opinion Sony's Media Go is the best for the job (use at your own risk).
The good:
-surprisingly it syncs with my N1
-syncs music, pictures & video
-places a check mark beside all media in your library that is on your N1 card
-option to transcode if device needs
-optimizes pictures for device
-did not waste my time and delete my existing media and re-sync
-plays media library quite well
The bad:
-no option for auto syncing media (does show check mark to track what is manually synced as I mentioned).
-had to spend some time re-tagging about 100 videos
Basically it gives two options when you install; sync with Ericsson phone or PSP. I chose PSP as I was unsure if those phones have media card support and I know the PSP does. I'm still not sure if this will affect transcoding, namely if it thinks it needs to transcode for PSP or if Media Go is aware that it's an N1 and knows what type of files it supports. Hopefully it does know it's an N1 but if not it should only affect video. I have already synced two h264, .mp4 TV shows and it was rather quick so I don't think any transcoding happened. They are not PSP compatible because I watch them on my Xbox 360. I tried to install one movie but it was taking too long so I stopped it. It seems to me that most managers/players take a while to sync movies anyway because of their size, I was just being impatient with the movie sync. Also, I am unsure if it will sync movies purchased from the store as I am in Japan and the video purchase is blocked.
If you are like me you would like one program to sync music, pictures & videos to your N1 storage card. I've tried the majority of them, WMP; either you sync all items in library or one at a time and you have no visual for what in your library is already on the card with the second choice. If you sync all at once all videos in your library will try to sync. Realplayer; no option for pictures that I could find anyway. iTunes; "what you talkin' 'bout Willis". Doubletwist; if I wanted to use iTunes I would use iTunes. JR Media Player; way to involved but still a good program.
If you know of a better media manager program to sync all media with Nexus One please share your replies.

The best program for media syncing is a batch script.
xcopy /f /y /i /d c:\media\*.* e:\android_media\*.*

VicG said:
..In my opinion Sony's Media Go is the best for the job
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Doubletwist; if I wanted to use iTunes I would use iTunes.
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..In my opinion Doubletwist is an excellent solution for the N1 too. Writing it off simply because is mimics iTunes without acknowledging any of its features is a bit shallow isnt it? I can fully appreciate peoples dislike for iTunes interface and a clone like DoubleTwist. But one should at least acknowledge what Doubletwist can do. There is also a quite acceptable Doubletwist media player to run on your N1 too.
I think DoubleTwist is a perfectly adequate solution for those of us who are not so technical minded. Anyone who just wants a simple solution that works very well. As far as I can tell it does everything you say the Sony app will do.

logger said:
..In my opinion Doubletwist is an excellent solution for the N1 too. Writing it off simply because is mimics iTunes without acknowledging any of its features is a bit shallow isnt it? I can fully appreciate peoples dislike for iTunes interface and a clone like DoubleTwist. But one should at least acknowledge what Doubletwist can do. There is also a quite acceptable Doubletwist media player to run on your N1 too.
I think DoubleTwist is a perfectly adequate solution for those of us who are not so technical minded. Anyone who just wants a simple solution that works very well. As far as I can tell it does everything you say the Sony app will do.
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I never said that I disliked iTunes, if it would sync that would be my first choice. Suggesting that I'm shallow just because I stated my opinion about which program I like that happens to not be the one you chose is a little holier that though isn't it?
How about next time you just state your opinion without the whining...

VicG said:
Suggesting that I'm shallow just because I stated my opinion about which program I like that happens to not be the one you chose is a little holier that though isn't it?
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YES, I would say so.
Actually it was your single sentence appraisal of Doubletwist that I was describing as shallow, not you. A ten page review of an application could be described as In Depth. Whereas the single sentence "Doubletwist; if I wanted to use iTunes I would use iTunes." can be described as a shallow review. I felt you wrote it off a little cheaply thats all. For what its worth, I am sure the developers would too
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How about next time you just state your opinion without the whining...
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Well as a matter of fact................ That what I thought I was doing...

Is there a way to sync from itunes directly to N1, or the only solution from itunes to N1 is doubletwist?
I'm on a mac btw.

I prefer media monkey.

Mokurex said:
Is there a way to sync from itunes directly to N1, or the only solution from itunes to N1 is doubletwist?
I'm on a mac btw.
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Salling Media Sync works well for me - there are free and paid versions. The paid version gives faster syncing.

I actually think that windows media player 12 that comes with windows 7 is not bad at all

Is there an app that syncs via adb? i.e. no mounting.

mac
automator + rsync =

worker1 said:
The best program for media syncing is a batch script.
xcopy /f /y /i /d c:\media\*.* e:\android_media\*.*
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And when you delete something out of media?
epiccccc faillllllll

GldRush98 said:
And when you delete something out of media?
epiccccc faillllllll
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but this. . .

I use TuneSync.
It lets you pick which iTunes libraries you want to sync to your phone, then when connected to your Network via WiFi it downloads all of the music. I love the wireless factor. Keeps it simple.
Can you post a link to the Sony Media Go.apk?

iSyncr + iTunes. Works like a charm.

Wii60 said:
iSyncr + iTunes. Works like a charm.
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What he said

Wisefire said:
Can you post a link to the Sony Media Go.apk?
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Media Go isn't a program for your N1, it's software on your PC. (free)
I agree with the OP, it's great software that makes dealing with all your media very easy.. a good solution overall.
link: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/mediago/default_enu.asp?page=download

Ah! I was thinking it was something Sony made for the x10 and someone ported.
Thanks.

worker1 said:
The best program for media syncing is a batch script.
xcopy /f /y /i /d c:\media\*.* e:\android_media\*.*
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Its not "batch", its "bash", and your syntax is wrong...
for FILE in /path/*;
do
adb push "$FILE" "/sdcard/yourpath/"
done

lbcoder said:
Its not "batch", its "bash", and your syntax is wrong...
for FILE in /path/*;
do
adb push "$FILE" "/sdcard/yourpath/"
done
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Bash is a Unix command shell.
A batch file is a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter in DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows.

Sync with iTunes

Does anyone have a good recommendation for syncing iTunes playlists? I've been doing some google searching but haven't found a solid answer. I've tried a program called TuneSync which is suppose to sync playlists OTA.
It seems to only partially work for me... it has copied the music files over, I can browse them by artist or genre... but the actual playlists don't show up.
Any ideas? TIA!

TAXI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is Taxi?
I've tried TuneSync, and now have tried DoubleTwist. They both do the same thing, I can sync the music files, but the playlists themselves don't show up.
I browse the SD card, and I can see all the M3U playlists sitting there. If I try to open one manually, it says File Type Not Supported.
Does this phone not handle M3U playlists???

Been doing some more reading, it sounds like the SGS doesn't support M3U. Weak.
So how the hell do you create playlists other than manually on the phone itself??? I'm completely blown away by this glaring lack of functionality. I expect this type of behaviour from Blackberry, not Samsung.

iSyncr for Android is supposed to support play lists in iTunes.
It's limited unless you buy it though.

Give Isyncr a try. It's the best solution I've found so far. It syncs over USB it's quick and handles Galaxy playlists perfectly.
The really neat thing is there's nothing to install on the PC. You install ISyncr from the marketplace, it copies a EXE to the SDcard or SD (which ever you choose). Connect the Galaxy to the PC and then run the EXE on the PC. The program opens Itunes and you select playlists.
It has options to remember the playlists and remove items not in the playlists (from the folder you select). It doesn't have wireless syncing but I think that's a small price to pay for the speed.

carphead said:
Give Isyncr a try. It's the best solution I've found so far. It syncs over USB it's quick and handles Galaxy playlists perfectly.
The really neat thing is there's nothing to install on the PC. You install ISyncr from the marketplace, it copies a EXE to the SDcard or SD (which ever you choose). Connect the Galaxy to the PC and then run the EXE on the PC. The program opens Itunes and you select playlists.
It has options to remember the playlists and remove items not in the playlists (from the folder you select). It doesn't have wireless syncing but I think that's a small price to pay for the speed.
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I gave it a try. I'm on a Mac, but same kind of deal, after connecting to the computer I run the computer version of the program.... it comes up and tells me I don't have a valid license. I mucked around with it for an hour, read some support forums, eventually got frustrated with it and uninstalled it (got refund on android marketplace).
So I'm still at a loss.

I'm on mac and isyncr works fine with me. I don't remember what I did though. I surely paid. I select a playlist and it is uploaded to the device. I have to use parallels with kies (awesome work by samsung, btw /irony) but isyncr is ok with my mac no VM needed.
(I'm realizing now I'm not the only mac boy going into android. I guess Mr. Jobs is somehow pushing us out. That's my feeling anyway and sorry for the offtopic).

+1 for isyncr. Works really good on a mac. Supports podcasts as well. well worth the 2.99 bucks!

Does anyone know where, in internal memory or on SD card, the phone stores its playlist files?
I have created a couple playlists on the phone itself. If I can find where those files are stored, maybe I can open it up in a text editor, figure out the formatting/configuration, and then write something simple to generate playlists that work with this phone.
TIA!

davanw said:
What is Taxi?
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Lol. Sorry, an attempt at humour seeing as you're on an android forum talking about that piece of sh1t software they call itunes. You don't have to use it, yet you do?
How about 'get your coat' ?
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iTunes Agent works great!

With any competent file manager app that allows accessing the network (SMB, SFTP, Bluetooth), you can simply copy your itunes directory (or any portions there of) to your phone or sd card.
You don't really need a sync app unless you have a REALLY large library.

Bynar010 said:
Lol. Sorry, an attempt at humour seeing as you're on an android forum talking about that piece of sh1t software they call itunes. You don't have to use it, yet you do?
How about 'get your coat' ?
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Hahaha gotcha. Yeah, I absolutely hate iTunes. But I've been with Mac so long now that I'm significantly invested in it. My library has over 200GB of media. It would be a nightmare to export it all to another solution.
icebike said:
With any competent file manager app that allows accessing the network (SMB, SFTP, Bluetooth), you can simply copy your itunes directory (or any portions there of) to your phone or sd card.
You don't really need a sync app unless you have a REALLY large library.
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Like I said, my library is so large that syncing playlists is the only real way to manage it all. I don't want to listen to a single artist, album or genre, hence the need for playlists.

Haven't been able to figure out where the playlists go myself - this would be good to know for future development.
I have noticed that I can add playlists using WMP 12 - the only problem is that if I try to resync the same playlist it seems to append the contents of the existing playlist on the phone... odd. I basically delete the playlist on the device when I want to resync from the computer.
davanw said:
Does anyone know where, in internal memory or on SD card, the phone stores its playlist files?
I have created a couple playlists on the phone itself. If I can find where those files are stored, maybe I can open it up in a text editor, figure out the formatting/configuration, and then write something simple to generate playlists that work with this phone.
TIA!
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What desktop program are YOU using to manage ur X10's music and videos?

I want to know of a good program to manage my music on my comp and x10, i use VLC atm but its not great, ive tried double twist and both the desktop app and the actual app are crap and im never guna use itunes, so let me know what you use recomend

I use mediamonkey...IMO it's the best music manager out there.
[http://www.mediamonkey.com/]
and on the x10 I sometimes use mediascape but prefer using btunes (its has an ipod like interface)
[http://www.btunesmusicplayer.com/features/default.html]

I just use the good old "copy and paste" method.

I'm using double twist. The android app is pretty and then I found out it had desktop software too. I came.
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XperiaX10iUser said:
I just use the good old "copy and paste" method.
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Same. As long as your tags are accurate than this is the simplest method.

I use mixzing and then itunes, agent which will sync my selected music.
I just wish songbird would support the x10.
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Doubletwist rocks!
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I use Mozilla Songbird and love it. getsongbird.com

Windows Exploder Copy and Paste. Simple life...

Findee said:
I use mixzing and then itunes, agent which will sync my selected music.
I just wish songbird would support the x10.
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Hey Findee, Songbird works perfectly well with my X10. What seems to be the problem for you?
Cheers,
Batmantis82

rynoon said:
Same. As long as your tags are accurate than this is the simplest method.
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another for copy and paste

GPdhillon said:
another for copy and paste
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+1 - Windows Explorer is the only tool I use

Am I right in assuming that those of you that only copy and paste...dont use playlists?

Double twist / iTunes & iPhoto on OSX.
I've got a media library of 10000+ lossless, I'd die of old age if i had to use copypasta and couldn't automatically transcode and sync playlists.
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I use Media Go and Mediascape. Like with all new softwares, it took me a while to get use to the UI of both but now it's like second nature. I like media go's Gracenote since most of my music are downloaded from Youtube videos. Gracenote puts the information automatically which allows phone to download the album art cover. I also like the ability to create playlist coz I like the option to be able to play music by mood.

I use good ol' Total Commander
Left Pane: music directory on the PC.
Righ Pane: music directory on the SD Card.

MediaGo people give it alot of flak, but I think its not that bad. Get my podcasts,music,playlists,pictures and videos organized and auto syncs

mith500 said:
Am I right in assuming that those of you that only copy and paste...dont use playlists?
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You'd assume right in my case...

mith500 said:
Am I right in assuming that those of you that only copy and paste...dont use playlists?
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I use the cut-and-paste method, and use playlists too. I simply create the playlists in Windows (e.g. use Winamp) and then cut-and-paste the m3u playlist file to the phone as well. Mediascape detects the playlist fine.

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Doubletwist rocks!
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i need a good MEDIA Player, and a good sync client.
I have more than one device, i have a milestone as well. and i change devices like the wind.
lastly i have mood playlists and these msut be synced well.
so I use Windows Media Player in Windows 7. its magic.
Great Media Player, and does sync pretty well with the sync.
I have a problem with Double twist. Seems when it transfers m4a files encoded by Itunes, (I used to use OS Crap), it doesnt transger the tags. so half my librtary (Music I actually bought and encoded, vs downloading on the Bay) all gets lumped in the Unknown artist area, even though the tags are in the desktop app.
WMP doesnt sync playlists unless you use MTP protocol, (ie it will only transfer and check if the song in a playlist exists, but it wont actually tranfer the playlist file itself)
so i manually export the playlist files onto the device.
that way i have one media program on my computer.

Music syncing software?

I am coming from an iPhone and boy boy BOY do I miss the seamless syncing between iTunes and my iPhone..
It was nothing short of great.....
Now that I am rocking an S4, I am definitely missing this feature. I am using Winamp right now, but its not very good at deciphering stuff..and Samsung Kies is a joke.
I am looking for a piece of software that would rock at syncing my music with my S4 in a nice fashion. Any suggestions as I am really REALLY missing my iPhone 5 now simply because of a very simple feature...

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I am coming from an iPhone and boy boy BOY do I miss the seamless syncing between iTunes and my iPhone..
It was nothing short of great.....
Now that I am rocking an S4, I am definitely missing this feature. I am using Winamp right now, but its not very good at deciphering stuff..and Samsung Kies is a joke.
I am looking for a piece of software that would rock at syncing my music with my S4 in a nice fashion. Any suggestions as I am really REALLY missing my iPhone 5 now simply because of a very simple feature...
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Songbird for sure! Here's the Google Play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.songbirdnest.mediaplayer&hl=en
and here's for the desktop client http://www.getsongbird.com/

Really? Plug in phone, copy Music folder on PC to phone.
Not sure why you would want to use crappy software like itunes when you can just drag and drop your whole music folder.

I'd recommend isyncr, it works flawlessly for me
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MHousos said:
Songbird for sure! Here's the Google Play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.songbirdnest.mediaplayer&hl=en
and here's for the desktop client http://www.getsongbird.com/
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I use poweramp. Will it still work seamlessly with it?

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I use poweramp. Will it still work seamlessly with it?
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I know it will with the SongBird app, but not sure about PowerAmp...here's a thread on the subject though http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1562816

DoubleTwist works the best for me. Not sure about the other apps. It has a slight (but not very much) iTunes feel.
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iSyncr works great!

I'll also go for doubletwist. It has an integrated podcast manager as well.

geoldr said:
Really? Plug in phone, copy Music folder on PC to phone.
Not sure why you would want to use crappy software like itunes when you can just drag and drop your whole music folder.
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I agree, if you are plugging the phone in, just treat it as a drive and drag and drop. Syncing with iTunes is a big pain and a waste if you don't use song counts or any of that nonsense. If you already have your music organized by artist and album, then copy/paste is a lot faster.

alphadog00 said:
I agree, if you are plugging the phone in, just treat it as a drive and drag and drop. Syncing with iTunes is a big pain and a waste if you don't use song counts or any of that nonsense. If you already have your music organized by artist and album, then copy/paste is a lot faster.
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Exactly. Especially since Android runs a media scanner whenever you unplug, so all your Music apps like stock or Poweramp will see the changes instantly. And you can sort by folder so this is a great solution.

Reviving the topic, to see if anyone has a suggestion for PC software to sync music with the Galaxy S4.
I would prefer to have a program to handle this, so I don't have to manually build the folder structure (artist\album\file.mp3) and also, so I don't have to remember which new files I've gotten that need to be uploaded. Right now I'm using Windows Media Player, it worked reasonably well with my Xperia Ion, but with the Galaxy I have to stop and restart the sync and then stop it again, since it never reaches 100% even though all the mp3 files were uploaded. Also, it is not really syncing, if I change anything in already uploaded files, like tag or artwork, the changes don't go through, even if I manually delete the old file from my phone card.
I've tried Winamp, it doesn't recognize the SD card and wants to upload the files to the phone internal memory. Both Kies and Songbird never really connect to the device, they stay trying to connect for a long time. And Doubletwist Desktop does not update the music library when some files are added, deleted or changed.

SPOTIFY... 8 bucks a month for an unbelievable amount of music. The offline mode makes tracks accessible without and data and you can share music with your friends. You can also check out what they are jamming to and discover new music. I don't even know what people use iTunes anymore. Spotify also has a desktop interface so you can enjoy your music at the office on the Pc or Mac
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Thanks for the info. I'm not at all interested in all the "social" stuff, I just need an efficient way to sync my PC music library with my phone. I considered Google Music at some point, since it was offering 20,000 songs (double my library) for free, that you need to upload. Problem is that there is no easy way to tell the program to store it in a specific folder in the SD card. Also, I don't think you can just make the whole library offline, you have to do it track by track, or maybe album by album. How is Spotify in these two issues? Although, quite frankly, for almost $100 a year I'll probably stick with WMP for free.