There are apps like Amazon MP3 and other like Shazam if I purchase the MP3 on my Incredible is it copyrighted just to stay on my device/Incredible? I would like to copy the MP3 to my laptop as well as put it on my wife's ipod...
Pls no legal stuff I am not going to resale the MP3 I just want to add the song on other devices that I own...
So again what protection if any will be on those mp3 that I buy from Amazon or Shazam that would stop me from sharing it on my other devices/PC?
TIA
I do it the other way around. I purchase and store on my workstation using a network drive (share throughout the house) and then move what I want to the mobile devices.
I've got a lot more music on the network drive than I would ever put on the mobile.
I move most of the files one at a time as I want them using AndFTP (using SFTP to my server which is the network drive). If I need to move a lot of files, I just plug in and make the sdcard a usb drive.
From a legal point of view, you'd have to read the terms of use you agreed to when you installed/used the app. I've used the Amazon MP3 store on my PC and I don't think they say anything about only putting the files on one machine.
From a technical point of view, if it is a standard mp3 file then there is no DRM that ties it to a specific device.
In general, I think you're fine in putting the file on whatever device you want.
FYI, the money from downloads and CD sales goes to the record company. Your not hurting the artist. If you really want to support them, touring is where 70% of their money comes from. Think about it, they're paid before the record comes out. Just a little bit of info, take it how you want.
With the amazon app you can put the mp3 on to any other device you want to just like ripping it from an owned cd
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Google "Tunee music" (it's not on market) and forget about Amazon MP3
The final answer: Yes you can take the mp3s off the device. they are Mp3's. Totally. I did it today to test.
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The final answer: Yes you can take the mp3s off the device. they are Mp3's. Totally. I did it today to test.
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Where are they on my Incredible? What's the path to get to them?
Thanks.
EDIT: found it. Right on the SD card.
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mediamonkey + rsync.
mediamonkey is by far the best and most robust batch id3 editor, converter, re-organizer, etc i've used.
unfortunately the sync kinda sucks with my N1. it has limited features (no ability to remove files from the N1 if you remove them from your library or move the folders around, etc)
enter: rsync (or grsync if you want a gui or are on windows)
usually what I do is on getting new music i'll add the music to mediamonkey (not the library just yet), then use the converter to lower the bitrate to 128kbps (i have a ton of music and don't mind sacrificing the barely noticeable quality difference for more space) and normalize the volume and re-organize them into /library/artist/album/track-title.mp3
then i'll rsync /android/Music with /library and voila.
note: i hated doubletwist. i did not have itunes and doubletwist wouldn't edit any of my mp3 tags. plus it was laggy and heavy.
sidebar: people hate on the android music player. its fantastic search function (partial searches ftw! i can search for "op orld" and it'll find "drop the world".) is indispensable.
I just dump everything into a folder on my SD card while it is mounted to my computer
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copy all works fine, but takes a long time if you have a large sdcard and library. unless you copy to the same folder and select to not overwrite existing files, but then you don't get updates that you make on your desktop and this could lead to duplicate files, etc.
rsync does incremental updates (only sends what's been changed) and has an option to delete files from the destination folder if they're not present in the source folder.
both Salling and DoubleTwist require an iTunes library, don't they? DoubleTwist was absolutely terrible for managing my library when i tried it. it read some 2,500 mp3s and read the metadata for maybe 20% of them, and left the others as just the filenames. that was shocking to me. Salling does require iTunes, and i dislike itunes a good bit.
you onlyneed itunes to convert files to a usable format. ie, AVI to MP4 etc
mediamonkey for me too, its great for fixing up tags and getting cover art.
There are some ipods in our house, mediamonkey syncs those too as well as various other devices.
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Doubletwist
Personally I can't fault it
Plus T-Mobile are thinking of partnering with them to ship it with "select" Android phones
How about Banshee ?
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Yup, double twist in partnership for tmobile is out.
http://apps.t-mobile.com/doubletwist/
worth noting that it doesnt have the amazon mp3 store in it.
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How about Banshee ?
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Actually, Banshee is available for Linux, Windows and OS X. The version released yesterday is supposed to include direct support for the Nexus One. Although when they advertised G1 support, it actually didn't work. They admitted that it didn't work when pressed and continued to advertise G1 support. It's not a terribly great player, but if I can drag and drop to my Nexus One AND transfer playlists appropriately, then I'll use it for that, but it doesn't really work too well for library management.
What Software and App work together? on Linux?
Doubletwist (Music,Videos,Podcasts,Playlists) does the job perfectly on windows and mac... but what about linux?
Banshee seems really good same as doubletwist except it puts everything into one folder it looks like. Music and Podcasts mix together with any app on my android device. Doubletwist had its own app which made it work correctly putting each media class into its own folder on the android device. Music=music podcasts=podcasts I used it all the time. Now I run only linux and would like something just as good.
App on LINUX laptop and App on device working together! Anyone have ideas? or at least a way to get banshee to put music in a specific folder on my android device and podcasts in another that I decide. If so I can just continue to use doubletwist app on android.
Please anyone with a solution?
I really thought you could get doubletwist on Linux.
I've been using rythmbox on linux. Its kind of a pain to sync playlists, and it took me forever to figure it out, but I hate banshee and I couldnt find anything else that works.
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I've been using rythmbox on linux. Its kind of a pain to sync playlists, and it took me forever to figure it out, but I hate banshee and I couldnt find anything else that works.
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drewzee does rythmbox have an android app? like doubletwist? so they talk pc to android.
winamp is nice, but the wireless sync needs to be fixed so it can directly send to sd card into a certain folder. Having 100s of artist folders on the main directory is annoying
I wish we could get the Zune software to work with android. :/
Previously, I was running rsync over ssh with Tasker to sync my music (and backup my SD) with my server
Since the command can sometimes take a while to execute (a new nand or several new albums etc) and there isnt any verbose output using Tasker, I just created a script that i can easily execute from BTEP and my music and other data are synced. this works for me
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I wish we could get the Zune software to work with android. :/
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Yes yes yes!! And that it worked on linux! I know its too much to ask for.
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I really thought you could get doubletwist on Linux.
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I have been trying to get doubletwist to work through wine. No luck. Got installed but it won't run. I'm using fedora 14 32bit. On dell xps1330. I'm more of an ubuntu user but need fedora for work.
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Why even sync it?
Audiogalaxy FTW
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drewzee does rythmbox have an android app? like doubletwist? so they talk pc to android.
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Im not sure what you mean because I've never used doubletwist, but the nexus will show up in the side pane of rhythmbox. You can right click, and then decide which playlists you want to sync etc...
The reason why I said it was a pain figuring out, is because the "My Top Rated" playlist would not update on my phone when I added new songs to it. I found out after tinkering that in order for that specific playlist to update, I had to delete the .pls file from the sd card before syncing it.
Is there a way to sync and listen to itunes lectures from iTunes U store from nexus one? This is the only reason I'm still keeping my ipod touch. Is thee some alternative to do this task?
Thanks!
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I doubt the video files are copy protected. You can just download them in iTunes, go to the downloaded directory and copy them directly to the Nexus One's SD card.
I'll give it a try and get back to you.
Ignore rzeha02, some people just don't want to be helpful here.
Yup, it works perfectly. I downloaded a lecture from Stanford and copied it to my Nexus One. Plays perfectly. I checked and you can also use doubleTwist to sync it automatically from iTunes to the phone.
doubleTwist is great for syncing all your movies and music. As long as the music and video is drm-free which most music is now in iTunes, and all the iTunes university lectures.
Wow thank you, Clarkster for taking the time.
Since I bumped into a few problem play back a few podcast on android (I think they used quicktime), I just want to ask for your opinion.
Also, I suppose all the meta data is included in the lectures as well? At least for audio only lectures? I'll give it a try tonight with doubletwist.
Thanks.
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.
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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!
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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If not, is there anyway to view media hub content on a external screen?
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I, too, have had that question. So for, I've no luck on a solution, just what it is.
Apparently, when you DL the movie, it saves as .pyv file which I found out is Microsoft's PlayReady DRM. Although I can long press on the actual file on the card and play it with mVideoPlayer or stock, I have not had any luck at playing this on my computer.
When you buy a movie, it says you can activate on 5 devices but I cannot find anywhere support for this application so I can ask how the hell I can do that. If I could at least get it on my computer and play it, I can stream it to my TV.
As it stands, it seems as though Media Hub is pretty worthless over all if we can't stream to our various viewing units.
Still looking for a solution.
Not to mention some of the media hub app(s) are responsible for the horrible battery life. Delete a few of the files that it needs to run correctly and you'll double your battery life. Screw that media hub. Can buy most those movies for 5 bucks at blockbuster or wal mart and load them on your phone yourself.
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Not to mention some of the media hub app(s) are responsible for the horrible battery life. Delete a few of the files that it needs to run correctly and you'll double your battery life. Screw that media hub. Can buy most those movies for 5 bucks at blockbuster or wal mart and load them on your phone yourself.
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Funny thing. I deleted all the DRM stuff before I bought the movie and it still plays just fine. I bought a movie so I could try to figure out how to get it to work and I've had no problems with anything on the phone itself.
As far as I can tell, the three DRM files we deleted to help battery life have no function whatsoever.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.