Hello all,
I am a former iPhone user to just received his Moto Atrix today and I am trying to get some music on the device.
My iTunes library does not revolved around playlists, but instead I use the "Albums" view to play/sync music (to my iPhone). When I sync the iPhone, I have an option of checking which albums I want to sync.
Is there any software I can get/purchase that will let me do this for the Droid. I would like to still use iTunes as my music management software, but sync Albums onto my Atrix. I have tried some software (doubleTwist) but it only allows syncing of playlists (which I don't have). This software would also have to have the ability of playing from the "Albums" on the Atrix.
[See attached for what I would like the application to be able to sync]
Thanks in Advance,
Tom
jiggytom said:
Hello all,
I am a former iPhone user to just received his Moto Atrix today and I am trying to get some music on the device.
My iTunes library does not revolved around playlists, but instead I use the "Albums" view to play/sync music (to my iPhone). When I sync the iPhone, I have an option of checking which albums I want to sync.
Is there any software I can get/purchase that will let me do this for the Droid. I would like to still use iTunes as my music management software, but sync Albums onto my Atrix. I have tried some software (doubleTwist) but it only allows syncing of playlists (which I don't have). This software would also have to have the ability of playing from the "Albums" on the Atrix.
[See attached for what I would like the application to be able to sync]
Thanks in Advance,
Tom
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Try doubletwist
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Try doubletwist
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That's the one I just tried. It only seems to be able to sync "Playlists" and not Compilations/Albums
Sorry I must have skipped that part in your post.
You can try this http://androidforums.com/android-media/139655-how-sync-itunes-android.html
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You can try this http://androidforums.com/android-media/139655-how-sync-itunes-android.html
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Giving this a try now. So far so good. I am syncing the music now, which is half the battle. Hopefully some music player will be able to "detect" these albums. I will be trying MixZing first.
Make a playlist with everything you want to sync
Or you can download the Motorola medialink software, as it can sync all your itunes musics. Of cause the DRM free one's.
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Make a playlist with everything you want to sync
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This is essential anyway if you have more music than you have space on the phone, which if you are into music - is likely. In that case, stick to doubletwist.
stonec11 said:
Or you can download the Motorola medialink software, as it can sync all your itunes musics. Of cause the DRM free one's.
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iTunes agent worked beautifully. I am able to see my albums in the Music player as well as Mixzing.
Cleaned up some album covers that were missing using the free album cover app.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!
jiggytom said:
iTunes agent worked beautifully. I am able to see my albums in the Music player as well as Mixzing.
Cleaned up some album covers that were missing using the free album cover app.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!
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No problem.
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how can i transfer my itunes music and audiobook library to htc hd2 without loss of album cover art?
Regardless of cover art or not, if it's DRM iTunes stuff from a couple years ago it's not going to play on your HD2 anyways unless you strip the DRM off of it.
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Regardless of cover art or not, if it's DRM iTunes stuff from a couple years ago it's not going to play on your HD2 anyways unless you strip the DRM off of it.
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i dont think its got DRM, but not sure. anyway, what can i do to transfer all my itunes songs to my hct hd2?
connect your hd2 to your computer.... find the songs you want to transfer and drag and drop them on your sd card.... done
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connect your hd2 to your computer.... find the songs you want to transfer and drag and drop them on your sd card.... done
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conantroutman, i dont think you understand EXACTLY what i'm asking. i added cover art to my mp3 songs in itunes a while back. i want to be able to see all my albums in the hd2 phone. i dont want to see a song in the phone without its album cover. will the album cover art stay intact with the songs when i transfer them to my hd2?
ok sorry, I kinda missed that part......
Itunes cover art will not carry over, however some of your albums will sync the artwork via the option in the sense music player, the rest you will need to do manually.
There is a thread somewhere that explains how to set images as the cover art for your albums.
Hope that helps.
Doubletwist?
it's the alternative to iTunes. Dun worry, it will sync album art, even if you can't see it at first.
koolxx said:
how can i transfer my itunes music and audiobook library to htc hd2 without loss of album cover art?
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I found a way to sync my hd2 like and ipod does with itunes. I use mediamonkey and I have album arts, playlists, and all other functionality. Here is a helpful link; http://www.rickycadden.com/2010/07/how-to-properly-sync-music-to-android-with-mediamonkey/
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Doubletwist?
it's the alternative to iTunes. Dun worry, it will sync album art, even if you can't see it at first.
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hi, kailkti.. i tried installing doubletwist. but for some unknown reason, as part of the install, it wont install .net framework 3.5 sp1. any alternatives?
Just got my SGS2. Fired up iSyncr and iTunes and synced about 1600 songs to my new phone.
Media Scan then completed
I fired up powerAMP and PlayerPro and stock music player.
ALL of them showed 408 songs as unknown artist.
Yet on my Motorola Defy and in iTunes all the artists are perfect. I have formatted the sd card and resynced the music still no good.
Anyone else experienced this problem?
Yes, though I used TuneSync to move them over. I just removed album art from one album and had iTunes reload it automatically. Then I sync'ed again, now the music shows up. All of it, even the stuff that I didn't touch. Weird. (XWKE7, rooted)
How do you sync iTunes with this phone?
I haven't got the phone yet but it would be good to know
programs on the phone called isyncr or tune sync will do it.
though any m4a/acc music wont show artist names correctly.
Does it come pre installed?
no, they can be purchased from the market.
I'd suggest giving iTunes away, only gives you headaches if you aren't an iOS user. Better to have a properly curated tag collection...
NZtechfreak said:
I'd suggest giving iTunes away, only gives you headaches if you aren't an iOS user. Better to have a properly curated tag collection...
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itunes isnt a problem for me. in fact i love it. isyncr has always been brilliant at keeping my android and itunes libraries in sync. Its just this sgs bug that is causing trouble. Hope samsung fixes it soon.
Same here, NickChaplin. TuneSync worked flawlessly on Cyanogenmod.
The same here, all the songs i bought from iTunes my SGSII won't recognize the artist name.... On my Desire it works perfect.
Luinwethion said:
The same here, all the songs i bought from iTunes my SGSII won't recognize the artist name.... On my Desire it works perfect.
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i converted all mine to mp3. No problems any more.
NickChaplin said:
i converted all mine to mp3. No problems any more.
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What'd you use to convert your music?
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What'd you use to convert your music?
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iTunes
less than 10 characters
poweramp solves all problems. Better than any stock music player.
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poweramp solves all problems. Better than any stock music player.
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nope, poweramp, player pro, winamp, double twist AND stock media player ALL have the same problem.
Thats because its a problem with the way the media scanner reads the ID3 tag of the m4a file and then adds it to the android music library that ALL the above media players read from.
What? I had the same issue with my vibrant. Poweramp automatically fetches album covers. Even random mixtape songs.
I agree it should work by default. But its hit or miss with devices. Poweramp solves this problem by fetching the album covers.
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nope, poweramp, player pro, winamp, double twist AND stock media player ALL have the same problem.
Thats because its a problem with the way the media scanner reads the ID3 tag of the m4a file and then adds it to the android music library that ALL the above media players read from.
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What? I had the same issue with my vibrant. Poweramp automatically fetches album covers. Even random mixtape songs.
I agree it should work by default. But its hit or miss with devices. Poweramp solves this problem by fetching the album covers.
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sorry, all my music already has album art.
Try MediaFix from the Market.
Try MIUI Music APK. That always popped out artist info, lyrics, CD art, and everything else automatically for me. Well, 90% of the time at least.
There is a bug in Android's media indexing & storage service. Sometimes it doesn't get the artist. Some apps like Mediafix or TuneSync index the music themselves and put the correct artist in the service's database. Until the bug is fixed, the only way to solve the problem is to either use players that don't rely on the service or to fix database yourself with the appropriate applications. MIUI's player will only work better if it doesn't rely on Android's internal indexing. I'm pretty sure it does rely on it.
So ever since i got the tab I have been having trouble with putting music on it. Everytime i save songs on the tab from my computer, the songs appear in other albums, the artists names appear for other songs, I get force closes...
Does anyone know what this could be happening?
Also, would a different music player app help solve this problem or organization?
Thanks for the help!
I use mediamonkey to properly name, tag, and include album art. Afterwords, I easily sync the music to my tablet (or drag and drop, depending on the mood).
This method works really well for having organized music on your tablet that's static, the way you set it up to sync in mediamonkey. Hope this helps.
Hey, thanks for the response. You kind of lost me there though... You said you use Mediamonkey to organize it then you pass it onto your tab. Does that mean Mediamonkey is a program on your computer or did i just understand it wrong and it's an app on the tab?
Thanks again! I'm hating the music situation at the moment...
I hate the stock music player and even the Google Music app because...tada..they all FC all the time. Can't even play more than one song.
I use PowerAmp, its the only music app that has ever worked for me on Android, ever !
As for tagging songs, MediaMonkey is good, but i just use iTunes.
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Weird thing I was browsing the other date and I found out that there was an update for the music app but the tab never noticed me about it.
Btw it works fine for me
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So ever since i got the tab I have been having trouble with putting music on it. Everytime i save songs on the tab from my computer, the songs appear in other albums, the artists names appear for other songs, I get force closes...
Does anyone know what this could be happening?
Also, would a different music player app help solve this problem or organization?
Thanks for the help!
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How are you transferring your music to your tab? I use mediamonkey on my PC to manage my music... and then from within mediamonkey I tell it to sync whatever songs or albums I want directly to the tab. I am betting your mp3 tags are getting messed up in the transfer.
Mike
Am really appeciating the help everyone, thanks!
So far still not having much luck...
I am currently trying to use MediaMonley as previously suggested. I am getting tags from the web and that works in general, but sometimes does not work. When doing this, does it alter the orig file? The process i have been using to transfer music is open up "My Music" on my PC where I thought I had things well organized by artist. Then i copy them over to the tab. Should I try syncing through MediaMonkey? How would I do this? Sorry if my questions and understanding are noob like.
Another issue I am having is in my gallery on the tab. Every track has the picture of the Album or whatever which is taking up insane amounts of storage as well just seems dumb...
Will also look into another music player as suggested.
Feel free to comment on any of this. I'm still trying to figure it out and am struggling. Makes me feel like deleting all my music to start over!!!!
Have you tried PlayerPro??
You can pick songs/albums from folders so much easier to organise.
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any idea if this phone would play well with mac? i was hoping i could sync it with iTunes and iPhoto?
There may be third party apps out there that give you that functionality but as this is not an Apple device, there is no official support for iTunes/iPhoto. Android isn't designed for syncing everything to your computer like that, really.
Nope, there are 3rd Party offerings as said. The device indexes them automagically when you just copy and paste them to internal storage.
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any idea if this phone would play well with mac? i was hoping i could sync it with iTunes and iPhoto?
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I currently have my google account synced with the Address Book, so it does "play well with mac".
If you want to sync your music and photos -- there're mac google apps for that, but no it won't be iTunes/iPhoto you'd need to use on your mac.
Double Twist works pretty well for me and my Mac try it .. It's free unless you want WiFi Sync
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Double Twist works pretty well for me and my Mac try it .. It's free unless you want WiFi Sync
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how can you use double twist with no UMS support?
With iSyncr you can sync your music/videos with iTunes, I'm not sure about photos tho.
For music you could install Google Music and set it to sync up with your iTunes, which then automatically gets pushed to Google Music on your phone. That's what I do.
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For music you could install Google Music and set it to sync up with your iTunes, which then automatically gets pushed to Google Music on your phone. That's what I do.
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the problem i have with google music is it doesn't automatically stored on my phone. it is all in the cloud. is there anyway i can do this?
s28 said:
the problem i have with google music is it doesn't automatically stored on my phone. it is all in the cloud. is there anyway i can do this?
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You can just, within the Google Music app, click "Keep on phone", and either click individual songs or entire playlists. It automatically downloads all the songs to your phone, and whenever you download a new song on iTunes, if you add it to the playlist in iTunes that you checked to keep on your phone, Google Music automatically downloads it to you local phone storage. Been doing this for months.
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I am also hoping this device works well on mac, been having some trouble with Android File Transfer on macs. Hopefully this device will be different.
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You can just, within the Google Music app, click "Keep on phone", and either click individual songs or entire playlists. It automatically downloads all the songs to your phone, and whenever you download a new song on iTunes, if you add it to the playlist in iTunes that you checked to keep on your phone, Google Music automatically downloads it to you local phone storage. Been doing this for months.
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i can't find the option where i could keep playlists in my device. only artists and albums. also, is there a way to make double twist work?
s28 said:
i can't find the option where i could keep playlists in my device. only artists and albums. also, is there a way to make double twist work?
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Download Google Music Manager on your Mac (should ask you if you want it when you first sign up for Google Music if you're running OS X). Once it's installed, open System Preferences, and choose Music Manager, which should be down on the last row. From there, pick 'Upload.' Then, 'Choose by playlist.' This allows you to choose an iTunes playlist to sync to Google Music, which you'll then be able to use on your Android device through the Play Music app.
You can also use DoubleTwist. You just have to enable (in its prefs) "Automatically import iTunes playlists."
I use iSyncr for mac when I transfer music. Not sure about iPhoto.
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i can't find the option where i could keep playlists in my device. only artists and albums. also, is there a way to make double twist work?
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I'm not sure about double twist, I thought it was a windows only program, but if you go into Google Music, scroll over to "Playlists", and hit menu and hit "Choose music to keep on device" or something like that, then you can click on the playlist you want.
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ste1164 said:
I use iSyncr for mac when I transfer music. Not sure about iPhoto.
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does this work even without ums?
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does this work even without ums?
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Yes iSyncr supports MTP it also has a wifi sync. Double twist doesn't support it but you can pay extra for air sync.
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Yes iSyncr supports MTP it also has a wifi sync. Double twist doesn't support it but you can pay extra for air sync.
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Yeah double twist it's only like a dollar or two if I remember correctly ... And as long as your computer and phone are under the same WiFi network you can also sync photos and videos ( time to convert your videos to mp3 files will depend in your Mac specs but in older ones its rather slow for ) but that's it no UMS needed just sync the devices together ...
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.