Yes, I use iTunes as my music player. Just stuck on me.
Anyway, I can sync iTunes with my EVO easily using iTunes Agent. I can't do this with my Galaxy Tab 10.1. I tried copy pasting the music files from the EVO into the Music folder of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, some work then I get a constant message saying "Cannot copy, device is either disconnected or is not responding."
There has got to be a simpler way to do this, and I'm getting really frustrated.
I used DoubleTwist, and it works somewhat, but it won't import my purchased iTunes songs.
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agreed, doubletwist is pretty cool
I use isyncr.
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I use isyncr.
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Ewww... iTunes?! Ugh!
iTunes is the worst... just drag and drop.
The best way would be to get all your music the hell out of iTunes and into the Google Music cloud.
leyvatron said:
iTunes is the worst... just drag and drop.
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Can't drag n drop with purchased music from itunes.... my wife would love to have her paid itunes music on her GT 10.1
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Can't drag n drop with purchased music from itunes.... my wife would love to have her paid itunes music on her GT 10.1
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That will never happen and it's not Google or Samsung's fault.
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iTunes is the worst... just drag and drop.
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this. 10char
I still use iTunes because I really like the Smart Playlists. That said, I also use iSyncr because it maintains my Smart Playlist play counts no matter whether I listen to music from my GT, my Droid X or on my PC. I also sync iSyncr via wi-fi so no cables needed. Gotta love it!
Let me re-phrase it:
Is there any FREE way of syncing ALL my music from iTunes?
LOL
Dragging and dropping won't work for me. It only works for like 20 minutes, then I get a message saying "Device has been disconnected or has stopped working."
I think iSyncr is $2.99. I would recommend biting the bullet and breaking out your wallet...
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Let me re-phrase it:
Is there any FREE way of syncing ALL my music from iTunes?
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Rephrasing won't change my answer. You will NEVER be able to sync songs purchased from the Apple store that are not DRM free with a non-Apple device.
You will have to convert each one of those songs from DRM coded AAC to clean AAC or clean MP3. Right click on songs in iTunes that you purchased and see if this option is available to you. It will will vary per record company (or at least it used to - it's been years since I've bothered with this).
I play purchased iTunes music on my Android phone and via Google Music all the time.
Apple went DRM free over 2 years ago. If you've built your iTunes purchase collection in that recent time frame then it can be dragged and dropped onto Android phones and the Google Music cloud.
If you bought tracks from before then then they can be "upgraded" to DRM free versions (typically with higher bitrates to give you something for your money) for around 30 cents per track. If you've invested heavily in iTunes purchases before then, then that may be a nasty dent in your wallet, but if you just have a few then it's not that bad to upgrade them.
The only issue I've run into is that I still have 3 albums that they never offered me to upgrade that have DRM on them, but the vast majority of my iTunes purchased music was upgraded to DRM-free over the past 2 years.
Well you can burn the DRM albums to a cd and then rip the same cd in itunes again... I did that when i had a couple of albums in itunes that also was not offrec to be upgraded to drm free...
Here where i live it is a gray area to do that but i cant speak about the laws other places in the world.
(When i say gray area it is because it have been proved in court that removing DRM is not iligal if you need to do it to play on your devices. (The ruling was about playing dvd's in Linux tho but the same apply for my music now here))
Google music searched my pc and placec all my itunes music in the cloud for me
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Something that really irritates me is that I have my music on iTunes organized but when I transfer with DoubleTwist and play the music on Meridan Music player, it gets disorganized.
Is there any player that retains the organization from iTunes?
bTunes shamelessly mocks the appearance of the player on the iPhone /iPod Touch. It also handles the library in a similar way (unlike many other players for android, it does NOT slaughter compilations by creating an album entry for each artist)
This app is well in beta stage and is a bit rough around the edges. For me, it FCs on phone boot, but nothing seems to stop working. I cant find a homepage for the app, just search for btunes in the market.
iag48 said:
Something that really irritates me is that I have my music on iTunes organized but when I transfer with DoubleTwist and play the music on Meridan Music player, it gets disorganized.
Is there any player that retains the organization from iTunes?
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One thing I noticed is that Android doesn't have a very good Music management system. It will organize based on what your properties of each song is. It sucks because I had a terrible accident with some garbage media player once and it messed up all of my music's properties. [around 1500 songs]. I took about 2 hours fixing them all because I got tired of not having my Music organized. That's one of my biggest pet peeves.
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bTunes shamelessly mocks the appearance of the player on the iPhone /iPod Touch. It also handles the library in a similar way (unlike many other players for android, it does NOT slaughter compilations by creating an album entry for each artist)
This app is well in beta stage and is a bit rough around the edges. For me, it FCs on phone boot, but nothing seems to stop working. I cant find a homepage for the app, just search for btunes in the market.
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Thanks! bTunes (beta) is great. Works good enough for me on the Nexus Won.
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For me, it FCs on phone boot, but nothing seems to stop working..
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This issue has been resolved in the latest round of updates. The dev seems to update this app quite often.
I'm looking for bTunes in a few minutes. I was actually thinking of trading my N1 for an unlocked 3GS just because it really irritates me. So will my iTunes library transfer as it is on my Mac?
Anyone able to sort their music on the N1, through any music player, BY DATE ADDED or MODIFIED??
I want to listen to the music I added to the music folder most recently.
I have a big library, and i want to listen to the new stuff first....
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.
Coming from an iPhone I'm looking for something to repalce iTunes. A wireless sync program would be perfect, but wired will work. It also be nice if it could sync with a backup program to make full system backups like the iPhones does.
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double twist is free and it works great BUT it doesn't do over the air and I don't know of a service that does this for free. the next best thing (actually better than double twist) is something called missing sync.
Froyo will include ota music as part of the Simplify Media team.
Doubletwist is a great program and I would recommend it to anyone. However, if you don't mind spending a few bucks you can get The Missing Sync which will sync your music right from iTunes through it's own worm whole.
I dont mind getting rid of Itunes...always was a laggy pos.
TuneSync. It's awesome if you're an iTunes user and don't want to re-home your library. It's a background app that will sync playlists over Wifi. Has OSX and Windows versions.
I'm really happy with it. Free version is limited to 20 songs per playlist. I bought the full for like $4.
It will also reverse sync any mp3's bought from the Amazon store on the handset. That's a pretty nice feature.
EDIT: Missing Sync looks cool, but it's $40. Syncs a lot more than music, but if you just want to sync music, TuneSync is your app at 10% of the price.
doubletwist always freezes on me. I use Songbird to sync.
I use isyncr straight from iTunes
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I've been using double twist which is almost as much of a dog as itunes is on my machine, but tune sync looks good, I'll have to check that out.
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I use dropbox... just trow my music in the folder, and then download them to my music file...
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Grims said:
Coming from an iPhone I'm looking for something to repalce iTunes. A wireless sync program would be perfect, but wired will work. It also be nice if it could sync with a backup program to make full system backups like the iPhones does.
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sjwaste beat me to it. I use Tunesync. Syncs with whatever playlists i want form iTunes wirelessly without me doing a darn thing.
drag and drop doesn't work for you?
I haven't bothered to sync a bunch of music, I am mostly using Last.FM android app, but I recommend mediamonkey, just set it up as generic usb device
tho if you have lossless files, on the fly conversion requires the non-free gold version.
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Doubletwist is a great program and I would recommend it to anyone. However, if you don't mind spending a few bucks you can get The Missing Sync which will sync your music right from iTunes through it's own worm whole.
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ITunes what are you kidding me?
flexte said:
drag and drop doesn't work for you?
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I like to lower the bit rate. What I play on my home stereo and my EVO are two different things.
Windows Media Player can sync music as well.
But there's nothing easier than just drag&drop.
Screw iTunes.
iSyncr. Love making playlists on my PC in iTunes, easy to organize songs I want/don't want by checking/unchecking in iTunes. Isn't free but is very easy to use.
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Windows Media Player can sync music as well.
But there's nothing easier than just drag&drop.
Screw iTunes.
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Amen.. Free from the beast!!! If only my shuffle could find a reliable replacement to sync music..
Hi,
I just transfered my itunes music using isyncr. It was simple enough and I am not a teckie. But I noticed that it only shows 100 songs. It did the same thing when I synced using the itunes agent. It shows that 300+ songs synced and 70 didn't because of drm issues. I am just using the stock music app. Can anyone help?
I use iTunes Agent because it's reliable, and of all I've tried, worked.
With that said, the iTunes DRM problem is there becaused you purchased music from the iTunes store at the cheapest price. The file is meant to only be played on Apple's devices. Since then, Apple has added iTunes Plus. Add a few cents more, and you get the music DRM-free.
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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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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.
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.
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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.