Best way to get itunes music to N7? - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Looking for the recommended way to transfer itunes music to the N7. I don't really want to purchase any converters and I don't have any protected content. It's just that not all files are mp3, and they're in the itunes file formats. Been searching and have ideas, but figured this would be a great place to ask.

gokart2 said:
Looking for the recommended way to transfer itunes music to the N7. I don't really want to purchase any converters and I don't have any protected content. It's just that not all files are mp3, and they're in the itunes file formats. Been searching and have ideas, but figured this would be a great place to ask.
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Download itunes agent, I've been using it on my incredible S for a year and its awesome and easy

Why not just go to your iTunes music folder under your user profile in My Computer and drag n drop. Shouldn't need to install anything.
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regalpimpin said:
Why not just go to your iTunes music folder under your user profile in My Computer and drag n drop. Shouldn't need to install anything.
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My computer Music is all over the place, and this way I can sync all my music and album art, because everything was in my itunes to start with
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isyncr
I use Isyncr WiFi . Syncs wirelessly
Can select specific playlists or everything.
Syncs play counts.
Auto sync at specific time everyday if required.

There is a consolidate library feature in iTunes that will put all music and stuff in iTunes folder.

http://doubletwist.com/
doubletwist works perfect for me. Give it a try...

I downloaded the google music computer app which will upload all your iTunes music to google music. You can then either stream or download it to your device.

geebee1932 said:
I downloaded the google music computer app which will upload all your iTunes music to google music. You can then either stream or download it to your device.
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This! Exactly what I was thinking.

geebee1932 said:
I downloaded the google music computer app which will upload all your iTunes music to google music. You can then either stream or download it to your device.
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Is that only in the US?

Once you download and setup the app using a US proxy, you can upload and stream the music from anywhere
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Using nexus one for iTunes U lectures

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!
use iphone
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.

What are you guys using to Sync Music?

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.
doubletwist
doubletwist
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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.
Rennat said:
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.
shaundalglish said:
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..

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
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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.
dermon said:
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.

How to Stream playlists/music etc.. ?

So I will be recieving this beauty Next week and I was looking around but cant seem to find the answer.
I wish to stream my WMP or Itunes playlists on my tablet when I am home.
I did buy a Portable HD, but not really usefull to always copy my computer playlists over it and such.
Really looking for a streaming option.
I don't know how enamored/entrenched with iTunes you are, but once i entered the android world, I moved my music over to google music. It can be streamed or downloaded to your devices via Google's music app.
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KestrelX said:
I don't know how enamored/entrenched with iTunes you are, but once i entered the android world, I moved my music over to google music. It can be streamed or downloaded to your devices via Google's music app.
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Google music will automatically import all your iTunes / wmv music and auto sync from that point forward.
Google music > iTunes
To be honest didnt really fiddle with google music. Tought it was just a player for the phone. So i can basicaly listen to it o er my computer aswell?
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Yes, though you'll need to sign up with a US proxy (just for the signup, after that you don't need to worry about it).
Also, download Skifta or some other DNLA app and you can stream shared music and movies from your network (WinXP/Vista/7/8 machines, XBox360, PS3, and more support DNLA).
EDIT: See you have an S2X...Samsung calls their DNLA client for their phones and tablets AllShare, if you've used that, Skifta does pretty much the same thing.
Yeah i got skifta using it for vids. But I found that for music it wasnt great. Just managed to sync my principl plulist on google music!looks good
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I was a big iTunes user and I have far too many songs to just drag and drop, Google music is a life saver... Better then iTunes
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Croak said:
Yes, though you'll need to sign up with a US proxy (just for the signup, after that you don't need to worry about it).
Also, download Skifta or some other DNLA app and you can stream shared music and movies from your network (WinXP/Vista/7/8 machines, XBox360, PS3, and more support DNLA).
EDIT: See you have an S2X...Samsung calls their DNLA client for their phones and tablets AllShare, if you've used that, Skifta does pretty much the same thing.
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You don't need US proxy for sign up, its available in the UK now. Just upload all your music to the cloud, install Google music app, play.
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NLPUNITED said:
So I will be recieving this beauty Next week and I was looking around but cant seem to find the answer.
I wish to stream my WMP or Itunes playlists on my tablet when I am home.
I did buy a Portable HD, but not really usefull to always copy my computer playlists over it and such.
Really looking for a streaming option.
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Check out Subsonic it is AWESOME!
subsonic.org
dairymasta said:
You don't need US proxy for sign up, its available in the UK now. Just upload all your music to the cloud, install Google music app, play.
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He's in Canada, like me. It's not active here yet, so we still need to use a proxy for the sign up.
Croak said:
He's in Canada, like me. It's not active here yet, so we still need to use a proxy for the sign up.
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Apologies, skimmed thread and assumed UK!
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My only concern with Google Music is there is no offline player. If your net connection goes you loose the ability to play your music.
OK you could just navigate to the folders and play them as they are, or use something like iTunes but it kinda defeats the point
Evostance said:
My only concern with Google Music is there is no offline player. If your net connection goes you loose the ability to play your music.
OK you could just navigate to the folders and play them as they are, or use something like iTunes but it kinda defeats the point
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Just long press on any album or play list and select keep on device (offline)
n1r0k said:
Just long press on any album or play list and select keep on device (offline)
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Think you missed the point. I was specifically talking about desktop support where the local hard copies of your music are stored
I don't see why it is a problem that you can play your music with any application that you would like to.
I'm confused why your desktop is even in the discussion. Google Music will let you stream music to your tablet or phone without any interaction with your desktop. You can continue to use your desktop as you do now.
If you want something that streams directly from your desktop then look into Subsonic.
KestrelX said:
I don't know how enamored/entrenched with iTunes you are, but once i entered the android world, I moved my music over to google music. It can be streamed or downloaded to your devices via Google's music app.
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Love google music but just tried to download some of my playlists to the nexus and it is unbeleivably slow, I have 50meg broadband...

[Q] Manage Music Library?

I'm looking for a windows client that can manage my music. I don't want to have to manually deal with folder structure and drag/drop, etc.
I would LOVE something that could either:
- Piggy back off iTunes library OR import iTunes library
- Manage "smart playlists" - one of my favourite is having a playlist of my 500 most recently added songs, which I often play in order or shuffle.
A friend recommended DoubleTwist and I later learned it does not (yet?) work due to the Nexus 4 being MTP USB mode..
Double twist app works kinda like iTunes... App on CPU and phone enables it to sync through USB or wirelessly. I'm sure there are other ways
Use the google play music manager. You can upload all your music from your itunes with all your playlists. I did that and its good.
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Have you looked at iSyncr yet? http://www.jrtstudio.com/iSyncr
hern1989 said:
Use the google play music manager. You can upload all your music from your itunes with all your playlists. I did that and its good.
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Not valid in Canada...
I used to use a Windows app called mdSync, which worked very well with my previous phone with an SD card. However, it seems that the mounting of the Nexus 4 storage doesn't work the same as a typical, "removable drive" as seen by Windows. So I suspect for this reason, traditional apps which detect connected external storage devices will have some trouble...

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