Usually I transfer my music from iTunes to my phone by dragging the selected tracks from iTunes to a folder on the desktop, then dragging the tracks from the desktop to my phone that is connected to the PC via microUSB cable with the connection type selected as MTP on my phone. I never had any problems with it until this past February. Any tracks I've purchased on iTunes since February, once they have been transferred to my phone, only have track names. For example: 01 Faithfully. The artist, album, and album art are not there, but if I download a tag editor on my phone, it can see all the track info.
When I transfer the files from the dektop to my phone, it asks me if I want to convert the files before they are transferred. I always said no because it wasn't necessary. Now I say yes and once they have been converted and transferred to my phone, all the info is there.
However, since my phone has updated to Lollipop 5.0.1, when I try and transfer a single track to my phone, it takes a couple minutes before it even asks me if I want to convert the file first. I say yes and the progress gets up to about 95% in about 5-10 seconds, then gets stuck there saying that it has about 5 seconds remaining for about 5-10 minutes before telling me the file couldn't be transferred because either the phone has stopped responding or the phone doesn't support the file type and I'll need to convert it first.
I'm trying to put the music on my microSD card, so I put it in an older Android device (T-Mobile myTouch 4G) that supports USB storage connection type and transferred the files. It was much faster (I know USB storage is faster than MTP), but it didn't give me the option to convert before the transfer, and when I put the microSD card back in my phone, they tracks still only had track names.
PC is running Windows 8.1 and my Verizon Note 4 (SM-N910V) is running Lollipop 5.0.1 with a Samsung Pro 32GB microSD HC Class 10
Is there a way to fix or this or is there another way to transfer my music that would be less of a hassle?
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Hey, I'm having a problem copying a 300 megabyte wmv file from my computer to my 2 gig stick. Whenever it gets to about 5~10% goes back to 0 and starts again, does anyone have this problem? Or, does anyone know what's the matter?
Thanks!
BTW, my card is a 2 gig MiniSD on my Cingular 8125.
i havent tried this.. dont use my phone much for music and video, mostly just all data... but is it going through activstink? if so is it converting the file? and 300meg file going through the phone takes a while, i would try using your mini sd adapter and a card reader and connect it to your pc and just copy it over that way
Oh, thank you for the reply, I'll try to directly transfer it from PC to stick instead of through activesync. No, it says conversion (none) so I assume it is not converting. I will see if I can plug the stick into my computer.
Btw, when I remove my stick should I power off my 8125? Almost everything is installed into my stick.
Edit: Nope, , there is no place on my computer for me to plug my stick directly into.
no need to power off... and you should have gotten an SD adapter for your mini SD card. after putting the mini sd card into the SD adapter then would need a SD card reader which are very inexpensive to acquire if you dont have one already. then plug the reader into the computer, the computer should recognize it as a removable storage device. just drag and drop...
Alright, thank you! Yes it did come with an adapter. Is there anyway to copy large files through activesync?
you should be able to.. but with my experience it just takes forever... i copied my iguidance map for a friend one time and its 600meg... took 30 minutes to complete. I only copy large files via the adapter nowadays
Yeah, I don't mind waiting 15-30 minutes, it's just that it resets itself and I have no idea if I can ever get it on my phone via activesync.
Edit: I'm trying a different method, right clicking the file and going to send to.. then selecting device, then they prompt me to choose the destination within the device, so far so good. I'll edit again if it's successful or not.
SUCCESS!!
WM5Storage
I use WM5Storage instead, for large files. Works better and faster, than ActiveSync.
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Wanted to copy my music folder to my tablet so I draged and dropped the music folder and it copied for a while then it says that the usb device has stopped responding. So I had to disconnect and connect.
Now I have to copy like 20-30 folders and repeat doing that and after a while it gives the same error again so i have to disconnect and connect again and start copying again.
It have taken me several hours just to copy 12 GB music. Is there any fix for this? Copy to different usb devises and my phone works good.
I want to copy some movies to the tablet too but I have a feeling it's going to be a hell doing that...
I don't have the best answer but can tell you what I did. I decided to use an external micro SD card instead and copied everything to it in a card reader and then put the card into the tablet. I am using a cheapo 32gb class something card I found at Fry's.
I had decided to take the tablet out of the mix early on because my rooted Xoom tablet does the same thing after copying over a bunch of stuff on Linux.
So I've been trying to transfer music from both iTunes (using Wondershare and iExplorer) and regular drag and drop in Windows Explorer. I'm not sure as to why this keeps happening so I'm reaching out to y'all.
My phone won't recognize a lot of the music that's transferred both internally to the phone's storage or externally to the memory card. Then sometimes when I do transfer, some files work, some files don't. I've tried reformatting the SD card, but I'm not so sure if that's the only issue. I never had a problem transferring music with the Galaxy S3 (phone connected via USB, and then drag and drop to external SD card). Can anyone please help!
Hello everyone
I m having serious trouble with my new 64gb Sandisk Ultra SDXC card in my Galaxy S5
I had a 32gb Kingston, an HDSC card, which i synced with itunes using tunesync or something, without any trouble.
I have ever since been using Jriver and Media Monkey for music.
So when i tried touse them to sync to my new Sd Card i kept having problems. Meaning, even when the process completed without errors, the phone didn't behave normaly.
It wouldn't properly recognize it anymore and when i rebooted it started checking for errors. When after some minutes it completed, it was working perfectly BUT whereas i had left a 1 Gb free space before it now showed me that it had a 55-56 gb free space!!! I went into the Music folder created by MEdia Monkey and Jriver, i formated and used both from scratch, it had all the folders, in a structure of Artist - Album, but only the folders up until B or C had music files in them!!! Whereas the media players and windows explorer showed me that the transer of all the files was successful, meaning they all showed 1gb free space before i rebooted the phone.
I went on to using the card reader of my brothers laptop, and used SDFormater to Format the card successfully. I suspected a faulty card so i also used the Overwrite Erase option that basically writes in all the sectors of the card. It naturally took a lot of time but finished WITHOUT ANY ERRORS. So i tried to sync it through the card reader, using media monkey and my portable library, in a portable hard disk so it was easy. Once again the SAME THING HAPPENED.
I also tried formating it in my phone and then syncing it again through the card reader and it still worked the same way.
Considering the limitations of KitKAt and Android L, i am running the new Android 5.0 in my S5, imposed in external Sd cards i was thinking that maybe there is a size limit to any folder outside the ANDROID folder, the only space that the OS lets apps write. Because what is left in those folders, the remaining songs, are flawlessly recognized by Poweramp and play correctly. My sdcard even passes the tests of A1 SD Bench.
Can anyone confirm this or has anyone ever had a similar problem?
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance :good:
PS
I am using Windows 8.1, the laptop had Windows 7 and the latest edition of Media Monkey and JRiver
So nobody has any idea what happens?
Looks i am the only one with this problem.
Bummer...
Hi all. I am not 100% certain but sure this is to do with the encryption policy on my phone...
My company requires my phone and external SD card be 100% encrypted...no way around that unfortunately.
I noticed that my car receiver, MVH-X360BT from Pioneer, can read the files on my phone just fine, but not on the SD card. It sees the folders but won't list anything underneath them. All of the files are supported of course (MP3 and such) but for some reason this only happens on the SD card.
Is there any known way around something like this? I'm certain it has to do with the encryption policy and my company is not going to change this. I can stream via blue tooth but it would be handy to use direct USB mode so I can search through music as my kids often want me to play one song or another.
I also noticed that playlists like to disappear...any known issues with that by chance?
Running Android 5.0 on T-Mo.