Hi I have tried to sync my music to the sd card on the phone but when I go to the phone the whole music is mixed there are not playlists I am using Kies and there I already did my playlist but when I try to put them on the phone and just put the whole music mixed together....does someone knows how to do this....I have tried double twist but no luck...it is asking me for mass storage and all that stuff
Sync playlists and music from iTunes (MAC) to ext SD with Kies
How to sync iTunes (including any playlist) with your Galaxy S3 using Kies and not being killed in the process !!!
I’m not a professional, just an enthusiastic pal with an iMac and a Galaxy S3! Perhaps not the easiest get together we could choose, but what the heck, stranger couples we all have seen, haven’t you?
The idea is to get the full features of iTunes onto your ExtSD card of your Galaxy S3. I guess, including myself, you have found plenty of difficulties to do so, starting by the fact that for many sync apps there is no way they can sync with the Ext SD card but rather with the internal SD memory.
Let’ts start.
First of all, it worked for me but I’m not a professional and I cannot guarantee success in your case. I just wanted to share what it took me a while to figure it out and hopefully it will save much of the time that cost me. On top of it, it is basically for free (the only non free would be the Music Player you may choose).
Things you have to have prior to start:
- On your Mac:
iTunes (the obvious)
Kies for MAC
“Android File Transfer” app (you will see it is what I found for transferring playlists, you can google it.
- On your Galaxy S3
Music Player (I have Player Pro but I’m not getting a commission if you install it ;-) ) (you can find it in Google Play)
And the process is (pls, read it in full prior to do anything, the process should not erase any original file, but it requires certain attention to the detail. Don’t blame on me if something goes wrong !! ;-)
Start iTunes
1) Click on Preferences, then Advance, then take note of where the iTunes Media is, probably you get something like “/Users/yourname/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media”
2) Start Kies (it is not necessary to connect your galaxy s3 at this stage)
3) You will see a panel, and on the left side of the panel you will see different items such connected devices, and the Library. Within the Library, the first subitem is Music, click on it and you will see in the middle of the panel the possibility to add Music. Click on it and it will open a window of the Finder. Navigate until you find the path you took note in the previous step “/Users/yourname/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media” . When on top of the folder, click on the button to select it. Wait, and then all your iTunes library will be on Kies
4)Now you go to the main menu of Kies (what appears on the top row of your MAC and drop down File, then select “import iTunes Playlist ot the Library”. Now you will also see in Kies all the Playlists you have created in iTunes !
Connect your Galaxy S3 to your MAC using the USB cable. Make sure MTP mode is selected. If so, Kies will recognize it. Check it in your GS3 at “Settings”-“PC USB connection” when you plug in the USB cable, and make sure you choose the MTP mode and not the PTP mode (you will change this selection later on).
5) Click on the name of the device (probably you see the icon and the name GT-I9300)
6) On the top part of the panel you will see different buttons, select “Basic Information” and you will see that it shows both the internal SDMemory and the Ext SDMemory. In the middle of this panel, you will see Options, Memory order, then select External Memory first. Now select on the top part of the panel “Sync”. On the middle of the panel should appear “Media”, Click on “Sync Music” and select what you want to sync (all Library, or a playlist, etc…). Then click on Sync (button on the upper right corner of the central screen)
7) Now wait, your Galaxy is being loaded with all the music you selected in your Ext-SD Card. When finished, you will have the music on your Galaxy S3, but not the playlists…this is next task.
Playlist Export
1) When finish, the last thing you still have to do is to export the iTunes playlists. This is what “Android File Transfer” is for.
2) Reopen iTunes (in the case you have closed it down). On the left part of the panel you will see the list of the playlists you have created. Click on any of the ones you want to have on your GS3, and select “export” . It will appear a window with different options. Keep the name, but make sure on the bottom centre of the panel you choose “format” : M3U. You can export it to whatever folder you want, just remember it. What I did was to create a Folder name “Playlist Export” (not very imaginative I know, hahaha) and export them into it. Repeat the same for all Playlists you want to have in your GS3.
3) Assuming that you have installed the “Android File Transfer”, the last step is to change the mode of your USB connection from MTP mode into PTP. The “Android File Transfer” window should automatically pop up. If not, go to applications and launch it.
4) In the “Android File Transfer” window you will see on the top row, the possibility to go to the internal memory SD or to the External Memory SD. Chose the Ext. You will see a folder called Playlist (if not, just create it).
5) Last task, select all the Playlist files you have in the MAC folder “Playlist Export” and drop them into the Ext Memory folder called Playlist. When this is finish you are done!!!!
Wrap up
• Open in your GS3 your Music Player (i.e. Player Pro).
• Select to update its music library if not already done, and your are set!!!
As a conclusion, you have all your iTunes music in the ExtMemory SD micro card including your playlists up and running.
Cheers,
Paco
By the way, if you find the post useful I would appreciate if you indicate. If too long or not clear or not useful at all, I would appreciate it even more so it can be improved.
Thanks.
Holy spirit .that was some explanation.but very good though
AFT
First of all great tutorial, but i can't get Android File Transfer to detect my device on my iMac :/ Any solutions? I have a GS 5
pcpona said:
How to sync iTunes (including any playlist) with your Galaxy S3 using Kies and not being killed in the process !!!
I’m not a professional, just an enthusiastic pal with an iMac and a Galaxy S3! Perhaps not the easiest get together we could choose, but what the heck, stranger couples we all have seen, haven’t you?
The idea is to get the full features of iTunes onto your ExtSD card of your Galaxy S3. I guess, including myself, you have found plenty of difficulties to do so, starting by the fact that for many sync apps there is no way they can sync with the Ext SD card but rather with the internal SD memory.
Let’ts start.
First of all, it worked for me but I’m not a professional and I cannot guarantee success in your case. I just wanted to share what it took me a while to figure it out and hopefully it will save much of the time that cost me. On top of it, it is basically for free (the only non free would be the Music Player you may choose).
Things you have to have prior to start:
- On your Mac:
iTunes (the obvious)
Kies for MAC
“Android File Transfer” app (you will see it is what I found for transferring playlists, you can google it.
- On your Galaxy S3
Music Player (I have Player Pro but I’m not getting a commission if you install it ) (you can find it in Google Play)
And the process is (pls, read it in full prior to do anything, the process should not erase any original file, but it requires certain attention to the detail. Don’t blame on me if something goes wrong !!
Start iTunes
1) Click on Preferences, then Advance, then take note of where the iTunes Media is, probably you get something like “/Users/yourname/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media”
2) Start Kies (it is not necessary to connect your galaxy s3 at this stage)
3) You will see a panel, and on the left side of the panel you will see different items such connected devices, and the Library. Within the Library, the first subitem is Music, click on it and you will see in the middle of the panel the possibility to add Music. Click on it and it will open a window of the Finder. Navigate until you find the path you took note in the previous step “/Users/yourname/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media” . When on top of the folder, click on the button to select it. Wait, and then all your iTunes library will be on Kies
4)Now you go to the main menu of Kies (what appears on the top row of your MAC and drop down File, then select “import iTunes Playlist ot the Library”. Now you will also see in Kies all the Playlists you have created in iTunes !
Connect your Galaxy S3 to your MAC using the USB cable. Make sure MTP mode is selected. If so, Kies will recognize it. Check it in your GS3 at “Settings”-“PC USB connection” when you plug in the USB cable, and make sure you choose the MTP mode and not the PTP mode (you will change this selection later on).
5) Click on the name of the device (probably you see the icon and the name GT-I9300)
6) On the top part of the panel you will see different buttons, select “Basic Information” and you will see that it shows both the internal SDMemory and the Ext SDMemory. In the middle of this panel, you will see Options, Memory order, then select External Memory first. Now select on the top part of the panel “Sync”. On the middle of the panel should appear “Media”, Click on “Sync Music” and select what you want to sync (all Library, or a playlist, etc…). Then click on Sync (button on the upper right corner of the central screen)
7) Now wait, your Galaxy is being loaded with all the music you selected in your Ext-SD Card. When finished, you will have the music on your Galaxy S3, but not the playlists…this is next task.
Playlist Export
1) When finish, the last thing you still have to do is to export the iTunes playlists. This is what “Android File Transfer” is for.
2) Reopen iTunes (in the case you have closed it down). On the left part of the panel you will see the list of the playlists you have created. Click on any of the ones you want to have on your GS3, and select “export” . It will appear a window with different options. Keep the name, but make sure on the bottom centre of the panel you choose “format” : M3U. You can export it to whatever folder you want, just remember it. What I did was to create a Folder name “Playlist Export” (not very imaginative I know, hahaha) and export them into it. Repeat the same for all Playlists you want to have in your GS3.
3) Assuming that you have installed the “Android File Transfer”, the last step is to change the mode of your USB connection from MTP mode into PTP. The “Android File Transfer” window should automatically pop up. If not, go to applications and launch it.
4) In the “Android File Transfer” window you will see on the top row, the possibility to go to the internal memory SD or to the External Memory SD. Chose the Ext. You will see a folder called Playlist (if not, just create it).
5) Last task, select all the Playlist files you have in the MAC folder “Playlist Export” and drop them into the Ext Memory folder called Playlist. When this is finish you are done!!!!
Wrap up
• Open in your GS3 your Music Player (i.e. Player Pro).
• Select to update its music library if not already done, and your are set!!!
As a conclusion, you have all your iTunes music in the ExtMemory SD micro card including your playlists up and running.
Cheers,
Paco
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I love HTC phones and the 8929 hands down my FAV. had to use BB for the past 2yrs. Now I got an HTC back in my hands. I was expecting it to be familiar to the tilt but now I feel really stupid.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to load my music (not itunes, that is all the info I can find) or pictures. I don't want an App. I'd like to see my file system or even be able to see the SD card but I can't find it on my puters file system.
So I know this means I am missing something simple. The handbook talks about amazon and mp3 store and the like. i have my own stuff I want.
So, can someone please point me to a link for dummies that will tell me how i can see my SD card and drag and drop my photos, ringtones, and music onto this phone.
I guess BB's media manger got me spoiled, hell even Motorola has great software for this simple stuff. I got the HTC sync loaded on the PC and all contacts loaded up but that is it.
I'm sorry for such a simple question but I'm lost and can't see the phone for the screen! Please help....
Thanks
when you hook it up to your pc a pop up should come up, select disk drive. if it doesnt pop up, slid open the notification tray and click on where it says "charge only" and change it to disc drive. it should pop up on your computer just like if you plugged in a flash stick.
just drag and drop the files onto your sd. the built in music/gallery apps will find the files and display them for you.
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when you hook it up to your pc a pop up should come up, select disk drive. if it doesnt pop up, slid open the notification tray and click on where it says "charge only" and change it to disc drive. it should pop up on your computer just like if you plugged in a flash stick.
just drag and drop the files onto your sd. the built in music/gallery apps will find the files and display them for you.
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Thanks, I did that and your right the files did show. But the files are very different looking when compared to a windows and I didn't see a disk marked "sd card" or any files that look like they were on a sd card. So I stopped. if I move the files am I moving to the card or the phone memory?
Again, this is a very noob question for a forum of this type so Thanks for taking the time to answer. If you know of a stickies or any link where i can learn this system on my own i'd be happy to read it. But an answer would be great to. In any event looks like I have a lot of reading to do. I learned about my 8525 and 8929 from this site so I started here 1st. this site rocks.
Thanks
when you select it to go to "disc drive" it only hooks up the SD card, so no matter what you see in there, odd file folders, temporary files, etc, it's just stuff your apps put in there or you downloaded from the net, etc. not the phone's memory, just the card.
I usually follow the rule of "if I don't know what it is, don't touch it" which is a good creed to live by. sometimes apps just create folders and files on the sd card to free space up on your phone's internal memory. if you delete them, you could loose data for those specific apps, but even if you upped and deleted them all you wouldn't be doing anything that would would cripple your phone, just lose things like game saves, settings for certain apps, nothing you couldn't restore eventually.
anyway, to keep everything good and organized, just once you get it set to disc drive, go ahead and make a new folder called music, one called pictures, video, etc and then dump the files into their respective folder, the phone will pick em up no matter where they are.
I have a few ebooks on my laptop and I am having issues moving them to my nook tablet. It has been rooted and I am using ADW launcher. Please help!
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I have a few ebooks on my laptop and I am having issues moving them to my nook tablet. It has been rooted and I am using ADW launcher. Please help!
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What format are your books? How are you trying to move them? via usb? dropbox?
Do you have an SD card installed? Without one, only 1GB is seen on your internal memory if you connect your noob to your pc with the usb cord (but then you can move it to anywhere else).
Install a file explorer program (file expert is a good free one, root explorer is too but it has the possibility of having you misclick and mess up permissions on system folders).
Books/anything else moved to your NT's internal memory via usb -> shows up in /media. Books that you want your nook's native book applications to see -> move them to /data/books. Books that you have on your sdcard -> will not be seen by your nook's ebook reader program but you can make any folder anywhere and put books in it.
I recommend using an sdcard and downloading a program called Coolreader (android market); it's the best ebook reader I've found on this platform. It has a ton of settings and lets you configure it entirely (font, spacing, layout, behavior, etc etc). It reads from .zip archives and supports quite a few formats. It won't see anything with DRM protection on it that hasn't been removed, nor will it see .lit or amazon's proprietary formats. Anything with DRM on it that you bought from a certain market (Kindle, Adobe DRM ebook stores, etc) will only be read in associated programs (until you remove the drm) :/ Calibre is a great program (on the pc-side) to convert between book formats and manage your library, as a side note (not related to drm removal).
if I kept them on on my SD card how would I get them to show up using the stock ebook reader? Also....what format can I use? I have them in .mobi and .opf
Since I am rooted I can access the other 15GB ... I tried using es filer explorer (enabling root) and trying to move them to the books folder but I still cant get them to show up using the google books...kindle app and the stock app on the tablet
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if I kept them on on my SD card how would I get them to show up using the stock ebook reader? Also....what format can I use? I have them in .mobi and .opf
.Since I am rooted I can access the other 15GB ... I tried using es filer explorer (enabling root) and trying to move them to the books folder but I still cant get them to show up using the google books...kindle app and the stock app on the tablet
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For books on your SD card go to your Library application -> my files -> press memory card, and your books should be there (at least the ones in a format it sees/reads).
Stuff in /data/books will show up automatically on your shelves, I think. Stuff in /media books will need to be imported the same way as above: library -> my files -> books (just not clicking on memory card button).
The Nook's eReader will see: EPUB, PDF, DOC, TXT, DOCM, DOCX. Epub is a great thing to convert all your books to as it's widely supported and is the public domain standard (by the way). Other reader apps will see more formats. I think .opf is epub though no? Or rather it's .epub with extra metadata, so that should be seen right off the bat. If not, do try Calibre out. One click conversions to any formats, and previews of how it looks on that format.
I am so sorry to keep asking about this...I have tried putting them in the data/books but nothing showed up in my library. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Sorry if I keep asking stupid questions...just really want this to show up on my "shelf"
Try this:
Open library -> my stuff (upper right) -> find book (sd card) -> select book/long press book -> select add to shelf from pop out menu. It will ask you to make a shelf; you can edit and add shelves via the menu that pops up (create new shelf/add to favorites).
Does that work?
Putting them in /data/books adds it to the reader+reader's directory. I could have sworn there was a way to mass-autoadd things to the shelves (checking now).
edit: Ok, I can't get it to work except through actually adding it with the Library app Rebooting the device puts the books from my files -> add to shelves in the "book" tab however, but they do not automatically appear there if you close/restart the library app without rebooting the nook. Odd behavior. If you have a lot of books the library seemed very finger intensive.
I can't figure out how to mass-move anything inside the Library app either, and I'm not sure whether it has this capability either. Yeah, I quickly moved away to using a file explorer app + another reader, as you can see
Hi ...
Nook is unable to see/read .mobi and .opf. You must convert them to epub, using a free program called Calibre.
Or they are locked by the use of a DRM... again Calibre can help you.
Try to find an ebook is an "epub," reread slowly, Zmobie's excellent posts, then try again...
ok....so I can get them to show in "my shelf" if and only if keep it on my SD card. My goal is to keep my books on my nt and music movies and pics on my SD card because it is only an 8GB.
I have a John Grisham collection that I have in a folder labled "john grisham" Should I not put it in a folder and just put it in the data/books folder
Ok, there are a bunch of book directories on the internal memory: media/My Files/Books seems to be the only one that automatically shows up in the Library books section but ONLY if you reboot. Copy/move the books you want on the internal memory there, to have them show up in Library.
If you (or when I did anyway) add a book through the Library application it will add it to the shelves, if you pull it from an sd card, or the 1gb media/My Files/Books storage folder. I went and pasted a bunch of books to test this and the Library app only sees things that is labeled as user storage (which I guess makes sense).
The way to mass-add books to the Library, without one by one dragging and adding through the Library app itself, is to move the files you want to automatically load up in Library (under the "books tab" - won't be added to a shelf automatically) is to copy all of them into media/My Files/Books, and restart the nook. The restart is needed as there doesn't seem to be a way to force it to scan for new books without a restart :/.
So:
It should *definitely* see all your books if you move them to media/my files/books, under the "books" tab, NOT under "my stuff" tab, if you copy and reboot the nook. You can then add them to shelves from the main "books" tab (which is what Library starts up in).
I don't know whether it scans inside folders - it *should* so you should try moving your John Grisham folder to media/My Files/books and see.
(I wonder what the three other /books locations are for :/. I don't seem to force Library to automatically recognize stuff in them. The reader does recognize anything in those directories, but then it's just a folder listing anyway).
edit: Ok it works inside folders for me. Have fun!
Thank you so much! Now if can figure out how to make folders on my desktop I will be good to go.....thank you so much
Calibre also works great for the Mac
rbellis said:
Thank you so much! Now if can figure out how to make folders on my desktop I will be good to go.....thank you so much
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On the Nook default launcher you can't, I think*? It's a reason I use another launcher (go/adw) and just create links to the Nook applications I use. You can make folders by default in either of the two above launchers.
*If anyone has managed this, do tell.
not to get off topic but when I try to add a folder...long press on the screen and select folder and nothing happens
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not to get off topic but when I try to add a folder...long press on the screen and select folder and nothing happens
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In Go launcher? HMMM. *tries*
edit: Oh, that's funny. You're right! I never actually make folders that way, because I have a few folders I got from accidentally dragging an icon onto another icons. They get grouped into a folder automatically I assumed the normal way worked, but if not, try that.
It doesn't work in any of the launchers. It must be disabled on the nook entirely in that case. Weird!
I wasn't able to drop appear together with ads to make a folder so I switched to go launcher and I like it so much better. It it what I use on my roped droid x2. I don't know if it was my hacked downloaded version of adw that caused this but for some reason I could not put anything on the top 1 inch or so of the screen. But I have had no issues with GO.
Sorry to keep asking newborn queriins. This is my first tablet. I have noticed that even though it is rooted and has an android os on it, there are still a lot of things that canny be done. I have not been able to download a facebook apk I have also had issues with the xda app. When I log in the app force closes. Not a big deal...I have then been going to the website. With that in mind....is there a way to put web page short cuts on the droidtop......
Again...sorry for the newborn questions and thank you again for your help
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I have noticed that even though it is rooted and has an android os on it, there are still a lot of things that canny be done.
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Yep, there are a lot of things disabled on the NT and won't work until apps get updated or mods are released for the tablet. It's a new (and restricted) device, so this is normal really; various things won't work off the bat. I think there is a Facebook app thread in these forums (or the dev forum) that gets that app to work somehow. I don't use it so I don't know specifics.
I heard that ADW launchers recent update changed/broke some things, so that might be why it isn't working perfectly. I use go launcher myself and ADW only for emergencies currently, yeah. Anyway, no worries on asking newbie questions - means the device is getting more users and exposure! Have fun with it.
Rooted my NT successfully! But..I mistakenly assigned BOX as my video player and cannot seem to find the way to undo it back to MX Video Player (which was working fin until I hit the wrong button choosing BOX as default). Now, all my .AVI video's launch BOX! Also...how do I access the extra memory freed up? I know it's there because I saw it, but I'd like to be able to move files to it easily.
OK, a few more. I am using GO Launcher EX and want to delete some of the icons at the bottom...how? Finally, when I connect my NT to my laptop and go into Android market, it recognizes my NT as "Barnes&Noble BNTV250." Is this limiting what I can install and/or should it be seeing it as something else - it is preventing me from installing many apps.
TX
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...lastly, I am using GO Launcher EX and want to delete some of the icons at the bottom...how?...
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My experience with HC, ADW, & Zeam Launcher is you - ClickHold the Icon then drag it to a trashcan that pops up as a result of the ClickHold.
for the vid player problem you wanna go to the market and download "Manage Applications" then open it find BOX and clear the defaults. This will allow the prompter screen to come back up when clicking a movie.
As for the icons I dont know if your talking shortcuts or just the way GO launcher has the bottom main icons looking...you can download countless themes for this particular launcher and every theme makes the bottom icons look different. Im rocking the windows 7 theme for the GO launcher.
Hope some of this helped.
Got to the same place you specified. Have tried clearing defaults for BOX multiple times and its not working - keeps opening BOX.
uninstall box? then reinstall when it uses mx as default?
Figured it out
Uninstalled BOX. Accessed AVI file through ES File Explorer. Click and hold on it until menu opens, then selected "open as" and chose video, then got the options to select a new video player.
good. glad it worked
Any ideas on how to access the additional space freed up bu rooting? When I plug into my PC I get two new drives, MyNook and Removable disk. Double clicking on MyNook brings up all the basic folders, but clicking on the removable drive does nothing except give me a message "Please insert a dsik into removable drive G"
Is this partition still hidden or unrecognizable in some way?
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Any ideas on how to access the additional space freed up bu rooting? When I plug into my PC I get two new drives, MyNook and Removable disk. Double clicking on MyNook brings up all the basic folders, but clicking on the removable drive does nothing except give me a message "Please insert a dsik into removable drive G"
Is this partition still hidden or unrecognizable in some way?
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Do you have an SD card? That's what the other drive is for. The B&N storage is not yet accessible in that way.
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I do not have an SD card installed. I rooted the unit so the extra memory is out there somewhere. I tried using ES File manager to move a file to it per a video i saw, but it would not move it to that location.
From my experience the extra space is available on the NT but is not accessible when connected to my computer. I just copy what I need to my sd card or the public space in /mnt/ to make it available. I haven't tried using WiFi Explorer yet though.
So that appears to confirm what I was thinking- that everything has to go to the /mnt/ partition first (or come off an SD card), then it can be transferred to the B&N partition.
Is it still considered a B&N partition once you root and free it up? And what becomes of the B&N Downloads folder within the media folder?
Hello All,
I wondered if one of you experts may be able to help me with an issue I'm having with my SIII please? I'm a long time browser of the site but haven't posted much until now.
This issue is coming between me and my sleep (and I mean that literally.)
I can't seem to master the art of getting music onto my S3. I thought it would be as simple as using iSyncr as I had with my S2. Alas, no.
Because of the changes to the mass storage mode (I am running a Mac), I have to download the Android File Transfer thing to connect my phone at all to my Mac.
When I use iSyncr now, it's slightly buggy. I put the phone into MTP mode, it starts copying music across and then after a certain number of tracks, it throws up an MTP issue where it says certain songs can't be copied. I then have to go around the houses and start clearing data from the media storage app in my settings and rebooting the phone. Then, I try again and get so far and the same thing happens again with different songs.
Also, when some songs transfer the albums appear split in the phone (though this is minor annoyance compared to the above).
I have left it on overnight and come back to my computer and it all looks finished, yet of my 6700 songs, only 3400 have transferred.
I've tried going the old fashioned way and spend last night dragging and dropping files onto the memory card using the Android File Transfer mode. I got one message saying a song couldn't be copied, yet when I actually got up and checked, again, only 3400 odd songs had transfered. There were no error messages and we're not talking DRM songs that hadn't gone across.. but some that I had ripped myself. It's all very odd.
Don't mention DoubleTwist - that's even worse.
This is really driving me mad as I am a big music player and I don't want to fork out for and have to carry an iPod too. I just sold my iPhone to use the S3 as I assumed it would be simple like the S2 but this is making me so upset with the phone. It's as though Google have deliberately locked out Mac functionality.
It's an unlocked unit, with a sandisk 64GB card inside. That was formatted by the phone and when I tried using a card reader instead, the computer said it couldn't be recognised.
I'm throwing myself at your knowledgeable feet here and hoping that somebody knows exactly what is happening here and what it is I could do to fix it. My entire weekend has been wasted sitting in front of this computer and I really want to fix it.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Can't help with your immediate issue I'm afraid (waiting for my S3 and I don't have a mac... ) but have you contracted the devs of iSyncr to let them know of the issue - at least that way they can start working on an update.
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I sure have!
Thanks for contacting me and pointing me to this thread.
First off, I've pre-ordered the international S3 so that I can test this out. We just do not have them in Texas yet.
Secondly, I've been unimpressed with Android's MTP's robustness on other devices. I filed several bug reports for different scenarios that corrupt the MTP database in March of 2011. Zero have been touched by Google. Given this, the first thing we should try is rebuilding the MTP database, which lives inside the "Media Storage" app. I've put these instructions in an easy to follow tutorial.
http://blog.jrtstudio.com/2011/08/how-to-refresh-android-media-database.html
Please let us know if that helps the issue.
Cheers!
Justin
Don't suppose anyvody has any solution for this? Really don't want to take my S3 back but will have to at this rate. I think it's shocking that the S3 is so crippled from a Mac's perspective since the changes to MTP. Android File Transfer app doesn't really fix anything.
I have the same problem. Even using AFT, it wil not see the phone until I put it into PTP mode. THen I can copy data to it. isyncr see the phone in MTP mode but keeps telling me device failed to load.
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I know I shouldn't mention it but here you go Double twist!
Right I've had some problems and this is what actually worked.
First you have to use itunes. If your music is a mess then a app on the app store called 'dupin' will remove any duplicate songs you have (it worked well for me). if you have lots of dead file links in your library just remove all your library files and then click 'add to library' be careful that itunes does not copy the files you add to the itunes music folder - see preferences.
1. Make a 'new playlist' --> add all your songs to it (press command+a etc). If you have a large music library like me then you can make a 'smart playlist' and limit the size of the playlist, handy eh!!
2. Open doubletwist on your mac and immediately make sure in 'preferences' the 'automatic sync' option is switched off (I had an incident where my whole library syned with 2 of my external hardisks...oops...and the funny thing is that one of the hard disks was where the music stored). Make sure the 'import itunes playlists' option is also selected.
3. In the doubletwist andriod app Select the SD card as library storage and Enable the 'Airsync' function in doubletwist (you will have to pay for the app but in my opinion it's worth it - it also supports ACC files).
4. Enter the pair code into the mac application.
5. Select the option to sync your playlists only (don't try anything fancy!!). You should see the one you made in itunes here.
6. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT BIT: you should by now see the 'airsync' icon at the top of the screen. PULL DOWN THE NOTIFICATION CENTER AND TOUCH THE 'DOUBLETWIST IS SYNCING'. You will see a funky swirly multicoloured wheel LEAVE THE PHONE ALONE UNTILL ALL YOUR MUSIC HAS SYNCED ACCROSS.
Dont lock your phone as this seems to mess it up...
Hope this helps. I understand your pain, I lost a weekend too!
Notes: Podcasts and DRM stuff does not sync.
Notes: If your playlist is not the full size of your music library then if the 'live updating' option is turned on in your smart playlist then when you click sync in doubletwist it will sync different songs each day (I think...)
If none of the above works, you always have a nice shiny 50gb of free dropbox storage as an interim solution
pow001 said:
I know I shouldn't mention it but here you go Double twist!
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If you are already an iSyncr user, as this person is, there is no reason to leave me for doubleTwist. We've got iSyncr WiFi, which we came out with before doubleTwist and is only a .99 cent upgrade. If you've got an issue with it, just email me, and we'll make sure it works on your S3.
-Justin
If its possible, try installing VMware fusion, and you can run windows inside your MAC in a virtual machine, you can try this if everything else fails...
You know where to download these softwares
You can try for free...and find the serial key easily using Google.
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html
I purchased the isycr wifi option and it is working fine... I think they have a "lite" version that you can try, but it only syncs one playlist or something, but you can see if it works or not. But that is what I am using now.
Ken
Resolved
We have resolved any issues with iSyncr functioning on the Galaxy S3 in MTP mode. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any troubles.
Cheers!
EasySeaBreezy said:
We have resolved any issues with iSyncr functioning on the Galaxy S3 in MTP mode. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any troubles.
Cheers!
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How about with the motorola defy ? Still waiting on that if you can have a look at fixing that one.
I have a bunch of music on my SD card. The cover art for some albums does not show up in the stock music app. Many do. I can’t figure out while some albums have no cover art displayed since the cover art file is in the folder and the cover art shows when I open the GoneMAD Music Player. These albums have all been copied to my SD card the same way, via USB.
I’ve tried the Album Art Grabber app, but that doesn’t help. Any suggestions?
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gmfeld said:
I have a bunch of music on my SD card. The cover art for some albums does not show up in the stock music app. Many do. I can’t figure out while some albums have no cover art displayed since the cover art file is in the folder and the cover art shows when I open the GoneMAD Music Player. These albums have all been copied to my SD card the same way, via USB.
I’ve tried the Album Art Grabber app, but that doesn’t help. Any suggestions?
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I have 2 potential solutions for you to try, depending on whether you're using a MAC or PC. I see you're posting from an iPad, so there's like a 33% chance you have a MAC, 33% chance of having a PC, and 33% chance of having no computer at all.
First, you NEED a computer of some type (MAC or PC) in order to do any of this. Your music needs to be on the computer too. If you have a computer, but store your music only on your phone, then you'll need to copy everything (or at least the files giving you issues) to your computer.
ALTERNATIVELY, you can take out your SD card and insert it into your computer. You just can't use plug your V30 into the computer and have any of this work. It's because of Android using MTP, so it must be one of these options.
PC:
IMPORTANT: Before doing anything, go to where your music is kept, select all folders or files. Right click and select properties. Make sure "Read Only (only applies to files in folder)" has no check or square in the checkbox. Click the box until it is clear. Click OK when done and let Windows change everything.
This will make sure that you can edit the file info of your music files.
Download MediaMonkey from http://www.mediamonkey.com/download/
The free version will do everything you'll need
Install MediaMonkey. Upon first startup, it'll ask you to choose your music folders (where you store your MP3's on your computer).
Once all music has been imported, choose a file giving you issues, right click it, and choose Properties.
Go to Artwork tab
Now you have 2 options:
1) Click ADD and manually select the album cover image from your computer.
or
2) Click the little icon to the left of ADD to have the program find the album cover from the internet based on the file properties (artist, album name, track, etc).
(NOTE: to delete an image, click it and press the actual delete key. It took me a while to figure out)
No matter which route you choose, you will then be brought to a window where you can label the artwork type and some other options.
Choose the image type based on your preference.
IMPORTANT: Here is where the potential solution comes into play. For "Image Location," you need to choose, "Save image to tag (if possible) otherwise save to file folder."
This will attempt to embed the artwork into the actual file properties, where other info like artist name, album title, etc is stored on the MP3/FLAC file. If it can't do it (such as the file being read only), it will instead save the image file to the folder where the music file is stored. You want the artwork to be embedded into the file itself.
Click OK on the Add Image window
At this point, you can edit any other info in the other tabs in the File Properties window. Before clicking OK though, I'd recommend checking the "Apply to all files in the album/series" checkbox. Otherwise, the album artwork will only be applied to the file you selected. If checked, it will be applied to every file with the same album tag. TIME SAVER
Click OK when done and HOPEFULLY your problem will be fixed on your phone!
MAC:
Open iTunes
Right click the file and choose "Song Info"
Go to Artwork tab
Click the Add Artwork button and find the artwork file on your computer. Unlike the PC steps, you can't have the program automatically find the file from the internet.
Click OK when done.
Yeah... the MAC option is so much shorter than the PC option. LMAO
I REALLY hope this helps! Please let me know what happens and contact me if you have questions or problems.
spexwood said:
I have 2 potential solutions for you to try, depending on whether you're using a MAC or PC. I see you're posting from an iPad, so there's like a 33% chance you have a MAC, 33% chance of having a PC, and 33% chance of having no computer at all.
First, you NEED a computer of some type (MAC or PC) in order to do any of this. Your music needs to be on the computer too. If you have a computer, but store your music only on your phone, then you'll need to copy everything (or at least the files giving you issues) to your computer.
ALTERNATIVELY, you can take out your SD card and insert it into your computer. You just can't use plug your V30 into the computer and have any of this work. It's because of Android using MTP, so it must be one of these options.
PC:
IMPORTANT: Before doing anything, go to where your music is kept, select all folders or files. Right click and select properties. Make sure "Read Only (only applies to files in folder)" has no check or square in the checkbox. Click the box until it is clear. Click OK when done and let Windows change everything.
This will make sure that you can edit the file info of your music files.
Download MediaMonkey from http://www.mediamonkey.com/download/
The free version will do everything you'll need
Install MediaMonkey. Upon first startup, it'll ask you to choose your music folders (where you store your MP3's on your computer).
Once all music has been imported, choose a file giving you issues, right click it, and choose Properties.
Go to Artwork tab
Now you have 2 options:
1) Click ADD and manually select the album cover image from your computer.
or
2) Click the little icon to the left of ADD to have the program find the album cover from the internet based on the file properties (artist, album name, track, etc).
(NOTE: to delete an image, click it and press the actual delete key. It took me a while to figure out)
No matter which route you choose, you will then be brought to a window where you can label the artwork type and some other options.
Choose the image type based on your preference.
IMPORTANT: Here is where the potential solution comes into play. For "Image Location," you need to choose, "Save image to tag (if possible) otherwise save to file folder."
This will attempt to embed the artwork into the actual file properties, where other info like artist name, album title, etc is stored on the MP3/FLAC file. If it can't do it (such as the file being read only), it will instead save the image file to the folder where the music file is stored. You want the artwork to be embedded into the file itself.
Click OK on the Add Image window
At this point, you can edit any other info in the other tabs in the File Properties window. Before clicking OK though, I'd recommend checking the "Apply to all files in the album/series" checkbox. Otherwise, the album artwork will only be applied to the file you selected. If checked, it will be applied to every file with the same album tag. TIME SAVER
Click OK when done and HOPEFULLY your problem will be fixed on your phone!
MAC:
Open iTunes
Right click the file and choose "Song Info"
Go to Artwork tab
Click the Add Artwork button and find the artwork file on your computer. Unlike the PC steps, you can't have the program automatically find the file from the internet.
Click OK when done.
Yeah... the MAC option is so much shorter than the PC option. LMAO
I REALLY hope this helps! Please let me know what happens and contact me if you have questions or problems.
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Thanks for all that info. My music is stored on two Windows computers, and I transferred albums from the Windows machines to my V30 via USB "file copy." I use iTunes as my music library/player on both machines, and have all the cover art displayed in iTunes (for those albums where iTunes says no cover art available I go and download the art to the folder and "add artwork" manually in iTunes.) Weird to me that most of the albums display the cover art but some do not, and the ones that don't will show the art in the other music player. I also have MediaMonkey on one of the computers which I use to play flac files.
gmfeld said:
Thanks for all that info. My music is stored on two Windows computers, and I transferred albums from the Windows machines to my V30 via USB "file copy." I use iTunes as my music library/player on both machines, and have all the cover art displayed in iTunes (for those albums where iTunes says no cover art available I go and download the art to the folder and "add artwork" manually in iTunes.) Weird to me that most of the albums display the cover art but some do not, and the ones that don't will show the art in the other music player. I also have MediaMonkey on one of the computers which I use to play flac files.
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So, it didn't work for you?