I have always kept my music on a storage card to free up as much phone memory as possible. With the addition of space in Dropbox when you buy this phone, I am searching for the best system to implement for my phone. Ideally I would like to just place music files in Dropbox and have those files automatically saved on my SD card. This would give me instant access to my songs from my phone and computer and be a backup in case my computer crashes.
So I throw this out to you guys and ask how you best implement music on your phone keeping these three things in mind:
1. Download a song and listen from your computer or phone
2. Songs saved on memory card to free up space
3. All music is backed up in case your computer crashes.
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I have always kept my music on a storage card to free up as much phone memory as possible. With the addition of space in Dropbox when you buy this phone, I am searching for the best system to implement for my phone. Ideally I would like to just place music files in Dropbox and have those files automatically saved on my SD card. This would give me instant access to my songs from my phone and computer and be a backup in case my computer crashes.
So I throw this out to you guys and ask how you best implement music on your phone keeping these three things in mind:
1. Download a song and listen from your computer or phone
2. Songs saved on memory card to free up space
3. All music is backed up in case your computer crashes.
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Google play is all i need.
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Google play is all i need.
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This. I'm in the process of ripping my 600+ CD collection to MP3. Google Play Music automatically finds the new stuff and uploads it. Then I can play songs on any device without having to carry a card or drive around, and have taken up no hard drive or SD card space. :thumbup:
Google Music in conjunction with an SD card.
I keep a small amount of music on my SD card, mostly just stuff that I'm likely to listen to at any given time.
I store EVERYTHING on Google Music; I currently have 4565 songs uploaded to the service. It requires no local storage of your own, as it is all in the cloud. You can use the app on your phone to stream that music over Wi-Fi or your mobile connection. You can also make music available offline, which essentially downloads it to your phone.
All you have to do is upload all of your music to the cloud, and you'll have access to it anywhere: any computer, any android phone or tablet. It would suit your needs nicely.
I listen to music on my phone primarily when I am on the plane. Google play wouldn't work for me.
If I could get the songs to download to my SD card when I hit favorite in Dropbox, my problem would be solved.
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I listen to music on my phone primarily when I am on the plane. Google play wouldn't work for me.
If I could get the songs to download to my SD card when I hit favorite in Dropbox, my problem would be solved.
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Why not? If you make music available offline through Google Music, you don't need an internet connection to listen to it.
I rarely use streamimg. But if I do I prefer live365 over Pandora. I mostly download music from MP3 search and download ( not in the market , But here http://www.apktops.com/mp3-music-search-and-download-3-2.html
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and I save on my 16gb SD card. and my music player is N7 ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n7mobile.nplayer)
Google Music is the way to go. I make some available offline if I know I will be without data.
I know this is a little off topic but I wish Google would allow you to upload books into Google Books like you can with Music. I know they are afraid of ripped off books but let's be honest about it and with Google Music.
just curious, but when you do upload music to google play, is there any down scaling of audio quality? Like if i upload something in 320kbps, will it stay that quality?
I have most on google play and maybe 3-4 albums on my sdcard.
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just curious, but when you do upload music to google play, is there any down scaling of audio quality? Like if i upload something in 320kbps, will it stay that quality?
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I haven't noticed any difference myself. All of the music you buy from there is 320kbps, so I assume they wouldn't downscale what you upload.
Because this is related to music, I was wondering how you guys download and organize your music in your computer
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I use subsonic. it gives me access to my 400gb of music on the go and I can download any of it to my phone at any time. subsonic uses your home computer as the cloud so a decent home connection and the computer always on is a must.
it also provides you your own website to access the songs from any computer browser
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This. I'm in the process of ripping my 600+ CD collection to MP3. Google Play Music automatically finds the new stuff and uploads it. Then I can play songs on any device without having to carry a card or drive around, and have taken up no hard drive or SD card space. :thumbup:
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yup love google music.
I run a subsonic server off a linux box at home for streaming the entire collection, and rotate albums on an SD card for stuff i listen to most often.
I have a little over 50,000 MP3's. I use Audiogalaxy and have found it to be the best at handling large collections. Google music is too restrictive and will not allow my large collection. I do keep about 300-500 songs on my phone at any given time of some of my favorites so I don't have to stream all the time. Audiogalaxy allows you to pin songs too but I have never taken advantage of that feature yet.
Google music allows 20k songs. Seriously, that's more than anyone needs...lol. I uploaded 6000 songs and best decision I've made. Runs on 10 different devices so my family has access if they need it.
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I use Google Play and Audiogalaxy. Both work great. I just can't wait until this 4G in San Antonio becomes more widespread. The constant buffering gets annoying sometimes.
Definitely Google Music. Let's be realistic here. We are all not going to listen to all the music we have, hell, sometimes I wonder why I have this song in my play list. At work I get no signal but I've cached the albums/songs I listen to the most and I'm set. When on the go I just stream it. Best. Decision. Ever.
I have it on my sd card. used to use Google Music...
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I need to know what/how people are syncing their music with their phones. I purchased MediaMonkey for me and my gf (we both have I777) and was able to sync my playlist in MediaMonkey to the phone. However, I messed up the playlist. I added a file to the root of the external SD card called '.isaudioplayer' and that caused the m3u file to have incorrect paths. When I viewed the m3u file in a text editor on the phone, It said F:/Music/yadda. Obviously, F: is wrong. How are your playlists listed? Thanks for the assistance!
have you thought about using google music? No need to sync your music at all. Just stream from the app.
+1 on google music, I use it every day and love it
I have Google Music. I don't like it. The Android app sucks. I tell it to only play local music, and it plays online music anyway. The app won't reload it's list of music (after an upload to the SD card). I have to reboot the phone to get the app to see the new music. I have uploaded my library to Google Music, but I wasn't finished tagging the library correctly. So basically, I need to finish tagging the library correctly, erase everything on Google Music, and then re-upload. Then create playlists. Not to mention the fact, that I have MythTV at home to play music in my living room, and Subsonic to stream music to the phone/work desktop. I hate having to create playlists. That's the worst thing in the world. If Google actually created/released APIs for Google music, then MediaMonkey/MythTV could integrate (not to mention the really cool CM9 inspired new Music app out there).
I also received a message from AT&T telling me I was in the top 5% of users this month. I find that completely unbelievable. I only stream music for ~20 minutes a day. Be it from home via Subsonic, or Google Music. So having it local helps. Not to mention the GF is on my plan now, but we only gave her 2GBs. That will just be eaten up by Google Music.
But the biggest issue is I want the music on my phone because when I hit the fitness room in the basement of my office, I get 0 WLAN bars and 0 3G bars. So I need local music. GF also has the issue of signal strength where she goes.
Does anyone have a playlist.m3u file I could look at to see the proper format of the file? Also, is there anyone else like me out there that actually puts music on their phones now?
I tried media monkey, but ultimately it didn't work out for me. What I ended up doing was using winamp on the computer to sync my music and playlists to my phone, actually my SD card. I lose the ability to do wireless sync, but I like keeping all of my music on the external memory. Also, I didn't really like the winamp for android, so I switched to using playerpro. The playlists and everything work out very nicely, and they stay in sync.
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iSyncr or doubleTwist Airsync i'd suggest looking into. They are probably the top of the list aside from Google Music.
I've been using doubleTwist and it is everything i could need however it comes with a whole new Media Program to install (stills syncs with iTunes though).
iSyncr is nice if you only want to use iTunes because it's basically an "addon" and this way you don't need a whole new media managing program.
Google Music is very basic and simple. You might as well get it anyways as a backup but I don't personally like the app/online management of music; it is just too difficult to edit files. However if you want to go this route you can get Google Music Importer which will let you save the music you pin for offline mode from within the android app to be used in other music app's (otherwise you are forced with always using the Google Music app to play the music from online).
Tried iSync and doubletwist and settled on iSync. so I keep my music on itunes and just sync with the phone.
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I used iSyncr for a while, worked great, but I hated being tied down to iTunes. Bought MediaMonkey and, after some configs, I love it.
I have it set so that songs are:
/sdcard/MediaMonkey/Music/songs
And playlists:
/sdcard/MediaMonkey/Music/playlists
And I have the playlists to have relative paths, so drive letters don't matter.
PlayerPro works just fine with this setup. So does PowerAMP.
Here's my device config XML, just import in MediaMonkey if you like.
Syncing? What's that?
I just copy everything I want to listen to, to /my_music on the internal storage.
Edit: I don't use playlists either, blegh.
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Tried iSync and doubletwist and settled on iSync. so I keep my music on itunes and just sync with the phone.
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Thanks for the suggestions all. We are trying to move away from iTunes at home. The fact is that iTunes on Windows doesn't support FLAC audio. It does on OS X, but I'm not going that route. I guess I just deal with the faults of MediaMonkey. But really, if anyone can just attach their m3u file that WORKS on the Android phone, then I'd be grateful. Thanks!
I will upload a few sample m3u files when I get onto a computer.
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I linked you how to get MediaMonkey working perfectly for sync...
I use MediaMonkey. I have 40K+ songs to choose from to sync to a 32GB card, so I select a few playlists of select songs to fill it up. Auto-syncs every time I plug the MicroSD card into the computer (I hate having to shut the phone off, but I found syncing to be faster when the card is directly plugged in versus plugging the phone in).
No problems here. Syncing is fast and never have any issues.
I use iSyncr. Support for iTunes Smart playlist is a must for how I manage a series of ever changing playlists. Because it also maintains the correct smart playlist order (something that Apple messed up with iTunes 10.5/iOS5 on my iPod Touch) it syncs music better than iTunes does for my iPod.
Well I finally got this working. I found out that simply RIGHT clicking on a playlist, and telling it to sync to the mounted I777 will sync the music in that playlist, but NOT the actual playlist. Pretty crappy design in my opinion.
I figured it out last night. In Media Monkey, go to your device you want to sync. In the AUTO-SYNC tab, click on the playlists in the left pane of the device window. Then choose the playlists you want to auto-sync. Then go to the OPTIONS tab in that same device window, and tell it to "Create Playlists for:" and choose "Synced Playlists" (I'm not in front of MM now, but it's something like that option). Then tell it to use relative paths, and to swap the "\" for the "/". Done and done. PITA.
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Well I finally got this working. I found out that simply RIGHT clicking on a playlist, and telling it to sync to the mounted I777 will sync the music in that playlist, but NOT the actual playlist. Pretty crappy design in my opinion.
I figured it out last night. In Media Monkey, go to your device you want to sync. In the AUTO-SYNC tab, click on the playlists in the left pane of the device window. Then choose the playlists you want to auto-sync. Then go to the OPTIONS tab in that same device window, and tell it to "Create Playlists for:" and choose "Synced Playlists" (I'm not in front of MM now, but it's something like that option). Then tell it to use relative paths, and to swap the "\" for the "/". Done and done. PITA.
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I don't know why you chose to ignore my post with the MediaMonkey configuration that had all of that work done...
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I don't know why you chose to ignore my post with the MediaMonkey configuration that had all of that work done...
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I left work early, and didn't see it. Sorry. I really appreciate you posting it though!
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I left work early, and didn't see it. Sorry. I really appreciate you posting it though!
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Okay. Welcome!
CNLiberal said:
I also received a message from AT&T telling me I was in the top 5% of users this month. I find that completely unbelievable. I only stream music for ~20 minutes a day. Be it from home via Subsonic, or Google Music. So having it local helps. Not to mention the GF is on my plan now, but we only gave her 2GBs. That will just be eaten up by Google Music.
But the biggest issue is I want the music on my phone because when I hit the fitness room in the basement of my office, I get 0 WLAN bars and 0 3G bars. So I need local music. GF also has the issue of signal strength where she goes.
Does anyone have a playlist.m3u file I could look at to see the proper format of the file? Also, is there anyone else like me out there that actually puts music on their phones now?
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Google Music's online streaming uses A LOT of data. Even for 20 minutes worth. GM single handedly made me go over my data. They need to fix that. The only way around it is making songs available offline.
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Music streaming from google music is the same as everything else. A song is roughly 6mb, 20 minutes would be around 30mb downloaded. It does take an extreme about of data usage and other then uploading lower quality songs not much will change it. Make sure you don't have "download high quality"option in settings checked.
You can also pin songs to keep them usable offline.
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Yesterday I noticed that Google's new music app had been downloaded to my Amaze. However, none of the 13gb or so of songs from my SD card were showing up in the app. Refreshing the library didn't show anything either.
It turns out that Play Music won't find any music in /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd. As soon as I copied an album to /mnt/sdcard/Music from /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/Music it showed up in Play Music. Problem is, I don't have nearly enough space on my internal memory for my music. Anyone figure out how to get it to scan ext_sd?
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Well it works for me. Why do u say it goes from mnt/sdcard when u can just skip going to the /mnt and go straight to /sdard folder? But to help with you problem, the new Google Play Music only allows 20000 songs to be uploaded to it. Maybe u have more then that.
But I'm guessing in ur case it's just stupid. Try making a folder called download in ur sdcard2 or extcard (same thing ) if there isn't one, and put all ur music in that folder. That's how mine is setup up by default and Google Play recognized my music from there. Reinstall if that don't work. Good luck!
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I have been having the same issue with this. I kinda figured it out today. take the music out of your music folder and have it just be on the sd card. Yes i know its ugly and makes managing stuff more of a pain in the ass, but Play music will recognize your music.
I tried this with 15+ gigs of music and for some reason it will not recognize all my songs. I don't think I'll be using this method as a permanent fix, but let me know if you have more success with it.
Tried Chadworth66's suggestion and it did not work. improperburial's suggestion actually did work, but as he said it was very ugly. I don't know of a better fix, so I think I'll pass on Google Music for the time being.
Could it be that Play Music only goes but so many levels of subfolders deep? Any way, until Google fixes this I'll continue using the (HTC) Music app on the phone. Though I may go ahead and upload my music for backup purposes. I don't really want to pay T-mobile for the privilege of playing (ie, streaming) my own music.
I'm having this problem as well. It recognized my music for a while but when I plugged it into a computer (not mine, I don't have one) to transfer music to a friend, they all disappeared from my library. They're still on the SD card, but Play Music won't list them. They're not buried or anything, they're just in a folder on the SD card titled Music.
Hi, just recently switch from IOS to android and loving it. The note is so wonderful. One question, how can I transfer all my music, playlist, play count from iTunes to my note. I have about 7 gigs of music on iTunes and have no clue how to transfer the file over. Please help!
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Hi, just recently switch from IOS to android and loving it. The note is so wonderful. One question, how can I transfer all my music, playlist, play count from iTunes to my note. I have about 7 gigs of music on iTunes and have no clue how to transfer the file over. Please help!
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Try double twist or isync on market. U ain't saving them play counts though
Easier way:
Go to itunes and consolidate files (search Google on howto)
Then go to that file directory on your computer (perhaps C: >iTunes>media>music)
COPY AND PASTE THE MUSIC TO THE MEDIA FOLDER OF YOUR ANDROID PHONE
Or if you have an external sd card (which I highly suggest you get) just copy and paste with no orginization
That's IT.
When you buy new music from itunes (which in practice it only makes sence to buy it from Google now) repeat this process!
NOTE: CONSOLIDATING YOUR MUSIC WILL ADD MEMORY TO YOUR COMPUTER. NOT A BIG DEAL WHATSOEVER BUT I THOUGHT ID TELL YOU.
P.s.: don't use doubletwist its a pain in the ass unless you want 2 programs doing the same thing
Playlists function the same way except you must copy the music first onto your phone. once that's complete you have to export the playlist from itunes
(Right click playlist>export>search>choose file directory [wherever your music/media is])
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killeen1980 said:
Hi, just recently switch from IOS to android and loving it. The note is so wonderful. One question, how can I transfer all my music, playlist, play count from iTunes to my note. I have about 7 gigs of music on iTunes and have no clue how to transfer the file over. Please help!
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Go to music.Google.com.
You can open a Google music account for free and download " music manager". (It will give you this option when you register). It will automatically add your entire iTunes library to Google server and you can then listen to your music anywhere on the stream with Google play music app. Might take a while to upload everything depending on the size of your library. And you can set it to automatically upload any files you add to your iTunes library from this point forward. It works flawlessly.
A gamechanger.
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I use iSyncr. I let it automatically sync to iTunes every night at 12. It also syncs playlists too.
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You can go onto Samsung Kies, Then connect your device Scroll down and then there's an option for back ups find your itunes iPhone back up and Convert it
Sorry That I can't go indepth my Phone is rooted / new rom So I can't connect. x)
There are many options(almost too many), but your best bet is google music. My wife has an iPod and every time she gets a new song it automatically uploads with music manager. You can't go wrong with this option because you never have to worry about it again. If you have no need for your iTunes account anymore then you can start buying all your content from google from here on out. Another plus is no space is taken up on your sd.
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OK, but...
Please correct me if I am wrong, but one big downside I see to Google Music is that you are streaming (and not syncing) all your music, correct?
I don't mind putting another copy of my library in Google Music, but it would be much more useful to me if it had some sort of iCloud/iTunes Match functionality where the local library on the phone was automatically updated when on WiFi, etc.
I have "unlimited" data, so I really don't care, but I never liked the notion of streaming my music. I would prefer to have it local.
If there is an option to sync within Google Music and not a 3rd-party app, I would really like to hear more.
Thanks!
-Rob
It is absolutely that. A cloud service that stores all your media online. There is a way to make songs available offline on your phone, but I've never used it. I absolutely love it. Just download music manager to your PC or Mac and it will do the rest. Download the google music app to your phone(not a third party app) and all your iTunes songs will be there waiting for you.
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It is absolutely that. A cloud service that stores all your media online. There is a way to make songs available offline on your phone, but I've never used it. I absolutely love it. Just download music manager to your PC or Mac and it will do the rest. Download the google music app to your phone(not a third party app) and all your iTunes songs will be there waiting for you.
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To add to your good post, u select what songs u want available offline, and it caches em to your sd card. in case u have no or slow data somewhere
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To add to your good post, u select what songs u want available offline, and it caches em to your sd card. in case u have no or slow data somewhere
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Very nice to know. I assumed it did just that, but never tried. Thanks
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Is there a setting that just automatically downloads all songs locally to the SD card though? I have tried manually making select songs available, but that isn't the point (for me). I want more automatic, iTunes-like syncing. If you have ever used iCloud or Match you would know what I am talking about.
I don't mind using iTunes to manage my media, I just want a way to sync all my devices (iOS and Android) and keep them in automatic sync. I don't mind downloading the song once, but I am not interested in streaming. I put 32 or 64GB SD cards in my devices because I want the content local at all times.
If anyone has a more automated workflow for that, I am very interested.
Thanks again!
-Rob
I use notpod on my PC. Its easy to sync any android device and u just drag music to ur gnote from iTunes.
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I use tunesync because I buy my music from Amazon, but still use itunes to manage my old jokes and ipad.
I also have a central sound system connected to my netbook, so the iOS remote app comes in handy.
Tunesync lets you automatically upload songs purchased from your phone to iTunes, and maintains play counts in itunes as well.
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I still have not made any music purchases and I was wondering wich one do you guys use the most. Also if I buy music through my phone can I transfer that file to my pc?
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I've only used amazon mp3 but I'm very happy with it. I'm sure you'd be able to dig the mp3 out of your phone if you actually load it on the phone (as opposed to streaming) but it's easy to go to the amazon mp3 website and grab it.
I mostly use Google music but if they don't have something I'll get it from Amazon.
Same here use Google Music since my OG, and I haven't looked back. You can upload up to 22,000 of your own songs, download purchased and free music to your computer, and Google tends to have lots of free music available if you use your computer browser.
The only downside to me is that Google Music isn't a physical music program on your computer, just the Music Manager program that uploads and downloads songs. Besides this though, I love how simple it is after you first try it.
Just my two cents.
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I use Amazon, I like the fact that I choose when and how to put them in the cloud...
Thanks guys
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I have been trying everything to see what I like best. My Epic just killed the battery using any music apps, so I never used it for that.
My Google music uploads got "stuck" after about 3500 songs and I have never been able to get it past that, so I've been trying Pandora and Tunein radio.
Amazon seems to have a lot of free mp3 credits you can get if you follow them on twitter and facebook. They also have the $5 album deals all the time. So, for purchasing music I think it's better. However, if you already have a large existing library, Amazon only gives you 5gb free, but Google gives you a ton of free space with 20,000 songs. If there was a simple way to quickly push your Amazon mp3 purchases to Google music, that would be a great option.
I use Google Music on my phone. I prefer the interface to Amazon MP3 (though I haven't tried it for a while). As far as purchasing music goes, I normally buy from Amazon (where I do most of my shopping) unless Google has a deal. I usually buy on my computer, download to my computer, upload to iTunes (I don't like iTunes but Windows Media Player didn't sync with Google Music correctly when file formats weren't perfect), and then Google Music Manager syncs my music to the cloud. I do often get free music off of Google Music and it automatically gets added to Google Music and I can download it to my PC if I want. It's not perfect, but it's smoother than it sounds (and it wouldn't be so bad if I'd just buy my music from Google and didn't care about storing locally). I'm not sure about the Amazon MP3 app, but Google Music lets users store music locally. I plan on storing all of my music directly on my phone when I get the new Evo and have 64GB+ of space.
I prefer Amazon as my buying choice because the pc program "Amazon Downloader" when run detects all of your latest purchases, automatically downloads to your preferred music folder AND add to your Itunes library.
Plus unlimited space once you buy an album, don't know how long that will last but I have over 100gb up on the cloud. Love it.
As noted... Amazon does give out free mp3 codes fairly often, so I tend to use them more.
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This. Google makes downloading your own music a royal pain, especially for individual songs. Amazon is much better at this. And generally, amazon is cheaper too
I am not sure where to post this question. This seemed like the best place.
I was wondering if there are any cloud music services for Android that are not Amazon Cloud Player or Google Play Music. Both of them disappoint me in some way. I use to use Amazon but since they switched to a service closer to Apple's, I am just turned off of using it. I do not like being limited to only uploading 250 songs to my player. I do not need the matching service at all. My mp3 files are fine as is and I feel that automatic uploads are overrated. I do not mind waiting a few minutes to upload my own files and really Amazon is not letting me do this anymore, as far as I know.
Google Play Music has never really clicked with me. I love how the playlist sync but I do not like how it mixes the pool of online and offline songs. It also seems to be too combersome for me to specifically tell it, I want my entire library on my device and get it to automatically download all of my music. Using Play Music is a lot like using an iOS device, so simple that I feel like I have lost some functionality. I could just be using it wrong but it just is not clicking even as I have been forced back into using it.
I want a cloud music service that allows me to set up playlist that I can accesses on both of my computer, android tablet, and android phone. I also want it to allow me to automatically download new music that I put up there on my computer onto my tablet and phone. Making it clear what is on the cloud and on my device is handy also. Besides these two programs, are there any others that do this or am I just not seeing Amazon or Google to their fullest potential.
Thanks.