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.
ttown said:
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.
njfoses said:
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.
ttown said:
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
b18c_ej8 said:
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...
So I know that the play music app is basically all the songs linked to your google play account and our not necessarily downloaded or drm free. I just bought a song today and noticed it was there in that app after I pressed the button with the head phone picture after purchase. Also a cd a burned onto my pc is in that same app after I had added to my play music using the music manager so does music basically update to your phone automatically when you add music or anything else to your play account? My phone was plugged into my pc but I didn't do anything or at least don't think I did. I am used to having to deal with itunes and syncing everything so I may be over thinking all this but is that basically how music on android works? You buy a song on your phone and add it manually to the play music app or if you buy a song on your web browser or upload your own music to your play account on your pc everything just goes to your phone automatically if you have wifi? Also what does that tack icon mean by the music? For some songs I press it, it turns white, and in the status bar I see "keeping requested music" I always stop it though before it gets to 100% Sometimes the tack icon is blue and when I hit it I see "this music is already stored on this device" which I do not get because with the exception of the song I just bought all my music was dragged and dropped to my phone because everything was converted from itunes to drm and 2 songs were just downloaded from my play music..
Finally my Persona 4 album has artwork in my play library on my pc but on my phone there is no album artwork. Is there anyway to add the album artwork on the phone?
I'm not sure where to post this, but i'm having a weird issue with play music
i have all my songs uploaded to play music. i listen to them using my laptop browser and ipad play music app
All my songs are also present on my phone's storage,
when i use the play music app on my android phone, music that are liked,deleted, or added to a play list doesnt appear on my cloud, it doesnt sync to the ipad or my laptop browser. (i'm not a noob, i obviously enabled sync for play music)
i'm thinking this happens because android play music app confuse the duplicate music that exist in my phone and in the cloud.
I need to keep my music in the phones local storage because i dont have fast internet access on mobile data.
How can i make google play music android app to display ONLY online content?
currently the only option is "all music" and "on device"
Greetings.
I am looking for a way to prevent google play scanning my local storage (phone storage) for music track. Basically I have my audio books which I listen using the audio book player, now when google scan those folders it mixes the audio book files with my actual musics and when I do a "I am feeling lucky" try playing last added, etc. It plays my audio books as well
Thanks.
I have music files in PC, and I want to keep them there but want to play through my device. I have turned on sharing for these files and almost all apps on my mobile can detect and play these files but these apps act more like file managers/explorers rather than music players i.e they do not have options to play next track, shuffle, etc. So I am in search for an app which is a music player and its source of data is DLNA (or PC sharing, whatever it is scientifically called). Please recommend me one if you know.