Could someone give me an idea the easiest way to load music onto my Truesmart? Thanks for any help I can get on this.. Gene
Patch it first or install Dees BT ROM.
Connect it to your PC and select mass storage mode.
Copy music to the "Music" folder on your device
You can use "Airdroid" to copy your files (music, pics, vids) wirelessly to your TS.
Airdroid is available in PlayStore. I patched my TS with Gapps so I have the store on my device.
Lokifish Marz said:
Patch it first or install Dees BT ROM.
Connect it to your PC and select mass storage mode.
Copy music to the "Music" folder on your device
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The only thing I can add to this is if you have added the SDCARD.
I use RDIO, On the login screen you can point the storage to a custom location, like maybe a folder on the sdcard..
I have over 1000 songs synced from Rdio plus all my Podcasts that are synced automatically using BeyondPod. wether you
manage your own stuff (drag and drop over usb) our use a service (RDIO, Spotify, Play Music, etc) I recommend you consider the extra storage.
I don't have bluetooth on my computer, so I tried airdroid. I never had a problem with airdroid on my HP touchpad tablet, but for some reason I could not get it to load to my truesmart. I ended up paying under $2 for wifi file transfer pro. The interface is easy to use and I copied about 12GB of music to my truesmart in about an hour over my wifi network.
Another wireless option (free)
I use ES File Explorer to move all kinds of files all over the place wirelessly, whether on computers on my Wifi network (LAN) or in the cloud.
I use Media Monkey and USB Mass Storage mode (mtp is buggy and unreliable). Also Spotify in offline mode works great, or online mode if you have 3G and get good reception in your area.
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I have a mac running snow leopard. I installed samsung kies to transfer music. the music will transfer but when I launch Google Music, it won't recognize the music. I can even go to the directory of where the music is located and play a song using google music. Plan B. Since that didn't work, I installed Android File Transfer for Mac. Doesn't work. Plan C. I used cheetah sync to transfer the files. The files transferred to the Music folder on the tab. Google music still doesn't recognize. Plan D. I shuffled around 1 song to different locations on the tab aka root folder, media folder, music folder, everywhere! Still doesn't recognize that one song. Plan E. I download a mp3 download app. I download a song and google music recognizes it. I look through the directories to see where the app downloaded the song. Couldn't find the song. Checked every single folder. What else is there to do??
I don't own a Mac, so I cannot help you on your specific Mac issues.
BUT, do you have, by chance, a Windows PC available? If yes, everything is transparent. You even don't need Kies - just connect the GT via USB and copy the music files using Windows Explorer.
If you have a home network with shared folders, you can access and copy the music files using FileManagerHD app (free) in the tablet.
I hope it helps you.
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I don't own a Mac, so I cannot help you on your specific Mac issues.
BUT, do you have, by chance, a Windows PC available? If yes, everything is transparent. You even don't need Kies - just connect the GT via USB and copy the music files using Windows Explorer.
If you have a home network with shared folders, you can access and copy the music files using FileManagerHD app (free) in the tablet.
I hope it helps you.
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The one caveat to this is that some download services mark the files as "hidden", so if you don't have Show Hidden Files and Folders checked in the folder's view settings, you won't see them at all. A maddening problem I had with my Sansa several years ago.
Think google music needs propper id3Tags to find tracks
I have a usb drive with all my songs on them
So when i connect the drive to the keyboard and open the folder (file manager). I cannot select all the songs to play through music app, it only allows me to play one song at a time. Is there a way to select all the songs to play?
In the music app, you should be able to point it to the directory in your USB drive where your music is. It will then build the library from those files. That is what MixZing does anyway...
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In the music app, you should be able to point it to the directory in your USB drive where your music is. It will then build the library from those files. That is what MixZing does anyway...
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i tried going to the settings in music app, but it does not allow me to relay the directory. it seems fixed on the music folder.
how is mixzing (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mixzing.basic&feature=search_result)?
maybe, create a playlist?
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maybe, create a playlist?
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i do not want to transfer all my songs to the prime
i am trying to just connect the flash drive and play/shuffle the songs on the drive without transferring them
does android require you to move files to the device storage in order to create a playlist?
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does android require you to move files to the device storage in order to create a playlist?
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i can't figure a way to create a playlist from files not in the music folder or downloaded from google music
kls629 said:
i do not want to transfer all my songs to the prime
i am trying to just connect the flash drive and play/shuffle the songs on the drive without transferring them
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The best solution going forward would be to sign up for a free Google Music account and simply upload all of the music you want to listen to to that service and then just stream it over WiFi to whatever device you want to listen to it on.
Now if you are frequently in a situation where you don't have access to the internet, MixZing is a pretty good music player that will allow you to play your music off of any USB connected storage device.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mixzing.basic
Hello,
I currently have music stored both on my Android phone and on my PC, both are in their own "Music" folders. Previously to sync them I would use Microsoft's SyncToy which allowed me to point it at my Music folder on the PC and the microSD card on the Android device and it would easily and simply sync the two folders.
However now I have a device that only supports MTP which SyncToy does not, I've tried different syncing applications but they too seem to have some issues with the MTP protocol. I'm wondering what's the best way to sync music between my PC and Android phone preferably using USB as my collection is slightly large.
Concrete Donkey said:
Hello,
I currently have music stored both on my Android phone and on my PC, both are in their own "Music" folders. Previously to sync them I would use Microsoft's SyncToy which allowed me to point it at my Music folder on the PC and the microSD card on the Android device and it would easily and simply sync the two folders.
However now I have a device that only supports MTP which SyncToy does not, I've tried different syncing applications but they too seem to have some issues with the MTP protocol. I'm wondering what's the best way to sync music between my PC and Android phone preferably using USB as my collection is slightly large.
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search the play store for Multi Mount SD-Card
Hi, I recently purchased one of these Android 4.1 Car stereo units http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528349 (I've looked all over that thread and haven't been able to find a solution to my problem.)
I want to be able to use Doubletwist player as my main music player, and I want it to be able to read the files on my external usb hard drive (plugged into the back of the unit).
The unit recognizes the USB hard drive, as I can access all the files through certain other music players and through any file explorer. The problem is that Doubletwist won't recognize anything other than the internal storage and the SD card.
I emailed Doubletwist and they replied with this:
DoubleTwist Player uses two sources to recognize files (& the associated metadata) and playlists on the device.
1. Sync database created/updated by the computer application during a sync.
2. Android Media Scanner (AMS) database which is updated by the Android Media Database service.
So if the storage location isn't seen by the AMS service, doubleTwist Player will not import information about these files into it's database.
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Is there any way to edit what directories the Android Media Service looks at? Then I could simply swap the sd card and usb drive directories (I don't use the SD card slot at all). Or does anyone have another solution to get this to work?
Alternatively, I just want decent music player similar to Doubletwist. I like Doubletwist's intuitive UI, the fact that it uses playlists and the fact that I can "play next" or "add to play queue".
I have tried Poweramp and I don't really like the interface, and Rocketplayer would have been fine but it is really buggy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
P.S. Forgot to mention, the usb directory is /mnt/usb/mnt1
Any ideas?
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Hi, I was wondering if one could transfer music files in to an USB flash drive, plug it in the phone with an OTG cable and use it as a direct storage for the stock music player of Android, or any other music player there is on the market? So far I only have succeeded in finding the files with file explorer, and I must click them indicidually from that file explorer to get them played in a music player. I can't make them show up in the playlists directly which is a bit annoying. Is there any solution, other than transferring the music files in to the phone memory or phone micro sd? I have an Bluetooth connection on my car, but the SD thing is a bit pain in the butt, so I'd prefer using my phone screen to switch songs etc.