Anyone know of any app that does 2 way media sync? Double twist is nice, but i personally take more pics, vids, and DL new music on my phone. I want it to sync back to PC also, but just PC to phone.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
use winamp with ml_ipod plugin, it will show as a removable drive and prompt you to sync each time you plug in has two boxes, left with what will be added to the device and right side with what will be removed from the device
Awesome. I will give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.
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use winamp with ml_ipod plugin, it will show as a removable drive and prompt you to sync each time you plug in has two boxes, left with what will be added to the device and right side with what will be removed from the device
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use winamp with ml_ipod plugin, it will show as a removable drive and prompt you to sync each time you plug in has two boxes, left with what will be added to the device and right side with what will be removed from the device
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+1 on the winamp + ml_ipod plugin for the music sync as well as getting me back on the podcast train...... Listen just isn't cutting it for me and Double Twisting with itunes just makes the corpo laptop crawl..... Thanks!
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Hey all.
How about a simple music server for the G1 that uses a windows compatible file sharing system? (smb?)
I am always at a loss for music to listen to on my laptop, but my G1 has about 10 gigs of music on it.. it would be great to have an app that shared this out simply, and allowed my windows box to browse the contents of the phone without having to tether via usb.
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That would completely rape your battery, you'd need to have it plugged in after an hour or two. Why not just use a USB cord?
If there's anyone doing the opposite of this, and wants to listen to music on their G1 that's stored on the PC, check out five: http://code.google.com/p/five/
Unfortunately there's only a Linux server atm.
Use Orb.com works great for me, can view my web cam, open any picture, most videos, and get all the music from it.
Hi,
I am avid reader of these forums, and finally pulled the trigger and got the Samsung Captivate (I had to stick with AT&T). I am relatively new to Android, and I was stunned but what I got with my Captivate!! (all due respect to my old beloved Tilt with WiMo). To think I was seriously considering iPhone 4
Anyway, I am yet to root the phone - will wait a few more days to get comfortable. For now I have been playing with a ton of apps etc.
I have a 100 GB iTunes Library which sits on my home server. I am looking for a solution where I can selectively sync certain albums and playlists to my phone. No point in carrying around 2 devices. I have already tried Double Twist. The problem is I need to install the client on my Laptop and get the music synced from the home server. I have got this working by manually adding 1 folder at a time - which is cumbersome, and not to mention that I loose artwork, ratings etc.
So, I am looking to [Home Server] <--> [Laptop] <--> [Phone]. At any point the source for this library is the Home Server, Laptop is only a pass thru.
Why use the laptop in the middle? I don't want to store media files here (work laptop).
Why not directly sync with the Home Server? It sits in the basement and I am lazy to go down the every time I want to sync that was my major irritant with iPod syncing.
Any recommendations?
Regards
Nick
Can't you set up home sharing in iTunes? That way you can see your library from your server on your laptop, and have doubletwist pull your playlist from that iTunes.
Home Server <--> Laptop --> DoubleTwist --> Captivate
I can't remember the exact steps, but I know you can pull from a home server like you are saying. Most people do it with their home theater set ups, but I don't see why it couldn't be done this way
I just use estrong file manager, and am able to get to my file shares via wifi. While this might work exactly like you want you won't have to plug in. just a thought.
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I found Doubletwist to be unstable. I used MediaMonkey. It supports playlists and syncing to mounted drives or media devices. If you mount your homeserver as a drive letter on the laptop, then MediaMonkey should work fine.
The free version did all i needed, but it doesn't sync video - just music.
Google is your friend.
http://www.knowyourcell.com/samsung...o_sync_the_samsung_captivate_with_itunes.html
This works with any android phone.
Hi all!
I am new here...Hi! Wondering if you can help me out? I am new to to Windows Phone software (a recent Apple convert!) and am struggling a little with a couple of things:
1 - Getting the phone to appear on my computer as an external device so i can just drop some videos on to it, i have sync'd the phone to no avail!?
2 - Getting previous digital copies of films which were put onto my external HDD through iTunes, when i view them in my computer they show up with the Zune logo,then when you try to play them, it says cannot play, burn or sync this protected file code - C00D11E7. But Zune says it accepts .m4v files?!
Thanks in advance for you help!
Scott.
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Hi all!
I am new here...Hi! Wondering if you can help me out? I am new to to Windows Phone software (a recent Apple convert!) and am struggling a little with a couple of things:
1 - Getting the phone to appear on my computer as an external device so i can just drop some videos on to it, i have sync'd the phone to no avail!?
2 - Getting previous digital copies of films which were put onto my external HDD through iTunes, when i view them in my computer they show up with the Zune logo,then when you try to play them, it says cannot play, burn or sync this protected file code - C00D11E7. But Zune says it accepts .m4v files?!
Thanks in advance for you help!
Scott.
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1 - You cannot use it as an external device. You can sync photos, videos, songs through Zune. Just open Zune, let it access the folders where you keep the stuff u want it to sync into your phone. Then through the contents, drag folders or files you want into the phone logo at the bottom left hand corner and it will sync in. The reason they do this is to minimise risks of virus or things to get into your phone I guess.
2 - Dunno about iTunes files as not an Apple fan. but i have been syncing videos in to my HD7 with no problems. I guess maybe your vids are locked by iTunes only to be played by Apple apps?
I am running Mosaic IV (2.3) on my Captivate. So far the SYNC picks up my phone, grabs the phonebook, can dial and play media through bluetooth. Really don't care about text messages coming through.
The thing I'd love to know is how to get it to be recognized and play the media through USB connection so it will index the music, etc.
I did read a ford post that the person put it into media player mode and connected and it worked but it doesn't even find the device when I do that (can't get it to install a proper driver in my Win 7 either). It does find it when I put it into Mass Storage and hit the connect button but sits at initializing for a long long time then pops up as unsupported device.
I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with this? I'm also wondering if it has something to do with the Media player mode not working on my Win 7 either.
Thanks in advance
You will have to download an app called Sync My Ride made by Ford and run that to change the tags on your music files so that sync can recognize them. Keep your phone in USB Storage mode. Also, try moving your music files from the SD card to the internal card or vise versa. Not sure how sync handles the two different drives that come up if you have a SD card in. I use my Captivate in my Ford Focus with no problem. It does take a while to index my music files (about 30 mins for all my music) using the usb connection, so I prefer to use the Bluetooth media option through sync now.
Thanks for the info. Can't find it in the market or by Google. Any ideas? Have the apk handy?
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Thanks for the info. Can't find it in the market or by Google. Any ideas? Have the apk handy?
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It is for your computer not your phone. Sorry for not mentioning that. Here is the link: https://secure.syncmyride.com/Own/Modules/SupportContent/SupportHome.aspx
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It is for your computer not your phone. Sorry for not mentioning that. Here is the link: https://secure.syncmyride.com/Own/Modules/SupportContent/SupportHome.aspx
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Hunting through their software I see sync my phone which would help with my phonebook but i'm not having a problem with that. I took the music folder off my phone and put it on a simple 2gb usb memory stick and it picked it all up and indexed no problem so i don't think it's an issue with the tags otherwise they wouldn't have read.
It didn't pick it up when the music was on my internal sd just sat at initializing then eventually timed out and said not supported. Did the same thing when ONLY my music was on the external sd card and formatted at FAT. Saw someone say to use FAT32 (which is what the USB is formatted at and it works), so I did just that and put it at FAT32 and with only my music folder on there it still had no love.. didn't even try to initialize just said USB Empty.. so it thought it was supported, just nothing on there.
Well I think it is just going to be easier to have a basic usb drive in there with the music. I can 'sync' my music folder to the USB at anytime.. and as I won't have playlists i'll just make album tags since that works just fine.
If anyone else has any ideas toss em in.
Thx!
Hey can anyone recommend good software for managing media? I particularly want to transfer photos easily. I have a program for music, but I'm open to recommendations. I know that Samsung has Kies and Sony has Media Go, both are useful. Does Motorola have any official media software?
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Hey can anyone recommend good software for managing media? I particularly want to transfer photos easily. I have a program for music, but I'm open to recommendations. I know that Samsung has Kies and Sony has Media Go, both are useful. Does Motorola have any official media software?
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Try AirDroid. The transfer is over wifi and you can transfer almost everything. Besides it is a file manager, ftp server, system manager...
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm really looking for PC/laptop software, I find it really easy to manage media from there. I see Songbird will only connect in Mass Storage Mode and Songbird is OK for music but not pictures. I'll find something eventually!
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Thanks for the recommendation. I'm really looking for PC/laptop software, I find it really easy to manage media from there. I see Songbird will only connect in Mass Storage Mode and Songbird is OK for music but not pictures. I'll find something eventually!
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Is Motorola Motocast acceptable http://www.mymotocast.com/download
Hi, that software looks PERFECT. I tried it with the RAZR i and it won't set up at all. I have everything installed but cannot manage media let alone sync anything. Is this software compatible with the RAZR i?
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Is this software compatible with the RAZR i?
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Well according to the download on Play it says not.
You mentioned Medio Go so presumably you also use it? You can copy your photos etc in to Media Go and simply select your folder/s from there and select “Add to” Your phone will then show up as “Unnamed device” with the sub-options of moving them to internal or external memory, or you can simply transfer them directly from your pictures folder. No offence intended but I don’t see the problem.
This is my first Motorola (and also Android) phone, but they sure don’t seem too concerned about providing PC media management.
How about google Picasa?
No worries, I get it; if you have use for something, you understand, if you don't need something, you won't understand. A few of my other devices (Apple and Sony) allow for quick and automatic movement of media from A to B or vice versa just by connecting the devices, I'm looking for the same now. I've been using the 10 camera shot per second feature and the photos are really stacking up. Drag and drop is a bit too 1990s for me. I've uninstalled Media Go now, I thought it didn't even recognise non-Sony devices? I'll give it a go then, if you say it appears.
True about Motorola and PC management, everywhere related to my phone it directs me to Motocast. I emailed them and they said the RAZR i is not compatible. Nevermind, I'll find something.
All I’m saying is that you can transfer files/folders via Media Go using “Add to” on right-clicking in Windows.
Whether this is the functionality you’re actually looking for I’m not sure but it works for me. I’ve used it to transfer a couple of albums and a number of tracks over (although my Walkman is my main portable music source), and after reading your thread I thought I’d see how it works with photos and no problems.
Just tried it out with iTunes but there doesn’t seem to be an obvious way of doing the same: there may be,but I can’t be bothered to find out!
Thanks buddy, I appreciate your help.
For music, if you do like iTunes, I have a recommendation. There is an app called iSyncr which allows you to copy any lists in your iTunes directly to your phone. If you use their Rocket Player to use the music, it will update your playcounts etc. Music at least, I've got covered! :good: