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The best way to transfer music to SGS ?

Hello all- I have just got a 16gb card in my SGS and have been using Windows Media Player as well as Winamp and it never seems to come out correctly.
I always end up missing album are and the some files end up being deleted, it's just not as straight up and easy as I believe it should be.
What programs do you guys use to get music on your I9000 ?
I was wondering if Kies was any good but I found Kies to be quite slow and spotty.
Any good solid ways to make transfers easy, especially with album art ?
Cheers for any information !!
LL13-

USB Mass Storage cut and paste .
Cover Art Downloader for any missing artwork
http://www.appbrain.com/app/cover-art-downloader/com.birbeck.android.coverart
jje

is itunes aac/m4a better than mp3? cuz it uses little space and i don`t se any sound quality differences

Yes aac is better than MP3 AAC+ better still .
jje

JJEgan said:
USB Mass Storage cut and paste .
Cover Art Downloader for any missing artwork
http://www.appbrain.com/app/cover-art-downloader/com.birbeck.android.coverart
jje
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Yes, agree totally. use USB Mass storage function and copy and paste, its the least painful way
burner07 said:
is itunes aac/m4a better than mp3? cuz it uses little space and i don`t se any sound quality differences
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erm itunes?? isnt that fruit? hmmm lol yes if you find they work fine and are smaller without sound quality loss you should be good. It will just be encoded at a higher rate thus making the file smaller.......or you could change the encoding rate of mp3s to make the file smaller and avoid fruit lol

I use Windows media player. Just set it to never auto sync and nothing will be removed ever. Also just manually sync the songs u want. I also do this via a card reader and my micro SD card while phone is off very fast.
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I'm using iTunes on PC, so I install doubleTwist to sync music between iTunes and SGS
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That winamp music transfer is great if you use winamp

Use "Media Player" USB Connection mode and sync via Windows Media Player... it will work... the playlists, however, won't.
So, manually copy your playlists (after syncing) to the /sdcard/Playlists folder and use a player that can read .wpl files (PlayerPro)
All will work fine.

Cheers for the help guys. I may avoid WMP and try the card and reader and just transfer that way.
I am quite picky about album art, and it turns out the cover art app is very good !!
Cheers again, LL13-

Problem! My phone can't find any songs i add to internal or external card. Same problem with videos. Alltough i can find all my music in poweramp cuz there you can choose music folders.
I'm on darkys 8.0 with lagfix enabled and using launcher.
Thanks!
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I have the same problem, can any one help?
hasba said:
Problem! My phone can't find any songs i add to internal or external card. Same problem with videos. Alltough i can find all my music in poweramp cuz there you can choose music folders.
I'm on darkys 8.0 with lagfix enabled and using launcher.
Thanks!
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apparently your search for media files on sd card is not working .. it runs on bootup unless you disabled it.. try to get a program like switch pro widget that lets you re-sync media.

[Q] Music's Tag on Galaxy ACE

I'm using Samsung Galaxy ACE, this phone is nice and there's nothing to complain about it. But nearly here, I did install a ROM, the Stocklite 7.1 with battery extender kernel and slaid480's script. And then, all the songs in my sdcard's tag isn't right anymore :| You know, I don't know what I did with the ROM, the kernel, the script,... I just flash it normally, like every other ROM, but what? Before this, with other ROMs, there's nothing wrong with my music (I'm not meaning to complain about the stocklite, it's a nice ROM, I'm just confused) but now, it's all wrong, I can ensure with all of you, from my computer, the songs are still normal, but when I copy them to my sdcard, just like my phone can't read the tags. How did this happen??? Anyone? Please help me, I've asked this question so many times but noone replied me. I have to go to school almost everyday of the week and without music at breaktime is disaster! Please help me!
P/s: my music is from iTunes, the songs are iTunes version, file m4a. :crying:

Somebody, help me :-? I'm really annoying with this, anyone? :|
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That's wierd. All my songs work fine. Does ace support m4a file format?
Try some other music player from market. Make sure the folder containing music is not protected or something, also make sure that there's no " .nomedia " file in the songs folder.

Maybe something got messed up with the music app database if you uses titanium backup to restore data.
Remove all songs from sd, delete data and cache from music app, reboot, open up your music app (now u got no songs), close the music app.
Put the songs back, reboot and check if the tags are ok.

tj_droid said:
That's wierd. All my songs work fine. Does ace support m4a file format?
Try some other music player from market. Make sure the folder containing music is not protected or something, also make sure that there's no " .nomedia " file in the songs folder.
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Ace supports m4a file format, like i said, before i install that rom, and kernel, and the script, everything's fine. There's no dotnomedia in the songs' folder any different idea???
dxppxd said:
Maybe something got messed up with the music app database if you uses titanium backup to restore data.
Remove all songs from sd, delete data and cache from music app, reboot, open up your music app (now u got no songs), close the music app.
Put the songs back, reboot and check if the tags are ok.
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i'd followed your instruction and nothing changed. :-< I'm using the stock music player, but Google Play isn't any better, the tags are still suck

[Q] Downloading music

I have had all three versions of the EVO and have always been able to download free mixtapes with my phone and use a file explorer to transfer the files to my music folder and they were instantly in my player. With the HTC One I can download them and move them and even play them from e'sfile explorer but my music player never sees them. If I connect phone HTC one to my computer and put the same songs in my music folder they show up instantly... What the hell is going on? No SD card problem?
Appreciate the help in advance

You need to rescan the phone for media. There are apps for that. I think one is even called rescan media
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rmusic2400 said:
I have had all three versions of the EVO and have always been able to download free mixtapes with my phone and use a file explorer to transfer the files to my music folder and they were instantly in my player. With the HTC One I can download them and move them and even play them from e'sfile explorer but my music player never sees them. If I connect phone HTC one to my computer and put the same songs in my music folder they show up instantly... What the hell is going on? No SD card problem?
Appreciate the help in advance
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If you are downloading legal music via mixtapes etc why not just go to mixtapetorrent.com and use the utorrent app to download the music. You can use utorrent to direct the music to the spot you want it on your phone. Thus no need for the file explorer etc.

Are you serious that this amazing phone requires a 3rd party app to recognize mp3's in the music folder? I can do that but it really doesn't click with how advanced this thing is. My old HTC phones didn't need that.

I have no issues with the Music player seeing music in the music folder..

derekwilkinson said:
I have no issues with the Music player seeing music in the music folder..
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I'm having the same problem the OP listed. No idea why. Same files my Evo had no problems with.

reaper36 said:
Are you serious that this amazing phone requires a 3rd party app to recognize mp3's in the music folder? I can do that but it really doesn't click with how advanced this thing is. My old HTC phones didn't need that.
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No, it doesn't need another app to recognize the apps. It's just not triggering the operating system to rescan for media files. Android scans the entire storage on boot or between mounting the storage for new media files (pictures, audio, video, etc) and then adds them to the libraries they belong to. Certain actions can bypass this scanning for new media. This app I suggested manually tells the system to scan for these files. It's nearly instantaneous when you do it. I've had to use it before on other devices, you literally open the app and you're done.

For some crazy reason I can not get any of four albums to show up. Rebooted phone, ran rescan media. Even pulled one song out of it's sub-folder and put it straight into the music folder.

reaper36 said:
For some crazy reason I can not get any of four albums to show up. Rebooted phone, ran rescan media. Even pulled one song out of it's sub-folder and put it straight into the music folder.
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Do the file names have periods in the name such as in place of a space? What file type are the files?
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gk1984 said:
Do the file names have periods in the name such as in place of a space? What file type are the files?
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Example: 08 Orianthi - Another You.mp3
10-orianthi-highly_strung.mp3
01 Lights Of Manos.mp3
From 3 albums that worked on my OG Evo this morning.

I had the same problem and after getting the music player to play the song it said the format wasn't supported. And these were songs I played on my galaxy nexus fine. And astro file explorer plays them fine too...
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[Q] MP3 ringtones showing in Play Music app

How can I keep short mp3's I have on my phone for use as ringtones from showing up in the Play Music app?
Adding a blank file with the name .nomedia in the ringtones directory solves the problem but then in turn prevents me from being able to choose those files as ringtones.
I'm sure this isn't a new issue but one that I've never encountered since all my previous phones had an SD card slot and I kept these files on the external rather than internal storage.

HankStorm said:
How can I keep short mp3's I have on my phone for use as ringtones from showing up in the Play Music app?
Adding a blank file with the name .nomedia in the ringtones directory solves the problem but then in turn prevents me from being able to choose those files as ringtones.
I'm sure this isn't a new issue but one that I've never encountered since all my previous phones had an SD card slot and I kept these files on the external rather than internal storage.
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Bump to see if anyone has any ideas.

What works for me is: after adding them to the ringtones folder, go to setting, apps, scroll across to all and then down to media storage. Force stop and clear data and then reboot. On reboot wait a while for the play music app to rebuild and the should be gone.
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maccag said:
What works for me is: after adding them to the ringtones folder, go to setting, apps, scroll across to all and then down to media storage. Force stop and clear data and then reboot. On reboot wait a while for the play music app to rebuild and the should be gone.
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That seems to have worked! It's been a few hours and the ringtone files aren't showing in the Play Music app but all my actual music files are. Thanks for the tip!

HankStorm said:
That seems to have worked! It's been a few hours and the ringtone files aren't showing in the Play Music app but all my actual music files are. Thanks for the tip!
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Your welcome
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Basic question about stock music player.

I have thousands of music files on my SD card. The stock music player seems to only be able to access and read ( when in shuffle mode under tracks ) some of my songs , meaning the ones only under tracks heading in shuffle mode. A little bit of research made me believe that the reason only half of my songs are listed under tracks is that the rest are within sub folders on the SD card and not accessible under tracks to be played via the shuffle method.
Any ideas on what I need to do to make all my songs accessible for shuffle play?
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I've just been extracting my albums to the desktop of my cpu. Then dragging and dropping the album folders to the SD card with my n4 plugged in.

if you dont keep your music in folders, then it will be easier for them to be read by all music players..
not very organized, but, at least all your songs are available all the time, with every player..

wase4711 said:
if you dont keep your music in folders, then it will be easier for them to be read by all music players..
not very organized, but, at least all your songs are available all the time, with every player..
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So basically I would have to dump all music files into one folder. Breaking up all albums and folders?
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Nope.

10-K said:
Nope.
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OK put albums in one folder and not make sub folders within a folder?
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Sorry you are having such trouble.
My albums are each in their own folder loose on my SD card. Maybe this pic will help more.
You can see a rom, a pic, and the album folders

10-K said:
Sorry you are having such trouble.
My albums are each in their own folder loose on my SD card. Maybe this pic will help more.
You can see a rom, a pic, and the album folders
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So basically you don't have folders within those folders?
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Yes

Thanks guys.
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just remember, every music player handles files differently, so keep that in mind when you do that..
for me, I just dump it all on my sd card in a directory called music, and always play them randomly anyways, so there is never an issue with any player I use by doing that