Hi all
Just got new HTC One and lovin' it!
It was a tough decision moving from WP7 on a Titan but I'm generally very pleased.
The one thing about WP7 was it's synchronisation of everything without effort.
So my issue is that it would appear HTC Sync Manager is not up to the same spec as Zune when it comes to syncing music.
Don't get me wrong I can manage with WMP12 probably but I still can't buy tunes in Google Play Store on my phone and have them automatically sync to my PC music library.
HTC Sync Manager doesn't even accurately reproduce my PC music library. I have a playlist in WMP12 with 219 tunes in it and HTC SM sees only 134 songs in the same playlist. I have another playlist with 12 tunes in it and Sync Manager sees none of them!
Am I missing something or is it just how it goes?
I've done some searching of the forum but don't find any answers.
I've found out that HTCSM needs phone to be in USB debugging mode and Window 7Home 64bit needs it out of debugging mode otherwise it says it's disconnected. All seems a bit hit and miss to me.
If anyone has any tips I would love to hear them.
Thanks for listening.
Hi, seems you have the same pain as me.. i come from iPhone though..
While reading your post I could not help but think that Winamp might be the solution. It's able to index your library, from WMP as well as iTunes.. and has mobile sync capability (music only) .. I don't know if it works both ways like you describe ( download music from phone)..
Some apps let you make backups of music ( sandisc memory zone ) which might get you some of the way..
I'm new to android so I'm guessing here.. will listen in if someone else had all the answers
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WinAmp
Yeah, I had a look at WinAmp but didn't see a way to sync both ways. I'll have another look.
I'm probably one of the few who doesn't care about any form of sync cos I'm a little OCD in that I need to know where each and every song goes so I manually transfer them over xD
But yes I do know that Android doesn't have a fully featured sync/backup solution.
fillippe said:
Hi all
So my issue is that it would appear HTC Sync Manager is not up to the same spec as Zune when it comes to syncing music.
Don't get me wrong I can manage with WMP12 probably but I still can't buy tunes in Google Play Store on my phone and have them automatically sync to my PC music library.
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The only way to get purchased music from Google Play onto your computer is to download them on your computer via either the Music Manager application (which I believe will only download your entire library... a bit bandwidth-heavy) or to load up play.google.com/music on your PC and manually download the files there. This is a Google Play thing, not an HTC thing. When you download music from Google Play on your phone, it doesn't download as a simple mp3 file. It'll be something like 12812814581271.dat. You could probably rename the file to an mp3 and it'd be fine, but good luck figuring out which song is which.
Google Music Manager
Thanks craigOr, I'm trying Music Manager out right now. It might do the job, we'll see!
Google Play Music Manager
Music Manager works for me. Synchronises whether music purchased on home or mobile web, Also has option to locally cache tracks played on mobile device.
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Hi all,
got something that's driving me crazy, i can sync my music with windows media player fine and the music copies across as it should however when i come to play the music with touchflo 3d it only shows the first lot of music i put on.
I cannot seem to figure out how to refresh the libray on touchflo 3d...
does anyone have the answer for me?
thanks
If you tap 'Library', then slide accross to Albums... do your recently synced items show up there?
I am having this problem too
I cannot see any of my music in TF3D music player
no nothing is showing up i resynced all my music with media player and still nothing shows, it nows says no music found.
there must be a better way to sort the library.
there shouldnt be this hassle just to put music on the phone!
I think you require too much for a phone so cheap.
Try the advantage,or wait for HD.
htcenrico said:
I think you require too much for a phone so cheap.
Try the advantage,or wait for HD.
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i want your job if you consider this to be (a phone so cheap)
you get paid too much.
on the plus side to the normally challenged people out there , you have to update the library in windows media player, then go into library on touchflo 3D, select all songs and play the first track it then updates all the tracks for you.
waz000000 said:
you have to update the library in windows media player, then go into library on touchflo 3D, select all songs and play the first track it then updates all the tracks for you.
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thannks man, this has been driving me crazy - talk about a flaw in the system!
Will
Delete Application Data/HTC/AudioManager/AudioManager_Eng.vol and do soft reset.
this will rescann your complete library.
i got the same problem and this helped
I still cannot get it to work - all my music syncs of from media player and I can play it on media player on the diamond but on TF3D it just hangs on Searching!!!
If i delete all my media and load 1 song it works fine if I do the above deleting of the HTC application folder but if I then try to add some more it does not work!!
Has anyone got this working? or is it just me?????
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I still cannot get it to work - all my music syncs of from media player and I can play it on media player on the diamond but on TF3D it just hangs on Searching!!!
If i delete all my media and load 1 song it works fine if I do the above deleting of the HTC application folder but if I then try to add some more it does not work!!
Has anyone got this working? or is it just me?????
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prob just you lol, works for me try this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=397819&highlight=tf3d+music+albums
just add the music to internal storage yourself? :S works fine for me
nope didn't work...must be just me!!
I have moved to S2P but its a shame i wanted to use the built in stuff
I had the same problems too. Until I read and followed the instructions for adding songs and album art and updating the library on TF3D.
Now for the enchilada!! Does anyone know how you can update windows media's library (once you have added more songs to the Diamond from PC) and set it to search in a particular folder instead of adding all the media files on the phone(tomtom files, alert & warning sounds and the like) to your music library. Only solution thus far more is to delete these files every time i update, which is now getting a bit tiring .
Any help or suggestions welcomed.
As great as it is, the Hero is always going to attract comparisons with the iPhone. Both have their merits, but one area the Hero lags behind the iPhone is music management. The ease with which iTunes syncs music to the iPhone (or iPod) is a breeze, and I'd like to see the same with my Hero. Is there anything already, or does someone fancy coding a Windows program to do the same?
you can copy music just as files to your sdcard. although i would not call that "syncing" it is IMHO the best way there is, as it is portable to most devices and operating systems out there. don't know the result, but this topic was discussed already.
http://ita.sourceforge.net/
Try doubletwist.
Just like iTunes, imo
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Try doubletwist.
Just like iTunes, imo
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I uninstalled because I didn't want to sign up for another service.
Winamp
You can use the good old Winamp to sync music to your phone, pretty much like iTunes.
I use Salling Media Sync . With it I can keep using iTunes and more or less sync my music like I used to.
Edit: I see no real need to buy the program. The free version works well.
I am using SongBird + Folder Sync add on. But it has some bugs for now.
Doubletwist is No. 1.
I tried doubleTwist, but it doesn't update tags after I edit them, so I switched to SongBird.
Do you use FolderSync or other add on? FolderSync gives some errors. And my problem with the SongBird is it can watch only 1 folder, but I download music to 2-3 different folders in 2 drives.
I am getting sick of having to manage music on the HD7 through Zune, and my normal media player recognizes it but won't be able to sync. So just a few days ago I went back to Songbird and my phone was quickly listed when connected to PC, and damn right no more using Zune for music videos or even pictures!
So if you want an alternative try Songbird, and it's a damn good music manager as well.
Keep patient because i already try to copy music file with mass-storage mode but that song wasn't appear in my WP7 and then if I back to copy with my Zune, that's song will be appear.
I'm so sick about Zune player too because sometime it wasn't complete information sync into my phone, some music was show "Unknow Artist" or "Unknow Album".. I'm nothing to choose unless I click on "Erase All content" in the setting and all the song will be name again will re-sync.
(Bu that make all picture from my camera gone too.)
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I am getting sick of having to manage music on the HD7 through Zune, and my normal media player recognizes it but won't be able to sync. So just a few days ago I went back to Songbird and my phone was quickly listed when connected to PC, and damn right no more using Zune for music videos or even pictures!
So if you want an alternative try Songbird, and it's a damn good music manager as well.
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Lucky you, doesnt here, the phone is recognised but unable to sync using it
Did you try manually throwing in songs or playlists to it? I should have mentioned, I also have the registry hacks for USB mode, so those reg settings could be the reason why it syncs for me then.
Has anyone figured out way to keep purchased songs from google on the device? I have hooked the nexus up to the PC and i cant see my purchased songs, at all. Im using music v5.6.160p.1480807. Has anyone else ran into this issue? I downloaded the music to the phone but i cant move it to my pc.. or other media devices.
Google Play Music stores downloaded music in cache which can't be accessed without root and is pretty well buried. Plus the mp3 files are named with random characters.
You would actually want to download Google Music Manager to your PC - just search for it and Google will give it to you in the first result. It's a PC syncing application that runs in the background to sync your music. Open it by the Windows system try and go to settings, there's an option to download purchased music.
Or you can go to music.google.com and download the songs from there.
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gk1984 said:
Google Play Music stores downloaded music in cache which can't be accessed without root and is pretty well buried. Plus the mp3 files are named with random characters.
You would actually want to download Google Music Manager to your PC - just search for it and Google will give it to you in the first result. It's a PC syncing application that runs in the background to sync your music. Open it by the Windows system try and go to settings, there's an option to download purchased music.
Or you can go to music.google.com and download the songs from there.
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Thanks I'll give that a try. This seems a little different from the old method of just DL to the phone and browse to the directory and get the songs out of the cahce to add them to the ext SD card.
Download play music exporter , just google and install the apk. It needs root and you can save cached songs to your phone without need of PC
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Download play music exporter , just google and install the apk. It needs root and you can save cached songs to your phone without need of PC
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I will try this as well, the google music manager gave me errors saying that it couldnt connect to google servers... but my internet connection was fine. Apparently, this is an ongoing issue..
I Listen to the same music all the time, so I'm done with spotify. Gonna save loads by just buying the tracks I listen to. What sort of app do you use to listen to your music? The only thing I like with the iPhone system is that you can make a playlist in iTunes and then sync it. I hate managing that on the phone it self. Anything like that for android? Can you use google music for that, or is that only a spotifyish service?
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I Listen to the same music all the time, so I'm done with spotify. Gonna save loads by just buying the tracks I listen to. What sort of app do you use to listen to your music? The only thing I like with the iPhone system is that you can make a playlist in iTunes and then sync it. I hate managing that on the phone it self. Anything like that for android? Can you use google music for that, or is that only a spotifyish service?
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You can use Google Play Music for that.
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I Listen to the same music all the time, so I'm done with spotify. Gonna save loads by just buying the tracks I listen to. What sort of app do you use to listen to your music? The only thing I like with the iPhone system is that you can make a playlist in iTunes and then sync it. I hate managing that on the phone it self. Anything like that for android? Can you use google music for that, or is that only a spotifyish service?
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if you are very used to iTunes you can also use something like doubletwist or similar apps for your pc to sync your itunes library with your android phone. I have done this like 8 years ago when I switched from my ipod to my first android phone so I have no idea if that still works or how it is improved these days :angel: But getting rid of iTunes is a good idea anyway. Feels liberating! (don't take this too seriously)
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if you are very used to iTunes you can also use something like doubletwist or similar apps for your pc to sync your itunes library with your android phone. I have done this like 8 years ago when I switched from my ipod to my first android phone so I have no idea if that still works or how it is improved these days :angel: But getting rid of iTunes is a good idea anyway. Feels liberating! (don't take this too seriously)
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Not used to iTunes. Just like how you can make playlists in it Don't like google music as an app. But I buy music there. Have started to use MediaMonkey. It syncs nicely. And its both a desktop and phone app. But it has waaay more options that I need and feels a bit cluttery. Would love a simpler option
Well I personally just keep my music in folders on my PC and copy it to the phones SD card if there is something new. And since I have everything on my SD card I never have to sync anything - even when I switch phones. I'm an offline freak though, I need all my music physically on a card and I need it all with me all the time (I'm a musician and music teacher so it's a special situation I guess but I really do need a lot of it for work too). Also you never know when you're in a tunnel somewhere and you need that Pink Floyd fix!
Currently I use the Xperia Music app btw (link) and make my playlists directly on the phone.
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Well I personally just keep my music in folders on my PC and copy it to the phones SD card if there is something new. And since I have everything on my SD card I never have to sync anything - even when I switch phones. I'm an offline freak though, I need all my music physically on a card and I need it all with me all the time (I'm a musician and music teacher so it's a special situation I guess but I really do need a lot of it for work too). Also you never know when you're in a tunnel somewhere and you need that Pink Floyd fix!
Currently I use the Xperia Music app btw (link) and make my playlists directly on the phone.
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MediaMonkey is also offline Would love to use the stock music app actually. But making playlists on the phone is annoying. I need a computer when doing stuff like that
Edit: Wasn't bad at all using the stock app! Just so used to the spotify app and its horrible! bye bye mediamonkey Thanks!