Hi, I've had a Galaxy S3 running Android for around a year now, and I've found myself constantly tearing my hair out when trying to play music on it.
Firstly, it's a Galaxy S3, and I'm using a Macbook Pro (2013). All of my music is stored in the internal memory.
I've never been able to find the phone on my computer manually, before when I was using a PC it was easy enough to simply drag and drop the files I wanted using explorer. Not available with the Mac.
Firstly, before the 4.3 update. I used Kies, but even then it was a headache. Whenever I did a general upload of music, it would do so to a 'files' folder, which the music player could not recognise. Kies Air never worked either. How I managed it was to create a folder with all the songs I wanted to upload, go into Kies, click on the Sync tab, make sure that I choose the upload folder as 'Music', then select that folder I made and go for it. It was a bit labourous, but it worked. One thing I noted though, was that the phone wouldn't recognise the upload straight away. The files were there, and if you searched for them in your folders you could play them, but on any of the music players (Google Play, Music Player, WinAmp etc), they wouldn't come up in their menus, not for at least half a day, then out of nowhere there they were. Very strange.
Now with the 4.3 software update, I can't even get that. Trying to upload with Kies is a joke, it doesn't even seem to allow me to properly scroll through the music on the folder (stating the devise cannot be recognised). I thought it may be Kies that also needs to be updates, so I update it, only to find my original method of uploading though the sync tab has been lost, as the Kies team have decided to take that option away from me (now you can only sync up calendars and address books). The program, when clicking on my devise, just goes into an endless processing phase, with no outcome.
I've tried other options. Using Airdroid seemed promisining, but again to no avail. Managed to log into my phone, get into my music folder, delete some songs which I'm bored of, and uploaded a whole bunch of new ones. The infutiating thing is, it suceeded in deleting the old ones, and the new ones have been uploaded, but the music players won't see them!! Again, if I search for them, I can see them, they're in the correct music folder, but the music players will only find the ones that were already there, not the new uploads! It's enough to drive me mad! They're the exact same format in the exact same folder, why won't they recognise them???
I've looked into alternatives (MobileGo, which I'm weary of, don't fancy having to pay for it either, and other players, all of which only recognise the old songs I've had on there for a while) but nothing seems to work. If ANYONE has any help here, I'd much appreciate it, I'm really getting to the end of my patience here.
Firstly, it's a Galaxy S3, and I'm using a Macbook Pro (2013). All of my music is stored in the internal memory.
I've never been able to find the phone on my computer manually, before when I was using a PC it was easy enough to simply drag and drop the files I wanted using explorer. Not available with the Mac.
Firstly, before the 4.3 update. I used Kies, but even then it was a headache. Whenever I did a general upload of music, it would do so to a 'files' folder, which the music player could not recognise. Kies Air never worked either. How I managed it was to create a folder with all the songs I wanted to upload, go into Kies, click on the Sync tab, make sure that I choose the upload folder as 'Music', then select that folder I made and go for it. It was a bit labourous, but it worked. One thing I noted though, was that the phone wouldn't recognise the upload straight away. The files were there, and if you searched for them in your folders you could play them, but on any of the music players (Google Play, Music Player, WinAmp etc), they wouldn't come up in their menus, not for at least half a day, then out of nowhere there they were. Very strange.
Now with the 4.3 software update, I can't even get that. Trying to upload with Kies is a joke, it doesn't even seem to allow me to properly scroll through the music on the folder (stating the devise cannot be recognised). I thought it may be Kies that also needs to be updates, so I update it, only to find my original method of uploading though the sync tab has been lost, as the Kies team have decided to take that option away from me (now you can only sync up calendars and address books). The program, when clicking on my devise, just goes into an endless processing phase, with no outcome.
I've tried other options. Using Airdroid seemed promisining, but again to no avail. Managed to log into my phone, get into my music folder, delete some songs which I'm bored of, and uploaded a whole bunch of new ones. The infutiating thing is, it suceeded in deleting the old ones, and the new ones have been uploaded, but the music players won't see them!! Again, if I search for them, I can see them, they're in the correct music folder, but the music players will only find the ones that were already there, not the new uploads! It's enough to drive me mad! They're the exact same format in the exact same folder, why won't they recognise them???
I've looked into alternatives (MobileGo, which I'm weary of, don't fancy having to pay for it either, and other players, all of which only recognise the old songs I've had on there for a while) but nothing seems to work. If ANYONE has any help here, I'd much appreciate it, I'm really getting to the end of my patience here.
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