How do I transfer music?

[hhshah1979]

How do I transfer my music (which is supposedly stored on cloud on Google music) to my Samsung device. Which is not running Google music. Kindly help

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[Chex313]

Re: Music Transfer

Save music to your computer

Go to Google Play Music.
On the left menu under "Auto playlists," click Free and purchased.
Click Menu Menu > Download next to a song.
You can download a purchased song two times.
Download all purchased songs

You can use Google Play Music Manager to download all of your purchased music to your computer.

Open Google Play Music Manager.
Click Download.
Click Download purchased music.

Than add it to Samsung phone. Manually or Kies.

 

[crxssi]

Re: Music Transfer

Manually or Kies.

Or use the excellent AirDroid https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...s/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&token=PUY1rnuj

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Music Transfer

Good advice above. Here's a guide that also might help--scroll down to the Managing Music section: http://forums.androidcentral.com/ge...stalling-apps-managing-media.html#post3400938

 

[jvai]

Re: Music Transfer

i hated the fact android 4.+ doesn't support usb mass storage, & that alot of my music collection is live band music, not found to be purchased in any stores..

alot of it was converted from cassette to digital format.. & saved..

the only way i could get whole shows on the nexus 5 was to upload the folders to g-drive, THEN download them from there, to phone.. but each track indiviually :'(

i es file explorer & gmtp on my debian b0x, i could mount the phone but not pull nor push files in or out of the phone, but i could create an empty folder..

it was a tedious task, but, i have 4 all nighters on the nexus 5 to date..

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Music Transfer

the only way i could get whole shows on the nexus 5 was to upload the folders to g-drive, THEN download them from there, to phone.. but each track indiviually

Just curious--you were unable to connect your Nexus 5 via USB (using MTP protocol) to your computer and transfer the music files using drag & drop?

 

[jvai]

Re: Music Transfer

won't do on debian linux

 

[jvai]

Re: Music Transfer

won't do on debian linux

the closest i could get on my box

not perfect, at all..

 

[crxssi]

Re: Music Transfer

won't do on debian linux

Linux has full MTP support.... graphical too.... but you have to have some rather new libraries to do it. I tested it as working perfectly under Fedora 20 and KDE after loading libmtp and a few other things that I now forgot. Debian.. well, is pretty conservative.

I still think MTP is an abomination, however.

In any case, as I previously suggested: https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...s/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&token=qjuFOB9x

 

[jvai]

Re: Music Transfer

Linux has full MTP support.... graphical too.... but you have to have some rather new libraries to do it. I tested it as working perfectly under Fedora 20 and KDE after loading libmtp and a few other things that I now forgot. Debian.. well, is pretty conservative.

I still think MTP is an abomination, however.

In any case, as I previously suggested: https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...s/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&token=GPQacwIr

i've already tried airdroid & ssh server on android, both didn't work;

ssh server timed out over & over again

airdroid never connected to my b0x.

i'm thinking it's my file manager, i'm using thunar with no D.E. (desktop environment) at all

just openbox window manager - https://plus.google.com/100566062990321750433/posts/FbEsAr9ixUK

 

[jvai]

Re: Music Transfer

your version of libmtp is at 1.1.6?

lmao @ debian being *conservative*.. it's true; i'm on debian stable, & my version of libmtp is 1.1.3 -

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which BTW were already installed, , gmtp work with minimum support..


i could do backports from sid unstable, but no no.. when i tried that crap two months ago,

i ran a system update & left to drive to the store came back 5 mins.
tried to get in the house..

& found all the locks to my doors were changed..

not trying that crap for a mintue.. sticking with stable..

 

[crxssi]

Re: Music Transfer

i've already tried airdroid & ssh server on android, both didn't work; ssh server timed out over & over again, airdroid never connected to my b0x.

??? Airdroid works on every Android device on every computer on every browser. I have used it dozens of ways with dozens of various devices. It is just a local network to browser connection. It doesn't matter the OS, either. If it doesn't work, then you didn't configure it correctly, or you have a firewall or something preventing other devices on your local network from talking to the browser (which is a bit odd). SSH- might be same issue.

 

[crxssi]

Re: Music Transfer

your version of libmtp is at 1.1.6?

# rpm -q --all | grep -i mtp
gvfs-mtp-1.18.3-2.fc20.x86_64
libmtp-1.1.6-2.fc20.x86_64
kio_mtp-0.75-4.20131020git2063e75.fc20.x86_64

That is on a Fedora 20 laptop at work that just "works" with KDE and Dolphin with MTP devices. Strange that it is a git version of kio_mtp. Anyway, since it worked with kio-mtp in Dolphin, I didn't try any other method (non-gui or non-Dolphin file browser). My main desktop at work is Fedora 17, on that I use Thunar with LXDE, and mtp doesn't work graphically (and never tested it any other way).

At home under Mageia 3 (haven't updated to Mageia 4 yet) it works, but barely and is flaky/unreliable. I think it is the older kio-mtp which makes it unreliable:

$ rpm -q --all | grep -i mtp
mtpfs-1.1-2.mga3
kio-mtp-0-0.git20121204.2.mga3
libmtp-utils-1.1.6-1.mga3
lib64mtp-devel-1.1.6-1.mga3
lib64mtp9-1.1.6-1.mga3

Hmm. Also a git version

 

[bulletmark]

Re: Music Transfer

I still think MTP is an abomination, however.

I agree.

Seriously people, listen to the advice here and use AirDroid. Don't just say it "does not work". It is simple, brilliantly designed, has a beautiful UI, and works really well.

 

[jvai]

Re: Music Transfer

I agree.

Seriously people, listen to the advice here and use AirDroid. Don't just say it "does not work". It is simple, brilliantly designed, has a beautiful UI, and works really well.

ok ok ok ...

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[jvai]

Re: Music Transfer

# rpm -q --all | grep -i mtp
gvfs-mtp-1.18.3-2.fc20.x86_64
libmtp-1.1.6-2.fc20.x86_64
kio_mtp-0.75-4.20131020git2063e75.fc20.x86_64

That is on a Fedora 20 laptop at work that just "works" with KDE and Dolphin with MTP devices. Strange that it is a git version of kio_mtp. Anyway, since it worked with kio-mtp in Dolphin, I didn't try any other method (non-gui or non-Dolphin file browser). My main desktop at work is Fedora 17, on that I use Thunar with LXDE, and mtp doesn't work graphically (and never tested it any other way).

At home under Mageia 3 (haven't updated to Mageia 4 yet) it works, but barely and is flaky/unreliable. I think it is the older kio-mtp which makes it unreliable:

$ rpm -q --all | grep -i mtp
mtpfs-1.1-2.mga3
kio-mtp-0-0.git20121204.2.mga3
libmtp-utils-1.1.6-1.mga3
lib64mtp-devel-1.1.6-1.mga3
lib64mtp9-1.1.6-1.mga3

Hmm. Also a git version

lol.. well, sems like i can *sudo apt-get uninstall gmtp* lol

now that i've gotten airdroid to work..

well, this version was a different one, than the last i installed, this one reads airdroid 2..