music on phone

[Ry]

welll, excuse me for not getting with the times. but what you all are talking about basically requires internet. which isn't easily available out on the open country.

you see, i have a motorcycle to which i would like to do some jamming. and the music i have from the OLD TIME days is getting a little old. but since i can no longer get my music THE OLD FASHIONED way. i'm left with buying the music somehow and USING THE OLD FASHIONED WAY. transfering to my phone. VIA A CABLE.

i'm not up to date on the available ways you all are doing it these days. as i've had no reason to figure out what methods are used today.

but as of right now. all i want to do is buy my music since that's what it's come down to. and transfer to my phone using a cable. so i can listen to my music the old fashioned way. FROM MY DEVICE and not over the air waves.

if i were to buy music using itunes. does that play on android. cuz the last software i was using would trasnfer over to the phone. but andoird wouldn't pick them all up. and it was a real pain to sort through the invisible ones and make them correct so that android would pick them up. in fact, i've still got 5 songs that the phone can't see.

I'm not going to judge you, but I like how you're implying you illegally download(ed) music.

You asked about options and we've been giving you options.

If you're buying music on iTunes, it should be DRM free and you should have no issues plugging your phone into your computer and dragging files onto your phone. You should be able to use software like doubleTwist or Songbird to sync if that method is easier for you.

You use iTunes on a home computer, so I'm going to assume you have home internet and a WiFi connection at home.

Instead of plugging in your phone and doing things THE OLD FASHIONED WAY, you could just set Google Music to watch your iTunes folders. It will upload all of your music into the cloud (of course, it's going to take time depending on how much music you've downloaded THE OLD FASHIONED WAY), but then all you'd need to do is go on your phone and choose the songs you want to make available while offline while using your home network. If you have WiFi at home, this is a good method because:

A) you get a backup of all of your music in Google's cloud
B) you don't have to plug your phone in to choose songs
C) you don't need to install extra software like doubleTwist or Songbird

 

[snowwy66]

i've never used itunes before. it's been 2 years since i downloaded any music.

i started with napster. then i went to kazaa, the last thing i used was frostwire. i did the thing that everyone else did before pay for music came along. before DRM was invented. i transfer to my phone and was done. i didn't use any special apps to do whatever you guys are using these days. i had ALL my songs on my phone. to listen to what i wanted, when i wanted.

so forgive me if i'm not up to date on the latest techniques you all are using these days.

 

[Lee_Bo]

I have a 2TB external drive on one of my servers at work (100% legal music) and I have ZumoCast installed. Works ok, but I had to create a separate folder and drag songs there if I wanted to listen since it takes forever to sync 2TB's of music. Google Music is ok, again for playlists of, say, 50 songs or less. I've also tried Spotify and I like it. But, to each his own.