SD card or Phone

[CompoSW]

How many of you keep your music on either your phone or SD card and which do you find the best

 

[cmgam]

How many of you keep your music on either your phone or SD card and which do you find the best

Hi.
My music is on the SD card to save space on internal memory.
Regards
Samsung A5, Android 15, Poweramp.

 

[Mooncatt]

I also keep music and other media on the SD card.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

How many of you keep your music on either your phone or SD card and which do you find the best

I'll address the part unanswered.

Stay away from no name brands. If buying online, only buy "Ships and Sold By 'That vendor' "

Great:
SanDisk
Samsung


Avoid:
Lexar
Kingston
PNY
No-Name Brands

 

[edubfromktown]

On my S25u.

Even with music and all the other stuff, free space is 360 GB of 512 GB total storage.

 

[dangerousfen]

For me storage space is not the main criterea, it's the transfer speed that is crucial.
Using USB to transfer all my music and photos to the phone memory takes eons. FTP is 10 times faster but you can't beat putting an SD card into a laptop card reader to perform the transfer.

 

[BerryBubbles]

I find my self out of cell phone signal range often so I do like having my music stored on my device. Camping in the mountains, no signal, makes sense. Working out at the gym, lousy signal & wifi. Go figure ...

On my Samsung phone, there is no SD card slot, so obviously, the media is in internal storage. When it's time for a new phone, I use Samsung's Smart Switch to move the files. It's fast & efficient.

On my tablet, my media is still on an SD card. All the data on the card is backed up so if it fails nothing will be lost. If you use a SD cards, you would be wise to back it up. Years ago, I had a corrupted card. What a mess.

 

[BEaRebel]

Look at Adorama for your SD cards...And, anything else.
Using them for years.

 

[dangerousfen]

Look at Adorama for your SD cards...And, anything else.
Using them for years.

Yes maybe good but the issue here is the fact that we don't have SD cards in phones anymore. So annoying.

 

[StarLight88]

I have a few spare phones so I don't use SDcards in all phones. My newest phone I only use for calling and texting and shopping apps for like walmart and amazon. But when it comes to music I have a older spare phone with a couple thousand mp3 files and there is a microsd card in that phone. But I have not used it in months. I have a second spare phone with a lot of storage and I have music and ebooks on it as well as use it for a gaming phone and no microsd card in it currently and still has more then half the space and I have over 400 songs on it. So it all depends on the phone and the kind of music and music player and media apps. I normally just use music saved to the phone and then I don't need wifi so I can be in airplane mode and still listen to the music without running the battery low. so it really depends on the quality of the phone.

 

[gomezz]

That is an option I have considered but loses the convenience of having one device to do it all which would be like a return to the stone age of packing a walkman, a gameboy and a feature phone etc.

 

[kirk781]

Avoid:
Lexar
Kingston

Does Kingston have a poor reputation in general? I think I have a cheap USB from them, but that's it.

Answering OP's question, I keep music files (and video as well) on SD card. Apps make sense to be kept on phone but otherwise other stuff, even downloaded podcasts and music from YTM are set to be stored on SD card.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

Does Kingston have a poor reputation in general? I think I have a cheap USB from them, but that's it.

Answering OP's question, I keep music files (and video as well) on SD card. Apps make sense to be kept on phone but otherwise other stuff, even downloaded podcasts and music from YTM are set to be stored on SD card.

Yup.
SD cards always fail and would never trust an NVMe from them either. Poor value, performance and reliability. That doesn't leave anything positive.