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How many of you keep your music on either your phone or SD card and which do you find the best
 
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.
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Samsung A5, Android 15, Poweramp.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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