Transfer music from my N7 2012 Lollipop to my N7 2013 Kitkat?

[Little Squirt]

I have both Nexus 7's - 2012 and 2013. Unfortunately, I installed the Lollipop update onto my 2012 tablet a while back, but have ignored the "install 5.0.2" prompt that's on my 2013 N7 and still have KitKat on it.

Meanwhile, I have a lot of music/songs on my 2012 N7 that I would like to transfer onto my 2013 N7. I no longer have those songs on my new PC (the old PC crashed a few months ago) so is there any way to transfer all the music on my 2012 directly over to my 2013 tablet? :-\

 

[Golfdriver97]

I would suggest to try uploading them to Google Play. I think you can do that via mobile devices.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

If they both have NFC (can't remember if the 2012 does) you can use an app to do it that way. You can also use a cloud service to do it. Some won't let you store long term, but I've used Dropbox and Drive to get a few songs from one device to another.

You can also use a USB OTG cable to do it I believe. That would depend on device support, and while I'm almost certain they both support it you would need to check.

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[Aquila]

It does have NFC.

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[Little Squirt]

Thanks for your comments. Yes, both 2012 and 2013 N7's have NFC which I switched on. I also d/l "SuperBeam" and "Astro file manager" from the Play Store and tried to transfer the music by touching the two tablets together like I read about here: The Fastest Way to Share Large Files from a Nexus 7 to a Samsung Galaxy S3 or Other Android Device « Nexus 7 but couldn't get it to work.

I also read online that for some reason Windows 8.1, which I'm stuck with on my new computer , won't recognize Nexus 7 via a USB connection and I certainly found that to be true with both of my N7 tabs.

What finally worked for me was to use the regular/mini USB cable that came with the N7 to transfer my songs from the 2012 N7 to our old Windows 7 laptop, and then use that cable to upload them from the Win7 laptop to my 2013 N7. Whew!!