Anybody know of a way to play my zune pass music onto my phone? I love my Zune HD, but it can be an inconvinence to carry it around when my phone can already play music.
Depends on the music. If some songs are protected like DRM files, then no. But if you have songs that you know aren't, just drag and drop the songs you want into your SD card.
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I used to have the Zune pass and Zune HD. I gave the Zune HD to my gf, and ripped the DRM from all my Zune pass music using Tunebite (search torrents for it), and uploaded it to Google Music (I'll send you an invite if you want). This was a great solution, but it was time consuming to rip and upload my whole library to Google Music. Then every time I downloaded a new album, I'd have to rip it and upload it to the Google Music servers..gets annoying after a while.
So, I just got Spotify. It's only $10 a month and streams all the music you want to your phone. I have an unlimited data plan, so if you're on a newer plan and listen to a lot of music this might not work for you.
Push comes to shove, just use Tunebite to rip the DRM from your Zune music files and then drag and drop them onto your phone.
b3nny said:
Anybody know of a way to play my zune pass music onto my phone? I love my Zune HD, but it can be an inconvinence to carry it around when my phone can already play music.
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nooomoto said:
I used to have the Zune pass and Zune HD. I gave the Zune HD to my gf, and ripped the DRM from all my Zune pass music using Tunebite (search torrents for it), and uploaded it to Google Music (I'll send you an invite if you want). This was a great solution, but it was time consuming to rip and upload my whole library to Google Music. Then every time I downloaded a new album, I'd have to rip it and upload it to the Google Music servers..gets annoying after a while.
So, I just got Spotify. It's only $10 a month and streams all the music you want to your phone. I have an unlimited data plan, so if you're on a newer plan and listen to a lot of music this might not work for you.
Push comes to shove, just use Tunebite to rip the DRM from your Zune music files and then drag and drop them onto your phone.
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Awesome!
And greetings fellow Zune HD users!
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I've been looking to pay for a music subscription service for the nexus.
browsing through the marketplace, im stuck deciding between grooveshark, rhapsody, mog, and rdio. No spotify since I'm in the US. Just curious to see what you would recommend. All of them cost around $10/month and not interested in pandora, slacker as they are more radio stations that just recommend songs similar to your taste.
Im not that concerned about the social networking (lastfm/ping) and tagging aspect of these services. just want to be able to add playlists, play songs offline, and making queues. also which one has the best bitrate/quality for streaming or are they generally the same?
thanks for the suggestions!
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google up mspot
it's one of the easiest to use, and does not cache into your phone, no wasted space
but obviously, it will not work if you are in the subway, or anywhere without 3G
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I've been looking to pay for a music subscription service for the nexus.
browsing through the marketplace, im stuck deciding between grooveshark, rhapsody, mog, and rdio. No spotify since I'm in the US. Just curious to see what you would recommend. All of them cost around $10/month and not interested in pandora, slacker as they are more radio stations that just recommend songs similar to your taste.
Im not that concerned about the social networking (lastfm/ping) and tagging aspect of these services. just want to be able to add playlists, play songs offline, and making queues. also which one has the best bitrate/quality for streaming or are they generally the same?
thanks for the suggestions!
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Mspot is awesome
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i agree that mspot and audiogalaxy are great ways to upload your own music to the cloud and stream it.
but im looking more for an app that lets you "download" the song into offline mode so i wouldnt have to always rely on 3g or wifi. plus services like grooveshark and rdio allows you to basically choose any song in their collection - like a netflix for songs if you will.
im asking if anyone has used both of these or any alternatives such as rhapsody or mog and could make a comparison/recomendation? all of them cost roughly 10 bucks a month.
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i agree that mspot and audiogalaxy are great ways to upload your own music to the cloud and stream it.
but im looking more for an app that lets you "download" the song into offline mode so i wouldnt have to always rely on 3g or wifi. plus services like grooveshark and rdio allows you to basically choose any song in their collection - like a netflix for songs if you will.
im asking if anyone has used both of these or any alternatives such as rhapsody or mog and could make a comparison/recomendation? all of them cost roughly 10 bucks a month.
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Google music should be launching soon and as it would be (assumedly) natively supported it might be something worth waiting to check out as I believe it would allow you to do everything you want and more (IE the ability to recognize songs you own and stream those songs as well as others)
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Google music should be launching soon and as it would be (assumedly) natively supported it might be something worth waiting to check out as I believe it would allow you to do everything you want and more (IE the ability to recognize songs you own and stream those songs as well as others)
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I sure hope that google music will provide an easier way of managing and transferring music and tags to our devices. Doubletwist syncing lags for me but id still prefer that to dragging and dropping onto the sd.
I heard that Google music would just be over the air sync of the songs your currently have on your device. But i guess well just have to wait till tomorrow to find out. hopefully whatever it is, it will be released following its announcement.
I recently got the Zune pass on my focus and I see it streams songs but it also has an option to download the track. The player looks just like the one that streams audio from internet explorer.
Would it be possible to have an option like that for all audio or at least make an app that can do the same? Or is there already something like this?
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You've got to be more specific. What do you want to do?
Stream music and play it using the built-in Zune app (which is what IE does, not the other way around like you seem to think)? Lots of apps can do that.
Download music from the Zune store? No.
Download music from other sources, and play it using the Zune app controls? Same as answer one.
I know that I can stream music and play it with the Zune app, but I cannot download the song playing, meaning that every time I want to play it, I have to stream it. In other words, if I want the song stored on my phone, I have to go on a computer, download it, and sync it to my phone.
What I mean download music from the Zune store is that if you buy a Zune pass, you can download from the Zune store. Again, it is only the songs that Microsoft has made available.
So my question is, if I like a song on IE on my phone, is there any way for me to permanently save it to my phone?
Anyone know the best way to sync my nexus with iTunes? I've tried double twist and I don't like it as much.
I don't use iTunes, but I hear iSyncr is pretty good.
How dare you mention that program here jus kiddin' ... i dunno never tried it
Winamp should do the trick.
On your PC:
Get the Google Music Manager program (.exe) from Google
Install it to your Windows PC
Set it up and select the option that allows Google Music to sync automatically from itunes.
On your phone:
Download Google Music app and select your gmail account.
After initial sync is finished everything in your itunes will be in the Google Music app.
They will stay synced after that.
I use iTunes agent. It does the trick.
If I use google music I won't have any issues with some of my songs not being on my phone or not being able to play if I'm not in a good data spot will I? I did some research it looks like its a good way to go about I don't have a good media library I didn't wanna sacrific all my phones memory to all music but if I had to I am willing to.
I use isyncr and it works really well it cost a few dollars but good investment and the wifi plugin is a big plus
Just saying Amazon is usually cheaper than the for-mentioned excel spreadsheet music store
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If you are on a mac try this one Easy Phone Tunes
Just create a playlist with the music you want to sync, open app, sync DONE
I use iSyncr, tried a few others and once in a while album pictures or info didn't come out the same way they were on iTunes. Gets the job done for me.
Open itunes. Copy all music and drop in music folder on phone.
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Does isyncr refresh playlists and remove songs that are not in iTunes library. I hav dragged and dropped in all honesty I like having the playlists from iTunes to I think I'm stuck between Winamp or isyncr.
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Does isyncr refresh playlists and remove songs that are not in iTunes library. I hav dragged and dropped in all honesty I like having the playlists from iTunes to I think I'm stuck between Winamp or isyncr.
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yea you can set it to delete songs not in the playlist and the playlists do refresh
Right on theres what I've been looking for then. I was excited about google music but it was taking forever to upload my library of only 1535 songs and it'd probably take longer to be on my phone. And I was thinking since its cloud where I don't hav data or lose data the music won't play or it will buffer. That's just what I think anyway
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try double twist, I use google music and just sync mine to the cloud using Itunes but if you are really apposed to Itunes thats a really good alternative
Im having a same trouble, but my problem is with all the syn with itunes.
The window says its syncronized but if i look in the phone i dont have nothing :S.
Sorry for my bad english.
Use google music. It' s hastle free. You have access to your library, as long as, you have a signal, or you can make songs available off line.
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What is the best to store music. I have double twist, but it is a pain to sync my checked songs in Itunes. I am coming from a iphone, had one since 08. I also uploaded most of my music I listen to to Google Music. Is that the easiest? I am afraid with double twist it will sync all of my music. Also will stock music app play songs that I have on Google Music?
Thank
I have DoubleTwist, but I only use it for AirPlay, not for syncing, so I can't speak on that part.
The Play Music (Google Music) player is the only player that will stream your Google Music from the cloud. However, within Play Music, you can download songs to your device. At that point you need a third-party app to convert the downloaded Google Music songs to regular mp3's for use with other apps like the stock app or DoubleTwist.
Sorry, I can't recall what any of these third-party apps are called, but if you google around, you should be able to find them.
If you want to keep music on your phone (which is of course handy for when you don't have a data connection), I use Syncr, which seems to have an easier interface, and less buggy than DoubleTwist. I just dump the music I want into playlists, and sync the playlists to my phone using Syncr.
Haven't used Doubletwist in a while. But when I did, it seemed that more times than not, it would try to synch all my music to my phone, regardless of the fact that I indicated to only sync certain playlists. Since I have something like 40+ GB of music, it lock up my computer, and fail to sync successfully anyway (since there is obviously not enough storage on the phone). Then I would have to start over synching, and on subsequent attempts, it would finally do what I wanted.
I find the solution I use to be quite useful and actually pretty awesome.
I've uploaded my entire music collection to Google Music. Yeah, it takes a while, but just leave your computer on for a couple of nights and it will finish.
Next, I made sure everything was well-organized. I only keep complete albums (like buying a CD), so sometimes there will be a song or two that need to be manually grouped into the album. Do this!
And finally, go into the Google Music app for your phone, select a few albums, and make them 'Available Offline'. It takes a minute or so to get an entire album transferred onto the device. Make sure you do this while on WiFi.
Since my phone can't hold all of my music, I select about 10 albums or so- more than I can realistically listen to while I'm out, and swap in/out albums when I get new ones or want to listen to something else.
It's also pretty useful if you stumble into anywhere with WiFi and want to listen to your entire music collection- something a lot of us cannot do even with 32GB phone storage. You can also make some more music 'Available Offline' when you find WiFi out in the wild.
This has worked wonders for me so far.
So does Google music not let others tie into their service? Big disappointment IMO, I am coming from windows phone and iPhone that have these app silos. Android has a file system and I thought this could be avoided.
I want to use the new HTC Music Hub and at first thought that it was going to tie-in from Google music and bring down all of my music as well as tie-in with local music I have on the phone. Which I am realizing is not the case. All the HTC Music Hub is going to do it let me launch Google music... Disappointing
New question though. Can Google Music two-way sync from the phone? Let's say I download an album from the internet onto my phone. If I put it in a certain folder will it sync? or is there an option in Google Music to upload music from the phone to Google Music?
And last but not least, can the Google Music player play music stored locally on the phone?
You can only add songs to Google Music from your computer, for now.
If you make music 'Available Offline', it becomes stored locally and you can listen to it without an internet connection.
You cannot use Google Music to listen to non-Goolge Music locally stored music.
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I find the solution I use to be quite useful and actually pretty awesome.
I've uploaded my entire music collection to Google Music. Yeah, it takes a while, but just leave your computer on for a couple of nights and it will finish.
Next, I made sure everything was well-organized. I only keep complete albums (like buying a CD), so sometimes there will be a song or two that need to be manually grouped into the album. Do this!
And finally, go into the Google Music app for your phone, select a few albums, and make them 'Available Offline'. It takes a minute or so to get an entire album transferred onto the device. Make sure you do this while on WiFi.
Since my phone can't hold all of my music, I select about 10 albums or so- more than I can realistically listen to while I'm out, and swap in/out albums when I get new ones or want to listen to something else.
It's also pretty useful if you stumble into anywhere with WiFi and want to listen to your entire music collection- something a lot of us cannot do even with 32GB phone storage. You can also make some more music 'Available Offline' when you find WiFi out in the wild.
This has worked wonders for me so far.
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This is exactly what I'm thinking of doing if I get the One X. Some questions...
Is is simple to swap in/out albums for offline listening? (When on wi-fi.)
So the music is stored locally when downloaded for offline listening? For the One X would that mean the 'phone storage'? (The 9.8 available for media.)
Any idea how long it would take over wi-fi if I hypothetically chose 6 GB of music to download for offline listening?
How well organized is your music once you use the Google Music app? Any bugs? (Songs missing, artist listed twice, anything else.)
Thanks in advance for your answers.
I'm sure for most of us this is our first device with non-removable storage. Welcome to iphone-ville territory (WHY HTC?). Anyway, for those of us who enjoy music on a regular basis and prefer not to store all of our music on the phone, what app do you use to cloud-sync? I've tried google music but it seems limited and the upload is very slow. So what is your preferred method to listen to music?
Pandora and Grooveshark!
those apps are good for random playlists. But im talking about your own personal music library. I like the htc music app, but its useless if I can't store my entire music library.
Google Music upload is slow? Are you kidding me? I mean, maybe the initial upload - but after that, it's super fast and auto adds songs you add to your music collection instantly. I love it.
I like and pay for Spotify.
It integrates my itunes collection including playlists and I can sync whatever I want for offline playback.
I pay for Spotify as well and Im coming from Zune marketplace, of which I loved! Spotify is just as good imo and I don't find that it sucks my battery dry within an hour either.
Google Music and Spotify.
Off topic slightly but since some of use google music where and how does it store music for off line listening? Does it store them as actual MP3 files or something else and how do remove them when no longer wanted? Thanks in advance
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E.Cadro said:
Off topic slightly but since some of use google music where and how does it store music for off line listening? Does it store them as actual MP3 files or something else and how do remove them when no longer wanted? Thanks in advance
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Not sure how it is stored, but basically you go to the Music app, then you hold down on an album, hit "Make availible offline" and it downloads is somewhere. Then after you want to delete it, hold down on it again, and uncheck "Make availible offline" Its really awesome, try it out if you haven't already.
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Google Music upload is slow? Are you kidding me? I mean, maybe the initial upload - but after that, it's super fast and auto adds songs you add to your music collection instantly. I love it.
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yeah thats what im referring to when I speak of uploading. Good to know it gets faster because that was my only issue with google music.
Audiogalaxy hands down. The best sound quality out there (IF YOU HAVE A GOOD QUALITY LIBRARY) You stream your own personal library from home. You can log in from any computer anywhere and have your playlists and library. it caches wonderfully. sounds better than pandora, slacker, tune in, iheart, lastfm all of them. All my music is either lossless or itunes aac highest quality and it sounds amazing. It uses your itunes playlist also. the best thing is its FREE! 5 of my friends are logged in to my library at all times.. its in the market.. Audiogalaxy
yeah I just downloaded audiogalaxy. It uploads alot faster than google music. Liking it alot so far
Check Amazon MP3 player.
Audio galaxy is OK if your fine with being the server ... instead of Google...
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amazon got my monies ages ago with prime, and then they released their mp3 service before google. I honestly don't like how google music adds random tracks based on your "likes" I have a zune and zune pass, when I wanna explore I do it there.
I download all my music from zune and then upload the mp3s to amazon and call it a day.
I keep a solid 2gb on my phone, the rest is easily streamed with my unlimited LTE plan, and if you root and install either rogers or asia rom (I have asia) you don't even have to worry about att throttling your data