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Simple Sync Folder between PC and Android with WIFI?

I want to sync a folder from my PC with a folder on my SDcard...
It should automaticaly Sync over wifi in both ways... any Idea?

Dropbox works awesome, maybe not exactly the way you want it but it does the trick.

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Dropbox works awesome, maybe not exactly the way you want it but it does the trick.
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No it doesn´t because at first the Dropbox doesn´t copys the Files automaticaly on my SD and second I have at least 13 gigabytes of Music and only 8gb Dropbox space...

Maybe Doubletwist AirSync?
That one is more specific with working with Music/Photo/Video, if you're looking for something a little more generic for syncing, there's also a portable app called Toucan
Good luck.

The problem with Double Twist is that it doesn´t hold my folders as they are...
And the problem with Toucan... I can´t access my SD with that over Wifi... any idea for that?

Try "WebSharing", there is a lite and a paid version. The second one includes some extra options for videos and music I think, not sure on which are the differences, anyway, it works great for me!

You can simply share a folder on your PC and using a file explorer on your phone (I have tried this using Estrong file explorer) you can search the LAN for shared drives. Find the folder you have shared on your PC and access files from your phone.
Well, another method - this is the way I do it, but it requires root access on your phone.
If you have root access, then you can install an app "Samba filesharing". And, this enables to make the phone a samba server.
Then, you can simply connect to ip address of your phone (or the samba server name you specified) from your PC and seamlessly access/modify/delete files on the sd card all the time. I would even suggest mapping a network drive to make it even more convenient.

I would be also interested in a solution like that. Mainly for Music, but also for other stuff/files.
Here is what I tried out so far:
I looked into Double Twist (a cumbersome resource hog on my netbook and always crashing), Winamp Sync (playlist and not folder-based, lack of control on what is happening) and Wifi Music Sync (lots of bad reviews, people lost files and else).
Has anyone tried Sugar Sync? If I read their website right, it syncs first to their cloud, which is the last place, where I want my personal files.
The solution with Samba Server or ES Explorer works (I also tried a simple FTP setup with Filezilla on the Desktop and AndFTP or SwiFTP (FTP server on phone) and any FTP client on the desktop. Problem with those solutions, it's all manual.
So far nothing satisfactory. I'm with the OP on this one, a small, neat, small resource solution, where you simply define the folders to be synced, would be best. Any more ideas? Thanks so far!

Just my 2 cents (definitely an UGLY solution): I've been using Syncness to sync over wifi. It's not the worst solution and has the benefit of working both with locally shared network drives as well as dropbox.

bearlyme86 said:
Just my 2 cents (definitely an UGLY solution): I've been using Syncness to sync over wifi. It's not the worst solution and has the benefit of working both with locally shared network drives as well as dropbox.
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Actually, i love syncness. I've been using it for a month now. It's not perfect, but it works well for me, like syncing my documents folder to my Milestone and DHD, and back.

Titanium Media Sync can do this - syncs all types of files (not just media) - search on market (I can't post a link)

mmm I go for Sugarsync....

I'm using PCFileSync and have no problems. It's always being updated.

I have Titanium Media Sync, and it works very well for syncing files to dropbox, but I would really like to set it up to work with ftp, so I could sync files straight to my computer. How do I set something like this up? I"m a super ftp noob

vistagamer said:
I want to sync a folder from my PC with a folder on my SDcard...
It should automaticaly Sync over wifi in both ways... any Idea?
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I believe what you are looking for is possibly The Missing Sync.
http://www.markspace.com/products/android/missing-sync-android.html
However, I have asked the developer questions and received no answers. There is a trial version available but i'm having issues which need answered by the developer. The software is not cheap at $35.00 single machine license.
If you decide to try it, let me know how it goes for you.
Here's my scenario:
2 computers, htc evo 3d (now trying on a galaxy tab).
Desktop and laptop sync the "My pictures" folder (1gb and growing) by using microsoft live mesh. And then, I have The Missing Sync reading the "My pictures" folder and syncing that folder to the Galaxy Tab SD card into a folder called "My Pictures".
Questions I have asked the developer (Ticket# 813081)
(1) Hi, Is there a file count limitations? I plan to use this to sync my pictures folder which has a couple thousand items (1,533 Files, 41 Folders, 1.48gb of data ) as of this moment and growing. This will be to a 32 GB microsdhc card in my evo 3d. Would there be any possible problems I should know about?
(2) Are there any file size limitations? (im aware of fat32 4gb single file size limit of the storage device) But does The missing sync have a file size limit of its own?
(3a) Does The Missing Sync Hash files for sync? If so, does it store temp files?
(3b) How does missing sync determine what needs synced around?
(4) I plan on adding a Samsung galaxy tab ... I'd also like to sync my pictures to it as well as the evo. 1 computer, two mobile devices. Is this possible with single license or will i need a multi license?
That's all for now. Thank you.
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the issues i am having are that the whole process takes about 7 minutes from the moment sync is pressed, to any activity is noticed. And then, files start flowing, but 15 minutes later, it stops at random with very vague error log.

maybe you can try FolderSync
its many feature and powerfull

michaelmastery said:
maybe you can try FolderSync
its many feature and powerfull
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+1 for FolderSync. It lets you sync individual folders with Dropbox, with a Windows share, etc.

this is so simple
This is so simple why is there no app that does this, we don't want cloud storage to interfere all we need is a PC/Mac app where you can see your folders/files . Then you want to be able to select folders and files using a checky box ready to sync to ur android device.
Why do you need to select files/folders? Because when you have an mp3 collection of over 40gb you only want a small portion of this on ur android device. The app needs to ensure that ur android device always keeps in sync with the selected PC files so that if you ever add music to ur PC it will get added to android through the sync app.
Now does this app exist or am I going to have to learn to write an android app??

daz9001 said:
This is so simple why is there no app that does this, we don't want cloud storage to interfere all we need is a PC/Mac app where you can see your folders/files . Then you want to be able to select folders and files using a checky box ready to sync to ur android device.
Why do you need to select files/folders? Because when you have an mp3 collection of over 40gb you only want a small portion of this on ur android device. The app needs to ensure that ur android device always keeps in sync with the selected PC files so that if you ever add music to ur PC it will get added to android through the sync app.
Now does this app exist or am I going to have to learn to write an android app??
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Look into cheetah sync app. Its the closest thing i could find that works for me.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=cheetah+sync
Its been working beautifully for me granted its not fully automatic and requires some configuring before it can do what you want it to do.

Good but its not quite right
0okami said:
Look into cheetah sync app. Its the closest thing i could find that works for me.
Its been working beautifully for me granted its not fully automatic and requires some configuring before it can do what you want it to do.
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No this is still not right, cheetah sync is just a small service that sits on your pc. you can't use it to select the files on your pc you want on your phone, everything has to be done with folder pairing on the phone. Now if I want to choose 10 albums that are in random locations on my hard drive that would take ages to do on my phone. On the PC this would be a simple task.(If the app exists!!!)

File manager app in Windows store?

Is there a file manager such as X-Plore or ES File Explorer for WinPhone8?
If anyone hasn't used either of these they are file managers that, when connected to a Wi-Fi home network, you can access shared files and folders using share settings and the IP address on your PC. I'm aware of SkyDrive and I like it, but I haven't seen anything like these two file managers yet, and I miss the ability to have full access to shared folders on my network without using the cloud.
Does anyone know of any out there?
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Wi-Fi File Sharing
Okay, so if there's no file manager app (yet?), is there a way to share over a Wi-Fi network without using the cloud?
One of the biggest reasons I was willing to switch from an Android OS phone to WinPhone8 was the idea of seamless integration with my Win8 PC's while on my Wi-Fi home network (or even a mobile network), without the need to use the cloud.
Android has multiple file manager options that offer this capability (and while some considered Zumocast/Motocast to be bloatware, it did offer this capability while on a mobile network), and I can still achieve this with my tablet, but I was kind of hoping to find something similar with WinPhone8.
I'm hoping the apparent lack of this ability is only because of the "newness" of these devices, but this really is something that should be quite simple to do. Especially when using Windows PC's.
Just the opinion of one user who isn't quit ready to fully adopt cloud sharing for everything.

FrankieZee07 said:
Is there a file manager such as X-Plore or ES File Explorer for WinPhone8?
If anyone hasn't used either of these they are file managers that, when connected to a Wi-Fi home network, you can access shared files and folders using share settings and the IP address on your PC. I'm aware of SkyDrive and I like it, but I haven't seen anything like these two file managers yet, and I miss the ability to have full access to shared folders on my network without using the cloud.
Does anyone know of any out there?
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There really isn't a need for a file manager because programs keep all of their data in private local storage and other apps cant see the files.
The only files an app can see (besides it's own private storage) are photos, music & SkyDrive files, if you give permission to access.

Hi all,
I am the happy owner of a HTC 8x for about one week. I love it.
I hve been able to find almost all the apps I was using on my Android HTC Sensation.
So, I repeat i am happy, except for one thing !
When I launched the device for first time, I immediately checked the amount of free memory, which was about 11GB.
After one week, I have noticed that I lost 2GB which are listed under the category "others" (using the Windows Phone sync app under iOS).
Is someone has an idea of what these files could be ? (I ave already check that the downloaded maps for the Maps application are located here, but it is only a small part of it).
As, it is impossible to see those files in the PC explorer, is there a way to get more info on this huge amount of "hidden" files ?
Thanks in advance
jlgoa.
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Downloaded apps and app data uses the storage space. So is the browser. Try cleanup the browser cache. I was supprised that 8x does not report free storage space in its settings app.
As for OP's quest, there is really nothing you can do so far with WP8 to use the file share even if you can have the File Explorer you wanted. Apps just can't take advantage of that due to the fact of isolated storage. Even though, WP8 instrduced more tradditional folders for app to access (My Documents etc), most apps (including Microsoft's own Email app) aren't updated to access those folders yet.
For access media files, you should use the media sharing built into the apps like Xbox music or other DLNA apps.

A DLNA server sounds like more of what I'm looking for. I use file managers on my Android devices not because of the need, but because I'm kind of old-school. And some made it easy to share over LAN.
I'll look more into XBOX music and I just downloaded Media Hub, so I'll play with that too.
I guess I was just searching for the wrong thing in the app store. Thanks

Update: MyMediaHub is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for. Although it's not perfect.
XBox music though... it's syncing fine between my two PC's, but it's having problems so far syncing with the phone. Is the subscription service only for removing ads when streaming from the internet?

Xbox music seems to be limited to play either local contents on the phone or Xbox Music subscription (where you get listen to songs offered by Xbox Music service by paying them monthly fees). It doesn't seem to support any types of DLNA streaming. I was confused with the Xbox Music app on Windows 8 tablet where it can stream from local network.

It's unfortunate that one app does not offer the same capabilities on every device.

FrankieZee07 said:
XBox music though... it's syncing fine between my two PC's, but it's having problems so far syncing with the phone. Is the subscription service only for removing ads when streaming from the internet?
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Xbox Music will only Sync to a limited number of devices per account (I think it's 4). You should check your Xbox Music account to see if maybe there are PCs or Phones that you previously used, and no longer use. You can drop two of these devices every 30 days. Once you are below the limit, try using it on your phone again.

Cool. I'll have to look at that later when I get home. Those settings must only be available on the full version?

[Q] Need suggestions: Syncing music across multiple platforms

Hello,
This is my first post on xda, been reading it for a while though. I read many suggestions about syncing music around multiple platforms, but none of them seem to be effective or to be tailored to my specific needs. First of all, I'm Canadian, so Google Play Music is sort of unavailable to me for the moment. Next up, I just received a bunch of new devices that I'd like to keep in sync (I'll list them soon). I was wondering what would be your suggestions, apps, websites or cloud services that YOU use, and if they would apply to my situation or not. I'm not looking for a "perfect" solution, but I'm certainly interested in a discussion about the best method.
Here's the "situation" I have to solve. I have a Desktop PC at home (Windows 7), where I download and rip all of my music.There is around 8gb of carefully tagged and sorted out music on that computer. I use iTunes as a player while on it, and keep all the .mp3 files in a folder. Since it is a desktop PC, it has no wireless connection whatsoever and is connected through an ethernet cable (from a WiFi router). Now I just purchased a Laptop (Windows 7 as well) and a Nexus 7 (16gb + Android 4.2). I also have a Galaxy Nexus (16gb + Android 4.2, no data plan). I'm basically looking for a way to "share" that library across these four devices. This means that if I was to be adding a song to the desktop PC, I would be able to listen to it in the next few seconds on my Nexus 7 or Galaxy Nexus and vice-versa. Same if I was to be adding a song on my laptop, I would be able to listen to it on my computer and across my devices.
I'm not really interested in a "streaming" solution (rdio and the likes), as I do not have a data plan on my phone. I'm also looking for a solution as wireless as possible (so something over WiFi or cloud service.) I'm ready to shell out a couple bucks provided that a service would require additional storage solutions. Most of the time I will listen to these songs while being "offline", so in the subway or while working out, so these songs need to be accessible at any time (basically stored on the devices). Also if somehow I could "share" other stuff like contacts or documents that would be a plus, but not really a requirement at all.
I hope my "situation" is clear, and I hope you guys have some sort of "answers", Hopefully that technology is available nowadays (we're in 2013!).
Thanks for your time!

You could always use Spotify...
Spotify allows adding of local files and automatically syncs these files when discovering two clients on the same Wi-Fi network.
(Granted you set the playlist those songs are located in as Available Offline, and there's a Local Files native playlist)
It's a $9.99 dollar sub to use it on mobile devices though, and I don't think two desktop clients sync local files, but that's as easy as doing a bulk-transfer from one comp to the other when you've added new songs and asking Windows to ignore existing files, alternatively Ubuntu One has a folder sync that's limitless space because the files aren't stored on their servers, iirc.
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between computers its easy - google drive/dropbox with selected folders to sync
and when you add this app to android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full&hl=en
i think that this is good solution to your problem

Hr Kristian said:
You could always use Spotify...
Spotify allows adding of local files and automatically syncs these files when discovering two clients on the same Wi-Fi network.
(Granted you set the playlist those songs are located in as Available Offline, and there's a Local Files native playlist)
It's a $9.99 dollar sub to use it on mobile devices though, and I don't think two desktop clients sync local files, but that's as easy as doing a bulk-transfer from one comp to the other when you've added new songs and asking Windows to ignore existing files, alternatively Ubuntu One has a folder sync that's limitless space because the files aren't stored on their servers, iirc.
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"Not yet available in your country." It sounded like a good option, but it looks like it's unavailable to Canadians. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.
Zafael said:
between computers its easy - google drive/dropbox with selected folders to sync
and when you add this app to android
i think that this is good solution to your problem
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Would you care to explain a bit more? I'm not very familiar with Dropbox or Google Drive. I know you can create a folder on your computer and every time something is dropped into that folder it is shared across all computers, but how would I use FolderSync? Is it related to Dropbox or Drive? And why use both services? Is it because of the limited storage space? Would 8gb of music fit on those? Thanks, let me know!

Sugarsync is going paid: share your alternative

Well, as of 60 days form now, free sugarsync accounts will be forced to be paid, and we have 6 days to take advantage of a special 19$ for the first year / 75$ per year after that for 60 gb.... For anyone who has used the sugarsync app on android, you know that most bugs that did not render the app unusable, and many fairly basic feature requests were ignored over the past two years (see the whole syncing to SD card debacle). I get that the idea is more money - less free-loaders = better service, but there is no way that I will pay before they can prove they can provide a solid service. So.... Let's share our alternatives for those who need to rework their file syncing setup!
In the last 3 hours since I got my sugarsync ultimatum, I have found 3 possibilities (one that works great, and two that I have not fully tested yet).
1- (works great! better than sugarsync)
-Use google drive (15GB minimum if you haven't gotten some bonus of some kind over the years for being early adopters)
-This allows you to use drive sync on desktops
-You can then use Foldersync to sync on your android device
2-
Goodsync. This is paid software, but I prefer one time payments for a system I control. This is more of a "sync when you need" setup, and won't do everything automatically for you on android (but it will on desktops), but allows for unlimited space because you use your computer's hard drive as your main source of data... down side, the goodsync android app is still a long way from being on par with the sugarsync or the foldersync apps
3-
Other services with folder sync (paid version if you want to use multiple accounts at once). I have not yet tried it with services other than google drive, but I do use a similar services on my desktop that consolidate cloud drives, so I don't see why it would not work on android. If the storage provider you want to use does not support syncing, the goodsync app for desktop connects to almost any online storage provider, so you can have a reliable way to sync to the cloud, and then foldersync does the equivalent job on your android device.
Once people have added their alternatives, I will create a poll so fellow users can see the favorite solutions at a glance.
Cheers!
Uninstalling SugarSync tonight!

you can try Google drive or dropbox

pidjong said:
you can try Google drive or dropbox
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problem with google drive android app is that you have to manually sync each file, which is not so good if your goal is to have important files accessible at all times. I am quite happy with the drive + foldersync app though.
How is dropbox as far as selective folder syncing?

I'm getting to learn more and more about Dropbox since it came with a generous bonus storage on the Note 2 -if only for 2 years or so.
Also I read about Copy.com which comes with a 15gigs free + 5gig referral bonus (use the link in my sig if anyone wants both of us to benefit) though I'm not quite sure how well the sync'ing is so far. I think you can sync specific files but haven't fully tested it yet.
Mediafire is funny in that they are advertising their services anywhere there is new about Sugarsync giving up free plans but I haven't looked into them yet.
I'm also open to see what other people are using.

I've been using dropbox for a few years and upgraded to business package for my company since a few months ago. It works great for us.

Dropbox + Dropsync
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does anyone else doing this find that dropsync has a hard time keeping large folders up to date? For my biggest one it takes nearly 40 minutes to confirm that nothing has changed.

i'm using Google Drive and Dropbox

I'll be moving to Dropbox and Google drive for things like documents, temporary storage of photos, titanium backups, etc. I've started using Crashplan for backing up my very large photo and video archive.
Sugarsync was nice, but as someone who's heavily promoted them and have dozens of referrals to my name, I feel betrayed that they would do this, even as a paying costumer who uses free accounts for my daughter and wife.
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gc84245 said:
Dropbox + Dropsync
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Check out Folder Sync, I was going to buy Dropsync but Folder Sync seems more versatile and cheaper.

I've moved to Copy
I've moved to Copy with it's 20GB free file sync & sharing with this referral link. It's like dropbox but with 10x more free storage. It has a single folder like Dropbox. I've used junction.exe from sysinternals to map from some of my existing folder locations to the Copy folder.
I particularly like that it has a feature that was missing in Sugarsync and that is 'view only' sharing.
Cheers,
Mark

Go for Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Dev-st(devloper host) & many more are there
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@marky1124
Thanks for the tip, I didin't know Copy.
I just had a look at it and it seems promising but I have one question. Does it automatically sync any folder you choose or only photos and videos?
From the description on the play store it seems only photos and videos are automatically synced....
Thanks,
Soda
marky1124 said:
I've moved to Copy with it's 20GB free file sync & sharing with this referral link. It's like dropbox but with 10x more free storage. It has a single folder like Dropbox. I've used junction.exe from sysinternals to map from some of my existing folder locations to the Copy folder.
I particularly like that it has a feature that was missing in Sugarsync and that is 'view only' sharing.
Cheers,
Mark
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Soda_47 said:
@marky1124
Thanks for the tip, I didin't know Copy.
I just had a look at it and it seems promising but I have one question. Does it automatically sync any folder you choose or only photos and videos?
From the description on the play store it seems only photos and videos are automatically synced....
Thanks,
Soda
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Hi Soda,
I started out using Copy on PC first, I placed a few files in my Copy directory on my PC. When I installed the Copy app on my Android phone it automatically copied all of my files onto my Phone. So it by default sync'd all my files between my PC and my phone. In the app settings you can tick an option called 'PhotoCopy' which then automatically copies all new photos taken on your phone into your Copy folder and sync's them to the cloud (by default it does this only on wifi connectivity).
I hope this helps,
All the best,
Cheers,
Mark

I'm still looking at alternatives. The option to sync any folder and choose with whom to share it was the best thing from Sugarsync service.
From what I read only 3 other companies give the same option directly:
Bitcasa
Tresorit
Wuala
Anyone uses/used one of these services?

I use Dropbox, however I combine it with FolderSync on Android together with "App Backup & Restore" so that my newly installed apps can be synced to Dropbox right away. I recommend this combination.

@marky1124
Thanks for the reply, it's what I wanted to know .
@Karsa
I will look into the alternatives and give a feedback. But for now, I'm using Foldersync with Skydrive.

Although I'm really sorry to see SugarSync go, I believe Dropbox is the best alternative way to go.

Cloud Storage as Local Folder

Is it possible to have a cloud storage set as a local folder so other apps which don't have cloud capability can see it? I'm not looking to download the data from the cloud. For example, I have all of my music on my cloud storage and wondering if there was a way to trick apps into thinking the music is on a local folder. I'm rooted on a Pixel 3 running Android 10 July 2020 update.

Telloh said:
Is it possible to have a cloud storage set as a local folder so other apps which don't have cloud capability can see it? I'm not looking to download the data from the cloud. For example, I have all of my music on my cloud storage and wondering if there was a way to trick apps into thinking the music is on a local folder. I'm rooted on a Pixel 3 running Android 10 July 2020 update.
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try this. i use it when im too lazy to sort files
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite
pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full

2ISAB said:
try this. i use it when im too lazy to sort files
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite
pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full
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Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, I still have to actually download the files to my phone using this app. This would be OK if my phone had an SD card expansion, but my music library is like 70GB and growing.

Telloh said:
Is it possible to have a cloud storage set as a local folder so other apps which don't have cloud capability can see it? I'm not looking to download the data from the cloud. For example, I have all of my music on my cloud storage and wondering if there was a way to trick apps into thinking the music is on a local folder. I'm rooted on a Pixel 3 running Android 10 July 2020 update.
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Maybe you could find a file manager app that can access cloud based storage media that also has a media/music player built-in.
I wouldn't suggest it any longer, but, I believe ES File Explorer had features that might have been able to do what you are doing.
Or maybe try finding a website that can play your media from your cloud storage then add that website's page as a bookmark/shortcut on the homescreen that opens the page to the website when you tap it, then play your media.
Or maybe consolidate all your music to one cloud account using a file manager that has a feature that allows moving data stored in the cloud from one location to another, then find a music player app that can stream from that cloud account.
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Telloh said:
Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, I still have to actually download the files to my phone using this app. This would be OK if my phone had an SD card expansion, but my music library is like 70GB and growing.
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You need to buy an NAS Drive. I have recommended Western Digital before.
look at this, think of it as an investment, you could aslo use Solid explorer to up load conten directly to a folder.
But in your case, all you need to do is create an ftp frofile (samba) or SMB to download directly to your NAS Drive (network attached storage).
how ever, it involves a bit if tinkering when using a Vpn..
I agree with the post above mine because I'm notoriously known for using Es file explorer, however, im not concerned about it's security in question because it doesn't send out whats on your actual, device. it's just monitoring your usage if the additional features added, like the Facebook, weather, google, etc . all of which can be removed from the app.
So i still use it, regardless of playstores policy.
Anyway, i highly recommend you lay-by one if these
https://shop.westerndigital.com/c/nas-and-cloud-storage
keep in mind that if you purchase on eBay or Amazon, you won't be covered with the propper warranty.
Also, invest in a 2-3 tb cheap external drive for all your backups in the NAS.
Search YouTube for solutions before using a webseach.