I've looked through the forums and have seen many suggestions about different apps that will help you sync your music using your iTunes library and playlists. I've tried Easy Phone Sync, Double Twist and iSyncr, but all suffer from the same issue and crash part way through syncing when doing a complete sync or sync with a lot of changes. The sync eventually finishes after a number or app restarts, unplugging/plugging in phone, etc. It's just really annoying that it can't be a smooth process.
Has anyone else had issues with large libraries? And if so, any suggestions on how to get the syncing process working smoothly so you can literally just click sync and then wait till it finishes? I'm using Windows 7 and have tried syncing from 2 different pcs, with same issues on both. I've also had the issue on stock S3 rom as well as custom roms I've installed. I've also tried both default exFAT and FAT32 file systems on my SD card(64GB), but same issues every time.
Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
I too have a large music library. My strategy is to drag and drop folders over the USB connection. I don't find a program necessary. When I want to change stuff around, I just delete what I don't want and drag on what I do. I use it like a jump drive.
Te3k said:
I too have a large music library. My strategy is to drag and drop folders over the USB connection. I don't find a program necessary. When I want to change stuff around, I just delete what I don't want and drag on what I do. I use it like a jump drive.
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Yeah, I was heading down that path as well, but I just wish it wasn't such a PITA. It's so much easier to manage it using play lists. I switched from using an iPhone, which was such a breeze, and I just don't understand why it has ended up being so clumsy on Android.
Blame apple for that.
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wickedmx said:
Yeah, I was heading down that path as well, but I just wish it wasn't such a PITA. It's so much easier to manage it using play lists. I switched from using an iPhone, which was such a breeze, and I just don't understand why it has ended up being so clumsy on Android.
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I found that making playlists in iTunes was a hassle—partly because I was only ever copying over full albums, so I literally had to go through each and every album and turn it into a playlist for syncing, which I found to be quite redundant. Dragging and dropping albums onto the device turned out to be simpler to me. Maybe this is because almost all of my music is sorted into full-album folders already.
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I found that making playlists in iTunes was a hassle...
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I'm completely the opposite and find playlists in iTunes much easier to manage my library and what I want to take with me or group together for other reasons. I have close to 90GB of music and only enough space on my external SD card to hold about 55GB. Using a library that you can drag and drop to/from while seeing a live update of how much data the library will consume makes much more sense to me.
I've tried doing the syncing using other music apps as well(e.g. Winamp), however then I run into issues with those programs and crap support of m4a when transferring. I would get huge amounts of failures due to "unknown file error". So even when trying other library management software it seems to not work smoothly or cover all bases.
All I want is an app that will sync a playlist (partial update or full) without crashing after getting to about 10-15%. It seems like it should be such a simple ask in today's world, but alas it appears not.
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wickedmx said:
I'm completely the opposite and find playlists in iTunes much easier to manage my library and what I want to take with me or group together for other reasons. I have close to 90GB of music and only enough space on my external SD card to hold about 55GB. Using a library that you can drag and drop to/from while seeing a live update of how much data the library will consume makes much more sense to me.
I've tried doing the syncing using other music apps as well(e.g. Winamp), however then I run into issues with those programs and crap support of m4a when transferring. I would get huge amounts of failures due to "unknown file error". So even when trying other library management software it seems to not work smoothly or cover all bases.
All I want is an app that will sync a playlist (partial update or full) without crashing after getting to about 10-15%. It seems like it should be such a simple ask in today's world, but alas it appears not.
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I know this thread is a little dated, but I run into the same issue. I have a 64G microSD in my phone and it is mostly music. I just reformatted it for a new phone, and I'm on my third try with isyncr to get the whole itunes playlist copied over. I may opt for my old technique I use with my Sansa clip: pop out the microSD card and put it in my computer. then run the neat little program itunes sync (free from binary fortress software]) to copy over the itunes playlist. It always seems to work. I just need to take the back off my phone to pull the sd card each time, and that's less easy than plugging in a cable.
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Does anyone know of an app or program to sync your itunes music to the droidx? I personally just like the way itunes works on my pc but having to pick individually each song i put on the pc and move it over to the x manually is a pain in the a$$... Any recommendations would be great. Thanks!
Check out DoubleTwist. That's like Android version of iTunes!
awesome. question answered. thanks a lot!
Tried doubletwist, didn't like it, and it required USB.
If you happen to already use iTunes to store your music, and you have a wifi network at home... then I highly recommend TuneSync: http://www.appbrain.com/app/tunesync-lite-(for-itunes)/com.highwindsoftware.tunesync.lite
I tried a couple others, but nothing as good (or easy) as this.
Easiest way. Take SD card out, place into computer, drag-place, re-insert sdcard. Enjoy!
thats what i was trying to avoid Casen. its a pain to have to do that every time i add music to my itunes files on my pc. i have to go into it, try to remember which files i added, then add them manually. doubletwist seemed to work but its not transferring every file so i guess i'll try the tunesync app now...
honestly i was the same way the first week i got my dx, coming from my iphone.
i used itunes for everything, podcasts, videos, music. now i dont miss it at all.
DT and TS were both okay to use, but in the end i now just use mass storage device and copy the files/folders over in a couple secs. for podcasts, doggcatcher or beyondpod on the phone will mean u never have to use the computer again.
yeah seems to me i'm just gonna keep doing it that way... thanks to everyone.
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Does anyone know of an app or program to sync your itunes music to the droidx? I personally just like the way itunes works on my pc but having to pick individually each song i put on the pc and move it over to the x manually is a pain in the a$$... Any recommendations would be great. Thanks!
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checked out Isync for itunes....I use it and honestly i could teach my grandma it so easy....they also have a isync wireless where it simply transfers over your network
piece of cakeee
jloya said:
checked out Isync for itunes....I use it and honestly i could teach my grandma it so easy....they also have a isync wireless where it simply transfers over your network
piece of cakeee
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in case anyone is looking for this it's called isyncr, not isync. it works well, the wifi sync is a bit slow though so i don't really use it.
I like to create auto playlist on Zune desktop say for top 100 songs on my HD these synch great play counts are updated and then sync back to HD.however when I synch phone play counts are not pulled form phone so the counts are always wrong so my list are always wrong since I rarely play songs on desktop.im only the only one with this issue is there a way to clear the cache on phone
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Gah, that was painful to read! If it weren't for your flag and your profile photo, I'd assume English was your fourth language or so. You'll get more help if you communicate the problem clearly...
What I *think* you were trying to say:
You like to create auto-playlists based on "Number of times played" in your music collection. You used to create these using the Zune desktop software, even though you don't play the music on PC, because the Zune HD would sync the play counts. However, WP7 doesn't sync the play counts back to the PC, so you're not able to to build accurate lists if you do all your listening on the phone.
OK so far?
Then I think you ask a rhetorical question (whether you're the only one with the problem), followed by asking how to "clear the cache" on your phone. OK...
So, what cache? If you just mean your music library, yes, that's easy to clear using Zune (Phone -> Music -> select all -> Delete).
If you mean your phone's Recently Played list, then I don't know how to clear that. It may require registy editing, which isn't yet possible on the Lumias.
If you mean the current playlist on the phone, just order the phone to start playing anything else (use "Add to Now Playing" if you want to keep the currently list, or just "Play" if you don't).
If you mean export the phone's play count for each song (which is not even remotely a cache, but seems to be what you were after earlier), then I don't know if the the phone even tracks this - much less where it's stored - so sadly, no. If it doesn't automatically sync this info the way the Zune HD did, you might need to find a new way to build playlists.
Have you tried Smart DJ? You can do it using either the phone or the PC, and I find it to generally be a high-quality auto-playlist. The phone will only build one an hour or so long at a time, but you can easily create a new one - even from the same starting song/album/artist, if you want - and keep going.
If none of that helps you, you're just going to need to communicate what you're looking for to us better.
Thanks I use smart DJ love it.i like to have my top 100 songs and it updates it based on play counts
Cache was referring to would be the temp files on the phone the area where it saves what your doing like play counts and internet data thought maybe a file was corrupted and if I could clear it,it would reset my play data
Ah... there are many such caches on the phone, but the only one I know how to clear without requiring app capabilities that we can't get on the Lumia is the IE cache.
You could also hard-reset the phone. That's probably overkill, but it would definitely clear any bad data. Unfortunately, I wouldn't really expect the phone to be as good at music as a dedicated media device like the Zune HD; until Mango came out you couldn't even build Smart DJ playlists on the phone.
I use a very similar technic to sync my Database. On Zune Desktop, i have created a Autoplaylist. This Playlist sync alls Songs (sorted by Album), that not played before, it excludes Songs which i dont like (broken heart symbol) or from some Genre, since i share the Music Database with my Wive. This works fine. Every song played on the Phone, will be deleted from the Phone with next sync and new Songs are transfered to Phone. I have limited the Playlist to X-minutes length, so the Phone has enough free space after sync.
So i think, the Playcount and last played timestamp will be transfered back from Phone to ZuneStore.sdf on the Desktop.
Coming from Windows Mobile (I-Mate PDA2k, HTC Touch Cruise, HTC Diamond2)
I've always been able to
1. Sync my Phone (Contacts, Calender, etc)
2. Access my Storage (Internal and SD Card)
3. Share Internet (Internet Pass-Through)
4. Charge my phone
at the same time.
Now I bought myself the Sensation XE and found out that when I connect the phone to my computer, I can do only one of the first 3 options mentioned at any given time. That is 1, 2 or 3, which isn't as good as what I could do on WM (1, 2 and 3 same time)
So I was wondering if there is anyway to set up the phone or my computer or if there is any program or app I could use to enable all those options at the same time (sync my phone, access the storage and use the internet from my computer)
I hope there is a solution to my problem else I would be pretty disappointed with HTC constant habit to disappoint me and Android on the whole
Off the topic, previously when on Windows Mobile, I had the Windows Media Player which had the "Now Playing" list to which I could ADD songs to it or REMOVE songs from it.
Now on both the default Music Player and the PowerAMP there doesn't seem to be such feature and so I was wondering if there is any music player app available that has a Now Playing list with options to add/enqueue songs to the Now Playing list and also option to remove songs from the list
I am aware that I can create a playlist, however some days I want some specific songs and other days I want only a few of those songs.
can anyone help?
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Hi,
I used to have HD2 WinMo,and when I found Android could go on the phone,I never looked back.
Considering how much better Android is than WinMo,you should be able to live with the very few parts of WinMo that are no longer available in Android.
I'm on ARHD ICS 6.0.0,and my stock music player has a "queue" system which you can edit(add music etc.)
HTC Sync is one of the few things that bugs me about Android.
You will find yourself installing/uninstalling it a lot!
While it is synching,it does charge as well,but that's as close as you will get to the original.
Good luck.
I'm not aware of software PC side which does this
regarding sync'ing the easiest solution is to use Google services - that way calendar, email, contacts etc - all sync all the time - usb, wifi, 3G - you simply stop thinking about them frankly as it all happens automatically
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Thanks for helping out both of you
I guess now I have a different issue
I've started syncing everything with Google and so the Sync part is dealt with
I'm getting an unlimited data plan so the Internet Pass-Through is also dealt with
However now I notice if I mount the SD card into the PC, it becomes unavailable on the phone (if you know any solution to make the SD card available on both places at once, please let me know)
Regarding the music player, I think I will have to wait for the official ICS to release, the phone is less than a month old so I don't want to try weird stunts on it.
anyways thanks once again
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Thanks for helping out both of you
I guess now I have a different issue
I've started syncing everything with Google and so the Sync part is dealt with
I'm getting an unlimited data plan so the Internet Pass-Through is also dealt with
However now I notice if I mount the SD card into the PC, it becomes unavailable on the phone (if you know any solution to make the SD card available on both places at once, please let me know)
Regarding the music player, I think I will have to wait for the official ICS to release, the phone is less than a month old so I don't want to try weird stunts on it.
anyways thanks once again
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In terms of the sd card,it can only work in one place at a time.
Hence the option in Settings/storage to unmount the card,so that you can also remove it while the phone is on.
Okay. Allow me to elaborate on what exactly it is I am asking. And before anyone says, "make it yourself", let me just say "been there, read that".
Now, I've had conversations with many Android users who have large music collections and have purchased devices that have dropped SD Card support. Yes, I do have a Meenova, but I also have a Nexus 5 and the battery life goes pretty quickly when I'm listening to music in the car. Data packages aren't cheap. Even if you have a Straight Talk Unlimited Plan (like myself), you aren't actually receiving unlimited data.
I am simply asking that someone create a tool to alter the bitrate of the tracks on my Android Device. I'd pay for an app like that. There are a couple of apps on the Play Store that perform this task, but they are lacking in features. There is no batch editing tool and conversions stop after closing out the apps that I have tried. I could use the program on my computer, but then I have to leave my device at the computer in order to copy converted tracks back over to my device.
Anyway, I'd appreciate it if someone took the time to read this post.
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Okay. Allow me to elaborate on what exactly it is I am asking. And before anyone says, "make it yourself", let me just say "been there, read that".
Now, I've had conversations with many Android users who have large music collections and have purchased devices that have dropped SD Card support. Yes, I do have a Meenova, but I also have a Nexus 5 and the battery life goes pretty quickly when I'm listening to music in the car. Data packages aren't cheap. Even if you have a Straight Talk Unlimited Plan (like myself), you aren't actually receiving unlimited data.
I am simply asking that someone create a tool to alter the bitrate of the tracks on my Android Device. I'd pay for an app like that. There are a couple of apps on the Play Store that perform this task, but they are lacking in features. There is no batch editing tool and conversions stop after closing out the apps that I have tried. I could use the program on my computer, but then I have to leave my device at the computer in order to copy converted tracks back over to my device.
Anyway, I'd appreciate it if someone took the time to read this post.
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use any audio convertor desktop application . The app will allow to change the bitrate and also other stuffs.
So a couple years ago I got my first android phone, and it included 25gb of dropbox free for 2 years. I didn't care much for cloud storage back then because it still didn't work that well. The dropbox app back then was pretty much garbage, all it did was give you a slightly cleaner interface for the website version (which also just is not very useful for my purposes).
All I want to do is sync/mirror my music library, so when I download a song on my pc, it eventually shows up on my phone to be played. Maybe that was harder to do a couple years ago, but today that seems like a pretty simple thing with how much free/cheap cloud storage there is and how fast our devices are.
Yet I just spent the last day messing with drop box (while my 2 free years ran out Galaxy S5 which luckily gave me another 2 years of dropbox, this time at 50gb), and also tried the other stuff my new phone came with, and seemingly none of them actually can sync anything. They talk all about that, yet the mobile apps are still terrible. Dropbox, box and even tried samsung link. None of them care to sync anything onto your phone, they just offer convenient/single file only access.
I found dropbox folder downloader, so I could at least get my initial library in with that.. Of course even that didn't work at first - since the S5 comes with little storage - my music library was 11gb - and the S5 only has about 9gb free with all the bloat samsung loads it up with. (9gb free for a $900 phone, thanks samsung) . Anyways i had a 32gb sd card laying around i got for free years ago, so I should be good to go. Nope... 4.4 doesn't allow you to write to your sd card in any useful fashion. Anyways I got that fixed, and its currently downloading my library.
My question is:
How can I make this easier. I mean next time I want to do that again, it takes several hours.. (it will be faster next time since it would just have to check each file rather then download them all, but still likely slow).
All i want is a simple cloud storage that does what people generally think it does - fully sync my stuff between my devices. Is there any service (with both pc and mobile apps) out there that does this?
Preferably a way I can get dropbox to do it, but I'll pay for a different service/app if theres a better way.
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So a couple years ago I got my first android phone, and it included 25gb of dropbox free for 2 years. I didn't care much for cloud storage back then because it still didn't work that well. The dropbox app back then was pretty much garbage, all it did was give you a slightly cleaner interface for the website version (which also just is not very useful for my purposes).
All I want to do is sync/mirror my music library, so when I download a song on my pc, it eventually shows up on my phone to be played. Maybe that was harder to do a couple years ago, but today that seems like a pretty simple thing with how much free/cheap cloud storage there is and how fast our devices are.
Yet I just spent the last day messing with drop box (while my 2 free years ran out Galaxy S5 which luckily gave me another 2 years of dropbox, this time at 50gb), and also tried the other stuff my new phone came with, and seemingly none of them actually can sync anything. They talk all about that, yet the mobile apps are still terrible. Dropbox, box and even tried samsung link. None of them care to sync anything onto your phone, they just offer convenient/single file only access.
I found dropbox folder downloader, so I could at least get my initial library in with that.. Of course even that didn't work at first - since the S5 comes with little storage - my music library was 11gb - and the S5 only has about 9gb free with all the bloat samsung loads it up with. (9gb free for a $900 phone, thanks samsung) . Anyways i had a 32gb sd card laying around i got for free years ago, so I should be good to go. Nope... 4.4 doesn't allow you to write to your sd card in any useful fashion. Anyways I got that fixed, and its currently downloading my library.
My question is:
How can I make this easier. I mean next time I want to do that again, it takes several hours.. (it will be faster next time since it would just have to check each file rather then download them all, but still likely slow).
All i want is a simple cloud storage that does what people generally think it does - fully sync my stuff between my devices. Is there any service (with both pc and mobile apps) out there that does this?
Preferably a way I can get dropbox to do it, but I'll pay for a different service/app if theres a better way.
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Well I find that Google drive is pretty good for syncing to different devices. I use it for certain files so maybe you could try that to see if it works for you.
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Well I find that Google drive is pretty good for syncing to different devices. I use it for certain files so maybe you could try that to see if it works for you.
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Yea I've used drive lots too. It doesn't sync anything to android.
Google drive is pretty much exactly like dropbox in functionality.. It will only sync to desktop, the mobile app doesn't do it.
The only automatic function it has, is auto image backup to drive, and the drive app itself doesn't do that, the google+ app does. And it works quite well for it what it is. But it only does that - backup images. And one way only (it doesn't really sync, and while there does seem to be a desktop app, it's also just called backup, not sync). Plus even though the pics used up your drive space, they were not accessible through google drive, just google+. Though they JUST fixed that, like the last day or so it seems to have that functionality now, tho it still only has a few pics from my new phone, my ones from my old phone say "your older pictures will show here soon".
So to go the other way (pc to phone) i'll have to wait on that, and link my pc pics folder to that one folder (if it allows it).
So yea its nice for photos, but I see no way to do any of that for music. There was an article on the frontpage for some info about how to do phone to google drive for music, but it wasn't "syncing" - wasn't automatic, and again, only one way.
I know drive and dropbox have decent api's, so there is probably some more complex way to set them up to sync, just not sure how yet. Plus there are some specific music services out there, but I don't know even if any of those sync to mobile.
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Yea I've used drive lots too. It doesn't sync anything to android.
Google drive is pretty much exactly like dropbox in functionality.. It will only sync to desktop, the mobile app doesn't do it.
The only automatic function it has, is auto image backup to drive, and the drive app itself doesn't do that, the google+ app does. And it works quite well for it what it is. But it only does that - backup images. And one way only (it doesn't really sync, and while there does seem to be a desktop app, it's also just called backup, not sync). Plus even though the pics used up your drive space, they were not accessible through google drive, just google+. Though they JUST fixed that, like the last day or so it seems to have that functionality now, tho it still only has a few pics from my new phone, my ones from my old phone say "your older pictures will show here soon".
So to go the other way (pc to phone) i'll have to wait on that, and link my pc pics folder to that one folder (if it allows it).
So yea its nice for photos, but I see no way to do any of that for music. There was an article on the frontpage for some info about how to do phone to google drive for music, but it wasn't "syncing" - wasn't automatic, and again, only one way.
I know drive and dropbox have decent api's, so there is probably some more complex way to set them up to sync, just not sure how yet. Plus there are some specific music services out there, but I don't know even if any of those sync to mobile.
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Yah that's what I'm guessing to. All other cloud services are pretty much the same in terms of what they offer but I guess none sync to android very well. If you want to try another syncing app you may want to look at bittorent sync which may be what your looking for.
I think you can use an app for that. Try foldersync https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite