Ok finally getting my wife talked into getting an android phone. The Problem is her Itunes library. Its huge!! Is there any legal way to get all her media to work on an android device. I think this will be a deal breaker if we cant and I am sooooo sick of apple and Itunes. Can anyone help?
If you get a Samsung device then you can use Kies just like she would use iTunes with her iPhone! (It even works via WiFi)
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jpinks said:
Ok finally getting my wife talked into getting an android phone. The Problem is her Itunes library. Its huge!! Is there any legal way to get all her media to work on an android device. I think this will be a deal breaker if we cant and I am sooooo sick of apple and Itunes. Can anyone help?
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One way easily transfer her media content that is perfectly legal, is to navigate to the folder where iTunes stores it's media and then copy that folder to her phones sdcard (Either internal storage or external storage). For example say you wanted to copy her music, go the iTunes music folder on your computer's hard drive, select the folder and copy the folder to her phones storage. You can then repeat this process for any videos, pictures, etc. she has stored in iTunes to transfer them to her phone. When copying music from iTunes to the phone it may ask if you want to covert the music to be playable on the phone, select yes and let it convert the music which will then be playable on her phone.
Agree with above. Just find the files and copy them over like you would with a usb drive. Sooner you break free from Apple the better
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jpinks said:
Ok finally getting my wife talked into getting an android phone. The Problem is her Itunes library. Its huge!! Is there any legal way to get all her media to work on an android device. I think this will be a deal breaker if we cant and I am sooooo sick of apple and Itunes. Can anyone help?
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Check out google play music. You can store up to 20 000 songs on their server for free. Then just keep the rest on the device with a 32/64GB sd card
Will this work for HTC as well as Samsuck? I had the original Galaxy and that left such a bad taste I got myself an HTC One XL and still think its great was going to get her the new HTC One. Sorry for the delay in replying life sucks LOL
Yes it will, open play music on the same PC as all the stored music and sync it to the cloud, then make sure the app is on the phone and either play from the cloud or download to phone.
Otherwise just transfer music to sd
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Now I am no dev but I was wondering if it would be possible to create a media player that can sync with the desktop zune software and have a similar UI that plays all my protected content. I love my zune hd but part of the reason I bought this phone is so I only need to carry one device for all my multimedia needs. If this is possible ad there are any devs willing to work I would gladly make a donation of $50-$100 for a working app
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I would wager 10x that amount that it will never happen..
I have a ZuneHD and f*ckin love it. However, Microsoft won't do it because thats one of the big draws for WP7, and we can't do it because there is no code to base it on. It's all Microsoft's protected content.
However, there is one option. I don't think its against any XDA rules to post this, and if it is I'll remove it, but I won't put links anyway. Just look up Daniusoft Digital Media Converter. I know it's expensive, ~$50 I think, but I bought it, and it's totally worth it. I have gotten way more use than that out of it. It'll let you convert your Zune Pass music to MP3 and then you can sync it to your Android with Doubletwist & the like. I know it's more work, but it does work.
Geniusdog254 said:
I would wager 10x that amount that it will never happen..
I have a ZuneHD and f*ckin love it. However, Microsoft won't do it because thats one of the big draws for WP7, and we can't do it because there is no code to base it on. It's all Microsoft's protected content.
However, there is one option. I don't think its against any XDA rules to post this, and if it is I'll remove it, but I won't put links anyway. Just look up Daniusoft Digital Media Converter. I know it's expensive, ~$50 I think, but I bought it, and it's totally worth it. I have gotten way more use than that out of it. It'll let you convert your Zune Pass music to MP3 and then you can sync it to your Android with Doubletwist & the like. I know it's more work, but it does work.
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But at that point, why not just download torrents with higher quality music? I mean, you could make the argument I guess that you have a right to that music even though you are explicitly only renting it .? ?.? . Save the 50 dollars and just join a good private torrent site like what or waffles.
Also, to the OP, if you only want to carry the Epic 4g for all of your multimedia needs, why do you need it to sync with the Zune software? I assume its because of the zune pass?
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But at that point, why not just download torrents with higher quality music? I mean, you could make the argument I guess that you have a right to that music even though you are explicitly only renting it .? ?.? . Save the 50 dollars and just join a good private torrent site like what or waffles.
Also, to the OP, if you only want to carry the Epic 4g for all of your multimedia needs, why do you need it to sync with the Zune software? I assume its because of the zune pass?
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I don't know. I find this easier than torrent sites TBH. I'm a lazy ass, and I paid for convenience lol. This way it keeps all the metadata, and I don't have to sort it manually, and I do feel better in that I did actually pay for the music in one way or another.
I don't subscribe to zunepass or anything, I just have a lot of songs and movies I've paid for and would like them on my phone, and TBH I really like the zune media player interface
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For a zune interface, they do have a zune home replacement launcher but it's pretty awful. Really if you want the zune media interface get a windows phone 7... what you're asking for is foolish to be frank.
If you paid for movies and music, it should be drm free, then just transfer it to your sd card. Its what I do.
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If you paid for movies and music, it should be drm free, then just transfer it to your sd card. Its what I do.
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Cool, I'll have to check when I get home to seeif I can transfer my files to my phone, I'll report back later tonight
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What did you end up doing with your media and getting it on your phone?
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For a zune interface, they do have a zune home replacement launcher but it's pretty awful. Really if you want the zune media interface get a windows phone 7... what you're asking for is foolish to be frank.
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Not sure how you could call it foolish? It is widely accepted that the zune hd has a great interface. It is also very simple and would be fairly easy for an android developer to make a clone of it. The fact that no one has is pretty surprising. Hooking in drm and zunepass is obviously not gonna fly with ms but that is not what the op wants, and that is not needed. If someone made a fluid zune clone for the marketplace and sold it for a few bucks a I bet they could make a killing.
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What did you end up doing with your media and getting it on your phone?
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I tried putting the songs I bought on my phone and they transfered overbut they wouldn't play on the stock player or mixzing, all I want is to be able to play the music I bought on any of my media players, plus a zune like interface would be sexy
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What do you mean they didnt play? I have the zune pass and with my ten songs a month. Those tracks are currently on my phone and they place with no problem. Videos as well. I did how ever have to use rockplayer for the videos. But the stock player worked fine for the mp3's.
Edit: I also did have to edit the tags to get them to show up... Can just edit the tags, right click the file -> props then add in whats needed. Forgot that part. =p
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What do you mean they didnt play? I have the zune pass and with my ten songs a month. Those tracks are currently on my phone and they place with no problem. Videos as well. I did how ever have to use rockplayer for the videos. But the stock player worked fine for the mp3's.
Edit: I also did have to edit the tags to get them to show up... Can just edit the tags, right click the file -> props then add in whats needed. Forgot that part. =p
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Whenever I try to play one of the tracks that I bought from zune I get "Cannot open selected file" it shows up in my player perfectly with album art and everything, it just won't play
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Whenever I try to play one of the tracks that I bought from zune I get "Cannot open selected file" it shows up in my player perfectly with album art and everything, it just won't play
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Is it MP3 or WMA?
Geniusdog254 said:
Is it MP3 or WMA?
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They are WMA files, and now that I think about it that is probably the problem
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us3rX said:
If you paid for movies and music, it should be drm free, then just transfer it to your sd card. Its what I do.
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not always, stuff my zune and amazon still have drm even if you buy it outright
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After reading what he said up there ^^ WMA is not bought and paid for... Everything I have paid for was converted to mp3. If it stayed WMA and with DRM, then it would be pointless to buy it. =p
Hello there,
After my 16 Gb SD card decided that after I removed my phone from the PC in USB Hard Drive mode to become corrupted in some way, I decided that I'd check out HTC Sync to see what I could do to make sure that I kept my collection of photos as up to dat as possible.
Picture synchronisation is great. Works fine and takes mere seconds to hook up.
My problem comes down to music... and it's probably because I'm an awkward so-and-so.
I use FLAC for all of my music, with the exception of any iTunes and Amazon MP3 music I buy. It might be bulkier on the capacity requirements but I prefer it over MP3. HTC Sync won't sync up .flac files it seems and it would mean switching to MP3 or finding another way of doing this.
Anyone got any suggestions on how to sync flac files? The best I can think of is renaming .flac to .mp3. AFAIK, it should not change the file content or quality and should play normally through an app (PowerAMP in my case)
I use a very handy app called Syncness. It automatically copies all new files (regardless of format) in nominated folders to a specified spot on my pc each time it sees my home wifi ssid, or when I manually hit the 'sync now' button within the app.
It's a bit tricky to set up at first, but the developer is without doubt the best I've encountered on android marketplace and responds to questions extremely quickly.
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Thanks for the tip!
App costs and is 4 stars, but a lot of negative reviews lately. It does not inspire me.
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Thanks for the tip!
App costs and is 4 stars, but a lot of negative reviews lately. It does not inspire me.
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Hey. WinAMP can manage and sync your music library to Android device (even without WinAMP mobile app) and you can use default music player.
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Syncness seems to work flawlessly on Wifi. I've only run a test sync so far but I'm confident that it will work just as I need it to.
Hi guys,
I was just wondering if any of you had any suggestions on what to use to put Itunes movies on a Samsung nexus.
Please help me.
Simple answer is that you can't. iTune movies have drm so they only play on iDevices or in iTunes.
If you own the DVD/Blueray and ripped it yourself. Than yes you can encode it to what ever format you need and transfer to your phone.
What you wanting to do is illegal. No online purchased movies will allow you to transfer to devices.
You can watch online movies thru other services but only for streaming.
And don't talk about breaking or removing DRM's here!
Have fun.
Well, if you bought a movie you should be able to watch it where you want, when you want and on the device you want, ain't I correct? I'm pretty sure you can google "how to remove drm from imovies?", I'm not sure if this is against xda rules, but if you are not doing it to piracy movies or things like that, I don't see any problems doing that.
Without opening iTunes program, see what folder ur iTunes movies are in. Then right click to see what format they are in.
Then Google a search for either a free converter or possibly an android media player that will play those type of files.
Most media players play MPEG4 so when u convert it, I'd go that route. Then just see what resolution ur phone uses. Converters are normally free for an X amount of time so if ur planning on doing it a lot, I'd would just pay the $20 and do it hassle free.
FabDVD worked good for me when I was a cell phone movie goer.
Good luck.
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or buy elsewhere. Pretty sure Amazon Store does DRM free movies ?
Well, if you bought a movie you should be able to watch it where you want, when you want and on the device you want, ain't I correct? I'm pretty sure you can google "how to remove drm from imovies?", I'm not sure if this is against xda rules, but if you are not doing it to piracy movies or things like that, I don't see any problems doing that.
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In a perfect world ? Sure. I personally would love that too. But it is as it's now, it is illegal.
As I said before,
If you own the DVD/Blueray and ripped it yourself. Than yes you can encode it to what ever format you need and transfer to your phone.
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is the most convenient way due to that are easy way to convert it to a format that your phone will work with. Not so easy to break a DRM on a itune or other online sites's files even when you do find them on your hard drive.
And let me repeat. I agree that you should be able to do with what you bought and own! Now it is not what we want? but what movie/music industry wants is true for now sadly.
Regards.
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Well I have apple tv so I rip my dvds to my computer so I can stream them to my tv, without having to deal with the disc. When I rip the movies to my computer I make the file in the apple tv format which is mpeg-4.
To watch them on the go with my phone, I just transfer them over via usb. Then I use the app called Dice Player to watch them. Dice player plays pretty much every video file.
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Hi Guys,
I gather not many people actually use Google Music in the UK due to the required work arounds to get it but I am quite interested in using it.
For those who do/have used it:
Do you like it?
Is it worth the work around hassle to gain access?
Will getting it now via the workaround cause problems when it's actually released?
What worthy alternative services are there that aren't iTunes/iCloud/Match?
I want a music service in which I can own my music as well as purchase music, add my existing music to the service, and sync between devices.
I feel like there's nothing that does that apart from iTunes Match and Google Music
I love it, its my everyday music player... I no longer keep music files on my phone because I stream it from the cloud.
Likewise. I have been using it for a few months and it is absolutely life-changing. I just uploaded my entire music collection and now just stream it all instead of having it stored on my phone or memory card.
But how do you guys upload it in countries other than US?
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Likewise. I have been using it for a few months and it is absolutely life-changing. I just uploaded my entire music collection and now just stream it all instead of having it stored on my phone or memory card.
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If you need the APK to get the app on your phone, how do you get updates?
Do you have to use a proxy only to sign up or do you need it for desktop streaming?
Can your purchase music in the app?
Once you register via proxy you can use it anywhere, Play store for music doesn't work but who cares.
You only need the proxy for initial registration. For everything else, no proxy required. So in reality, its very little effort for lots of awsomeness
Hey all,
I am trying to sync music that I downloaded on my nexus 7 to my s3 via Google play music. I know it sounds like an an easy thing to do but I can't figure it out. The music was not downloaded from Google music though and I think that might be part of the issue. Any thoughts?
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It needs to be put into the Google music cloud through the computer. Once your music is in the cloud you can get it on any device with your account on it.
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m-cat said:
Hey all,
I am trying to sync music that I downloaded on my nexus 7 to my s3 via Google play music. I know it sounds like an an easy thing to do but I can't figure it out. The music was not downloaded from Google music though and I think that might be part of the issue. Any thoughts?
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How long have you waited? Often when I install Play Music it seems like nothing is there then I go back and an hour later all my music has thumbnails.
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It needs to be put into the Google music cloud through the computer. Once your music is in the cloud you can get it on any device with your account on it.
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So basically if I have music on one device it has to go onto the PC then into the cloud? There isn't a way to just upload it from any device?
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So basically if I have music on one device it has to go onto the PC then into the cloud? There isn't a way to just upload it from any device?
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http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1075570&topic=2450455&ctx=topic
I think Google is trying to help prevent piracy by adding another layer here. But they require you to use a PC. I would strip metadata from the songs ie:downloaded from.... You never know what they will be monitoring. Many cloud services get a bit nosy with your files. Not saying Google has, but you do agree to only upload music you have legally purchased. Also you may have problems with legally owned music due to DRM, I highly recommend Wondershare media converter to strip DRM, and media monkey to manage libraries.
I can't even find my music with google music manager
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http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1075570&topic=2450455&ctx=topic
I think Google is trying to help prevent piracy by adding another layer here. But they require you to use a PC. I would strip metadata from the songs ie:downloaded from.... You never know what they will be monitoring. Many cloud services get a bit nosy with your files. Not saying Google has, but you do agree to only upload music you have legally purchased. Also you may have problems with legally owned music due to DRM, I highly recommend Wondershare media converter to strip DRM, and media monkey to manage libraries.
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I can't even find my music on my phone when I connect my phone usb and try to upload music. When I did find a folder with a cpl albums it would't upload em, as if they didn't exist wtf???? I go to an album click to select it and it says folder empty. I googled around and finally found this post which hit on my problem. I also see where you gave advice to strip the data from music or something if you didn't legally buy it
(110% of my music is dl from internet for free) and I'm thinking that may be my problem. If so can someone give a detailed explanation as to how I can fix this prob? Thanx in advance man!
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So basically if I have music on one device it has to go onto the PC then into the cloud? There isn't a way to just upload it from any device?
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I just found this link it should help you out. That's if you haven't figured it out already. http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/m...from-your-smartphone-or-tablet-using-dropbox/
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