I'm looking for a solution where I can sync music stored on folders on my PC hard drive with my phone.
I've looked into Cloud music storage like Google Music, but wanted something where music would be sync'd and stored locally on my phone's memory card. Google Music requires internet to stream the music from Google's storage.
Basically, if I download a song and categorize it in my Music folder in PC (where I have subfolders for genres) - have that sync'd with storage on my phone. How could I go about setting this up?
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I synched my Touch Cruise with Windows Media Player and it completely filled up my Ram. It put all the music in the /Documents/Music folder
How can I set the system to put all synched Music into /Storage Card/ ??? (Music for example)
Can you also synch and play podcasts from Itunes or is there another place to get podcasts from that can be synched with the Touch Cruise?
Windows Media Player should pick up the Storage Card. So you can sync direct to that. I do.
Windows Media Player does not show the storage card as an option of a place to synch to. It just says teh device.
is it possible to only display songs on the cloud space rather than mixing the songs on the cloud and local storage on the phone?
so far my only solution to this would be if i delete all the music i have on my SD card...
but i'd like to keep them, so any suggestions?
Is there a way for all music in Play Music to be automatically selected for offline listening?
What I want is a way to copy music files to my SD card automatically without plugging it into my computer. In my perfect world, when I get one new song (on my computer), I want it to just put it in the My Music folder (on my computer) and have it sync to a Music folder on my devices Ext SD card the next time my device has a data connection. After that, Play Music (or whatever media player I'm using) would just see it as a new file and import it into my Library. If I have to open an app or push a "sync" button that's fine, but I would prefer it be automatic.
Something like Google Drive would work great if I could just assign folders to sync rather than having a "Google Drive" folder and only syncing what is in there. And "cloud storage" is not completely necessary, just store it in the cloud long enough to sync to my other devices.
Google music already automatically imports music from My Music (on my PC), it would be perfect if it automatically made all that music available offline on my phone and tablet.
Is there any app or solution that would help me?
I am often in areas where there is no data connection, so the internet streaming that Play Music offers is not quite enough for me.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
Let me mention this first. I do NOT want to use google play music cloud service. I like the music directly on my device, and on my computer as well.
I have a large library of music, and managing it with my phone is some what of a hassle. I prefer to use itunes because out of all the music players I try, I find that it functions well and looks elegant. So when I want to add music to my HTC One, I plug in my phone and move the artist folder from my itunes media folder, in to the music folder of my One. Sometimes this is just a bit of a hassle and manually moving the music to the device takes up time if I buy a bunch of music from different artists.
I would like to use a cloud service like Copy( since I have 550gb of storage on there) to sync music with my phone automatically. I can set my itunes folder to any folder, so setting up a folder to say User/Copy/Music isn't an issue on my computer, but I'd have to download the music on to my phone and move it to the specific folder which would be worse! I know I could use dropsync (dropbox version of what I'd like) to sync a folder on my device to the cloud and vice versa, but does something like this exist for Copy? My music library exceeds the size of my dropbox space. Could possibly even use Box for this.
TL;DR Is there a Dropsync like app for Copy?
Dropsync like app for Copy
Obviously there is none. A lot of people - like me - have quit the DropBox because of Mrs Rice. I am now on Copy. Works well.
So - is there some dev who can create a CopySync app? Should not be too complicated, since Copy has about all the features of DropBox....
FolderSync - the Solution
Guys, FolderSync is a very reliable app and works with all major cloud services - with copy.com as well.
F.... the dropbox and Mrs. Rice.
You'll need
Redirect File Organizer Free/Paid
A cloud storage account like Dropbox, Google Drive, Copy, Box or most any other big one that has a syncing app for PC. Those can be gotten at their respective sites if you don't already have one. I used Copy for mine because of I have 25gb worth of storage. I recommend that because mp3 files can really eat up your cloud storage fast. Copy can be gotten here and if you use that link you get 5gb extra storage.
A PC/Mac
The desktop syncing client for your cloud storage account. those can be found on their respective sites. Usually there's a link to it right on the front page.
Google Play Music Manager
Foldersync Free/Paid
The free version worked just fine for me but it's always great to support then developer.
Steps
1. Install the desktop client for your cloud storage service on you PC, sign and make a folder in the cloud storage called "Music".
2. Install Google Play Music Manager, sign in, and set it to watch the folder you made in the cloud storage for incoming files.
3. Install Redirects and create a redirect that moves all files with mp3 extension into the music folder on your internal storage. You might want to blacklist the folders ringtones, alarms, podcasts, zedge, and any other folder with mp3s that you don't want in Google music. After that runnthw redirect and wait for it to finish.
4. Install Foldersync. Sign into your cloud storage within the app. Create a folder pair and select the remote folder the Music folder we created earlier in your cloud storage. Select the local
folder the music folder we redirected all your mp3s to. Select the sync type to be to the remote folder. You can then make this to sync to run on a schedule or control it manually.
5. Sit back and watch as all your music is transferred to Google Music.