Android phone music app recommendation

[james t kirk]

I recently bought (well, leased) a new Samsung S20.

I've never used a music app on my phone before. Believe it or not, I've just used my Apple Ipod and been quite happy to do so.

But this new phone affords me plenty of memory and I'd like to get an app where I could load my music file from Itunes on my computer onto my phone.

But I'm told that all the music players out there now are all about streaming music (like spotify and such)

The phone came with YT Music (9.99 per month), which is just another streaming service, which is NOT what I want. I'm told that itunes as I know it no longer really exists and it's all about streaming as well. Not what I want. I have huge music collection on CD, vinyl, etc and I just want to load it all on a decent player and plug it into my car stereo. (I'm not into storing my music on the cloud. I like having a record or CD and just going old school.)

What is out there for an android phone?

 

[xmontrealer]

I recently bought (well, leased) a new Samsung S20.

I've never used a music app on my phone before. Believe it or not, I've just used my Apple Ipod and been quite happy to do so.

But this new phone affords me plenty of memory and I'd like to get an app where I could load my music file from Itunes on my computer onto my phone.

But I'm told that all the music players out there now are all about streaming music (like spotify and such)

The phone came with YT Music (9.99 per month), which is just another streaming service, which is NOT what I want. I'm told that itunes as I know it no longer really exists and it's all about streaming as well. Not what I want. I have huge music collection on CD, vinyl, etc and I just want to load it all on a decent player and plug it into my car stereo. (I'm not into storing my music on the cloud. I like having a record or CD and just going old school.)

What is out there for an android phone?

I use an app that controls a sex toy I bought (Lush 2) by Lovense. The app will play music on your Android phone, and the toy vibrates in sync to it.

But here's why I am replying:

I copy songs from my desktop iTunes program library to my android phone by straight USB connection to the phone from my computer. I selct the songs I want to copy, usually all the songs in a particular playlist, and drag them from iTunes to the "music" directory on my Samsung phone.

Important since you have cd's and vinyl - I have ripped a lot of songs off of cd's and imported them into my desktop iTunes program, where they get brought in as m4a files. Weirdly, my Samsung phone will play m4a files re: songs I bought from the Apple store, but will not play songs I ripped from my cd's. I solved the problem by converting those problematic m4a files to mp3 files, using an m4a to mp3 file converter desktop program, and now all the songs play on my phone regardless of their original source.

A Google search will tell you what other apps there are to play music you load onto your phone without necessarily streaming.

 

[TeeJay]

YT Music SUCKS hard

They are (desperately) trying to forcibly migrate the Google Play crowd and you can see thousands of complaints
You could still use Play but shutdown is supposed to be within months

Otherwise Spotify is the drug of choice for most remaining
Pandora is also very good (esp if you also use Sirius since they merged) but not supported in Canada so need to sideload it

 

[xmontrealer]

Of course if you don't have an iPod and use iTunes, there must be plenty of programs that will let you rip songs from CD's, etc. direct to mp3 files.

 

[TeeJay]

Also; YT Music is NOT streaming
You can UPLOAD all your songs into the locker and listen to them (Play had limit of 50,000 songs, YT is more, maybe 100,000?)

The dumb thing is that it gives you 2 separate lockers (1 for stream and 1 for uploads) which means you get double listings but whatever

 

[HungSowel]

The convenience of streaming music + Bluetooth earphones is too great to ignore.

 

[scouser1]

Amazon Music gives you 3 months free trial when you sign up, I have had it for awhile now and really enjoy it, their music selection is actually bigger than Spotify, and will definitely renew when the trial is up.

 

[xix]

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Try this website and go straight to the bottom of the page and read the last paragraph.

Or
Try the guys below...

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Or

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[james t kirk]

I don't want to pay for any streaming. (I have too many bills every month as it is. I don't need more.)

I just want to upload my music file from itunes on my laptop to my phone and hook my phone up to my car stereo via a USB cable.

End of story.

 

[james t kirk]

Also; YT Music is NOT streaming
You can UPLOAD all your songs into the locker and listen to them (Play had limit of 50,000 songs, YT is more, maybe 100,000?)

The dumb thing is that it gives you 2 separate lockers (1 for stream and 1 for uploads) which means you get double listings but whatever

On my phone, YT music is already installed and the second you tap onto it, it wants 9.95 a month.

Fuck that.

 

[xmontrealer]

On my phone, YT music is already installed and the second you tap onto it, it wants 9.95 a month.

Fuck that.

Did you look at my posts #2 and #4?. They directly apply to using iTunes to import your existing music, converting the files to mp3 so your phone will actually play them, and how you get your files from iTunes to your phone...

 

[Mr Bret]

I copied all the songs I wanted from my laptop to a sd mini card and popped that in my phone as extra memory.
I use Samsung Music app to play back.
Works well.

 

[explorerzip]

I don't think it's possible to transfer songs that you legitimately bought on iTunes to an Android phone or windows PC. Apple famously locks people into their product lines. That's not to say it's impossible to transfer to a non-Apple device, but you have to experiment. If you uploaded your own lMP3 files onto Itunes then you should be able to transfer them to whatever device you like and play them using any app.

Try out VLC player for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc&hl=en_CA

It's basically the same player that's for the computer, but for Android. It plays just about any multimedia file out there like MP3, WAV, MP4, etc.

 

[luvyeah]

Why are you not using foobar and mpv as your media players?

https://www.foobar2000.org/
https://mpv.io/

Android/Google Playstore

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foobar2000.foobar2000&hl=en_CA
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=is.xyz.mpv&hl=en_CA

Transferring media to an Android device is very easy, just drag and drop, no iTunes or proprietary program necessary.

All you do is connect it to your computer with your USB cable maybe have to turn MTP on (https://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb-connections-explained-mtp-ptp-and-usb-mass-storage/) to allow your computer to read and write to the sdcard or phone storage and usually in the root partition there is a folder called Music, however, you can really put it anywhere and just select the library in foobar.

Here is a guide on how to copy your iTunes Library manually from your PC to phone: https://www.howtogeek.com/444162/how-to-transfer-music-from-itunes-to-android/

 

[xmontrealer]

I don't think it's possible to transfer songs that you legitimately bought on iTunes to an Android phone or windows PC. Apple famously locks people into their product lines. That's not to say it's impossible to transfer to a non-Apple device, but you have to experiment. If you uploaded your own lMP3 files onto Itunes then you should be able to transfer them to whatever device you like and play them using any app.

As mentioned above in post #2 I had no problem copying songs downloaded into iTunes from the Apple store, copying them to my Samsung Android phone's "Music" directory via direct usb cable, and then playing them on my phone.

The only problem I had was with songs I had ripped from cd's into iTunes, as those files had to be converted to mp3 files before my phone would play them.

 

[TeeJay]

I don't want to pay for any streaming. (I have too many bills every month as it is. I don't need more.)

I just want to upload my music file from itunes on my laptop to my phone and hook my phone up to my car stereo via a USB cable.

End of story.

Why not simply drop the MP3 files on a USB drive?
If thats all you wanted

Every car made in like last decade can take USB inputs

Advantage is you wont waste your cell battery either during the drive for streaming data + bluetooth

 

[TeeJay]

On my phone, YT music is already installed and the second you tap onto it, it wants 9.95 a month.

Fuck that.

The help channel seems to imply you must upload music via PC / Mac
But I checked and upload option is in the mobile app as well (and you can always browse full website on phone)