[kbell]

I haven't really tried to use my phone for music, but I was wondering how do you take a CD, burn it to a mp3, transfer the file to the phone and play it on the phone?

Its used to be pretty straightfoward with itunes in the past.

[Chauncey]

Best option if you don't mind spending some cash:
Sign up for Spotify premium or Google Music premium. About $10/mo and you can stream just about every song ever published by any artist. With the premium subscriptions you can also download content to your phone, tablet, etc to play when data/wifi is not available.

If you are looking for free options, I don't know how to burn a CD to an mp3 file, maybe others can help with that. Once you get the CD burned and have mp3s on your computer you have two options.

Option 1:
Connect your phone to computer using micro usb cord and transfer the mp3s to your phone. The Google Music app will recognize music that is stored on your phone and you can play it through the app.

Option 2:
Upload the mp3s on your computer to the Google cloud using Google Music. This explains the process. I did this several years ago and uploaded about 10,000 songs, it took about 8 hours. It stores up to 50,000 songs in the cloud for free and you can stream them from any device (phone, tablet, computer) as long as you have an internet connection. Once the songs are uploaded from your computer to the cloud you can download specific tracks/albums to your phone and play without an internet connection.

There are probably other options, these are just the ones I have experience with.

[Irenicus]

Why don't you download all songs you like from Youtube?

There is a ton of programs that take a song from Youtube, and automatically convert to Mp3.

It is free as well!

[TooFineAPoint]

I like the N7 Player for Android. I pay for the upgrade.

It has a nice interface for organizing the artists. And there is an equalizer to boost the sound past "100%".

It's not quite a Spinal Tap "11"; I think there is some compression and gain boost to make it sound louder.

It's great when you are travelling and want to hear your audio in a car with no aux plug. I just turn it up all the way, boost the EQ, and drop it in a cup holder.

I organize my music on desktop with iTunes (flawed but fairly comprehensive), the move the files over to my phone and recognize them with the N7 Player app.

[justin]

(06-29-2016 06:53 PM)Chauncey Wrote:  

Best option if you don't mind spending some cash:
Sign up for Spotify premium or Google Music premium. About $10/mo and you can stream just about every song ever published by any artist. With the premium subscriptions you can also download content to your phone, tablet, etc to play when data/wifi is not available.

If you are looking for free options, I don't know how to burn a CD to an mp3 file, maybe others can help with that. Once you get the CD burned and have mp3s on your computer you have two options.

Option 1:
Connect your phone to computer using micro usb cord and transfer the mp3s to your phone. The Google Music app will recognize music that is stored on your phone and you can play it through the app.

Option 2:
Upload the mp3s on your computer to the Google cloud using Google Music. This explains the process. I did this several years ago and uploaded about 10,000 songs, it took about 8 hours. It stores up to 50,000 songs in the cloud for free and you can stream them from any device (phone, tablet, computer) as long as you have an internet connection. Once the songs are uploaded from your computer to the cloud you can download specific tracks/albums to your phone and play without an internet connection.

There are probably other options, these are just the ones I have experience with.

Spotify premium family is even cheaper. For 15 USD/Euros per month, you can use 6 accounts. I share it with my friends. Costs me only 2.5 euros a month.

[Sooth]

I've been using Spotify for years. When you couldn't get it in my country I had a guy in the Netherlands sign me up.

However now I find that most of my music is ripped from youtube (MediaHuman btw, great program - just have to copy the URL to clipboard and the program recognizes it and downloads it while skipping the video information) and so the only thing I'm paying for with Spotify now is the music player and ease of transfering it to my phone. With my playlists, only about 10% of the music is recognised by Spotify so if I don't have the playlist downloaded on the phone I'm missing heaps music.

I wonder if I should go to Google Music and just run WinAmp on my PC. I can stream from the net all day thanks to my bosses free internet.

Also - forget connecting a usb cord to Android phone, just use AirDroid which transfers data through your router and Wifi connection. Has a very good user interface too which makes it easy to download or upload anything between computer and phone.

[BoiBoi]

Why not just download music, plug in your phone via USB and done? Pretty easy.

[Il Sorpasso]

I think streaming music is the way to go these days.
Downloading songs one by one is a pain in the ass and a waste of time... i would happily pay 10 bucks a month to avoid that!

[kbell]

I don't have a decent data plan for streaming that's why I want to download. I prefer not to have access the internet when I travel since I would be on it nonstop. I used wifi hotspots generally if I need to be on for some reason.

[justin]

(06-30-2016 06:58 AM)kbell Wrote:  

I don't have a decent data plan for streaming that's why I want to download. I prefer not to have access the internet when I travel since I would be on it nonstop. I used wifi hotspots generally if I need to be on for some reason.

You can download music from spotify premium for upto 3 devices with one account.

Edit:Chauncey already mentioned that in his post.

[kbell]

When you download the files from the computer to the android, do they have to go to a certain folder on the phone? I'm referring to the usb to android method.

[heavy]

Rip it onto a PC...get the Google Music manager on your pc. Follow the steps to upload to your Google Music account.

"When you download the files from the computer to the android, do they have to go to a certain folder on the phone?"

You should be able to move them to whatever folder you want...as with any files on your android. I would normally put them on the SD card.

[DJ-Matt]

A tip from Menace worked great to enhance audio quality: ViPER4Android, processes volume and other things to give it the punch of broadcast radio!

[UlteriorMotive]

I was going to be another in favor of using Spotify but as you don't have a Data plan I'd recommend with just downloading the music you want (There are programs out there that are relatively simple "SLSK" for example) and just transferring them over to your phone VIA USB.

If you don't care about the quality you can rip from Youtube and play but for me being a bit of an audiophile I have noticed the quality to be terrible (Especially when played on good headphones / loud)

Google Play Music / VLC amongst other apps will be able to then play these songs.

[Valentine]

You can still use iTunes with an Android phone. Use the doubleTwist app with your iTunes library.

[TooFineAPoint]

(06-30-2016 07:48 AM)kbell Wrote:  

When you download the files from the computer to the android, do they have to go to a certain folder on the phone? I'm referring to the usb to android method.

It depends on what program you want to use to play the files.

Usually the program will specify the folder it needs the files to be in.

For my method (N7 Player), the files need to be put in Android>data>Music.

Keep in mind this is on the SD card, not the main storage. But I think the path would be the same on your phone's drive.

Also, I believe I had to create the folder called "Music". Then I dumped the files in there.

When I started up N7, I had it look for music files, and once it found them it took a few minutes to load them up in the program.

Then they were there every time I went into the program in the future, just like iTunes.

[Sooth]

So I swapped from Spotify to Google Play a week ago to see if it was better. Reason being I just did a fresh install of windows 10 on PC and couldn't be bothered hacking Spotify to do what I want it to again.

I'm 100% moving to Google Play.

Pros:
Can upload offline music to cloud so you can stream your entire collection anywhere (not just the tracks available in Spotify).
Drag and drop addition of tracks from PC to playlists actually works.
Google play music manager program on PC does a good job of polling my music folder and automatically uploading it to Play. Combined with MediaHuman, all I have to do is copy a youtube URL, MediaHuman recognizes it, downloads it and Google Play recognizes it and uploads it (to my Android phone also).

Cons:
It appears that you HAVE to have internet access to listen to music on your PC with Google play. If you uploaded a track to spotify it keeps the location on your disk and then plays from there meaning you don't chew internet data. Google Play seems to have a constant drag on my data. I'm sure Google is working on a PC based media player though.

[The Beast1]

Come on guys, Kbell asked how to copy CDs to his smartphone. Not for an opinion on streaming services nor an option to download music for 30 days.p

Heavy's advice Is good but this is even simpler. No installation of any software needed (outside of itunes).

Kbell, it's stupid easy to do what you want to do. Personally I use iTunes as my music ripping tool. Plop in a CD and open it with iTunes.

Itunes will take the CD and convert it into an iTunes folder that's contained in the "Music" folder. You can find this in the home folder on any computer. (PC-> start menu- account name upper right hand corner of the start menu. Mac- Go-> Home)

Do this with as many of your CDs till it's done.

Now for copying to your phone. I'm assuming you have an SD card for your phone. If not, you might want to consider one. 128gb is very cheap nowadays.

Anywho, plug your phone into the USB cable and your computer. The phone will ask you what you would like to do. Select USB mass storage. If you have an older phone follow these instructions to enable it:
http://www.device-recovery.com/how-to-co...mode#note3

A drive will appear on your machine. Simply copy the music folder into the drive and wait! You can copy the music anywhere you'd like, but I recommend a centrally located Music folder for your own sanity.

[Thomas the Rhymer]

(06-29-2016 06:10 PM)kbell Wrote:  

but I was wondering how do you take a CD, burn it to a mp3, transfer the file to the phone and play it on the phone?

Da n00b iz strong within u.

The technical term is to 'rip' a cd to MP3 format, not 'burn'. You 'burn' a cd when you copy files onto it. The reverse process is 'rip'.

Also, the solutions presented above are way too complicated for such a simple task.

I am assuming you are using a windows machine.

For ripping, I just use windows media player, that comes with Windows 8. I googled a bit and the feature is still there for windows 10.

Start Windows Media Player.

Click 'Burn' in the right hand top corner.

Put in your cd.

click 'burn list'.

Then go have a cup of coffee, because it can take a while.

You might need to reduce the quality of the MP3 in order for them not to take up too much space on a phone. In which case, go to the Tools menu (if it's not available at the top of the Windows Media Player screen, then press control and m together to make it visible), click on 'rip music', and then use the slider on the bottom to choose your audio quality. You can also alter the destination folder here.

If you find the above too complicated, or you don't have windows media player, just google for free cd ripping software, there are plenty of great free programs that make things super easy for you.

Once you have the files, you then need to copy them to your phone. I just bluetooth them from my laptop to my phone. I switch bluetooth on for both devices, then I right click the files I want to send, then I click 'send by bluetooth'. Then I go have a cup of copy, because if its a lot of files it can take a while.

Then on your phone/device, you need to navigate to the folder that has the music files (if you bluetoothed, then it will usually be in the downloads or bluetooth folder) and then you can either copy them to another folder or just play them directly.

stay leet, br0.

[DJ-Matt]

Careful about google play, they replace your songs with their copies if they match (no way to turn this off). Normally most people wouldn't notice or care, but they fucked up my rare stereo songs or remasters with bullshit mono or crap sounding versions.

[Kickb]

Just get a $10 a month youtube red subscription.

[Off The Reservation]

(07-06-2016 03:14 AM)Thomas the Rhymer Wrote:  

(06-29-2016 06:10 PM)kbell Wrote:  

but I was wondering how do you take a CD, burn it to a mp3, transfer the file to the phone and play it on the phone?

Da n00b iz strong within u.

The technical term is to 'rip' a cd to MP3 format, not 'burn'. You 'burn' a cd when you copy files onto it. The reverse process is 'rip'.

Also, the solutions presented above are way too complicated for such a simple task.

I am assuming you are using a windows machine.

For ripping, I just use windows media player, that comes with Windows 8. I googled a bit and the feature is still there for windows 10.

Start Windows Media Player.

Click 'Burn' in the right hand top corner.

Put in your cd.

click 'burn list'.

Then go have a cup of coffee, because it can take a while.

You might need to reduce the quality of the MP3 in order for them not to take up too much space on a phone. In which case, go to the Tools menu (if it's not available at the top of the Windows Media Player screen, then press control and m together to make it visible), click on 'rip music', and then use the slider on the bottom to choose your audio quality. You can also alter the destination folder here.

If you find the above too complicated, or you don't have windows media player, just google for free cd ripping software, there are plenty of great free programs that make things super easy for you.

Once you have the files, you then need to copy them to your phone. I just bluetooth them from my laptop to my phone. I switch bluetooth on for both devices, then I right click the files I want to send, then I click 'send by bluetooth'. Then I go have a cup of copy, because if its a lot of files it can take a while.

Then on your phone/device, you need to navigate to the folder that has the music files (if you bluetoothed, then it will usually be in the downloads or bluetooth folder) and then you can either copy them to another folder or just play them directly.

stay leet, br0.

Thomas got it here.

One thing the memory on the phones or memory cards is so great i use lossless. I have about 40 cds full files on my phone. Then get one of those jbl bluetooth speakers and you have pretty reasonable sound considering the devices involved.