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Mac Address Book Compatibility?

Hey there!
This is my first post, and im new to the site
I don't know much at all about phones etc but I do have a good general idea.
Anyway, Im getting the HTC Touch HD tomorrow and i'm wondering if the address book contacts will be transferred over from my MBP to the HTC??
And on the subject, when I put my iTunes songs onto the memory card, will the Album Art still be there too?
Thanks

the address book will be synced yes because i use a macbook too and mine are fine
i haven't actually put any music on mine yet from itunes so can't comment there
you'll need sync mate i think its called for the macbook as obviously the acti sync won't work

steve4063 said:
the address book will be synced yes because i use a macbook too and mine are fine
i haven't actually put any music on mine yet from itunes so can't comment there
you'll need sync mate i think its called for the macbook as obviously the acti sync won't work
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Great! I will let you know how it works in the morning.
Thank You!

With SyncMate you can sync Contacts and Calendar in your Mac and HTC Touch for free (just install Syncmate Free Edition).
when I put my iTunes songs onto the memory card, will the Album Art still be there too?
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Yes, Album Art will be synchronized too. iTunes synchronization is offered in Expert Edition.

[Q] How to sync music that is outside of your collection?

As much as I hated iTunes, I could manually sync music onto my iPod Touch my dragging files directly into iTunes.
Most of my Music is on external hard drive and DVDs I've burned so I don't want to add everything to my collection just to sync the music to WP7.
Is there a more convenient way of doing this?

The most convenient way is to add the music to your collection. Then you can drag and drop anything onto the Phone icon at the bottom left of the screen.
I'm not sure why you believe doing this to be inconvenient?

Because like I've said my music is spread over multiple back up disks and drives. I don't want to spend forever adding particular folders/subfolders into the collection which in fact modifies the windows libraries as well.

I'm a bit confused. Is it that you don't want to add the music to your library. Or is it that you find it a nuisance to add the files to your library?
Whichever the case, I think the only solution is to add them to your Zune library. Don't know if there's another way to sync media to your phone. If you have stuff on an external HD, you can just select that HD drive letter, and it'll go through all the folders for ya.
Didn't you have to add them to iTunes in order to drag them over to your iPod?

digger1985 said:
As much as I hated iTunes, I could manually sync music onto my iPod Touch my dragging files directly into iTunes.
Most of my Music is on external hard drive and DVDs I've burned so I don't want to add everything to my collection just to sync the music to WP7.
Is there a more convenient way of doing this?
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Just use the USB mass storage bypass method and drag and drop the files and/or folders into the Music folder under Storage. All your music will appear in Zune on your phone.

Still No Skydrive Official Music Support?

Theres already cloud storage for music on ios and theres google music already but theres still no official skydrive music or whatever from microsoft what gives here? are they going to do anything cloud storage related for music with wp7:

Great
You just gave me idea for a new app, thanks... I just hope I will have some free time to code it, currently I'm developing another app "use your phone as a hidden camera", to be published this weekend

deadwrong03 said:
Theres already cloud storage for music on ios and theres google music already but theres still no official skydrive music or whatever from microsoft what gives here? are they going to do anything cloud storage related for music with wp7:
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Try Anemoplayer. Its more proof of concept at this point but once the developer implements playlists and background support you'll be streaming on the go

N3croman said:
You just gave me idea for a new app, thanks... I just hope I will have some free time to code it, currently I'm developing another app "use your phone as a hidden camera", to be published this weekend
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Hey, sound like good idea to me, haha.
Should be able to shut the screen off , and still able to take the picture *sliently* haha.
Alright, back to the main point.
Skydrive allow you to have 2GB Free... would be nice to have music up there but i mean like, is it really necessary? because i never filled my 16GB with Apps and Music.

This is puzzling. Zune is by far the best streaming service of all three OSes. You can listen to anything. iOS is limited to what you have in your collection. Google Music is the stupidest thing on Earth - why would anyone want to upload their own stuff and then stream it from there? Why would anyone choose that over Zune Pass?

vangrieg said:
This is puzzling. Zune is by far the best streaming service of all three OSes. You can listen to anything. iOS is limited to what you have in your collection. Google Music is the stupidest thing on Earth - why would anyone want to upload their own stuff and then stream it from there? Why would anyone choose that over Zune Pass?
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It's free And it allows access to things that aren't on Zune

the problem is, zune isnt available worldwide.... in austria we does not have zune music. only zune video... skydrive music services would be nice ^^

PG2G said:
It's free
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But useless.
Erazor84 said:
the problem is, zune isnt available worldwide.... in austria we does not have zune music. only zune video... skydrive music services would be nice ^^
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Yeah, that's true. I'm using it here but I agree, it's not easy and most people wouldn't do it.
Still uploading your own stuff to the cloud and listening from there sounds weird to me. The value in Zune Pass isn't the fact that stuff is streamed, and that's the only thing that is similar in Google Music.

vangrieg said:
Still uploading your own stuff to the cloud and listening from there sounds weird to me. The value in Zune Pass isn't the fact that stuff is streamed, and that's the only thing that is similar in Google Music.
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I agree, Zune pass is the best of the three services. Although you have to pay for it.
On a side note, has anyone set up a Windows Home Server? I downloaded an app to connect to my server and now I can stream my personal music collection directly off of it. Zune Pass + personal collection on Home Server = endless music.

I have a Windows Home Server at home and that's where I store stuff including music. But I don't stream it from there though. The main problem with streaming is battery drain. It's much more practical to just copy music to the phone. If it had more generous storage I would have to do it just once.

lbp775 said:
I agree, Zune pass is the best of the three services. Although you have to pay for it.
On a side note, has anyone set up a Windows Home Server? I downloaded an app to connect to my server and now I can stream my personal music collection directly off of it. Zune Pass + personal collection on Home Server = endless music.
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how does home server work? Does ur computer have to always work? When you stream is the music history saved in the zune player shuffled with what's already on your memory card?
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Add music from iTunes and organize into playlists

can somebody explain a way to do this? take out the m3u file from an itunes playlist so that my music on my galaxy nexus is organized..

Have you checked into DoubleTwist? I think that does what you're looking for.
Can you explain the problem a bit more? I just copy over my music and the Music app sorts it by artist, album, etc for me. (Actually it pulls it all from Google Music... uploaded all my music as soon as Google Music came out.)

DoubleTwist will pull in your playlists from iTunes and sync them with your phone. You'll need to use the DoubleTwist player on your phone too, though.

iSyncr with the Wi-Fi add on works great
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I use wifi tunes sync server from the marketplace, works great

Google Music supports playlists from iTunes and WMP.

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iSyncr with the Wi-Fi add on works great
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I recommend this also. I was using iOs for years and had setup smart playlists based on ratings. iSyncr and its widget work well to keep that going.

Chirality said:
Google Music supports playlists from iTunes and WMP.
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Ditto on Google Music. The music manager automatically uploads your music (even adjusted music - album covers, renames, etc) as well as any playlists you make in itunes. That's the way I do it. Requires no effort at all.

tsunami1609 said:
Ditto on Google Music. The music manager automatically uploads your music (even adjusted music - album covers, renames, etc) as well as any playlists you make in itunes. That's the way I do it. Requires no effort at all.
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this requires data if streaming and i dont think the music quality would be the same when uploading to google music and then downloading it back to the phone
theres no way of just taking a playlist from itunes and uploading it to your phone then taking the m3u file and just adding it to the same folder?

no, iTunes sync is DRM encrypted so you cant do it directly from what I understand.
You can try finding a PC based app but iSyncr is cheap and works great. It has a PC only app.
You could import your library to Winamp or other player and directly sync also.
Maybe you can fool iTunes into thinking your phone is a data disc and import music that way but that sounds like a lot of work.

rye&ginger said:
no, iTunes sync is DRM encrypted so you cant do it directly from what I understand.
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I run into this... 90% of my library transferred to Google Music okay, the other 10% (especially my Lonely Island albums) is DRM protected and short of burning them to a CD I have yet to find something that will remove it on them. Doubletwist doesn't even see them (I put them all into a playlist by themselves)... More reasons to hate Apple (but applaud their ability to monopolize and make money)...
Needless to say, I haven't bought anything from iTunes since summer so I can avoid this...

mcguinness89 said:
this requires data if streaming and i dont think the music quality would be the same when uploading to google music and then downloading it back to the phone
theres no way of just taking a playlist from itunes and uploading it to your phone then taking the m3u file and just adding it to the same folder?
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As some others in this thread have already stated, the iSyncr app available in the Android Market can do what you want. It allows you to see all the playlists you currently have in iTunes and select which ones you want to import onto your Android-based phone. After you've selected which playlists you want it will sync them (and the relevant song files) to your phone. After that your music app of choice on your phone should be able to see the playlists.
I use an iMac at home with iTunes and have a GSM Galaxy Nexus and use the above scenario all the time to sync my playlists from iTunes to my GNex.

I use Google Music but if you want to sync your iTunes library or playlists, double twist is definitely the way to go. And it DOES play fine with the default Music app, it just mirrors your iTunes music folder to your phones music folder, which the stock Music app scans.

mcguinness89 said:
this requires data if streaming and i dont think the music quality would be the same when uploading to google music and then downloading it back to the phone
theres no way of just taking a playlist from itunes and uploading it to your phone then taking the m3u file and just adding it to the same folder?
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Sync with Google Music over Wifi, no data required when playing offline music.
Google Music doesn't do any transcoding if your music is in MP3 format. If it's in other formats it will do transcoding.
The Android Music player supports .m3u playlists, so you can export your playlists from iTunes in .m3u format, then copy the playlist to your phone in the same folder hierarchy, and the media scanner will then read the playlist.

Nevermind i found a way, isyncr wasnt working out for me on my mac (playlists werent showing up, music was getting deleted.. etc..) so i got this app from the mac app store called Playlist Export and it works great. Heres the link http://www.ericdaugherty.com/apps/playlistexport/

mcguinness89 said:
Nevermind i found a way, isyncr wasnt working out for me on my mac (playlists werent showing up, music was getting deleted.. etc..) so i got this app from the mac app store called Playlist Export and it works great. Heres the link http://www.ericdaugherty.com/apps/playlistexport/
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Wait, you have to pay to export your playlists from iTunes? It doesn't have that function built-in?
Unbelievable...

Chirality said:
Wait, you have to pay to export your playlists from iTunes? It doesn't have that function built-in?
Unbelievable...
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^ I think the app is free, so not AS bad. But this whole MTP thing is rough for Mac owners. I've been trying for a while to figure out a free way to get my girlfriend's playlists from her macbook to her GNexus.
I'm going to give that app a shot later today, but if anyone has any other good ideas (other than the wifi add-ons for iSyncr and DoubleTwist), let me know. I'd appreciate it.

actually, itunes supports m3u now.. just click file > library > export playlist, then choose m3u and add that too your music folder on phone with the music in it !!!!!

mcguinness89 said:
actually, itunes supports m3u now.. just click file > library > export playlist, then choose m3u and add that too your music folder on phone with the music in it !!!!!
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^ I was pretty happy to discover that earlier, and exported all the .m3u playlists to her phone via dropbox. I had all of the mp3 songs loaded for each playlist that I was going to transfer over, but when I opened the .m3u files, it gives me an error message saying "Error playing the requested track." I'm guessing the issue is that the .m3u file isn't in the same folder as the rest of the music files. If I used a file manager app and moved the .m3u into the music file, would that help?
Also, I have tried using doubletwist with airsync, which works for transferring songs, but doesn't give me playlists on her phone. I've tried dragging and dropping the playlists onto her phone, and I've tried letting doubletwist sync them completely.
I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point. If anyone has worked out any sort of solution with a Mac, please let me know!
Cheers

i use doubletwist, syncs everything

[Q] How do u transfer iTunes to GS3?

with my other androids, (MyTouch 4g, One S, One X)
I open iTunes and my Phone/Internal/SDcard
and would just highlight the songs in iTunes and drag over to Phone Storage.
Here with the GS3 I get a (\) Not Available sign and it wont go through.
What am I missing here?

I don't know about iTunes (I stopped using it), but I was able to just open the SD card folder and the folder with the music and was able to copy and paste that way.
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I'm assuming you have a google account, if you do you can upload your entire itunes library to google music using your desktop computer and then you have access to your library with your phone. If you don't want to use cloud-based, just find your itunes folder on your computer and transfer those songs to your sd card. IMO the google music is the easiest way to do it and it doesn't take up storage space on your phone.

kingston73 said:
I'm assuming you have a google account, if you do you can upload your entire itunes library to google music using your desktop computer and then you have access to your library with your phone. If you don't want to use cloud-based, just find your itunes folder on your computer and transfer those songs to your sd card. IMO the google music is the easiest way to do it and it doesn't take up storage space on your phone.
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You can also flag artists, playlists, tracks, etc etc to be downloaded and kept local through google music as well

kingston73 said:
I'm assuming you have a google account, if you do you can upload your entire itunes library to google music using your desktop computer and then you have access to your library with your phone. If you don't want to use cloud-based, just find your itunes folder on your computer and transfer those songs to your sd card. IMO the google music is the easiest way to do it and it doesn't take up storage space on your phone.
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Agree.
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thanks I forgot i can save the songs from there, but ya my library is just chaos.
I have 6K songs, can I delete them all then reupload? would the 6K count towards the 20K?

Media monkey
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You don't iTunes to do the job of transfering your music to your phone. The galaxy s3 storage type is a different kind of type than previous devices, its mpti or something similar to that i believe so it doesn't mount like an sd card it mounts like some device which windows recognizes.
Why don't you just browse to your music directory and just open up your my computer Sg3 device then select either internal or external storage and drag your music files from your local music folder to your galaxy s3 sd card or internal storage.
To get your music into itunes in the first place you must have dragged your music into itunes or imported your music from your local pc music folder so therefore you can do the same thing for the gs3, drag your music from your local folder to your gs3 device. itunes is for iphones its crappy.

Make a new folder on your desktop, drag the files from iTunes to that folder, then from that folder to your gs3. Just gotta add that extra step.
Osman, iTunes organizes the music into folders by artist then by album so doing it that way would take A LOT of time.

Good question, I've always sort of wanted to grab some of my older music from iTunes. You're right though, Apple does suck a hard one!
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Get doubletwist. And download one for PC too. Whatever is in your itunes will show up in doubletwist. Then you can air sync your music (paid addon) or usb
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You could always use the official software Samsung Kies which fully supports importing music from iTunes and transfering music to the device as well as backing the device up.

You could use a script.
I found one that syncs a playlist to a folder. I just have all the songs i want on my phone in a playlist and it syncs right to my music folder when connected.
Although i store my music on my external SD card..