Way OT, phone info

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
So now that I have a smartphone I'm looking for advice. What I want to do is store music on the phone, pretty simple right? My kids are no help. They all have unlimited data, I don't. So how do I put songs on the stupid phone so I can listen to what I want to hear without being online? It's an LG G5 if it matters. Must be something simple I'm missing entirely.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
With an iPhone you just use iTunes to download the music from the iTunes Store, you have to pay for it. My wife stores music on her phone, I don't. I use Pandora, it has an offline option that stores some music on your phone so you can listen when your out of Wifi or cellphone range, but it doesn't store much. Sorry that's not much help.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Bret, I just did an online search and found a number of videos and help pages on this topic. After minimal review this seemed to be one of the better ones:


It appears that there are several ways you can do it, most suggest you download to your PC and then to your phone via USB cable. It requires several apps on your phone and PC to download and play music, there are different formats.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Thanks Keith, that's retty nch what found too. I thought there had to be an easy way to do it. Not so it seems.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Yep, gotta get them on the computer first. Once on the computer you transfer them to the phone.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
That's why I like Pandora. I can't carry a tune and I hate listening to bad music.
 

Ian

Notorious member
I'm an insufferable and very stuffy audiophile brought up in a family of very talented musicians, and have spent a lot of time in symphony bands playing woodwinds of various sorts. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's poorly-reproduced music. Compact discs are bad enough, but most compressed digital recordings sound like a muffled train wreck to me. The exception is the electronic "music", aka Eurotrash Techno/Rave/Trance, which I happen to enjoy very much and not much gets lost in translation because the signal is very binary to begin with. My wife does the Pandora thing and it's great for electronic music playback on long trips in the Sequoia now that I did a major soundproofing job on it and refoamed all the very nice factory JBL speakers.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Can't help you, Bret, as my only use for a smart phone is as a phone. Oh, wait, I lied -- maybe once a month I will listen to Pandora. My hearing is so bad that I can't tell the sound quality difference between the smart phone's speakers and a symphony house.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
I always take earbuds with me when I go to the doctors office, I listen to Pandora while waiting. One way to get a little privacy and pass the time, especially when I can't read during a visit to the eye guy. Had an iPod once, the hassle of downloading music to it was more than I wanted to deal with so I gave it away. That's why I don't store music on my phone.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
Slacker isn't bad either . It's small data package transfer .
ABC news on the hr , commercial breaks 2 min every 15 , it will buffer 30 min and let you build basic playlists via "stations" by genere in the free version . It doesn't consume much data , I can't give you a number but it's not a meg in an 8 hr day .
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Okay, thanks guys. I see something on line about as SD card (?) which I think is additional memory I can put stuff on. I'll keep looking. You really would think someone would simplify this stuff. One of the kids had an MP3 player and for the life of me I never figured out how to get music on it either.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
you gotta hook that up to the computer and pull stuff out of the library.
like literally click and drag the song you want over to a list then hit download.
if you get a larger capacity one it will hold enough music to last 3 full days.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Bret, the SD is the postage stamp sized mem device, flat, thin, one corner clipped off. Probably
for the phone it is actually a microSD, which is the same but about 5/16x3/8". It comes with an
adaptor to make it into the postage stamp size, which will plug into most PCs or laptops.

Move the music files to the microSD when it is plugged into the SD adaptor, and that plugged into
your PC. Then unplug from PC, and put the microSD into the phone (either a slot in the side or open
the back) and then the microSD should be seen as another source of data which you can then play.

If your PC does not have a slot for an SD, there are available cheap SD to USB adaptors. If you PC
is old enough not to have a USB port.......it gets complicated.

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Bill
 
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Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I was thinking about this Bill and I guess it's the way to go. It just seemed like there had to be an easier way. How did people put music on an MP3 player? One of the kids had one and we never could figure it out. I suppose I'm stuck in the '70's again with memories of being able to put a song on a cassette off the radio just by waiting for the song and pushing "record". Some older tech was sure easier!
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
My first MP3 player used an SD card just like Bill showed. Copy music to it while card was connected to computer. Remove from computer, insert into player, and go on your merry way.
An IPod you connect to computer and use the appropriate software to load music.

In the end the first thing that must be done is get the music on your computer. That means time with CDs in front of computer loading the music.