[Klug-general] Transferring Music To A Mobile Phone

[Andrew Spode Miller]

Hey Paul,

This is an issue that shouldn't be one considering Androids origins - but
it unfortunately is. Here are some of the methods I've tried / used / use.
My preferred is number 4.

1 - If you have support for a microSD card - copy your music (I have a
USB->microSD adapter) to this and then plug it in.
2 - As Karl suggested, if you use Google Play Music (It's free up to 20,000
songs) then it will keep it synchronised and available across multiple
devices / web browser etc. which is possibly more useful
3 - MTP is a PITA. I've had nothing but issues with it - save yourself a
head ache and just don't bother. However, gMTP is supposed to be better
than GVFS.
4 - I primarily use an SSH daemon on my phone (SSHDroid for example) and
then connect over WiFi. I find I only get transfers rates of around 1.1MB/s
but it is reliable and a standard. The only issue I've had with this, is
the other day I was having trouble with write permissions, but once I
rooted my phone is was fine. So YMMV.
5 - I think Colin mentioned Airdroid - I seem to remember a drawback to
this is you can't upload entire folders at once.
6 - DropBox/UbuntuOne other cloud synchronisation tool.

Hope this helps,

Spode x


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Paul Littlefield <info at paully.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Folks
>
> OK, who here uses an Android phone and regularly transfers music to it for
> listening?
>
> What do you use for this?
>
> When I plug the phone in to my laptop it sees it correctly in Thunar, then
> I choose SD Card and it reads the folders.
>
> I then copy from my ~/Music sub folder the Artist then paste into the
> Phone's SD Card Music folder.
>
> This used to take 20 seconds with UMS.
>
> Google has now removed UMS (USB Mass Storage) support from Android and
> it's now taking me 5 minutes to copy 1 album using the horrible MTP
> protocol.
>
> Also, copying photos from my mobile to my laptop takes just as long AND
> the filenames are all corrupted.
>
> Hope someone can help please.
>
> Disgruntled from Folkestone.
>
> PS: Ubuntu 12.04 running XFCE, Thunar File Manager, Android 4.2.2
>
>
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