[Klug-general] Transferring Music To A Mobile Phone

[Kevin Groves]

A bit late to the party but I tend to use an ftp client as i can access 
both the laptop and nas with it.


On 04/12/13 11:06, Paul Littlefield 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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