How to sync music between your PC and Android-devices

For a long time I manually download music to your phone from the appropriate folder on your home computer. Not long ago, I had one more Android-device in the form of a radio in a car. In addition, for a long time I had a working laptop, on which there was no music.

Manually move all the files on other devices 2-3 to update the music library - this is a very long time. And set up a convenient, fast and free sync your music between your Android- and Windows-based devices can be half an hour.

Immediately I say, why not use Bluetooth in the car is not the quality, given the expensive non-standard audio system.

1. Choose the cloud storage

cloud serviceYou are going to use must have the following characteristics:

• a sufficient amount of space for all our tracks and reserve for the future;
• the possibility of offline access to entire folders.

On the first point, as a rule, there is no problem. Even if the original storage volume is not sufficient for all the services there are ways to increase it for free.

With the second option is more complicated. If the PC it is provided by the presence of Windows-based applications for storage, then on mobile devices such function is available is not always. Consider some of the most popular services in Russia.

• google Drive. Now the mobile app does not support offline access to entire folders - only individual files.
• microsoft OneDrive. Offline access to folders there, but only in the paid version - when you subscribe to Office 365 (269 rubles per month). But you do not save it on the Apple Music or Google Play Music, is not it?
• «Cloud Mail. Ru». Offline access at the time of writing, there is a mobile application store.
• Dropbox. The same situation as with Google Drive.
• «Yandex. Disk». Suitable for our purposes.

There may be other cloud storage systems that meet our requirements, but among these five - only "Yandex. Disk».

2. Choosing a music player on Android

The application must be able to create their own media library (many players use a full-time library of Android media files) from any folder on the device. Namely - in the settings must have item "Select folders with music" or the like.

I use Poweramp - tried no less than two dozen popular in the search for a suitable application playersAnd everything was just with him. This same capability is declared in some other players, however, can access files stored in folders, applications for cloud storage, through them, I did not succeed.

3. Configuring the repository

First of all download the cloud service application on the device that want to synchronize. If you do not have access to all devices at the moment, it's scary. The new device will be easy to add to our system.

Upload music folder into the vault will be easiest from the computer, but if the latest version of your music library is stored on the phone or tablet and you know how these devices to download entire folders to the cloud, this method does not yield to boot from the computer. If you do not know - just move your entire library from your smartphone or tablet to your PC by connecting via USB.

To download music to the cloud with the PC, open the folder and drag the cloud storage to your library.

Now on the devices on which you're going to listen to the music in the folder properties to the music library, select the offline access (in the mobile "Yandex. Drive "this airplane icon) to all of your tracks are downloaded to the device.

4. Setting up the player on the mobile device

All application settings, you specify the correct path to your library. The screenshots - example of Poweramp and "Yandex. Drive. "

1. Open the music player settings. Find the section in which you can change the folder with the music (it can be called a "library", "Scan", "Selecting a folder," and so on), and select the appropriate option.

1. Remove all the ticks and locate the folder into which the files your cloud. As a rule, all the application files are saved in a folder Android \ data \ * Application name * \... For example, for "Yandex. Drive ": Android \ data \ ru.yandex.disk \ files \ disk \ * your * music folder.

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Now, add new and delete old tracks can be selected through a cloud service on any of the devices. After adding / deleting a track just run the application on a different cloud storage device, when will be going to listen to music. It itself will make all the changes.

In the music player, find the setting item "Scan folders with music" or equivalent to new tracks added to the list. Poweramp itself to respond quickly to changes in the folder with the music, making it even easier synchronization.

I hope this article has helped someone. Good luck!

see also

• 7 services and programs for downloading music from the "VKontakte» →
• How to search for new music: 40 working methods →
• I started listening to music legally and for some reason it is still uncomfortable →