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Samsung Suggest music player for S10+, files are on HDD / Mac

Dougie Nucleus

Dougie Nucleus

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I drive older cars with no connectivity. Until recently I played my toonz through an iPod Classic via an FM transmitter which suited me fine. The iPod became unresponsive and I accidentally factory reset it, and since Apple don't support it any more I can't configure/operate it via the iMac.

I'm hoping someone can suggest a means of getting the music copied to my Samsung S10+. The tracks are on an external drive connected to my iMac, and accessed through the Apple Music App which I understand replaced iTunes. Having searched for Android music players and viewed a few YouTube videos, there seem to be few which can deal with a Mac, and reviews are not universally reassuring.

I can't be the first to face this inconvenience, and hope for some helpful suggestions.

Many Thanks and if you're observing - season's greetings.
 
Thanks for that. Can it communicate with a Mac (I'm finding many Android players can't) and do I have to install it on the Mac as well as the 'phone?

Connecting the 'phone to the Mac produces an Android File Transfer logo and "No Android connected" or similar.

Appreciate your patience - clearly a beginner....
 
I believe that everything can be download as an app can be used on the www as a comp browser, without tinkering around app's bloody drainage.
 
Thanks for the comments.

When I configure the phone USB connectivity and plug into the Mac, AFT opens but says nothing is connected. I might just get a used iPhone, which will presumably be easier to copy the music to, and use that as a music source in the car via bluetooth to an FM transmitter. Or something like that.

Thanks again.
 
Dougie Nucleus said:
Thanks for the comments.

When I configure the phone USB connectivity and plug into the Mac, AFT opens but says nothing is connected. I might just get a used iPhone, which will presumably be easier to copy the music to, and use that as a music source in the car via bluetooth to an FM transmitter. Or something like that.

Thanks again.
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Try WiFi File Transfer instead. I've always had success with this app for transferring files too and from computer to phone. And I have found it more reliable than AFT.
play.google.com

WiFi File Transfer - Apps on Google Play

Access your mobile files via WiFi on any device
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have you tried any suggestions from above? you can even try using smart switch from samsung. but if the music is on a hard drive, why can't you just connect that to your phone? are they itune files? are they mp3 files?
 
If the files are from iTunes you'll need to know where on the hard drive they are (iTunes would copy to an iPod without you needing to know this, but it wouldn't to any non-Apple device). Start from "iTunes Music" or something like that and look through the subdirectories until you find them. Then you can manually copy them to the phone.

You can use Android File Transfer, but in my experience it doesn't play well with Smart Switch (i.e. on my laptop installing Smart Switch broke AFT). But you should be able to use Smart Switch to copy files too.

If the files were bought from iTunes they'll be aac rather than mp3, but that's not a problem: it's a standard file format (not an Apple-specific one) and any music player should be able to handle them.
 
Hadron said:
If the files are from iTunes you'll need to know where on the hard drive they are (iTunes would copy to an iPod without you needing to know this, but it wouldn't to any non-Apple device). Start from "iTunes Music" or something like that and look through the subdirectories until you find them. Then you can manually copy them to the phone.

You can use Android File Transfer, but in my experience it doesn't play well with Smart Switch (i.e. on my laptop installing Smart Switch broke AFT). But you should be able to use Smart Switch to copy files too.

If the files were bought from iTunes they'll be aac rather than mp3, but that's not a problem: it's a standard file format (not an Apple-specific one) and any music player should be able to handle them.
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There's typically a directory or folder named "iTunes Music" as Hadron says, but be aware Apple may have some weird filename convention that is iTunes proprietary, thus you might not see the song title as the filename the way you would expect with normal mp3 files on regular computing devices.
Once found, connect your S10+ by USB cable to the Mac and just drag 'n drop them to the phone's file folders. I usually create a top level folder called Music or Audio to keep all my music files on my phones for easy access.

As to a music playing app, I do use VLC but in recent years I started using Pulsar which provides a nice presentation interface that sorts songs by album | artist | genre and supports playlists.
 
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