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Help getting music from pc to nexus 7

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David NB

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I'm such a noob.

I've tried to sync a half a dozen albums (converted to MP3) to my nexus 7, the first of many I hope.

I don't want them on the cloud, because I'm likely to spend some time in hospital soon with no wifi.

I can see the first 3 I downloaded in my library and on the music app.

But I can't get the others to play, or show up on music.

I know they are on the device, because they show up as files on Aldiko, and when I tried re-synching I was told the files already there.

But how to access them?

All help gratefully received.

David B
 
johncf said:
how are you syncing the files across?, are your music files in the music folder on your nexus?
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Yes, synching.

Now I think of it, the complete albums are in the music folder, but the ones I selected tracks from ain't. That I can see, anyway.

David
 
Thanks for replies.

On further looking and downloading another player, the new player can find the files, but can't play them.

I think the problem is that I stupidly ripped them from CD in the wrong format.

Any way of deleting them? Can't find anything obvious?

David
 
David NB said:
Thanks for replies.

On further looking and downloading another player, the new player can find the files, but can't play them.

I think the problem is that I stupidly ripped them from CD in the wrong format.

Any way of deleting them? Can't find anything obvious?

David
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I connected N7 to PC and copied 6 complete albums (they were all mp3 format) to the music folder on N7 last night - first try. They all showed up with album art and play fine with the stock music player. I can delete them from the music folder when connected to the PC. The only thing I haven't figured out is the "My Library" widget doesn't generally show the album art - it showed up for the first couple of albums, now just bland squares???
 
I deleted the files that had gone over in WMA format (using the laptop and the Nexus as a drive), re-ripped some tracks from an album in MP3, re-synched, and they went over in WMA format again.

Don't understand:mad:

Will try again tomorrow using the whole album rather than selections - the whole albums have gone over fine.

It's more bugging me than necessary, anyway, since all the music is also on my HTC Desire S, and works fine on that.

It is not really a prob to have the music on the phone, and books on the Nexus.

Haven't got any audio books to work yet, though, which was one of my prime rationales for buying the Nexus in the first place.

David B
 
Try putting one song onto Google music and see if that works out better. You can click on the pushpin to download it for offline use.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
 
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