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How to back up music

If one is using Google for photos, you could probably use Google Drive for your music as well. I don't use any cloud storage for either, and just keep it all backed up locally.

Depending on what the music is and where it came from, you maybe able to re-download from where you originally purchased them. Things like Nickelback and Metallica MP3s are not irreplaceable, unlike personal photos.
 
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What do you mean by backing up locally? I hope that's not the phone's internal storage. Maybe it's the SD card. I guess things could be backed up to a PC, but would it work for Android if it's a Windows computer? Would it be able to back up everything, including games, data, apps, etc.?
 
I keep all my music on my desktop. Anything I care to put on my devices I also have an extra copy on a flash drive. Using a flash drive will also let me access it with an OTG cable.
 
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What do you mean by backing up locally? I hope that's not the phone's internal storage. Maybe it's the SD card.
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All my music is on a 256GB micro-SD in the phone. But it's also on a couple of USB hard drives as well, so there's basically three copies of my entire music library. And as it's around 120GB of MP3s, M4As, FLACs etc, I don't think that cloud storage would be viable, and might be too costly for that amount of data. Also which cloud storage service could I use for music, because I'm usually in China, but travel internationally a few times a year. I have a few documents on Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive, which I share with a few other colleagues, but that's only a few MB.

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I guess things could be backed up to a PC, but would it work for Android if it's a Windows computer? Would it be able to back up everything, including games, data, apps, etc.?
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FWIW I use a Macbook myself. For backing up all my settings, apps, games, and their associated data, I use the phone's own built-in backup and restore tool. Which puts it onto the micro-SD, and I can copy the backup data off that and onto my computer, or another micro-SD if I wanted.
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Rgarner said:
What do you mean by backing up locally? I hope that's not the phone's internal storage. Maybe it's the SD card. I guess things could be backed up to a PC, but would it work for Android if it's a Windows computer? Would it be able to back up everything, including games, data, apps, etc.?
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1: No, not yet.
1a: Yes
2: Yes
2a: Yes
3: No, not yet.
 
What are M4As and FLACs? Are they music files? Can a Windows computer back up absolutely everything Android?
 
FLAC is the audiophiles format. I'm not quite there yet though.

MP3's sound great on my devices.
My record player sounded good too. I lost all my records though. 45's and LP's during various moves.

Still got a Vietnam era military record player. Nothing to play on it which truly sucks.

The albums in my basement might sill work with it but I'm pretty sure they're all scratchy.

No chance of scratches with digital music.
 
If it's high end it's no wonder I hadn't heard of it. Meanwhile, I guess I'll just stick with mp3s. At least they're probably cheaper.
 
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Depending on the features on your Android device you can back up everything on your phone from multiple locations into one file that would probably look like this.
 

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Rgarner said:
Can a Windows computer back up absolutely everything Android
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Don't confuse being able to store files on a particular OS's hard drive with being able to use files on that OS.

Because I'm an avowed window$ hater, and Linux ONLY person, I don't want to steer you wrong. But I believe that any OS, even window$, is capable of having files stored on its drives without damaging them.

Unless, of course, a human comes along and does an ill-advised move, like opening a video file in a text editor, making changes, and then saving it. Poof! That video is now toast. :o

Barring that type of interference, any file--intended for any operating system--should be fine on another OS's drives.

And that's all we're dealing with: files. It doesn't matter if they're images, music, videos, text, etc., you should be able to copy them to your computer and they'll be fine. Just don't expect, for example, an Android game to be usable on a window$ PC.
 
I pretty much share your dislike for window$ (great way to put it). In fact, I was about to put Linux, most likely Ubuntu, on a flash drive for the pc when the giant ink bug thing happened. I guess it's just my luck.
 
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I pretty much share your dislike for window$ (great way to put it).
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Thanks! I like it. :D
In fact, I was about to put Linux, most likely Ubuntu
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Or, if you're intrigued by the thought of a zillion customization possibilities, and really beautiful desktops, try my personal favorite, Kubuntu. All the power under the hood that's expected in a Linux distribution, plus endless eye candy.
on a flash drive for the pc
when the giant ink bug thing happened. I guess it's just my luck.
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Giant ink bug thing?! :thinking:
 
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