Android Music player

[gngan]

Long time iDevices user switching to Android.

I have a Galaxy Note with Jelly Bean and I want to sync my music to Android. I am using Android File Transfer for my Mac and located the folder where I should drag all music in it.

Here is the questions:

1) Though iTunes correctly show the artist name and song name (Chinese characters) but my phone is showing up correctly.

2) As I am using other iDevices (iPad), therefore I would like to continue to use iTunes. Is it possible to keep using iTunes to Sync rather than drag files? This is because I will have to keep iTunes library AND drag any new songs I download.

Thanks.

 

[zimlokks]

1) I'm guessing you meant showing up differently? What is it showing instead of the original name?

2) As far as I know you cant use iTunes to sync with your android device, unless im wrong(someone else chime in).

 

[gngan]

It's difficult to explain if you never seen it before.

For instance, the song name/artist is in Chinese charaters, it would show up as ???? or ?!$#$%, etc.

 

[zimlokks]

i will say that Galaxy Note doesnt recognize the name and isn't displaying correctly for that reason.

 

[zimlokks]

i think theyre some apps that allow you to sync your android device with itunes on the play store. im not sure

 

[chanchan05]

It means that your Note probably doesn't have Chinese fonts?

 

[gngan]

Hm...that's weird. I set the language to English but it would not display Chinese characters? That's weird. My iPhone is also set to display English but it also shows Chinese characters for songs.

 

[chanchan05]

Not really sure. Sometimes its the font packs. There's a language pack of combined English and Chinese I think.

 

[mikedt]

Does your phone have Chinese in the language settings, and does it support Chinese characters? If so try a different media player.

It means that your Note probably doesn't have Chinese fonts?

Could be that, or the particular media player can't deal with Chinese ID3 tags correctly. I've got a Samsung phone and the default media player does show Chinese ID3 tags correctly, although this phone was bought in Hong Kong, and so I'd be rather surprised if it didn't show Chinese characters properly.

 

[divinebovine]

I suspect that what you really need to look for is not some way to sync iTunes with an Android device, but some way to sync iTunes with a standard USB mass storage device. When you connect an Android device to a computer you can choose to access the device just like a USB flash drive/hard drive/SD card/etc; it becomes available as a regular filesystem for standard read/write. You might try searching for a way to do that.

 

[gngan]

Does your phone have Chinese in the language settings, and does it support Chinese characters? If so try a different media player.



Could be that, or the particular media player can't deal with Chinese ID3 tags correctly. I've got a Samsung phone and the default media player does show Chinese ID3 tags correctly, although this phone was bought in Hong Kong, and so I'd be rather surprised if it didn't show Chinese characters properly.

Yes, it does have Chinese input and support Chinese characters. What media player do you recommend?

I suspect that what you really need to look for is not some way to sync iTunes with an Android device, but some way to sync iTunes with a standard USB mass storage device. When you connect an Android device to a computer you can choose to access the device just like a USB flash drive/hard drive/SD card/etc; it becomes available as a regular filesystem for standard read/write. You might try searching for a way to do that.

When I choose USB mass storage, there's a button that says 'Connect storage to PC' but it's already connected! I tried pressing the button and a pop up window says USB is connected. Remove the cable. Though my Mac doesn't show up any USB drive.

 

[Umnik192]

It seems to me that the trouble is not with syncing. Your device doesn't have non-unicode support. For syncing you could try iSyncr.
As for different player that supports non-unicode support I can suggest you Astro Player.