Put Music On Android From Mac

I know, I know, I mentioned iTunes and Android in the title too close to one another. Trust me, I did not mean any disrespect. If you can get by with your life without using iTunes to buy and sync music to your mobile device, more power to you. But you see, some of us are heavily invested in the iTunes ecosystem, buying songs for years and using the perfectly capable application to manage content on different devices.

The Music Manager will now start adding your music to Google Play. Once it's finished you can listen to your music using the Google Play Music app on Android devices with 2.2 and above. How to Transfer Backup Music from Mac to Android If you would like to transfer music from Mac to your Android device, the best application to use is dr.fone - Phone Manager (Android).It is a very easy to use phone transfer tool that you can use to transfer many things between Android and computer, including apps, contacts, messages, call logs, music and videos.

May be some of us own a Mac, where iTunes really is one of the best media players around. Whatever reasons we might have, they are legitimate. We need to sync music and playlists to our Android phones that we love oh so dearly and we need to find free, fast and reliable ways to do it, preferably something that doesn't need playing with wires. Lucky for us, I've found just the right things.

1. doubleTwist – Wired Sync

I've talked about doubleTwist and how it is the best way to sync playlists from your Mac or PC to your Android wirelessly when I compared it with iSyncr. But the Wi-Fi syncing requires a $2 add on. Worth the price but not the objective of this article.

Luckily, doubleTwist will allow you to sync songs and playlists from iTunes to Android for free if you are willing to connect it via USB. The process is detailed in the article I linked above. It is very simple. Once the device is connected, open the doubleTwist app on the desktop, select the device, check the playlists you want to sync, click the Sync button and you are done.

2. Simple Drag And Drop

It is not as glamorous as the other option but it will get the job done. You can't sync iTunes playlists this way but you can copy music directly from iTunes and organize it in folders for better management.

Step 1: Connect your Android device to your PC and turn on the USB Mass Storage Mode. Your device will now show up in the Windows Explorer.

Step 2: Open the Android drive and locate the Music folder where you want to copy the music. Or if you want you can make a folder anywhere in the drive, just remember where.

Step 3: Launch iTunes and open it side by side with the Explorer window. Now select any number of songs you want, click and drag it all over to the Explorer window. Wait while the songs are copied, remove the device, open the music player on your phone and listen away.

You can later create playlists out of folders on your Android phone quite easily.

3. Wireless Syncing with Cheetah Sync

Cheetah Sync is an Android app that lets you wirelessly sync files and folders to and fro from your Android phone. Ashish has already written a general guide on the app but here I will focus on how you can use Cheetah Sync to transfer music from your PC to your Android phone wirelessly.

Download the Cheetah Sync Mac or Windows client depending on the system and the Android app.

Step 1: Launch the Cheetah Sync desktop client . It is a background utility and you don't need to do anything more.

Step 2: On the Android app, we will first need to create a Job. A job is a set of instructions the app remembers and executes on your demand. They are saved, so repeated syncing is dead simple.

Step 3: Go into the Sync Jobs menu and wait for the app to search for desktop clients. Pick the computer when it shows up.

Step 4: From the bottom of the screen select Create New Job. The app will now show the entire documents directory of your PC. We need to navigate to the iTunes folder which is in User(username)MusiciTunesiTunes MediaMusic by default in Mac and C:Users(username)MusiciTunesiTunes MediaMusic in Windows.

Step 5: From this list, select the folder you want to sync by tapping the Checkmark icon. iTunes sorts folders by artists. If you want to sync the entire iTunes library, choose the Music folder itself.

Step 6: Now Cheetah Sync will show your Android phone's storage. Select the folder where you want to save the music.

Step 7: From the last screen, tap Sync Direction and make sure the option for Computer to Android is selected. Then tap Save. Your job will now show up in the Sync Jobs list.

Step 8: To active the job we just created, go into Sync, make sure the job is ticked and tap Sync Now and that's it.

This might seem a bit long but if you do this right, by selecting the folder where you save all your new music, then repeating this operation (syncing newly added songs) will only include Step 8, as Cheetah Sync already remembers all the details of the job. Just sync and all the new songs you have added to the folder will be copied to your device.

Did You Know

The iPhone XS Max run graphics 50 percent faster than the older iPhone X.

More in Windows

Top 3 Fixes for Camera Not Working on Windows 10 PC

Since you can't use iTunes with Android devices, many people look elsewhere for solutions to help them manage their music between computer and Android, or multiple Android devices. Unzip split zip files mac. This article is designed to make that search quick and easy for you. Check out the list of quick navigation items below to jump to 4 of the best ways of how to transfer music from computer to Android:

Quick Jump to:

Transfer music from computer to Android : USB Transfer

The quickest way to transfer music from computer to Android is through USB cable transfer. This transfer method varies slightly depending on whether you are using PC or Mac.

USB Transfer with Windows PC

1. Connect your Android to your Windows PC using a USB cable.
2. If you are given a selection of connection options, select Transfer Files (MTP).
3. Select the music files from your computer.
4. Drag the files into the Music folder on your Android device.

USB Transfer with Windows Mac

1. Download and install Android File Transfer on your Mac.
2. Connect your Android to your Windows PC using a USB cable.
3. If you are given a selection of connection options, select Transfer Files (MTP).
4. Select the music files from your computer.
5. Drag the files into the Music folder on your Android device in Android File Transfer.

Transfer music with Droid Transfer

This is our most comprehensive option. Droid Transfer is a tool for Windows PCs which allows you to manage data between your computer and Android devices. It provides the ability to transfer music from computer to Android, and vice versa. The jewel in the crown here, though, is that you can use Droid transfer to sync iTunes with Android.

Droid Transfer for PC works alongside the free Transfer Companion app. You can download both from below:

PC: Android:

Music On Android Phone

Try Droid Transfer free ▼

Receive an email with a link so you can download the free trial on your computer:

Note: We respect your privacy. Mac system specs. We won't share your Email address with anyone else, or send you spam.

Computer to Android

Adding music to your Android devices from your computer is easy with Droid Transfer.. Stronghold crusader 2 mac download.

1. Download Droid Transfer and connect your Android device (Set up Droid Transfer)
2. Click the 'Music' header from the feature list.
3. Hit 'Add Music' or drag and drop music from your computer into the Droid Transfer window.

That's the quick way to transfer music from Android to PC. Check out our guide if you want to regularly backup your music, or sync your music library between your PC and your Android. This is a great way to manage your music if you don't use iTunes. If you use iTunes, keep reading below to see how to sync iTunes with your Android.

iTunes to Android

This function is gold. The biggest downfall of iTunes is that you can't use it with Android devices. This is a massive problem if you have an iTunes library full of music that you can't transfer to your new Android phone. Droid Transfer lets you sync music from iTunes to Android and even from Android to iTunes.

Check out the image below showing how Droid Transfer intelligently shows what music is in iTunes which is not yet on your Android device. You can then copy the missing music straight to the Android with a click of a button.

Download Music On Android

You can also choose to have complete control over exactly which tracks are transferred with the 'Advanced Sync Options'.

Sync music with Google Play Music

Like iCloud on Apple iPhones, you can store and share music between you devices by storing them in the cloud. If you are not familiar with how this works, the basic jist is that you store music on a Google server, and when you want to access the music, you can do so from any device using your Google account.

Google Play Music makes an appearance in our list because you can upload music from your computer to your cloud server, then access the music from your Android device. For this method, you can use the Google Play extension for Chrome.

Let's take a look at how to upload music to Google Play..

1. Ensure that you are running the latest version of Chrome.
2. Download Google Play Music for Chrome.
3. Sign into Chrome using your Google account (the account you use for Google Play Music).
4. Go to the Google Play Music web player in Chrome.
5. Navigate to the menu ☰, then 'Upload Music'.
6. Select the music from your computer, and drag and drop it into the upload window.

Sync music from computer to Android via cloud.

Similar to the Google Play Music point above, we can follow this method for other cloud service providers such as Google Drive, iCloud and OneDrive. Simply upload your music from your computer to the cloud storage, get the relevant app on your Android, and access your music from the cloud on your device!