Moving Songs from your Computer to your phone

[Hazardous1]

Im not seeing any drive or whatever that is that says "ERIS"

 

[Hazardous1]

Figured it out....

After I paste the folder I want there. Then what? Just disconnect and it will be there?

 

[scajjr]

Im not seeing any drive or whatever that is that says "ERIS"

Don't bother with the autoplay box when it comes up, just close it. In Explorer the Eris will show up as a drive letter and named Removable Disk. So say you have a hard drive C:, DVD drive D:, the Eris will show in Explorer as E: Removable Disk. Click on it to show what already on the SD card and just treat it like you would your C: drive- creat folders, copy files, etc.

Sam

 

[Backnblack]

Figured it out....

After I paste the folder I want there. Then what? Just disconnect and it will be there?

Yes, you can unmount the same way as you mounted the phone...then disconnect.

 

[lyricalpursuit]

Reply to Hazardous1:

I have an Eris also and this is how I transfer files from my computer to my phone.
1. Connect phone to computer with usb cable
2. Find files you want to copy to your phone
3. On phone, hit Menu, Notifications, Mount
4. Open "e" drive on computer (this is the phone)
5. Create "music" or pictures" folder under this "e" drive
6. Copy computer files to the folder under the "e" drive

I wrote this from memory so hopefully I got this right, but if not, should get you close enough to figure it out.

 

[bullet627]

Moving songs from iTunes?

i don't mean to shangai this thread, but we cannot transfer files from iTunes into the Droid. either i am not transferring the right files, or the Droid is not recognizing the type of files the music is stored as in itunes. what i think the music files are show as M4P files. we have transferred one of these into a newly created file in the first level of the e: drive (that is the phone) as a test. we titled this folder Music. whenever we disconnect the phone from the pc, and click on music, it says "no music found". is there a different place to locate the music files on the pc? are itunes music files (in our case, M4P files) compatible? if not, can we convert the music files in itunes to MP3/wav/etc files?
any and all help is appreciated.
thanks.

 

[mhotovec]

i don't mean to shangai this thread, but we cannot transfer files from iTunes into the Droid. either i am not transferring the right files, or the Droid is not recognizing the type of files the music is stored as in itunes. what i think the music files are show as M4P files. we have transferred one of these into a newly created file in the first level of the e: drive (that is the phone) as a test. we titled this folder Music. whenever we disconnect the phone from the pc, and click on music, it says "no music found". is there a different place to locate the music files on the pc? are itunes music files (in our case, M4P files) compatible? if not, can we convert the music files in itunes to MP3/wav/etc files?
any and all help is appreciated.
thanks.

Per the manual, the music format supported are: MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and Windows Media Audio 9. Because I ripped my CD's using Windows Media Player my music files are in WMA (windows media) format and the Eris can read those just fine. All of mine are in a Music folder. I THINK that's where they have to be before the Eris will find them.

Note that DRM protected files will not play on the Eris.

 

[MissEvoIXMR]

I have read thru this thread and I haves tried connecting to transfer music and it doesn't work! I have a mac and it wont transfer from iTunes. I have a Moto Droid and the music wont transfer I made a music folder that shows up on astro files but says empty. I have dragged and dropped different file formats with no luck... anyone else having this issue???

 

[jjprusk]

Droid / Laptop media sync

You might look into Sailing Click - Salling Software - Home . The OSX version work great - it grabs your iTunes media and sync's it with the Droid (and many other phones...).

 

[cave dweller]

Anyone have a recommendation for converting m4ps to mp3s? Most of my iTune files are m4ps which the Droid doesn't accept. I did have an mp3 in iTunes (still trying to figure out how that happened) and it transferred over easily with the drag and drop, opening right up when I opened the music app on the phone (just like you would expect it to).

 

[cave dweller]

Got it. Entered "convert file formats" in iTune help and followed directions (geez who would have thought?) Pretty easy for the unprotected files. For protected files I had to: create a playlist>burn a CD>import the files back into iTunes making sure to check: iTunes> Preferences>Advance>Importing>CD insert = import CD and Import Using = MP3 Encoder. Music is now on the Droid. Now if you're particular about sound quality you'll have to figure that out yourself.