Drag and drop only works well if your whole collection is tagged and organized well. Google offers Google Music for free because Google is heavily subsidized by Ads, in Gmail, Google, etc. whereas Apple is not.
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Drag and drop only works well if your whole collection is tagged and organized well. Google offers Google Music for free because Google is heavily subsidized by Ads, in Gmail, Google, etc. whereas Apple is not.
And i don't use iTunes to organize or tag my collection either. So again it is of zero use to me.
That's what I figured it would be, if I use the what app on a s4, will I be able to tell if the person using the iPhone read my message? That's the main thing holding me back right now
Aside from stability issues I find android to be a lot easier to use than iOS. It seems far more logical and intuitive to me. I suppose if you are used to using a PC then android should be straight forward.
Actually, Android is more desktop-like as opposed to iOS. Music organisation shouldn't be an issue as you can copy your entire iTunes folder onto an Android phone and it'll play them just fine. Just make sure none of your tracks are of the DRM-enforced variety.
Whatsapp ? Of course you can tell when someone reads your msg, it works the same on all mobile OS.
It's debilitating for Apple/iOS users. It's just another workday for PC users.
Drag and drop = tactical bacon = win the internet
iTunes = go to jail, do not pass GO, do not collect $200
Indeed. Syncing everything to the cloud is the best solution and involves much less hassle than plugging in your device and drag/dropping files. For music you can use Google Play Music, it syncs your iTunes library with playlists and all to the cloud. The initial upload takes a bit but then uploading an album or a few songs every odd day is much faster.
It's an easy transition. If my 80 year old mom can do it, with a little help from me, anyone can do it. I was surprised as it was her idea.
One of her girlfriends bought a Galaxy S4, had her son help her on day one and she was off and running. Since my mom uses gmail the contacts, calendar and mail was as most of you know, all on the S4 in a matter of moments.
There's a lot to be said for Android 4.0 or greater. All the new phones come with it, and the ease of use is what makes it a very reasonable transition from an iPhone or any other phone for that matter.
My rather large family went from all iPhones a few years ago, to all Galaxy S3's and S4's currently. We love our Macs / iPads, and other Apple gear, but when it comes to smartphones we are Android all the way.
One of her girlfriends bought a Galaxy S4, had her son help her on day one and she was off and running. Since my mom uses gmail the contacts, calendar and mail was as most of you know, all on the S4 in a matter of moments.
There's a lot to be said for Android 4.0 or greater. All the new phones come with it, and the ease of use is what makes it a very reasonable transition from an iPhone or any other phone for that matter.
My rather large family went from all iPhones a few years ago, to all Galaxy S3's and S4's currently. We love our Macs / iPads, and other Apple gear, but when it comes to smartphones we are Android all the way.
For one, iTunes is like the bloatware on stock Samsung Galaxy devices, except you can't really remove it as it ties into the Apple-iOS ecosystem. Drag and drop is still better than anything iTunes has to offer.
Number one reason I don't use cloud services except for unimportant stuff = lack of affordable symmetrical internet connections. I don't need 100Mbps download, but I do need 25Mbps uploads without paying $100+ a month for it. Even a measly 10/10 would be an improvement.
How hard is it moving from iOS to Android for a technophobe?
I think a lot of people are forgetting the early days of music management before iTunes came along. iTunes isn't perfect, but having tried all the other mp3 programs throughout the history of mp3s from the time I first started collecting them around 1996 or so, I can say that it is a hell of a lot better than the craptastic piece of crap Windows Media Player and the other software that often wasn't free. Winamp added music library management but it wasn't until many years after it's initial release. iTunes,for me, replaced a lot of random id3 tagging software and the like and got my music collection beyond a set of folders and sub-folders, and into an actual library of music. A lot of software that has been released since merely duplicated what iTunes had from the start. A lot of people who like to put down Apple don't recognize the work they did to make the digital music market the force it is today.
I think a lot of people are forgetting the early days of music management before iTunes came along. iTunes isn't perfect, but having tried all the other mp3 programs throughout the history of mp3s from the time I first started collecting them around 1996 or so, I can say that it is a hell of a lot better than the craptastic piece of crap Windows Media Player and the other software that often wasn't free. Winamp added music library management but it wasn't until many years after it's initial release. iTunes,for me, replaced a lot of random id3 tagging software and the like and got my music collection beyond a set of folders and sub-folders, and into an actual library of music. A lot of software that has been released since merely duplicated what iTunes had from the start. A lot of people who like to put down Apple don't recognize the work they did to make the digital music market the force it is today.
Heck, it works so well I can buy songs through iTunes on my iPhone and they automatically sync to my HTC One as if it were another Apple device.
Just wish the Play Music app wasn't so gdamn cluttered and confusing.
Ha? Either you haven't used android yet or you really didn't try / know better.
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So you are saying because of what Apple achieved we have to stick with iTunes because Apple deserves it?
Depends on the computer you store your music on and how organized it is.....
Using a Mac, I needed to download a new app to handle the music management through Play whereas iTunes was already there.
Obviously, on a PC you'd have to download both applications.
iTunes match versus Play Music is really a wash as far as ease of use. Both require upload/matching of your library (though iTunes did matching first, then Google implemented it - at first, Play Music would upload your entire library which took hours). Both cache/download songs during playback.
The difference for me is the music player app on mobile devices - I find the Apple version FAR more polished and intuitive. I still don't understand why I have to "pin" a song, album or playlist to save it to my phone. And I can't seem to figure out what is actually downloaded and what isn't because the Play Music library lumps everything together with no indicator of which is "pinned" (my phone isn't a cork board.....).
Either way, both work well and after setup are pretty seamless. I use both in conjunction with each other to essentially extend my iTunes match library to my HTC One - it works like another iOS device for me in that anything I buy on my iMac, iPhone or iPad is downloaded/synced to all the other devices including my HTC One seamlessly, with no input from me. iTunes does a great job of auto-organizing its folder so its easy to set Play Music to just pull from the iTunes folder.
Much better than dragging and dropping IMO.
iTunes makes music management easy because it takes away granular control away from you.
iTunes makes music management easy because it takes away granular control away from you.
Not really. You can still tag songs individually if you want. There seems to be this philosophy in the Android world that if something takes 200 steps it's better than a couple steps. I haven't quite figured out the fascination with software being complicated as a good thing yet, but if that's your thing, go for it.
It takes me one step to copy my music to my current jailbroken phone through either wireless or wired (I tweaked it to open USB drive mode).
Previously it took me 3-4 steps to do it through iTunes.
The Apple way is "a couple steps". Bad news, son - the Apple way is a couple steps too many.
It's bloated, it's slow, and it's horribad to use when you stop using it with kid gloves - and that's just for starters. Every PC user looks at what iFans do re: music management and ROTFL.
Not everyone can be a genius like yourself. I feel privileged to be in the same thread as you are. Thank you.