Micro SD Cards amending and deleting contents

pramsay13

So can you play the songs on your MP3 player app on your tablet?
If so you only need help with creating a playlist on the app.
What app have you got?

BH246

So what is the best and one that is easy to use music app to install on a Micro SD card to download your own prerecorded music. From Either Groove Music, real player or Windows media layer. IIwant to use it on my Android tablet by using a Micro SD card I will not be using up the srorage/Memory of my SD card, I also want to be able to change the music that I will have stored on my SD card.

emptybox

BH246 wrote: »

So what is the best and one that is easy to use music app to install on a Micro SD card to download your own prerecorded music. From Either Groove Music, real player or Windows media layer. IIwant to use it on my Android tablet by using a Micro SD card I will not be using up the srorage/Memory of my SD card, I also want to be able to change the music that I will have stored on my SD card.

Not sure it's a good idea to introduce yet another question to this one thread, but my reply might help some others on the thread as well.

Music is held as files on Computer storage. Either on a PC's hard drive, or on an SD card or on the internal storage of a phone.
It is not held by any particular app or program, be that Windows Media Player or Groove Music on the PC or Google Play Music or whatever app you choose on the phone.
Those apps can play the music files, can alter the information on the music files (to an extent) and can organise them into playlists etc, but they don't physically move those files.

The best way to transfer (not download) music files from one type of storage to another; i.e from the PC's hard drive to the SD card; is to use a File Manager app. So you would use Windows File Explorer on the Windows PC to find the files on your PC (usually in C:\Users\<username>\Music) then copy and paste those into a folder on the SD card (if there's not already a folder called 'Music' then make one). If the music is organised into folders for artist and album, then keep that same organisation on the SD card.

You then take the SD card out of the PC's reader and put it into the phone/tablet.
Most Music apps on the phone will automatically find your music on the SD card, as long as it is in the 'Music' folder (don't think the uppercase 'M' is strictly necessary).

If you need to move those folders and files about further, once the SD card is in the phone, then most versions of Android now come with a File Exploer app (or install something like ES FIle Explorer from the Play store), which will allow you to do that. But I find it much more fiddly to do that with fat fingers on a touch screen device.

As to what Music app is best on the phone, well the default Music app is fine, or Google Play Music or Amazon Music or whatever your personal preference is.
On an Android device I always install Poweramp, which'll play just about everything, including .wma files (non-DRM), but you have to pay a couple of quid for that.

googler

Pensioner_Dave wrote: »

What I cannot fathom out like others before me on this post is how to delete items from my micro SD card which I use on my Samsung Tablet.

Use the File Manager that's built into the tablet, surely?

It will be an Android OS. Look up which version of Android. Then google "how do I delete files in Android version nnnnnnn"

Lincoln_Imp

TonysTips wrote: »

When you use a Micro SD card and download music and photographs on it can you amend or delete any of the contents. As far as the music is concerned can you transfer the music by setting up various play lists. Or once it is on your Micro SD card maybe you cannot change it all. Any feedback how you set about it if it can be changed will be really appreciated as my knowledge on such things is very limited.

What are you using the card in/for ?

Pensioner_Dave

Sorry in my naivity I thought I had explained adequately what I was trying to achieve. On my Samsung tablet I have the app MP3 player. One my PC my music is stored in Windows Media. I can successfully download by usiing my USB port onto my Micro SD card one piece of music at a time by using through the syronishing tool. What I want, but cannot find a way of doing is to download on my Micro SD card my Playlists which I have stored on Windows Media. Once the music is on the MP3 player app, through my SD i cannot amend the order it appears. So those are the two issues I am hoping someone can help me resolve. Incidentially I also have the same music on my PC in Groove Music.

Stoke

Pensioner_Dave wrote: »

Sorry in my naivity I thought I had explained adequately what I was trying to achieve. On my Samsung tablet I have the app MP3 player. One my PC my music is stored in Windows Media. I can successfully download by usiing my USB port onto my Micro SD card one piece of music at a time by using through the syronishing tool. What I want, but cannot find a way of doing is to download on my Micro SD card my Playlists which I have stored on Windows Media. Once the music is on the MP3 player app, through my SD i cannot amend the order it appears. So those are the two issues I am hoping someone can help me resolve. Incidentially I also have the same music on my PC in Groove Music.

i think the problem you're going to have is Windows Media Player uses a different type of playlists than is supported called WPL. It's outdated these days and not many players support it anymore. I think I have an old Sony that might, even so it's nasty and I don't recommend it.

I suspect to support WPL, as it's proprietary, there may have been some licensing agreements, so most MP3 players used the M3U playlist format instead. M3U is pretty much the most universal playlist going and if your device doesn't support WPL, it almost certainly will support M3U.

I have a little MP3 player I use for my guitar practising (backing tracks). I think it runs some kind of tiny OS (maybe even a tiny Linux kernel) and it simply will not work with Media Player. It shows up because it's a storage device, and you can sync music to it, but when you're back onto the player itself, the music shows as individual tracks and nothing in the playlists section.

Try this:
https://www.agptek.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=117&p=3636

Good luck my friend

ThirdThoughts

We just want to add the fact that we also have been unable to download Playlists from our Windows Media Player onto an SD card. We can download one track at a time but not in a playlist which is rather a shame. Yes it does appear in our File Manager on our PC as a WPL file which is no use whatsoever. It seems a common issue and maybe we should be looking at an alternative to store our pre recorded music which has come from a selection on our own CDs.