Today Allison, Eva and I went to the North Attleborough Winter Farmer’s & Artisan Producers Market. While we were there we listened to the sounds of Cactus Attack. I enjoyed the sounds of this band very much. They were playing over in one corner of the building and I took a number of shots of them as they played.
From your DROID phone you have direct linkage to Amazon Mp3. I forget if it was already there of if I downloaded it from the Marketplace or not. However, I have used Amazon Mp3 before because I used some Pepsi Stuff points. It was really easy to do and they have a ton of music. I downloaded the songs to my home computer and I want to be able to download the songs to my DROID. I can’t figure out how to do it. I was going to figure it out and post the answer for you but I just can’t get it to work from my existing media library. It keeps making me try to download it again and pay for it.
So, in searching for an answer I found someone else who was complaining about the issue and they found a work around. Scott Jangro of Jangro.com did a post called DROID Annoyances, The Honeymoon is Over. In the post he was talking about the fact that he could not get his Amazon MP3 songs directly loaded to his DROID. But he did find a usable workaround. You need to download this program called Salling Media Sync for Mac and Windows. What does the product do? Salling Media Sync puts your playlists, your music, and your podcasts on your phone. It’s as simple as that, and it’s free for basic use. If you pay for the product it “intelligently” syncs your media. (Further reading shows that the Free version always syncs old media, so that is why it is slower, you have to sync the same stuff over and over. I don’t have a lot of media for the phone yet but that might be an issue.) There is a disclaimer that you should also be aware of as well. “Salling Media Sync does not copy DRM-protected media, as it wouldn’t play on your device. Music that has been ripped from CDs in MP3 or M4A format will sync without problems.“
How to make it work
It is a pretty simple to use program and it does do a good job of syncing your iTunes media to your DROID phone. The problem you will run into is that the free version is slow so don’t expect to sync and go too quickly. The reason is that it removes all your old stuff and resyncs, the full version just updates the new. It may remove things that you’ve removed from iTunes automatically or not, I haven’t bought the version to try it out. I may to that soon.
Also you can download video podcasts as well but they show up in the DROID Gallery program. Not a huge deal but could be put somewhere better.
Also want to mention in the effort of full disclosure that I am an Amazon affiliate and I have amazon links here on this blog. If you click them and buy something I make a penny or two if I’m lucky.