Today people would like to enjoy music on their Android phones. They can listen to music on their Android phones and share music with friends. There is a need for you to transfer music from computer to Android phone so that you can listen to your favorite music on the go, it’s obvious that you cannot move your computer to every place but you can take your Smartphone anywhere with ease.
You might backup your lovely music to a computer from iTunes, iCloud, or other sources and now want to get the music to your Android phone. These are the main reasons behind transferring music from a computer to an Android phone.
This article is all about different ways of how to transfer music from a computer to an Android. Let’s have a look!
Different Ways To Transfer Music From Computer To Android
Method 1: 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 a PC or Mac.
USB Transfer with Windows PC:
- Connect your Android to your Windows PC using a USB cable.
- If you are given a selection of connection options, select Transfer Files (MTP).
- Select the music files from your computer.
- Drag the files into the Music folder on your Android device.
USB Transfer with Windows Mac
- Download and install Android File Transfer on your Mac.
- Connect your Android to your Windows PC using a USB cable.
- If you are given a selection of connection options, select Transfer Files (MTP).
- Select the music files from your computer.
- Drag the files into the Music folder on your Android device in Android File Transfer.
Method 2: Transfer music with Droid Transfer
This is our most comprehensive option. Droid Transfer is a tool for Windows PCs that 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:
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Computer to Android
Adding music to your Android devices from your computer is easy with Droid Transfer…
- Download Droid Transfer and connect your Android device (Set up Droid Transfer)
- Click the “Music” header from the feature list.
- 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.
You can also choose to have complete control over exactly which tracks are transferred with the ‘Advanced Sync Options’.
Method 3: Sync music with Google Play Music
Like iCloud on Apple iPhones, you can store and share music between your devices by storing them in the cloud. If you are not familiar with how this works, the basic gist 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!
- Ensure that you are running the latest version of Chrome.
- Download Google Play Music for Chrome.
- Sign in to Chrome using your Google account (the account you use for Google Play Music).
- Go to the Google Play Music web player in Chrome.
- Navigate to the menu ☰, then ‘Upload Music’.
- Select the music from your computer, and drag and drop it into the upload window.
Method 4: 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!
Take care not to accidentally upload duplicate tracks to your cloud storage. Cloud services usually charge for more space, so be sure to clean out your cloud storage regularly to save yourself space and money!
If you already have duplicates hogging your storage space, learn how to manage Google Drive and delete duplicates.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I transfer music from my computer to my Android without a USB?
Following are the ways to transfer music from computer to android without USB.
- Download and install android on your phone.
- Connect your phone and computer.
- Choose Data Transfer mode.
- Select photos on your PC to transfer.
- Transfer photos from PC to Android.
- Open Dropbox.
- Add files to Dropbox to sync.
- Download files to your Android device.
How do I transfer a CD to my Android phone?
Ans) Following are the ways to Copy Music From CD to Android
- Insert the music CD into the CD/DVD or Bluray drive.
- Open the “Windows Media Player” application, which should already be installed on your Windows computer.
- The music disc should appear in the left pane of WMP.
- Check the music tracks you would like to copy to your Android.
To Sum Up
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. This article is designed to make that search quick and easy for you.
