I told you I was going to write about how to upload music to the Droid in my last post. I mean, getting songs over onto this thing is one of the great features, right? By the way, I was laying on the hammock this most perfect afternoon listening to some tunes through the new Droid. I must say, the quality is right where it’s supposed to be. I use real headphones, so my results are probably better then some earpieces out there.
Okay, let’s get to uploading some music files over to the Droid. It’s actually very simple once you figure it out. Here are the steps:
1. Plug the micro USB cord into your Droid.
2. Pull down the “notification menu” and you will see an area that says, “Ongoing – USB connected – Select to copy files to/from your computer.”
3. Select that area by touching it with your finger.
4. You will be presented with the next screen that says, “USB connected – You have connected your phone to your computer via USB. Select “Mount” if you want to copy files between your computer and your phone’s SD card.”
5. Press “Mount”
6. Now, on your computer, open the “Computer” folder.
7. Open the “Removable Disk” folder. In my case, it was drive H:
8. Next, open the “dcim” folder.
9. What I did was to create a new folder called “Music” and copy my songs into that folder. You can arrange them any way you want. The Droid recognized that and I have been listening to music ever since.
Oh yeah, you will obviously need to open up the “Music” app and play around in there. That’s where all your music is. Questions? Comment?
I took a few pictures to help explain the process.
One last thing. If memory serves correctly, I think I had to “Unmount” before any songs showed up in the Music app. I forget, but I think that’s what happened.
im still having a problem. when i mount the droid, i go into computer, and try and open the removable devise. but it wont open. it says attach a devise
Thank you so much!! This worked perfectly. I was able to get the music I wanted off my husbands computer. Wish we would have seen this to begin with. Thanks!
I did exactly the steps you told me but cannot figure out for the life of me how to get the music to show up in my files. Please help =]
Thanks for the step by step information! You are my hero. Its always great when your smarter than a smart phone. Thanks again!
Worked perfectly, showed up in music immediately and now listening to it :3 thx!
Isn’t sad that we have to try so hard! What happened to the companies explaining all this when you buy a phone? They all tell you how capable it is to peform all these functions when you buy it but then leave you hanging!
Okay so when I plug my droid into the usb, my computer makes that noise where it found it but when I look at my phone there is nothing on my notification bar….I need help.
while I was following the direction my droid is not responding to the commands, what happend?
Nice instructions worked great for me. Only problem I can’t figure out how to turn the music player off without turning the phone off?