Need an iTunes app for my hubby's Droid

[Paula Sims]

Hi there,
Hubby has a Droid and wants to play music on it. Since we're not about to pay for Pandora streaming (no wi-fi at work) we want something that's like iTunes where we can download our CDs for him to play. The kicker is that he wants to be able to [have me] input the CD name, artists, and hopefully the titles and then organize by genre. I think that's possible in iTunes but not sure since I've never really used it.

I'm a total neophyte when it comes to these hand-held devices (but can still program in TSO, mainframe SAS) so please be very simplistic when explaining this stuff.

Thanks

Paula

[kentauros]

1. The thing I like about Android

(maybe Apple does this too, don't know) is that you can just drag & drop your files directly to your phone/device. I have a media player that's android, and while it's wifi capable, I just load my music files directly to it from home. The player I use is JetAudio. It will organize by genre, album, folder, however you want to do it. But it doesn't download from "The Cloud."

[Paula Sims]

2. Excellent! Thanks! That's what I need. Guess what I'm going to be doing during the holiday weekend?!

[kentauros]

3. Ripping CDs?

That's a task I've been doing off and on for years. The time-consuming part for me is tracking down images of the CD-art. I suppose I could scan it, too, but that's just as much trouble.

And I may be spending part of my holiday weekend with my media-player, too. It's been the shop since April (word of warning: Cowon makes great players but has the worst customer-service I've ever experienced), and is supposed to show up today or tomorrow. So, I'll be spending some time reloading it. Thankfully, it uses Micro-SD cards, so I'll only have to load what I want on the device's memory (images, videos, some FLAC files.)

[BarbaRosa]

4. I've found a lot of CD-art on Amazon.

I look up the CD and if they have it they generally have cover graphics.

[kentauros]

5. I usually just do an advanced image-search on Google

http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en

It's just the hassle of having to do that part. When I buy music, if I can't get it in a flac download, then I'll buy the CD. Usually the artists that offer flac downloads (often through BandCamp) also include album art and so forth

[OriginalGeek]

6. I use Google Play

Can access my library on any device with Internet access. I often stream music from Play through my phone connected by Bluetooth to my car stereo.

My music server is actually at work (where I rip cds and store purchased music and edit all the tags and artwork and such when needed) and then Google play keeps track of music I add to that and makes it available to me wherever I can login to Google.

I can search and play by artist, song, album, genre, make playlists, pretty much anything.

You get to catalog 50,000 songs (I think. ..maybe 30 or 40k..a frigging lot though lol) for free and you can buy more for a small fee. I haven't even started on my vinyl yet but I will eventually.