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Before I reset my galaxy s5 I backed it up to my MacBook using Smart Switch.
It took a long time and it counted all 6500 songs being backed up.
Reset phone and non of the music has come through. I made a playlist called All MyMusic and tried to download that from Apple Music. It gets as far as C and then stops leaving 5500 songs still to be downloaded.
Anyone have any other ideas on how to download them all at once ?
The Music is stored on a card in my phone can I put that in the MacBook and drag the music to it?
Nothing wrong with trying to put the card in the mac and transfer that way...
Either that, or Bluetooth ?
Plug phone in and mount as a drive then drag and drop?
Are the songs mp3? If not, convert then drag and drop...
Maybe...
There is an Apple Music app for Android, but whether it's any good...
I have the Apple Music app and that won’t download all my songs.
Trying to drag my iTunes to the sd card. It says I have 19000 songs when I only have 6500 so they won’t fit.
Have deleted old iTunes libraries but it still comes up as 19000 songs.
Ideas?
Sounds like your iTunes library has issues - do you have decent backups of your Mac/iTunes library before you try anything else?
Depends on if you are happy to stream, but syncing your whole library (up to 20,000 songs) to Google Music is one way to do it. No need to transfer it to the phone then, either stream or download albums on your phone and play from Google Music instead. From memory you can't download your whole library in one go, which is a pain.
https://play.google.com/music/
'3 bar' menu on the left, Upload music, Download the music manager on your Mac and let it run.
You can't play Apple Music on Google.
Am going through my iTunes library and deleting the ones with the cloud and a line through it.
Making playlists of songs beginning A etc and doing it that way.
It is officially a pain in the arse.
dont know if this helps
https://www.apple.com/lae/apple-music/android-download/
apple to an android app
All my music is on a NAS, I just connect my phone to the NAS it plays fine.
What’s a NAS?
You can’t play Apple Music on Google.
Depends what you are doing. You can upload a music library (including albums/songs purchased from Apple) to Google for free and use their app to play it on Android. You can even leave the Google sync thing running on the Mac so any new purchases are sync'd automatically. But no, you can't use an Apple Music subscription with Google Music. For this use Apple Music for Android.
Alternatively transfer the music files manually (think this is what you are doing) and use your preferred music app on the phone. All works.
What’s a NAS?
Network Attached Storage: It's a remote storage device attached to your network that you can access from multiple devices.
I've never used itunes but can't you just download all your music from itunes and then upload it to your chosen location/device?
Am going through my iTunes library and deleting the ones with the cloud and a line through it.
Making playlists of songs beginning A etc and doing it that way.
It is officially a pain in the arse.
If it helps, there is an option in iTunes to show duplicate songs (File/Library/Show Duplicate Items) that can speed up tidying an iTunes library.
I have my iTunes on a network storage device (personal cloud). I then can access it from anywhere in the world. It means I do not have to leave my pc on and can just access this device for music. You also choose to share with someone or something.
Before I reset my galaxy s5 I backed it up to my MacBook using Smart Switch.
I've no idea what "Smart Switch" is, but are you not using the same app to restore it?