You just got back from the store with your shiny new HTC One, you’re ready to crank some tunes through those BoomSound speakers, when you realize: you don’t have any tunes. You spent the last 10 years buying music in iTunes, now it’s locked in Apple’s walled garden, where only the Apple Faithful with their iones ids are deemed worthy enough to listen to it.
But you paid for that music, you deserve to listen to it on whatever device you want! Fortunately, the Music Manager makes it easy to import all your iTunes music into ay Music, where you can download or stream it to your Android devices. Here’s how to do it.
Install Music Manager
The first thing you’ll need to do is install Music Manager, available for ndows (X above), OS X (10.5 above) nux (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/openSE). To download on any platform, go to play.google.com/music, click the Upload icon in the top right corner, then Download Music Manager.
You’ll have to download the ay Music Manager to grab your iTunes music.
Once the download is complete, launch the setup application ’s Music Manager app will automatically be installed.
This probably goes without saying, but be sure to sign into Music Manager with the same Account you’ll use as your primary account on your Android device. Once you’ve entered your account credentials, you’ll want to upload your music to ay.
The first option that pops up lets Music Manager scan your iTunes folders for music files, after a quick scan, you’ll be asked whether you want to upload all your songs playlists, or only a selection of your songs based on your established playlists.
The first thing Music Manager does is offer to import your iTunes music.
ck whatever choice works best for you, enable the setting that automatically uploads future iTunes purchases to ay, your upload will begin.
Accessing Music Files on your Android Device
Once the upload process is complete, all of your music will appear in the ay Music app on your Android device. This comes preloaded on most phones, but it’s also available on the ay Store if you don’t already have it.
Tap the pin to download music for offline playback.
Of course, you came all this way to play your music, you can do that in one of two ways. l music you’ve uploaded to your ay Music cloud is available for streaming whenever you have an internet connection. st tap on a song or playlist to start streaming.
If you need offline access to your music (going on a plane or to a place with shoddy reception no Fi), you can tap the n on any album, song or playlist, that music will be downloaded to your on-device storage for offline playback.
You can venture into settings make it so your music will only be downloaded over Fi, something we highly recommend in today’s world of limited data plans.
