Transferring music files to your phone, Copy music files from your computer

Transferring music files to your phone

Music plays audio files that are stored on your phone’s SD card or USB storage (depending on your model of phone), so before you open Music, you must copy audio files from your computer.

Music supports a wide variety of audio file formats, so it can play music that you purchase from online stores, music that you copy from your CD collection, and so on.

Music supports audio files in numerous formats, including MP3, M4A (iTunes application AAC, DRM-free), AMR , MIDI, and OGG Vorbis.

Copy music files from your computer

1Connect the phone to your computer with a USB cable and mount the SD card or USB storage on your computer.

2To organize your audio files, you can use the computer to create a music folder at the top level of the SD card or USB storage.

3Use the computer to copy music and other audio files into the folder that you created.

You can use subfolders to organize your music files. Or you can simply copy the audio files to the top level of the SD card or USB storage.

If the music files have accompanying artwork in JPEG format, rename the art file albumart.jpg and include it in the same folder as the music files.

4If you have created any playlists, create a subfolder for them in your music folder and copy the playlists into it.

Warning! To prevent damage to your files, follow your computer’s instructions for unmounting USB devices and the instructions in “Connecting to a computer via USB” on page 67.