Music is essential entertainment to most of us on daily life. As to me, I am truly a pop music addict, it takes me at least three hours a day to enjoy music. And mostly I listen to the music on my smartphone, convenient and simple. When it comes to the smartphone, when got an new phone like the new released Samsung Galaxy S8, what will you do with that? Maybe firstly sync all your important data to it, like contacts, photos, Notes, and yes, the music. For an music addict like myself, having a full connection of music is neccessary, which makes it easy to listen to the music on different devices you have. When you purchased a new smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8 plus, you can simply import your loved music to it for listening. And this article is here to give you some great options to import music to your smartphone.
Many people are likely to save all music on their computer, while the others may have a collection on their portable devices like a smartphone, an iPod, and else. To import music to your new Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus, this ultimate guide summarized sereval great methods to help you make it from different sources. You can simply choose your preferable one for yourself.
If you keep your music collection on your PC, you can simply import all music from your PC to the new Samsung Galaxy S8. Of course, you can sync the music simply with a USB cable, but here I recommend a handy free tool to you, Syncios Samsung Phone Manager. The best advantage of this tool is that you can manage you music effortlessly with an visual user interface. Simply download and install this tool on your computer from below and follow the steps to get started.
Download and install Syncios on computer, connect your Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 Plus with computer via USB cable, and enable the USB debugging mode on your device. Click the Media button after Syncios connected your S8, all of songs and detail informations will be listed out.
To import music to Samsung Galaxy S8, click "Add" button, and you can choose to "Add files" or "Add folder". Simply choose the music files you want and click "Open", before long, all the songs will be transferred into your Samsung Galaxy S8.
You can also hold Ctrl key to select multiple music files to import to your Samsung Galaxy S8.
There are many ways to transfer music from PC to Samsung S8, however, if all you music are saved on your old device, like an Android phone, an iPhone, iPad, iPod, and else, how to transfer your music from these old device directly to your new Samsung Galaxy S8? Especially from the iOS devices, due to the different platforms. No worry, Syncios Samsung Data Transfer can solve this issue for you with just several simple clicks. Cross-platform supported.
Step 1: Downlaod and install the compatible version of Syncios Samsung Transfer on your computer.
Connect both your old device and new Galaxy S8 to computer and launch this Samsung Galaxy Transfer tool. The Android devices can also be connected via WiFi networks. To transfer all music from old device to the new Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 Plus, simply click Transfer module and click 'next'.
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Step 2: Check music to transfer from old device to Samsung Galaxy S8.
After connected both devices successfully, Syncios Samsung Data Transfer would load all your data on devices automatically, simply check Audio option on the middle panel to sync, remember to make sure your old device was listed on the left while the Samsung S8 on the right, you can change the position by clicking Flip. Then click on Next button to start the transfer process. After a while, all your music file would be synced from old device to Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 plus successfully.
If you used to be an iOS user, who now wants to sync your iTunes music to your new Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus. Syncios Samsung Data Transfer can also help. Simply checked the details below:
Step 1: Downlaod and install the compatible version of Syncios Samsung Transfer.
Similarly, install and launch this program, this time choose Restore > iTunes Library module.
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Step 2: Check music to sync to Samsung Galaxy S8 from iTunes playlist.
After connected your Samsung Galaxy S8 successfully, simply check Music option on the middle panel to sync and click on Next button to start the transfer process. After a while, all your music would be synced from iTunes playlist to Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 plus.
We all know that there is a limit to how much music you can fit onto your device's internal storage or microSD card, and music streaming services are the way forward. If you were an music streaming services subscriber, like Spotify, Apple music, Tidal or Google Play Music, etc. They have different features each other, you can learn more on this page.
These streaming services add a DRM layer to their streaming music collection, which intended to protect digital media from piracy, so you can't play the music on anything other than the intended device. Actually, there is a way to help you remove the DRM from music so that you can transfer these music to your new Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 plus. However, keep in mind that it might violates the various Terms of Use you agree to when your purchase a digital product, so you must this method is only on the purpose of keeping a local, personal backup. And you should not do this for any other reason.
Step 1: Remove the DRM from streaming music
To remove the DRM from the streaming services app, like Spotify and Apple music, we need a handy tool to help us with that, Please simply navigate to this tutorial to check the details.
Step 2: Sync the music to your Samsung Galaxy S8
After succsssfuly removed the DRM from the music, you can simply import these music to your Samsung Galaxy S8 manually, or with the help of the free Syncios Manager, which mentioned on the part 1.