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There is an android app that is a portal 2 soundboard. It has the options to set any clip to ringtone, notification, or alarm.

http://www.doubletwist.com/apps/android/portal-2-soundboard/ch.nexusinformatik.soundboard.portal2/

How tied in with itunes are you? You'll need to convert that music to mp3 instead of rebuying it (unless they've changed it since I did this 2 years ago), Google turns up several free pieces of software to do this. I think doubletwist can be used to manage your library, but you can just copy it over to the phone like any flash drive.

Save all your contacts to Google so they're always backed up.

1.1 Android takes care of all "closing" of application's on it's own. Pressing back, home, or switching to another app is enough to halt whatever processes are running, and effectively stop the app.

2.1 Things you should know:

• A tap is like a left mouse click.
• A long press is like a right mouse click and will often reveal contextual options
• Long press the home button to toggle between apps.
• Long pressing the menu button opens the keyboard (at least on the Nexus line)
• When in doubt, try pressing menu

3.1 If you want free books, Aldiko is the best.

4.1 If you buy/use Doubletwist, it will convert any movie files synced to your device so that they're playable.

5.1 Quickdesk Works great for toggling settings and getting passwords from your safe without leaving your app.

In addition:

Lookout for antivirus, phone finding (GPS and initiating a "scream"), and cloud backup

Llama for free location profiles. Like, making everything quiet except specific phone numbers calling you (in case of emergency) when you're at home and it's between 12AM and 8AM.

And if you want an iPhone-like way to manage the music on your device, check out doubleTwist

Download doubleTwist on your PC and on your Android phone, then install doubleTwist AirSync. You can sync music wirelessly to your phone, and replace iTunes and an iDevice you might still be holding on to while you're at it. It's awesome.

If you just want an iTunes clone, check out doubletwist.

I know not everyone has access to a great data connection, so streaming isn't really feasible for a lot of people. Google Play Music is mainly only an option for people with great cell networks and large data plans. Locally stored content is still relevant for a lot of people such as yourself.

I would recommend just transferring files via USB cable. That's going to be the easiest way to get files back and forth.

I believe Doubletwist will do what you want.

http://www.doubletwist.com/help/question/guide-to-doubletwist-sync/

Convert music for this device" controls if files should be transcoded (converted) to the proper format during a sync. Each device type has an adapter profile created for it by doubleTwist. Files that are designated by the profile as not compatible (such as Apple Lossless or Windows Media Audio) can be converted to a compatible format (such as 128Kbps AAC .m4a)."

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Spotify doesn't seem to support AirPlay on Android, which means you're probably out of luck there unless you're willing to root your device. You've already said "no rooting" so that's kind of out :( (If you change your mind, AirAudio looks promising)

If you can stomach a different media player, doubleTwist comes to mind:

> stream music to WiFi speakers and receivers such as Zeppelin Air and Yamaha RX-V473.

I think doubleTwist is free, but getting the AirPlay support costs a few bucks.

Get doubleTwist. It wirelessly syncs your music to your phone via wifi, just like an iPhone. It's $5.00 in the Play Store, but its well worth it. You can also play music on an Apple TV and stream music to an Xbox 360 or PS3, don't know about recent consoles.

Here's the link to the app.

in laymans terms, this means that it should be possible for third-party apps to directly access music files on the SD card. Previously only the official Music app could do this, so third-party music apps were limited to either using cloud sources for music, or acting as a control panel for the stock app.

Now we'll be able to have proper third party apps like android does. Fingers crossed for a WP version of DoubleTwist!

I highly recommend Google Play Music. If you download the computer app it will upload your music to their server for free. You can have 20,000 songs uploaded for free. You don't have to have purchased them from Google, iTunes, or at all, essentially. You can also "pin" a song to your phone to save it offline.

If you don't want to go with the cloud route, I don't have much experience, although I've heard Doubletwist is good.

I'm going off memory here as I dont have Google Music installed (I'm in Australia where it's not as easy as installing it from the Market so I havent put it back on after a recent reflash - besides, I run Subsonic on my home theatre PC and stream my collection from there) but you can pin songs/albums/artists to be stored on the device.

I dont know if this means you have to pin each artist or if you can pin the whole collection in one go though. Not that you'd do the whole collection surely? Theres no way my collection would fit on even a 64GB device (+64GB SSD expansion) heh ... (EDIT: Oh look, the first screenshot on the Play store for Google Music shows the pin / "keep on this device" option - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music&hl=en)

Also I hate iTunes with a passion so I've never had to battle it for Android syncing or anything, but I've read good things about Double Twist (http://www.doubletwist.com/) - especially with Air Sync added. Its iTunes -> Android syncing over wireless.

FailedJedi covered most of the important points.

> can I plug my new phone into the computer

Yes, it will show up as a hard drive. You can then look at your pictures, music, and video in Windows Explorer (if you have Windows).

> and is there a different program for managing pictures or music?

Only if you want there to be. The Android ecosystem is different because there's so many ways to do it. There are four main approaches you can take:

1. Just drag your music (mp3s, etc) into your phones folder, and let your favorite music application find the music.
2. Install an iTunes like application which will keep your music on your computer and the music on your device in parity. Example: http://www.doubletwist.com/
3. Put all your music on the cloud! You can then access them from phone, computer, anywere! You can do this through Google Music or (I believe) Amazon Cloud Drive.
4. Invest in a music streaming service, such as Spotify. Like on iOS, this allows you to get any music you want, any time. There is a monthly fee, however.

EDIT: Of course, if you got all your music from iTunes copy-protected, you need to take additional steps to get around Apples DRM tying you to their system.

Switch Sound file converter can strip all your purchased music of the DRM and convert them to whatever you like. Then you can use Doubletwist to transfer playlists and the like from iTunes.

I've been researching the same issues. It seems that you should be able to accomplish what you want with the doubletwist app

I have not tried this myself and can't say anything about the reliability, legality or stability of the solution they propose. It probably isn't apple sanctioned that's for sure :)

I've been pretty apple exclusive since I had a very bad time with a shitty HTC desire a few years ago, but the Nexus 7 has me wanting to give android a second shot.

Check out Doubletwist for that

I've never personally used it since I always just used google music on my Android phone, but I've heard that it's just as good as using an iPhone with iTunes. It's basically an iTunes replacement that takes all of your existing media from iTunes and lets you sync it with your Android phone.

Here's a quick info video/review and you should be able to find a bunch of tutorials on youtube for whatever system you have.

There are other apps out there for syncing Android with iTunes directly and you can always just directly copy the files to the SD card, but from what I've heard, Doubletwist is the best option

Doubletwist app for the phone and this http://www.doubletwist.com/for your PC. Doubletwist syncs beautifully to both itunes or Windows Media player. Orrrr you can even sync files and playlists directly with sd cards, then you can just slip the SDHC directly into the phone. Doubletwist is a great little music app, and even supports video files too. [NO I do not work for them].

When you sync songs on your ipod through itunes it does that file rename and folder structure that your seeing.

Doubletwist might work for you, im not sure how their sync works and if your songs will still be in that itunes format.

You can also use your ipod like a thumb drive and sync downloaded files with something like SyncToy

Unlike the iPhone, there's no requirement to sync your Android phone with a computer - it'll work 100% out of the box without getting anywhere near a PC nor Mac, and in fact there's no official software for any sort of syncing. Settings, e-mails, contacts, firmware updates, all those things are synced over the air with Google's servers, so the only thing you really need a computer for is transferring music and pictures. I'm guessing the third party extensions you're talking about are used to get more iTunes-like functionality like automated syncing of music.

The most common iTunes-like app I know of for Android is doubleTwist. It and most of the others are all cross platform, so it doesn't really matter what OS you use.

Yeah! I did it through Google Music (I like having my music in the cloud, and they host 20,000 songs for free!) which could work for you if you don't mind streaming your music. Otherwise you can just drag and drop your library over to that SD card and point any Android music player at it, no problem.

EDIT: Check this out, it's perfect for you! http://www.doubletwist.com/

I use AirDroid to do it over my local WiFi at home for any files. DoubleTwist will sync my iTunes with DoubleTwist on my Android phone, transcoding files where necessary.

I'm not sure it's necessary to use an app, though. I recall that when I plug my Android into a USB port on my Mac, I can tell the phone to act as a mass storage device and have it show up on my Mac's desktop as just another USB device.

I've never heard of Media Go till now lol. There was this thing called DoubleTwist which was basically an iTunes alternative for people who used stuff like Android or anything that had access to the internal storage. I'd love to use that to sync media. Sony can give me something else for apps & games if need be.

I had an ipod before I got my first android so all my stuff is in iTunes, sync works really well with doubletwist and there is a free version.

Player: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.doubleTwist.androidPlayer&hl=en

PC/MAC: http://www.doubletwist.com/airsync/

There's a $5 version that offers wireless sync too.

Given that you don't seem to be especially tech-savvy (and I don't mean as an offense), I'd suggest Winamp i you're looking for complete media player that'd also synchronize your ipod, or DoubleTwist.

I'd suggest foobar2000 also, but it's major pain in the ass to set it up and get running.

Meet doubleTwist

Love doubleTwist. Never have had any problems with it. The whole syncing is a little finicky, but I think that may be an issue with drivers and such, but the on-phone experience is perfect.