Advice needed on uploading music to smartphone

If you have an android phone, you could look up free music downloader in the Play Store and get songs that way pretty simply. I don't know much as far as uploading from other sources tho.

 

Depends on the OS (Operating System) that you are on (be it iOS, Android or Windows Phone). All of those have official applications that will synchronize the music in your computer to your phone, or alternatively you could just plug your phone in your computer and manually transfer the music files to your phone. If you use cloud storage (like Dropbox or Google Drive) you could even store your music there and then access your account in the cloud via you phone and download the songs from there.

For further specification I'll need to know your OS.

Sidenote: file transferring in anything but the most gargantuan magnitudes is completely free. We'll be rioting the streets if someone tried to charge for such an essential and basic feature.

Sidenote (2): This is all assuming the you music you want to get in your phone is in digital format (.mp3, .mp4, .flac...). If you mean to take music from, say, your CDs and get that music into your phone, you'll have to rip your CD first (a process to extract the songs and get them in you computer) before you can transfer them.

 

No worries, I used to have a Windows Phone too until very recently. Loved everything about it, specially the UI design, but after I broke it I switched over to Android since I found a smartphone with better specs for significantly less than I would have had to pay for a WP with similar specs.

Anyway, like I mentioned earlier, the easiest way to transfer the music would be to use the official windows phone companion app for your pc (you can download that here). It's a little clunky and bare-bones, but it gets the job done. Make sure to put all the songs you want to transfer in the "Music" folder.

Plug your phone to your PC via USB cable, and then open the Windows Phone app you just installed (if you followed the link above). Once the app recognizes your phone is plugged (may take a minute or two), it will show you two options from which it can import your media files from, select "Windows Libraries" (which are the standard folders in every Windows PC: Music, Pictures, Videos, etc.). Afterwards, it will pull all the music from your Music folder and show it to you in list form with checkboxes next to each song and artist. Check the boxes for the songs or artists (to select all the songs under that same artist) that you wish to transfer to your phone and, once you are finished with your selection, click "Sync" on the bottom-right corner of the application. Then you wait for it to finish syncing and you are done! You should now be able to access your songs from the Xbox Music app in your phone.

If all of that sounded complicated, too granular or you would like a more audio-visual demonstration, just watch this video:

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Hope that helped, if not, ask further.