Getting Music on an LG 550

Submitted by User ProfileRob on 12:17pm, Thursday, 2007-04-19
The LG-550 looks like a pretty snazzy phone. There are a lot of pretty snazzy phones these days. Too bad they're all locked down by the carriers in such unreasonable ways. My sister just got one of these and she was a little frustrated trying to get music on to it. Apparently it doesn't just show up as a drive like all good USB-attached memory devices should. It has a slot for a microSD card and it came with the microSD card and an adapter to make that fit in an SD card slot. So from the instant message it sounds like she was able to get some music on the card and play from the card on the phone. I'm glad that works, but really, on a phone with Bluetooth and USB this should be a lot easier. Clearly the phone could easily allow access to the files on it (whether it's wallpapers, video, ringtones, contacts, notes, calendars or whatever) through any methods just by using stuff that's built in to PCs and Macs for accessing memory devices like cameras and thumb drives. Anyhow, hope this helps someone else out there avoid paying for extra software they don't need.
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At 5:03am, Monday, 2007-11-26, Sarah said:

Okay, I don't quite understand... How do you get the music on it? Like.. once you've got the SD card all hooked up, along with your phone.. what media player do you use on your computer? It doesn't show up as a device on Windows Media Player? This phone is such a piece of crap, I realllly want music on it.

At 3:26pm, Tuesday, 2007-11-27, Rob said:

Hi Sarah, if I remember right what my sister did was just get the music files on to the microSD card from her computer then put the card in the phone.

To do that you don't need a media player on the computer but you do need a card reader (like maybe this one
).

You put the microSD card in the SD adapter (that came with the card) then put the card adapter into the SD slot of the card reader. The card reader plugs in to the PC by USB. Then you can use Windows Explorer to just drag the mp3 files from the folder you have them in on your computer to the folder for the microSD card.

It sounds more complicated than it is to actually do.