Problems copying a lot of files to Android

[TonyRPH]

I have a One Plus 6T

I'm trying to copy a load of music files (200gb) to the internal storage on my phone (I'm doing this in Linux).

I can mount the phone filesystem with no issue using jmtpfs

But as soon as I set a copy going, it falls over within a few minutes.

I've read that the phone needs to be kept unlocked and awake (I've tried this) but that doesn't seem to help.

Is there a better way to copy my music to the phone?

[bigpriest]

Do you have the option of copying to an SD card? It's quicker than hoping the connection doesn't drop mid-transfer.

[TonyRPH]

bigpriest said:

Do you have the option of copying to an SD card? It's quicker than hoping the connection doesn't drop mid-transfer.

Sadly not - I'm having to use the internal (fixed) storage in the phone.

[plasticpig]

I would use KDE Connect

[toohuge]

Could you upload this to cloud storage and download it to the phone?

[TonyRPH]

plasticpig said:

I would use KDE Connect

I'm using a headless box, and reluctant to install X on it. I realise I could possibly export a display etc. etc. but I'd rather stick with a console.

toohuge said:

Could you upload this to cloud storage and download it to the phone?

I would need to upload about 210G which would take a while! Also - I don't have that much cloud space available to me.

[deckster]

TonyRPH said:

I would need to upload about 210G which would take a while! Also - I don't have that much cloud space available to me.

This is probably true. But 200GB of cloud storage is inexpensive, you only need to do upload it once and then it will be available to all devices everywhere and forever more. Keeping large amounts of data on your phone is very 2009

[plasticpig]

TonyRPH said:

I would need to upload about 210G which would take a while! Also - I don't have that much cloud space available to me.

You could set up an FTP, FTPS,SFTP, RSYNC server on your Unix box and pull it down to your phone. Clients for all these protocols are available for Android.

[TonyRPH]

plasticpig said:

You could set up an FTP, FTPS,SFTP, RSYNC server on your Unix box and pull it down to your phone. Clients for all these protocols are available for Android.

Now that's the suggestion I was looking for!

I have been trying rsync via mtp - I managed to get about 8G on so far but it's tedious!

Already have an rsync server on the Linux box so will try your suggestions thanks.

[eltawater]

USB-C OTG Cable with a USB flash drive.

Remember to enable OTG Storage in the System menu on the phone.

[dapprman]

I use Amaze file manager on my OnePlus 7 Pro - it comes with ftp server functionality which works well for me and I've not had time out issues when the screen has locked.

[TonyRPH]

After trying rsync (worked, but very slow as limited to wireless speed) and 'syncthing' (which didn't work due to my firewall) I tried the following two suggestions (combined).

eltawater said:

USB-C OTG Cable with a USB flash drive.

Remember to enable OTG Storage in the System menu on the phone.

Thanks, this works a treat!

dapprman said:

I use Amaze file manager on my OnePlus 7 Pro - it comes with ftp server functionality which works well for me and I've not had time out issues when the screen has locked.

That's a really useful app - cheers for that.

[Alorotom]

Thats a ludicrous amount of music to carry around all the time

1gb of music on average:
3hrs lossless ... total 600hrs (25 days)
8hrs @ 256kbps ... total 1600hrs (66 days)
16hrs @ 128kbps ... total 3200hrs (133 days)

[TonyRPH]

Alorotom said:

Thats a ludicrous amount of music to carry around all the time

1gb of music on average:
3hrs lossless ... total 600hrs (25 days)
8hrs @ 256kbps ... total 1600hrs (66 days)
16hrs @ 128kbps ... total 3200hrs (133 days)

I don't even really carry it around - I just want to use the phone as a music player when I can't sleep - and as such I want access to my full library.

[eltawater]

TonyRPH said:

After trying rsync (worked, but very slow as limited to wireless speed) and 'syncthing' (which didn't work due to my firewall) I tried the following two suggestions (combined).

eltawater said:

USB-C OTG Cable with a USB flash drive.

Remember to enable OTG Storage in the System menu on the phone.

Thanks, this works a treat!

[paulrockliffe]

Alorotom said:

Thats a ludicrous amount of music to carry around all the time

1gb of music on average:
3hrs lossless ... total 600hrs (25 days)
8hrs @ 256kbps ... total 1600hrs (66 days)
16hrs @ 128kbps ... total 3200hrs (133 days)

That's true, but if you've ever tried to do this it's really obvious how it happens. You simply go through your list and pick the artists you want on there and drop them into a folder. Once you start doing it at Album level it takes too long and really it's easier to just include stuff rather than try to guess what you'll want to listen to.

If you have an SD Card the space is cheap and usually you would simply move it from one phone to the next and your player isn't going to care about the number of tracks it needs to index, so it's really no bother.

I would look at options to sync though, eg Music Monkey will let you setup synced Artists so any new music automatically gets put on the phone for you and you're having to manage your offline collection in future.

[RizzoTheRat]

paulrockliffe said:

I would look at options to sync though, eg Music Monkey will let you setup synced Artists so any new music automatically gets put on the phone for you and you're having to manage your offline collection in future.

Before I gave up and just started renting music from spotify, I had all my music in iTunes on my PC, and then used MediaMonkey to sync playlists to my phone.