Android and the world of MP3

I recently was given the task of doing the baseball lineup songs at the local high school. In previous years, the task fell to those who had Apple products.

The app ballparkdj gave good instructions for Android products. Having not done this before, I skimmed right over the instructions but I had a general direction to go. Could be a classic situation of reading instructions for the first time and not understanding them! I found this after all, so it is on me.

I was also using Amazon Music in this manner for this first time.

First I tried to figure out how to pull songs from Amazon Music on my phone to the app. I spun round and round on this. I did several searches attempting to figure out how to do this. Every time I’d go to the ballparkdj app to load the song, I’d only see Google Drive as a choice. Talking about a hint!

I finally came back to the instructions above which stated you have to purchase the mp3 (not just the song) and download to your laptop then Google Drive, then load into the app.

(BTW, there are clean versions of some songs that can be purchased when required.)

When you do a download onto the PC and it appears at the bottom of screen, you must also double click and select the folder you went the unzipped file to go to. Otherwise, you will only see the zipped file.

Note also the name of the folder, sub-folders, and the mp3. There were several times that Amazon Music had the song in folder names such as Various Artists, Varioso Artistos, Pop Rock and the file name might not match the song or even the zipped file. You’ll drive yourself nuts if you don’t realize that.

Now, when loading from Google Drive into the app, it can take a while for Google Drive to load its folders into the search window on the app. I did figure out that I could search for the name of the song regardless of the folder it was in. Watch out, while it is searching, a message will appear File Not Found! but then a few seconds later the file appears.

That’s it!