Android phones, apps and tablets

Feed quality is more of an issue than screen size; MOTD on Iplayer is choppy and scrappy but HQ vids on Youtube are excellent.

Speaking about video on the Nexus 7 - is anyone copying video files on to the device? If so how are you doing it? Via USB cable or over wifi? What file sizes are you dealing with and how long is it taking? Since 'Mass storage mode' over USB has been removed from Android 4.X - you can't just copy your files on to the Nexus 7.

For playback I'm using Vplayer + upnp plugin, since it allows me to stream files from my network. I have been using it for around a month and it works flawlessly. Now I want to take some files away with me and I haven't found a good way of doing it.

Copying files on to the device works fine, what do you mean?

Copied a couple of ripped DVD's on to my father in laws nexus 7. Quality is fantastic. via USB doesn't take too long.

I should have said I'm on Linux - and I just googled it as well. I have to either 'root' it or enable 'MTP' support in Ubuntu which isn't on by default. Cool I will fix it tonight!!!

Use SFTP: install OpenSSH-server on your ubuntu box and "AndFTP" on your N7.

I have an internal network web server on my ubuntu instance which is mapped to a folder which is symlinked into my directory.

I simply open the web browser on my tablet or phone and download the files over wifi.

It never occurred to me to use a USB cable.

@Emyr - I will give FTP a go too. AndFTP is installing right now.

@Velocio - I like that plan. But then I have to copy files (or symlink them) on the server. But I can give it a try.

@Emyr - I will give SFTP a go too. AndFTP is installing right now.

ftfy, you want SFTP(SSH-FTP), not plain old FTP.

Is the Play store down for everyone, or is my phone being special?

I use Ghost Commander (app) to access shared files via Samba, works fine after first set-up.

WiFi is a tad slow for big video files. If I am in a hurry I use USB. Otherwise Smb works fine

How is everyone finding Google music?

^ It's pretty cool!

I just use the play store's search function.^^

I'm just uploading ten thousand songs now. its easier to do this and stream than sync music to the phone using the awful android sync app on the mac.
Wondering whats going to become of the things purchased on itunes...

I had a bit of a problem that I uploaded 15000 songs and about 3000 came back as corrupted files.

I'm still trying to sort out the bad FLAC's on the home server.

:-(

Oof. Bit off-topic but what file system are you using?

It's got Windows Home Server on it.

It's not the file system (I think), its just bad rip's and/or degradation of the files after they got copied a lot from one drive to another.

I use Terracopy now, it flags up bad copy/move files.

It's got Windows Home Server on it.

It's not the file system (I think), its just bad rip's and/or degradation of the files after they got copied a lot from one drive to another.

I use Terracopy now, it flags up bad copy/move files.

Ummm, files don't degrade. You are thinking of cassette tapes bring copied on high speed.

#killingmusic

Bit rot, cosmic rays flipping the bits on hard disc platters and other magical things can fuck with your shit.

Nothing is safe.

Ummm, files don't degrade. You are thinking of cassette tapes bring copied on high speed.

#killingmusic

Files don't degrade.......

Oh yeah? Compare a jpeg or mpeg after a few years then say that again.

Only if you keep editing it and re-saving it.

Only if you keep editing it and re-saving it.

^ This.

Lossy formats only result in a degrading of quality by constant re-encoding into lossy formats.

So long as it only ever happens once and is never transcoded, there is never any further loss of quality.

Even then, the original loss of quality was by choice... the choice of a lossy format. So it should come as no surprise to anyone involved.

Files don't degrade.......

Oh yeah? Compare a jpeg or mpeg after a few years then say that again.

1) bullshit

2) compare it with what?