Galaxy SIII User Information Session! Part 4.

Like any other smartphone, you can use Samsung Galaxy S3 to play your favourite music while on the go.

The Galaxy S3 can play a wide variety of audio and video files:

• Music: mp3, 3ga, aac, m4a, wma
• Sound: wav, mmf, xmf, imy, midi, amr
• Video: 3gp, mp4, avi, wmv, flv, mkv

By default, the Android doesn’t play WMA (Windows Music Audio) files, but Samsung made it possible on their version of Android with the inclusion of codec. And the same goes to WMV (Windows Media Video) files.

How do you transfer music file to your Samsung Galaxy S3?

There are various ways you can transfer video, audio or any other files to your Galaxy S3. According to the Galaxy S3 user manual, below are all the possible ways:

• Download from Internet.
• Transfer from PC.
• Transfer from a PC with Samsung Kies.
• Transfer from a PC with Windows Media Player.
• Receive via Bluetooth.
• Receive via Wi-Fi.
• Copy to your memory card.

In this post, I’m going to talk about the 2 most common methods, which are transferring files directly from PC storage and using Windows Media Player.

Transferring music and video files from PC

1. Connect your Galaxy S3 to your PC using the data cable.
2. A USB icon appears in the top Notification Bar, tap the USB icon area and drag it downwards to open the notifications panel.
3. Tap Connected as a media device and ensure Media device (MTP) checkbox is ticked.  Now, you’re ready to transfer files between your PC and phone.
4. Open up your PC Windows Explorer. Now, you should see your Galaxy S3 shows up as a removable disk.
5. Access the phone storage via Windows Explorer; you should see Videos and Musicfolders.
6. Simply drag/copy-and-paste your music and video files from your computer to these folders. The Galaxy S3 music or video players will automatically recognize the files.
7. Alternatively, you can create a new folder in your phone storage to store these files.

Transferring music and video files using Windows Media Player

1. Connect you Galaxy S3 to your PC using the data cable.
2. Run Windows Media Player on you PC.
3. On the left side of Windows Media Player, you will see a little icon with the model number of Galaxy S3. You can (but not necessary) double click on that icon to expand the list.
4. Now move to the right side and click the Sync Tab.
5. Drag any music files or video files to the Sync list area. You can drag these files from either PC folders or Windows Media Player library.
6. Once you have all the files in the Sync list, click Start sync.
7. Now, move to the left, and click Sync status to verify if those files are successfully copied over to your phone.
8. Start playing those songs on your Galaxy S3.

I hope you will find the above steps simple to follow. As mentioned, there are more than 2 ways you can get all your favourite music files onto your Galaxy S3. And I highly recommend you to try out using the Samsung Kies application too.