I have spent a number of hours learning about the roadblocks involved in uploading / downloading / copying music from a computer to mobile devices. Unfortunately, it appears that the music merchants are making things increasingly complicated. On a hit or miss proposition, CDs can be ripped to a computer music folder from a CD. Thereafter, the ripped music "may" be able to be transferred to a mobile device and appear within an appropriate Internal Storage folder. I learned that I could not play an entire CD "album" without using a music app, in this case Google Play Music. Music purchased from Amazon can only be played from the Amazon Music App and cannot be downloaded. This will make life increasingly difficult, and in some cases, more expensive, for everyone. Wireless companies and smartphone manufacturers also may not include the necessary codecs for playback of uploaded music from a computer. It has taken several hours to learn about all of this, but my overall impression is that high tech does not necessarily equate to a more user friendly environment.
