Transfer music tracks to your X820

Alistair Warmington

Once you have installed PC Studio you'll have all the tools you need to convert and transfer music, videos, photos and more

Get music on the go - copy digital tracks across to your Samsung X820 handset and use it as an MP3 player

The Samsung X820’s music playing capabilities are deliberately understated because of the limited amount of internal memory, but there should be about enough room to squeeze an album or two on there. The X820 even supports stereo Bluetooth, so you can enjoy your music wirelessly.

Your handset may not come with a software CD but you can download the latest Samsung PC Studio from Samsung’s website. Once you have installed it, you’ll have all the tools you need to convert and transfer music, videos, photos and more. You’ll need to connect your handset using the accompanying USB cable for the fastest transfer speeds, although you can use Bluetooth as well.

Uploading music files
To manage your music files on your home computer, connect your handset to your PC then load up the Samsung PC Studio (Figure 1) and click on the ‘Manage multimedia files’ icon to launch the Multimedia Manager application. Multimedia Manager (Figure 2) is ideal for transferring the odd one or two audio tracks (you can also drag and drop file directly into your phone memory from My Computer) to your phone memory and, more importantly, converting file types for playback on your handset.

The X820 is only compatible with MP3, AAC and M4A format music, but it is likely that some of you music will use another format, such as WMA. Multimedia Manager will convert these to AAC for you and save the converted version alongside the original. First you need to add some files to your Multimedia Manager library:

Click ‘File’, followed by ‘Get files’ (Figure 3). Then choose ‘By searching’
Unless you want to add photos and video at the same time, make sure only the ‘Music’ button is selected.
Choose the folder on your PC where you keep your music files from the pane on the left, then press the ‘>>’ arrow.
Press ‘Next’ and your files will be added to the Multimedia Manger database (Figure 4).

Multimedia Manger will clearly show what format your music is stored in. If you need to convert simply select a single file, or select multiple files, then right click and choose ‘Convert the selected files…’. Now press ‘OK’ and the program will make a copy of the music, in a format compatible with your handset.

This new AAC file will now appear in the library. To transfer it, and any other compatible music files, to your handset, click on the check box on the left hand side. You can check as many of these as you like, but beware that space will fill up very quickly. To transfer them across you simply need to click the ‘To phone’ button in the top right of the window.

Download Samsung PC Studio