UPDATE: Use any cloud storage service you wish, including Google Drive.
So, I just achieved Super Dad status with my 9yr old daughter;-)
She has both, an iPod Touch and iPad Mini, and putting music onto them is a complete P.I.T.A. due to the fact you have to use iTunes. For over a year, it's been hit or miss trying to sync the kid some stinking tunes onto her iPod but I vowed to figure out a solution to this B.S. I use Google Play Music exclusively on all my stuff (Android user) and everything's so much easier to do on an Android device; why does everything have to be so complicated & require a workaround on iOS??
It came to me recently, while browsing through the Appstore on her iPad that there were generic Google Play Music apps available. So after a bit of dwelling on the issue, I figured out a way to beat the system...
HOW TO SET UP GOOGLE PLAY MUSIC ON iPAD / iPOD / iPHONE
- Create a google account for my daughter. (which I had done prior...)
- Open Google Music Manager on my PC, click Advanced, sign out and sign in under her email and password.
- Move all the tunes/artists she likes into a folder named "Google Play Music-PC-<insert name here>.
- In Google Music Manager, click Add Folder and select the folder created in Step 3, click Apply then Upload.
- Go to the Appstore and install gMusic: A Google Music Player ($1.99) and sign in to her Google account.
- To stream, merely tap Play. To sync (make available offline), choose Offline for each desired Artist/Track.
Hope this helps anyone who has been trying to figure out an easy workaround to this issue. Anybody who already uses Google Play Music is familiar with this process.
