Question Music On iPhone w/o iTunes?

[olds]

I have to use an iPhone for work and they lock it down pretty tight. I have to be available for calls. I walk twice a day and listen to music with Bluetooth earbuds on my personal Android phone. I am off the clock when I walk. Sometimes I don't hear my iPhone when it rings. Is there a way to put mp3s on my iPhone without using iTunes?

 

[Ichinisan]

Google Music app with a synced library?

 

[olds]

I don't see "Google Music".

 

[Ichinisan]

I don't see "Google Music".

‎Google Play Music

‎Google Play Music gives you millions of songs and thousands of playlists for any situation. Powered by Google, we serve up music based on where you are and why you’re listening, getting smarter and more assistive as we get to know your tastes. Subscribe to create playlists, listen offline, and...

apps.apple.com

Not 100% sure it can cloud sync your library from a PC. I do that with iTunes Match for ~$2 / month.

 

[olds]

I had that for a while on my PC, I thinks it's a streaming app. Not positive though.
I guess I should plug it into my personal PC and see what happens.

 

[Muadib]

Musicbee is perfect for what you want to do, but should you be doing it with a work phone? That's a big no no at my job.

 

[olds]

Probably not supposed to with the work phone. But as I said above, I can't hear work phone ring with my ear buds in listening to music on my personal phone. And If I get caught, all they'll do is say stop it.

 

[Muadib]

Probably not supposed to with the work phone. But as I said above, I can't hear work phone ring with my ear buds in listening to music on my personal phone. And If I get caught, all they'll do is say stop it.

Can't you forward the calls to your personal phone? That's how I got around that issue.

 

[olds]

Well, tried to create a folder on the phone, can't do it. Tried to drag and drop a single song on the phone, can't do it. Guessing the have it locked down.

 

[TheStu]

Well, tried to create a folder on the phone, can't do it. Tried to drag and drop a single song on the phone, can't do it. Guessing the have it locked down.

Second the recommendation to forward your work phone to your personal phone. I do that all the time.

The Music folder isn't user accessible on iOS. So even if you got the file onto the phone (iOS 13 finally added the ability to just create folders on the device*), unless you had another app to play it, it wouldn't do you much good. Files.app will play audio and video files just fine, but it's not a player, it just brings up basic controls, plays that one file, and then that's it.

Before iOS 13, you couldn't just make a folder ON THE PHONE in the Files.app. You could do it in a cloud folder, but nothing that only utilized the phone's internal storage. Certain apps would create their own folders, and those were user-accessible, and you could dump files into them. So there was (still is, but was too) an app simply called "Local Storage" that did exactly what it said on the tin; it created a folder in the Files.app that would let you directly save files to your device's internal storage. 99% of the time, I do not need a file manager on my phone, and would not want to have to deal with my phone (or iPad) like a conventional PC. But those times that I do need/want those things, it's a real trial to work around them.

 

[KentState]

Can't you forward the calls to your personal phone? That's how I got around that issue.

Or a pair on BT headphones that can connect to two devices at once. If just walking around, the LG ones do a good job. I used them for years before I stopped using two phones.