Just because you have bought or been given a new mobile phone does not mean that your old phone is condemned to remain abandoned in a drawer until you decide to throw it away. If you don’t want to give it to someone or sell it to the highest bidder, you can always “turn” it into something useful to give it a new use.
On other occasions, we have told you how to transform it into a security camera, into a dash cam For the car, on a walkie talkie and even on a remote control. What we propose today is to convert your old mobile on a music player so you can listen to your songs stored on it and streaming music platforms.
Clean your phone and download music to it
First of all, you have to decide if you are going to listen to music with headphones (wireless or wired, if it has a jack socket) or if you are going to do it through the speaker. In the latter case, make sure that the mobile speaker Is it clean and offers powerful sound; If not, you will have to connect it to an external one via Bluetooth or its headphone jack socket.
From there, you can store songs in the internal memory or microSD card of your phone to use the pre-installed player or one of the many applications that exist on Google Play to listen to them for free and without an Internet connection.
Whatever the alternative chosen, it doesn’t hurt delete the rest of the applications and files on the phone that have nothing to do with music. In this way, all available resources will be at the service of our songs.
To download music to your mobile, you can use one of the different websites that allow you to do it for free and legally, since only They offer royalty free songs. Some examples are Audionautix, Musopen (focused on classical music), Bensound either Incompetech. Another option is to use one of the free applications that exist on Google Play, like these two that we propose below:
My Mixtapez
It is a music application specialized in mixtapes or rap and hip-hop mixes. In addition to listening to music via streaming, it is possible to download songs to listen to them offline. Technically, it’s a premium feature, but you can watch an ad to trigger the download of a specific song.
My Mixtapez Music & Mixtapes
My Mixtapez Music & Mixtapes
Audiomack
It is similar to the previous application, although it also includes hip-hop, rap, R&B, EDM, afropop, reggae and Latin music, among others. To get the most out of Audiomack, you will have to create an account and pay the monthly subscription, although to download songs and listen to them offline you can use the free account.
Audiomack: Music Downloader
Audiomack: Music Downloader
One step further: music players
Once you have the songs downloaded to your mobile, you can use any of the music players on Google Play to listen to them. We are not going to fool ourselves, the best are paid, but they also exist free alternatives with extensive customization options, compatibility with various audio formats and even support for Chromecast and Android Auto. Here you have three proposals:
AIMP
It has a manual mode to add songs to the library, as well as delete and sort them. They also highlight their ten band equalizer, sleep timer, widgets, support for Android Auto and the ability to adjust the balance and playback speed. The negative part is that it has advertising.
Press Music Player
Features the signature Material Design look and a intuitive interface with animations included. It offers classic navigation by songs, albums, artists, genres and folders, as well as support for Chromecast and Android Auto, widgets, lyrics display, tag editor, sleep timer, etc. The paid version, among other things, comes with a five-band equalizer.
Pulsar Music Player
Pulsar Music Player
Musicolet
It is a light music player, very simple and without advertising or internet connection. In addition to all the basic playback features, it includes some advanced ones like widgets, equalizer, tag editor, sleep timer, headphone control and ability to create/manage multiple queues.
Musicolet Music player
Musicolet Music player
For the most pro, streaming music services
If you have an Internet connection (via WiFi or mobile data) and prefer to listen to music by streaming instead of downloading it, you have different options at your disposal. services with their corresponding monthly subscription. Many of them also have a free version with ads and certain limitations. Let’s review the most popular ones:
Youtube music
Following the disappearance of Google Play Music, YouTube Music comes pre-installed on the vast majority of Android phones. In addition to playing the songs stored on your mobile, the free version allows you listen to all kinds of music in streaming and locate it through the official profiles of the different singers and channels. Of course, it has many ads and does not work in the background.
Youtube music
Youtube music
Spotify
Probably, She is the queen of streaming music. Its free version reduced its limitations a long time ago and now allows you to listen to hours of free music and certain playlists without ads and without random mode. Outside of those lists, it turns on shuffle mode and interrupts you from time to time with ads.
Spotify: music and podcasts
Spotify: music and podcasts
Amazon Music
Amazon’s music platform offers 2 million songs to Amazon Prime subscribers and 58 million more songs under an Amazon Prime Unlimited subscription. If you don’t have Amazon Prime, don’t worry, you can also listen to free music with limitations very similar to the previous two: random play and some ads.
Amazon Music
Amazon Music: Listen to Podcasts
Cover image | Firmbee