How do you put music on an Android phone?

If you have a decent-sized MicroSD card in your phone, your Android can double as an iPod/Mp3 player. No, it can't sync with iTunes (the Android app called DoubleTwist does some finagling to get Apple-owned iTunes to cooperate with Google-owned Android), but it's still very easy to move your music over to your phone.

What you need:
- A phone with enough free space for your music (this can be internal storage or a MicroSD card)
- A computer with music on it
- A USB/Micro USB cable (probably what you use to charge it)

Step 1: Plug your phone into your computer. If your phone is the kind that asks which connection, select Media Transfer, USB Storage, Mass Storagae... something to that effect, meaning create a link to move files.

Step 2: Click "Open folder to view files" on the computer, when your phone's information pops up. If it doesn't pop up, find your phone in your "Computer" page, from the computer start menu. Find a folder called "Music" in your phone's information on the computer.

Step 3: If you do not use iTunes, skip to step 4 here. Open iTunes and select all the songs you want moved (Ctrl + A to select all and then Ctrl + Click to deselect ones you don't want might be fastest). Then copy and paste into your phone's music folder. If this worked, skip to step 6. If not, never fear... there is a second, more consistently successful method, continued in step 4.

Step 4: Open the location where your music is stored on the computer. This may be just by clicking "Music" in your start menu, or, if you use iTunes, try the file path Music>iTunes>iTunes Media>Music. That should take you to a list of artists in the folder.

Step 5: Select all the artists from your computer's music folder that you would like to move (or select the entire music folder, if your storage capacity is large enough), copy the selection, and then paste it into the phone's music folder. This will take anywhere from a  few minutes to a few hours, depending on how much music you move.

Step 6: Right click the USB icon in your taskbar and eject your phone. Unplug the phone and look for an app you already have on your phone, simply called "Music." Ta-da! Your music should be there, neatly organize by album or artist.

If you experience difficulty anywhere along the way, let me know in a comment what went wrong, and I'll see if I can help you resolve the problem.