Previously, I described how to transfer your iTunes collection to a USB stick to listen to your music in your car without depending on a smart phone. On a motorcycle, you don’t have the option of using a thumb drive so a smart phone is essential.

Yes, it’s possible to import all your iTunes collection into Google Play and then stream those songs on your Android phone. But since I use my motorcycle on back country roads and 128GB SD cards are ridiculously cheap, I just copied my entire collection to the local SD card.

I found transferring music to my Android phone using the Android File Transfer utility error-prone (dropping the connection while transferring so many gigabytes of data to the SD card). So, I just installed an SSH server on the phone and then transferred the songs using the SCP command below.

scp -P 2222 -r /Users/{user]/[folder]/ [username]@[IP address]:/sdcard/Music/

After a while (perhaps due to indexing), Google Music sees and can play the songs from the local library.

Updated on June 9th, 2018