How do I use the Samsung Music app?
Your Galaxy device is great for so many things; watching videos, playing games, and listening to all of your favourite tracks. If you never leave home without your headphones then the Samsung music app is the perfect place to store and organise your music, with support for various sound formats including MP3, WMA, AAC and FLAC. Samsung Music has also partnered with Spotify to show you the most popular tracks and playlists in your area, helping you find your new jam.
The Samsung Music app can be downloaded from the Play Store and the Galaxy Store. Once the app has been downloaded you will be asked to give it permission to access your storage. This allows the app to find all of the music that you have saved to your device.
Please note: If you are having problems running the app it may be that you need to update your phone’s software or update the app itself.
The app is compatible with Samsung mobile devices that are running Android 5.0 and above. Find out what version of Android your device is running.
When you launch the app for the first time you will be asked to give the app permission to access your storage. If you don't allow permission, you will be unable to use this app.
On Galaxy S4, Note3 and Note4 devices you can optionally give the app permission to access your microphone. This allows you to control the music player using voice commands.
Please note: Some file formats may not work on Android 12.
Adding music to the Samsung music app couldn't be easier. Every time that you open the app it will search through the files saved to your device and will automatically add any music that it finds. All you have to do is download or add some music to your device to get started.
To download music to your device, search for the name of an artist, album or song that you would like to listen to online (there are a variety of different music providers). Once you have downloaded the file to your device, it will automatically appear in Samsung Music. Alternatively, you can use the Spotify tab in the Samsung Music app to stream and listen to music.
If you don’t already have music saved to your device you can find out more about how to add music files from your computer.
If some music has been added that you don't want in your music library, you can remove it.
Removing music
There are many different playback controls in the music player, you can choose to play, pause and skip songs as well as choose what order to play songs in.
From the full music player view shuffle is turned off when there is a line through the shuffle icon.
From the main menu view of the app you can override shuffle by tapping on the next song you would like to play. Songs will then continue in the order they are listed.
You can continue listening to music playing through the Samsung Music app while looking at other apps or with the screen locked. You can even control the music you are listening to without returning to the Samsung Music app.
You can also add a track to a playlist while you are listening to it.
Any music that you favourite will be added to the Favourites section of the Samsung Music app. This makes it really easy to quickly find all of the tracks that you love. You can add albums as well as individual tracks to your favourites.
Adding a track to your favourites
Adding an album to your favourites
Your favourite tracks and albums will now appear in the Favourites section of the app.
There are loads of settings and features that you can customise in the Samsung Music app, helping you to get the perfect listening experience. You can add a crossfade, automatically set each track to the same volume, add a sleep timer and loads more.
You can also set music from the Samsung Music app as your alarm sound through the Clock app.
Once you have downloaded or purchased music files onto your Galaxy device, you can choose to set them as ringtone through the following steps:
If the file does not appear under the Tracks tab, tap Folders, then locate the file.
If you're experiencing unusual behaviour on Samsung mobiles, tablets or wearables, you can send us an error report or ask us a question in the Samsung Members app.
This allows us to take a closer look at what is happening. The data is anonymised and only held for the duration of the investigation. Find out more about sending an error report through the Samsung Members app.
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