Getting Started: Importing Your Music Files

BTR AMP plays the music you already own — your files, offline, organized your way. No streaming catalog, no lock-in. This guide shows you how to get those files onto your iPhone or iPad.

There’s more than one way to do it, and the best one depends on where your music lives right now. Don’t read the whole thing — jump to the section that matches your situation.

Works with: MP3, M4A, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, AIFF, MP4, and M4B.

Just want to get started?

Two paths cover almost everyone:

• A few albums, nothing to install → use Wi-Fi Transfer in your web browser. Open it on your computer, drag files in, done.
• Your whole library, with folders intact → use CyberDuck over WebDAV (a small free app). It’s the fastest, most reliable way to move a large collection.

Everything else below is for specific situations.

Where does your music live?

How importing works (read once)

A few things that apply to every method:

• Everything you import lands in the Incoming folder under Documents. Move and reorganize it however you like afterward.
• Wireless methods need your device and computer on the same Wi-Fi network.
• Transfer speed depends on your Wi-Fi and your drives.
• To run more (or fewer) transfers at once, go to Settings → Connect.

Compare the methods

Wi-Fi Transfer — in your browser

The quickest way to start. No software to install: BTR AMP runs a little web page you open from your computer.

Good for: single files or one album at a time. It does not preserve folder structure — everything dropped in lands in one folder — so use it for a pre-made album folder rather than your whole library.

Steps

1. In BTR AMP, open Connect → Wi-Fi Transfer.
2. (Optional) Add a username and password to keep others on the network out.
3. Tap Start Wi-Fi Transfer and note the Web Browser URL shown.
4. On your computer, open that URL in any browser and drag your files in.

Wi-Fi Transfer — with CyberDuck (WebDAV)

The recommended way to move a large library quickly. It preserves your folders and sub-folders and shows clear progress.

We recommend CyberDuck — it’s free, and it’s the WebDAV client we’ve found that works flawlessly with BTR AMP. (We have no affiliation with it.) The WebDAV support built into Windows and macOS is unreliable here, so we don’t recommend it.

Steps

1. In BTR AMP, open Connect → Wi-Fi Transfer.
2. (Optional) Add a username and password.
3. Tap Start Wi-Fi Transfer and note the WebDAV URL.
4. In CyberDuck, connect using that URL, then drag your folders across.

SMB file share

If you already share files on your network with SMB (Windows File Shares), this is the best experience of them all — fast, clear progress, full folder structure, and you don’t have to babysit it. Setting SMB up from scratch can be fiddly, but once it’s working, it’s excellent. Tested against Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Steps

1. In BTR AMP, open Connect.
2. First time: tap Add Account → Windows SMB, give it a name (e.g. “Home PC”), and enter the SMB address — for example:
   • smb://server-name
   • smb://server-name/share-name
   • smb://server-name/share-name/folder-path
3. Enter your credentials (domain, username, password) and tap Done.
4. Open the connection, find your music, and tap the download icon (cloud with a down arrow) next to any file or folder.

You can queue up as many folders and files as you like — entire trees or individual tracks.

Google Drive

If your music already lives in Google Drive, this built-in connection is ideal: folders preserved, clear progress, and nothing to install.

Steps

1. In BTR AMP, open Connect.
2. First time: tap Add Account → Google Drive and sign in to your Google account.
3. Open the Google Drive connection, find your music, and tap the download icon (cloud with a down arrow) next to any file or folder.

OneDrive

If your music already lives in Microsoft OneDrive, this built-in connection works just like the Google Drive one: folders preserved, clear progress, and nothing to install. (Added in BTR AMP v20.)

Steps

1. In BTR AMP, open Connect.
2. First time: tap Add Account → OneDrive and sign in to your Microsoft account.
3. Open the OneDrive connection, find your music, and tap the download icon (cloud with a down arrow) next to any file or folder.

Files app (cloud or on-device)

iOS’s Files app can hand files to BTR AMP — whether they’re in a cloud provider (Dropbox, OneDrive, and others) or already on your device in another app. It preserves folders, but iOS gives little progress feedback, so a big transfer can look like nothing’s happening when it actually is.

Use the Files app to browse to your music, then share or copy it into BTR AMP. (Search Apple Support for “Use the Files app” if you’re new to it.)

AirDrop

On a Mac, AirDrop is a nice way to send over a quick album. Folders are preserved, nothing to install.

When the “Open with…” prompt appears on your iPhone or iPad, choose BTR AMP. Because iOS doesn’t show progress while it moves the files in, stick to one album at a time — sending hundreds of files can make the device look frozen while it works.

USB cable (Finder or iTunes)

No Wi-Fi? Connect your device to your computer with a cable and drag files across using Finder (macOS) or the Apple Devices app / iTunes (Windows). It works, but it can’t browse folder structures, so it’s best for smaller transfers. Search Apple Support for “share files with file sharing” for the current steps.

Share sheet (from another app)

When a file lives inside another app that doesn’t support the Files app, use that app’s Share (or “Open in…”) button and pick BTR AMP. What’s possible depends entirely on the other app — it may allow single files, multiple files, or whole folders.

We’ve built BTR AMP so your music is never locked in — these same methods move files out of BTR AMP too. If there’s a cloud provider you’d like a built-in connection for, let us know and we’ll add it to the backlog.