Transferring music files to SD card from Windows laptop - how to?

[robkyf]

Can anyone tell me how to do a 'hard' transfer of music files from a Windows 10 laptop to a Pi Zero 2 W running moOde 9x please.

Transferring larger volumes of files between the two over wifi is obviously glacially slow so any instructions would be gratefully received on how to speed this up. I'm assuming my options are either to: 

1. mount the moOde SD card directly on the laptop and transfer the files (using File Explorer?) from the hard drive to the folder moOde uses to store music; or
   
2. physically connect the Pi to the laptop and transfer the files over a USB cable (which I've tried but the moOde Pi just seems to appear on my local network rather than as a directly connected local storage device)
   

I realise this question will have been asked a thousand times before but I'm struggling to find a simple explainer that a Pi/moOde novice like me can follow.

I understand there are other ways to mount/play music files through the Pi, but I'm specifically interested in the SD card route.

Thanks!