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Every thread I read about the Galaxy Nexus not having enough storage space has the same king of replies: "Just use Google Music", "You can stream from the cloud", "Google limited the space on purpose because they want you to use Google Music", etc..
Why go through the tedious process of uploading a limited selection of songs to Google Music and keep updating it when with apps like Gmote, you can have access terabytes of music directly from your PC!
All it takes is installing the app on your phone, the server on your PC and forwarding one port to your PC and you're done.
For movies I setup an FTP on my PC and forwarded that port through my router. With ES File Explorer you can access it and stream any movie from your hard drive directly to your phone (not recommended through 3G though! ). MXPlayer for mkv, h264, etc playback works perfectly with SW acceleration!
Edit: Corrected. It's 20,000 songs not 5GB
5GB? You can have up to 20,000 songs on Google Music.
And I recommend it because its seamless and awesome. And doesn't take up space on the phone lol.
martonikaj said:
5GB? You can have up to 20,000 songs on Google Music.
And I recommend it because its seamless and awesome. And doesn't take up space on the phone lol.
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Ah, thought it was 5GB. 20,000 songs is plenty but you still have to upload those to "the cloud" versus just leaving them on your PC. Plus it's not officially available to anyone outside the US yet.
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Ah, thought it was 5GB. 20,000 songs is plenty but you still have to upload those to "the cloud" versus just leaving them on your PC. Plus it's not officially available to anyone outside the US yet.
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You just upload em once. In the background over time. And every time you get something new its uploaded automatically.
Not to mention that Google Music can be accessed from any web browser, where you can listen and manage everything
Most people don't know how to do what you describe..
but what happens if you have all this music in the cloud, and you have no reception/data to stream???
I still rather have space on the phone!
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Most people don't know how to do what you describe..
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But I'm guessing most people in this forum do!
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You just upload em once. In the background over time. And every time you get something new its uploaded automatically.
Not to mention that Google Music can be accessed from any web browser, where you can listen and manage everything
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Those are nice features, automatic updates definitely helps.
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but what happens if you have all this music in the cloud, and you have no reception/data to stream???
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It auto-caches your most-played music. You can also manually pin (cache) artists/albums/playlists if you know you'll be out of service
If you delete a song on Google Music, it doesn't delete it on your computer. Vice versa. Sucky management, eh?
Data caps will make me think twice when wanting to listen to music. Who wants to feel limited in that way?
What if I don't have reception?
This is how I use Google Music
1. I used the Google Music app on my computer to upload everything to the cloud. When I add new songs, they'll be uploaded automatically, or when I buy something on the phone, they will be downloaded to my computer.
2. I "pinned" all my music to my phone over wi-fi one night. It's easy to do in the app on the phone. You just select the albums or artists from the "Make Available Offline" screen and they'll download over wi-fi. There is also an option to do it over the cellular network which would be good for an album or two but might eat through your data if you're not unlimited. This means none of my music needs to stream to play on my phone. It's all cached locally. I take the subway to work every day and don't have reception all the way. This also syncs all your playlists in Google Music!
I now have my music on my computer, phone, and anywhere I want from the cloud, and I don't have to have a signal at all to listen.
If I ever get low on space on my phone because I've cached all my music, I can just untick the checkmark and it won't be locally stored anymore, but it's still in the cloud and on my computer. It's easy to pin or un-pin music from the phone.
I used to manage everything manually over USB on my Nexus One. I didn't understand how Google Music could help me, but it finally clicked on how I could use it to work for me easily.
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1. I used the Google Music app on my computer to upload everything to the cloud. When I add new songs, they'll be uploaded automatically, or when I buy something on the phone, they will be downloaded to my computer.
2. I "pinned" all my music to my phone over wi-fi one night. It's easy to do in the app on the phone. You just select the albums or artists from the "Make Available Offline" screen and they'll download over wi-fi. There is also an option to do it over the cellular network which would be good for an album or two but might eat through your data if you're not unlimited. This means none of my music needs to stream to play on my phone. It's all cached locally. I take the subway to work every day and don't have reception all the way. This also syncs all your playlists in Google Music!
I now have my music on my computer, phone, and anywhere I want from the cloud, and I don't have to have a signal at all to listen.
If I ever get low on space on my phone because I've cached all my music, I can just untick the checkmark and it won't be locally stored anymore, but it's still in the cloud and on my computer. It's easy to pin or un-pin music from the phone.
I used to manage everything manually over USB on my Nexus One. I didn't understand how Google Music could help me, but it finally clicked on how I could use it to work for me easily.
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Agreed in all aspects +1
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I have about 30GB of music in Google Music lol you're not limited at all. I think that's somewhere around 5,500 songs...so I have *plenty* of room to grow.
7100 songs/45Gb here, GMusic rules!
It's only available in the United States? Darn... time to get a VPN set up? Haha. This is the same problem I have with Google Voice.
All of these wonderful things to be using but are unable to due to location. Why must we be so behind in Australia?!
1: Because people want to access their music from more places than just at home.
2: Google music is easier to use and set up than setting up your own music server, vpn, etc
3. Not everyone has a music server or wants to set one up
"Why buy a car from Toyota if you can just buy the parts and built it yourself?!"
have to say GMusic rox! anywhere in the world, my music at the press of a button!
My Google Music account has about 12,500 songs in it, which is about 90GB worth. For a free service, that's amazing. Also, it let me download/pin music while I was vacationing in Italy, so it's not totally US only.
Out of the US
There is a trick to sign up for Google music if you are outside of the US. Just install an application called, HotShield and then sign up. This way, your IP is recognized as coming from the US.
Anyways, the idea of using Google music is to store your music on the cloud so you can play all your music from your phone, computer, friend's computer and so on without storing your music locally on your computer.
I have a problem when I tried to play one of the song from Google music. I can see the progress bar of the music playing but I don't hear the song. Does anyone have the solution?
Meh, I'll eat up anything Google releases. I love it all /fanboyism
inlogan said:
1. I used the Google Music app on my computer to upload everything to the cloud. When I add new songs, they'll be uploaded automatically, or when I buy something on the phone, they will be downloaded to my computer.
2. I "pinned" all my music to my phone over wi-fi one night. It's easy to do in the app on the phone. You just select the albums or artists from the "Make Available Offline" screen and they'll download over wi-fi. There is also an option to do it over the cellular network which would be good for an album or two but might eat through your data if you're not unlimited. This means none of my music needs to stream to play on my phone. It's all cached locally. I take the subway to work every day and don't have reception all the way. This also syncs all your playlists in Google Music!
I now have my music on my computer, phone, and anywhere I want from the cloud, and I don't have to have a signal at all to listen.
If I ever get low on space on my phone because I've cached all my music, I can just untick the checkmark and it won't be locally stored anymore, but it's still in the cloud and on my computer. It's easy to pin or un-pin music from the phone.
I used to manage everything manually over USB on my Nexus One. I didn't understand how Google Music could help me, but it finally clicked on how I could use it to work for me easily.
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lmao that whole thing about the cache/pinning is basically having the songs ON your phone .. which is the counterargument here XD yeah we can put our songs onto the phone too, but we need to use a usb cable but its 10x faster than wirelessly lol
not that im against GMusic lol, i just hate that it eats up my data like crazy and i cant listen to **** if theres not a clear signal lol. However I find the equalizer on the app pretty good, is in fair competition with PowerAmp believe it or not... some songs sound better on Gmusic; and yes i am pretty good with the EQ so thats not it.
Hey everyone,
Just got my galaxy nexus a couple days ago and I love it! Switched from the Droid charge so its like night and day.
Now the issue that I have is my area does not have LTE support from Verizon and 3G has never been fast enough for me to stream from google music. It gets choppy and stops to buffer very often (which also happened with my charge).
Because of this, I orefer to have all my music stored on my phone. I used to use TuneSync on my charge and wireleslly sync to my computer but figured I would ask if anyone else uses an app that might work out better. Any suggestions?
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Use Google Music. Sure, it takes time to upload your collection to the cloud, but you can download it onto your device and not use third-party apps.
shanky0506 said:
Use Google Music. Sure, it takes time to upload your collection to the cloud, but you can download it onto your device and not use third-party apps.
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Well also with google music you don't get the smart playlists in iTunes. Unless there's a workaround that I don't know about.
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Google music has their own version of "smart" playlists called instant mixes.
Info here: http://support.google.com/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1250215&topic=1250210&ctx=topic
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Google music has their own version of "smart" playlists called instant mixes.
Info here: http://support.google.com/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1250215&topic=1250210&ctx=topic
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I've already looked into that. it's still not what I want to do .
For example: I have a few "My Top Rated" playlists based on Genre.
When I used TuneSync it would just sync the playlists as they are on my computer to my phone.
sonu1178490 said:
I've already looked into that. it's still not what I want to do .
For example: I have a few "My Top Rated" playlists based on Genre.
When I used TuneSync it would just sync the playlists as they are on my computer to my phone.
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Google Music will sync your playlists, as they are on your computer, to your phone. I've seen sync times of less than a minute once the playlists are changed in iTunes. Personally, I can't vouch for Smart Playlists, but I assume they would update in a similar fashion. I do believe Smart Playlists are contained in the same database file that iTunes stores the rest of your library/playlist information in.
After uploading your library the first time, I see newly added songs uploaded within 1-5 minutes of adding them, as long as it has a data connection. I do allow syncing over LTE, so if songs are added to playlists that are set to be "available offline," they get cached to the phone very shortly after adding them to the playlist in iTunes.
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Lumenii said:
Google Music will sync your playlists, as they are on your computer, to your phone. I've seen sync times of less than a minute once the playlists are changed in iTunes. Personally, I can't vouch for Smart Playlists, but I assume they would update in a similar fashion. I do believe Smart Playlists are contained in the same database file that iTunes stores the rest of your library/playlist information in.
After uploading your library the first time, I see newly added songs uploaded within 1-5 minutes of adding them, as long as it has a data connection. I do allow syncing over LTE, so if songs are added to playlists that are set to be "available offline," they get cached to the phone very shortly after adding them to the playlist in iTunes.
Edited for a couple corrections.
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Thanks for your reply, however it didn't really help . The assumption you make about smart playlists updating in a similar fashion is unfortunately incorrect, and that is where my problem lies.
look into subsonic. I use it. It runs on your computer and lets u access ur music on your computer from anywhere.
The nice thing is that whatever you play it download to your internal storage for offline play. It also doesn't buffer because it doesn't have to stream. Pm me if u would like more details
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I use iSyncR, but I have no idea if it works on the Nexus. I used it previously on my Charge and it worked flawlessly, smart playlists and all. It isn't free, however, but I can vouch for its functionality.
aznxk3vi17 said:
I use iSyncR, but I have no idea if it works on the Nexus. I used it previously on my Charge and it worked flawlessly, smart playlists and all. It isn't free, however, but I can vouch for its functionality.
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I'm giving this a shot. I installed it and it seems pretty cool. Got the whole wifi gig setup with it. One thing i really like is that it automatically syncs pictures I take to my pictures folder on my computer. So far its working well.
one thing that worries me is that judging by how it sync's, i feel like i may have doubles in my library due to the syncing of my Library AND my playlists. I hope this isnt what happens but we'll see. I have about 2000 songs in my library, and its telling me its syncing 3000 after adding my playlists. again, hopefully its not doubling the songs :/
sonu1178490 said:
Hey everyone,
Just got my galaxy nexus a couple days ago and I love it! Switched from the Droid charge so its like night and day.
Now the issue that I have is my area does not have LTE support from Verizon and 3G has never been fast enough for me to stream from google music. It gets choppy and stops to buffer very often (which also happened with my charge).
Because of this, I orefer to have all my music stored on my phone. I used to use TuneSync on my charge and wireleslly sync to my computer but figured I would ask if anyone else uses an app that might work out better. Any suggestions?
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I use double twist to sync my playlists. You would need the Air sync app to make it work on the galaxy nexus. Works like a charm.
OTA solution is Dropbox + Dropsync .
Store all your music in dropbox and use the dropsync app to sync specific folders on your android. Whatever you update on dropbox it automatically syncs to your device. You can same way also have your device sync to dropbox incase you download some track on your device, it'll be uploaded to your dropbox i.e all pc-mac having drop box. FOund this an extremely useful app.
I apologize if this has been answered already, but I couldn't find anything about it. I have all of my music from iTunes synced with Google Music, which I can listen to on my phone. Anything new I add to iTunes will automatically be synced into Google Music, and that's great. But I would like the reverse to be applicable as well. I want the music I download on my phone from various websites and apps to be synced to Google Music, so when I log into Google Music on my laptop, the songs I downloaded on my phone will show up there (the website). Is there any way to make this possible? The music I downloaded from my phone will show up in the Google Music App on my phone, but it apparently doesn't sync it to the Google Music servers. I've tried many things, such as making the songs "available offline," but to no avail. Is this just impossible to do? Do I need to put the music in some sort of folder so that it will be synced with Google Music servers? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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I apologize if this has been answered already, but I couldn't find anything about it. I have all of my music from iTunes synced with Google Music, which I can listen to on my phone. Anything new I add to iTunes will automatically be synced into Google Music, and that's great. But I would like the reverse to be applicable as well. I want the music I download on my phone from various websites and apps to be synced to Google Music, so when I log into Google Music on my laptop, the songs I downloaded on my phone will show up there (the website). Is there any way to make this possible? The music I downloaded from my phone will show up in the Google Music App on my phone, but it apparently doesn't sync it to the Google Music servers. I've tried many things, such as making the songs "available offline," but to no avail. Is this just impossible to do? Do I need to put the music in some sort of folder so that it will be synced with Google Music servers? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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There is no way to do this as of now. The app doesn't upload to Google Music services.
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There is no way to do this as of now. The app doesn't upload to Google Music services.
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Ah, I see. Well thanks for enlightening me.
I'm not sure how much music you're downloading, but you can probably try to automate it as much as possible using Dropbox. Trying to find something similar brought me to this link: lifehacker.com/5501200/how-to-automatically-sync-any-song-you-download-to-itunes. From there you can continue to automatically sync to Google Music. It seems a bit convoluted, but once it's set up, it may suit your needs.
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I'm not sure how much music you're downloading, but you can probably try to automate it as much as possible using Dropbox. Trying to find something similar brought me to this link: lifehacker.com/5501200/how-to-automatically-sync-any-song-you-download-to-itunes. From there you can continue to automatically sync to Google Music. It seems a bit convoluted, but once it's set up, it may suit your needs.
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Wow. This is really interesting and great! Although it would take a little effort to find all my music on my SD card and then upload that to my dropbox, and then have it sync to iTunes, it might be worth it. Also, this might create duplicates in the Google Music app on my phone (i.e. Google Music recognizes new music in iTunes, uploads it to the server, and now on my phone app, it has that particular song on SD card and Google Music servers). But nevertheless, thanks!
Just got bluetooth for my car and I'm ditching my zune. I'm looking for the easiest way to sync music over to my Nexus from my computer. Also hopefully whenever I download new music, the next time I connect my nexus to my computer, the new music syncs over as well. Any good programs or suggestions in doing this? thanks
I like Mediamonkey.
I guess there are a couple ways. Upload all of your music to google music and then stream it through your phone. You can also select the feature that pins the music to your device to play whenever you want. Or you can just connect your phone to a computer, open the music folder on the phone and drag and drop. Easy peasy
I don't know how much of an audiophile you are but the one drawback to google music is that it only supports certain files. And if you have files like m4a and flac, google music converts them to the "highest quality" mp3, which is i think 320 kbps. Just an FYI.
I'll second the vote for google music (assuming you're in a location where you're allowed to have that...). I believe the Music Manager desktop app will monitor a specified folder to automatically sync any new items that show up there... which means they'll also be almost-instantly available on your mobile device.
Google Music is the only thing I use for music these days; no regrets.
adamhlj said:
I guess there are a couple ways. Upload all of your music to google music and then stream it through your phone. You can also select the feature that pins the music to your device to play whenever you want. Or you can just connect your phone to a computer, open the music folder on the phone and drag and drop. Easy peasy
I don't know how much of an audiophile you are but the one drawback to google music is that it only supports certain files. And if you have files like m4a and flac, google music converts them to the "highest quality" mp3, which is i think 392 kbps. Just an FYI.
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Yeah, I do currently use google music every once in awhile and it works good. Just don't exactly like the idea of requiring data connection. Though it seems that may be my best method.
I see there are some apps that use itunes, double twist for example. But apparently that's no good because it doesn't work with the nexus's MTP. Is there any other programs like that that could work to sync music over?
tu3218 said:
Yeah, I do currently use google music every once in awhile and it works good. Just don't exactly like the idea of requiring data connection. Though it seems that may be my best method.
I see there are some apps that use itunes, double twist for example. But apparently that's no good because it doesn't work with the nexus's MTP. Is there any other programs like that that could work to sync music over?
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You can always "pin" selected tracks/albums/artists/genres for availability offline. No data connection needed.
Otherwise, I believe Winamp offers synchronization with the desktop Winamp via wifi.
codesplice said:
You can always "pin" selected tracks/albums/artists/genres for availability offline. No data connection needed.
Otherwise, I believe Winamp offers synchronization with the desktop Winamp via wifi.
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Is there any way to pin the recently added playlist or any playlist for that matter? More or less when I add new music, its typically what I'll be listening too for a week or so. So it'd be nice to have those "pinned" so at least for the music I'll be listening to most, it wont require a connection.
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You can always "pin" selected tracks/albums/artists/genres for availability offline. No data connection needed.
Otherwise, I believe Winamp offers synchronization with the desktop Winamp via wifi.
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I, too, was gonna say winamp. It was pretty easy to set up and sync over wifi. I've heard good things about doubleTwist if you're a iTunes guy (which coming from zune doesn't sound like you are.) doubleTwist allows wifi and usb syncing, album artwork, subcribe to podcasts, and stream everything to your media device over wifi (xbox, ps3, etc)
tu3218 said:
Is there any way to pin the recently added playlist or any playlist for that matter? More or less when I add new music, its typically what I'll be listening too for a week or so. So it'd be nice to have those "pinned" so at least for the music I'll be listening to most, it wont require a connection.
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You can't pin any of the auto-generated playlists (like the "Last added" playlist), but any manually-created playlists can be pinned.
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I, too, was gonna say winamp. It was pretty easy to set up and sync over wifi. I've heard good things about doubleTwist if you're a iTunes guy (which coming from zune doesn't sound like you are.) doubleTwist allows wifi and usb syncing, album artwork, subcribe to podcasts, and stream everything to your media device over wifi (xbox, ps3, etc)
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yeah, not an apple fan at all lol. But if it allows me to sync music to my phone then I will manage to deal with it. Do I actually need itunes if I use doubletwist? It seems that doubletwist can handle everything. What is itunes required for?
thanks for all the suggestions btw
I am using the combo Rdio + Google Music. I use Google Music for everything that I own and that is not at Rdio (mainly Beatles), and Rdio for everything else. Working quite well since Rdio has a lot of interesting features to discover music and I am addicted to discover old bands.
I like Google Music.
If you're more iTunes based and want that type of solution, DoubleTwist is good.
I wasn't even aware of Google Music until I looked at this thread. Oddly, All of my music on the Google site is on my phone but not the other way around. I am not even sure how it got to either place. I had a Nokia phone before and did not have Google on it. I was going to guess that somewhere along the way my PC sync'd the music, but if that is so, why do I have more on my phone than on the website?
The doubletwist desktop application sucks! It is way too slow and limited in functionality. IE: When you add a music folder to be scanned for media you can't uncheck what you want to sync it is all or nothing which is terrible. The android app is actually my favorite music app. I like it's podcast interface and it also does playback of videos. It is really polished, fast, fluid, makes use of lockscreen widget and double press mic button for switching songs and light on the battery. It has a few in app purchases that allows you to unlock other features such as the EQ which is also good. So what I do is use google music to pin music then i use the app "music importer" which moves pinned songs to a common directory so any 3rd party music player can see them. When you get tired of a song just delete it in the app and pin and move newer songs over. There is a free 50 song trial in the play store. I went all in and bought all the DT unlocks as well as music importer. This has the best solution for me.
doubleTwist / Google Music?
Google music is all you need.
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I wasn't even aware of Google Music until I looked at this thread. Oddly, All of my music on the Google site is on my phone but not the other way around. I am not even sure how it got to either place. I had a Nokia phone before and did not have Google on it. I was going to guess that somewhere along the way my PC sync'd the music, but if that is so, why do I have more on my phone than on the website?
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i believe google wont sync music you put on your phone either manually, or through amamzon mp3/some sorta a free music download program
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i believe google wont sync music you put on your phone either manually, or through amamzon mp3/some sorta a free music download program
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Correct, Google Music only syncs to the cloud from your computer (two way) and then from the cloud to your phone (one-way).
Music Manager (desktop application) <--> music.google.com --> Google Play Music (Android app)
I use iSyncr and works great and its very fast, i like how itunes keep all my stuff organized.. So i only plug the phone to the computer and thats it.. iSyncr does the rest by itself
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I use iSyncr and works great and its very fast, i like how itunes keep all my stuff organized.. So i only plug the phone to the computer and thats it.. iSyncr does the rest by itself
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will check that out.
Hi,
I am having a problem with the HEOS app on my Pixel 2XL. Having just cancelled my Spotify Premuium account (have to have premium to stream to a HEOS device), and knowing the app allows streaming music directly from the phone, I thought that by uploading my music library to Google Play Music service, I could simply select 'This Phone' is the music source section, then select the album/artist/track, I wanted to hear. Anyway, absolutely no music is shown to allow me to select. I wondered if it was because the music was cloud stored, so I downloaded a couple of albums to the phone and tried again. Still no music showing in the HEOS app. It will play directly through the phone speaker or headphones, but simply isn't listed to allow streaming. Its all very frustrationg! I have emailed the guys at Denon (HEOS) to see if they might have an answer, however as I don't know if its an app problem, or a phone problem, I thought I should seek some guidance here.
Thanks
Steve
Racehunter said:
Hi,
I am having a problem with the HEOS app on my Pixel 2XL. Having just cancelled my Spotify Premuium account (have to have premium to stream to a HEOS device), and knowing the app allows streaming music directly from the phone, I thought that by uploading my music library to Google Play Music service, I could simply select 'This Phone' is the music source section, then select the album/artist/track, I wanted to hear. Anyway, absolutely no music is shown to allow me to select. I wondered if it was because the music was cloud stored, so I downloaded a couple of albums to the phone and tried again. Still no music showing in the HEOS app. It will play directly through the phone speaker or headphones, but simply isn't listed to allow streaming. Its all very frustrationg! I have emailed the guys at Denon (HEOS) to see if they might have an answer, however as I don't know if its an app problem, or a phone problem, I thought I should seek some guidance here.
Thanks
Steve
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The trouble here is Google Play Music isn't one of the services offered by HEOS. If you have the music stored physically on your phone you should be able to connect at minimum by Bluetooth and play it. If that doesn't work, maybe clearing app cache and restarting the app might get it to show up.
Hope this helps a little..