Is there a quick and easy way to mark all songs on my Google Music account to download directly to my device? I want to use wifi if that matters. The only way I can see is to go one song at a time, which will take hours.
Seems the only way is to download to my computer then transfer using a USB cable. Defeats the whole cloud thing.
Is there a "select all, make all available for offline" or something like that on the phone?
Unfortunately, I think the largest grouping is by artist. I think the reason they don't have an "all" option is because many peoples library exceeds their storage capacity. Mine is at 9200 songs.
I don't like the way Google music allows me to store locally. I have 18500 tracks on a nas, and I like using it to share between all my devices. Consoles, phones, PC's. Google music doesn't even name or tag the tracks properly when you sync down making it a ridiculous chore to pull them off the phone. I'm continuing to use Amazon mp3 for now.
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If you make a Playlist, you can then select the entire Playlist to download. Best way I've found to download multiple songs at one time
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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.
gabster21 said:
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!
joshnichols189 said:
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.
zok-star said:
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.
I have about 25gb of MP3's on my computer and only 10gb of space left on my GN. Anyone know of an app for the computer or GN that will randomly pick x number of songs or x number of gigabytes of music, then copy them to my GN?
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Not sure of any app specifically, but might i suggest using google music as then you'd be able to have all your music available to you where you have a data connection?
kgeissler said:
I have about 25gb of MP3's on my computer and only 10gb of space left on my GN. Anyone know of an app for the computer or GN that will randomly pick x number of songs or x number of gigabytes of music, then copy them to my GN?
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MediaMonkey can do this sort of thing, like iTunes does with iPods and iPhones. It can sync your library and remove songs and replace them based on various criteria.
As an alternative to Gmusic I would like to recommend Amazon MP3 for the serious mp3 hoarder. UNLIMITED music storage $20/year. I have over a terabyte of music so this is a must for me, lol like I said I'm a hoarder. Been collecting for 15+ years.
I should clarify...right now I use Google Music to stream my MP3's. I am trying to watch my data usage though, so I am trying to find an alternative.
I think MusicBee can do this or at least something similar. In addition to being a really good player/music manager overall.
Try Winamp for Android.
When you get in on your desktop too and install the Android-app you can sync it over wifi. Additionally you can tell winamp to "fill your device" with random music or music with.
Hi folks, I'm looking to potentially buy a Sony Smartwatch 3, and my goal is to go for a run where I use Runkeeper and play Google Play Music on the device at the same time, while not having my phone on me. Has anyone tried this? Is this possible with the Sony Smartwatch 3?
Thanks..
Exactly what I do. Well I use ghostracer but you will be able to do exactly what you're saying. I love it. So nice not having to run with my phone anymore.
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Yes I routinely use Runkeeper and Google Music at the same time
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Yes I routinely use Runkeeper and Google Music at the same time
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and how did you select which music you put on the watch, because I only see the option to synch, but I can't select what to download. I want to download only a "running" playlist
hey just unwrapped my SW3 today and joined XDA.
Im currently going through the motions of getting music onto my SW3 for this purpose.
My findings so far are this. there two options.
1. Download and install the Sony walkman APK availabe on Xda...dont have link handy. This was super flakey all day for me today on my HTC one M8 converted to GPE running 5.1. but it now seems to be working and i am currently syncing my first album to SW3. this is taking its sweet time to be honest.
2. Using google play music. Now this isnt as easy as one would hope or imagine. It relies on all your music (personal stuff downloaded from where ever and stored on phone) to be uploaded to Google Play (room for 50000 songs) from a computer.
So today i have been doing this (getting payed at work mind you), copying all music to the computer from phone, then uploading to the google play servers.
Then once all music is uploaded you need to then create a playlist on the google play chrome app with the music you want on your wear. then go into the google play music app on phone, go to settings and hit refresh. this should then show the playlist you created with cloud stored music. Once your in that playlist on your phone, you should see an option to download it. Do so.
Then go to settings again on the phone and enable download to android wear option.
this should technically auto download only this playlist to your SW3...but im yet to test it cause it literally takes forever to upload the music from computer to google play. SW3 needs to be atleast 70% battery first.
Obviously, the walkman route is the much simpler option here. But only readily available to those with a Sony Xperia phone which runs the Walkman app natively.
Hopefully there is some kind of update coming with easier Wear music management.
eXPerience1983 said:
and how did you select which music you put on the watch, because I only see the option to synch, but I can't select what to download. I want to download only a "running" playlist
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The method Nedmo illustrates is correct. When you choose the option to sync to Android Wear all of the music you download to your phone will be sync'd to your wear device. I have 2 playlists - Running Pop and Running Rock, because I pin them to be downloaded to my phone and because I chose the option to sync to Wear, both playlists are on my SW3. When I run I simply play or shuffle either of the playlists. I agree I wish there was a way to choose to only sync some of my downloaded music to the Wear device, but its easy enough anyways and there's plenty of room.
I use "Wear Media" in Play store, sync and transfer, least hassle.
The way Wear handles Google Play Music is pretty brutal. I've got almost 50GB of music on my phone (SD card) and no possible way to pick and choose what gets pushed to my SW3. I have to listen to whatever is on my watch at the time when I'm running. It seems like it'll just overwrite oldest upload with newest when you grab more music.
Obviously I understand Google play music, I am a premium subscriber, but my dad doesn't want to have to pay a monthly fee but once the ability to listen to soon just general music playlist. The other thing he wants to avoid is using data, is there a current free music app that allows you to cash or download playlist via Wi-Fi so you can listen to it when you're off WiFi.
kickenwing13 said:
Obviously I understand Google play music, I am a premium subscriber, but my dad doesn't want to have to pay a monthly fee but once the ability to listen to soon just general music playlist. The other thing he wants to avoid is using data, is there a current free music app that allows you to cash or download playlist via Wi-Fi so you can listen to it when you're off WiFi.
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You can use youtube Vanced and download videos which you can view offline hence listen and watch music videos offline ?
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The easiest way to go here is to simply fill up the device's internal storage with the music he wants to listen to, then let Google Play Music play the tunes. Google Play Music has an option to shut off data access. It means you're limited to what is on the phone itself, but at least you can still listen to it. Most services that let you download music for future playback require a premium subscription, so if not willing to pay, you have to stream which uses data. Google Play Music will cache any music that has been played through the app for future playback, but for an extended playlist that will take a lot of time, as it has to be done in real time. That's why you just want to load the music onto the device and play it back that way.