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Figure this may be useful as the stock music player installed on the Galaxy Nexus is all setup ready for the cloud based goodness of Google Music, but it's a service supposedly only available in the US at the moment.
To work around that, try the following (worked for me, YMMV):
Download the appropriate version of Tor Browser bundle for your platform from:
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Install, load up the Vidalia control panel and click "Settings"
Navigate to the advanced section, click "Edit current torrc"
Paste the following into the bottom of the torrc file:
ExcludeNodes {be},{pl},{ca},{za},{vn},{uz},{ua},{tw},{tr},{th},{sk},{sg},{se},{sd},{sa},{ru},{ro},{pt},{ph},{pa},{nz},{np},{no},{my},{mx},{md},{lv},{lu},{kr},{jp},{it},{ir},{il},{ie},{id},{hr},{hk},{gr},{gi},{gb},{fi},{es},{ee},{dk},{cz},{cy},{cr},{co},{cn},{cl},{ci},{ch},{by},{br},{bg},{au},{at},{ar},{aq},{ao},{ae},{nl},{de},{fr}
(This will force Tor to use a US exit node)
Save the settings, restart Tor.
In the Tor tunneled Firefox that's now running, visit:
http://music.google.com
If you get an error about it only being available in the US, go back to the Tor Vidalia control panel and click the "Use a new identity" button (to pick a new exit node) and refresh the page. Repeat until you get a Google music login box.
Try signing in with your existing Google account - this worked fine for me but there seem to be conflicting reports about whether it works in all cases for non-US accounts.
If not, you may have to setup a new GMail account solely for Google Music use. Be sure to create the account using the Tor tunneled Firefox so that Google think you're in the US when you sign up.
Once you've logged in to Google Music once and accepted the T&Cs (maybe grab the dire Busta Rhymes freebie track to check its all working) you can ditch Tor - Google Music will quite happily now let you access and upload music from the UK.
Load up the Music Player, link the newly Google Music enabled account to it, enjoy.
thanks
streaming on my device is quite nice, but i have to wait until the song is fully loaded to start it (in Music-app)... little bit annoying
A much easier way to do it is just use a proxy website (like those ones to get around school/work firewalls). The majority are based in the US.
I used the first link that came up on a Google search to sign up for Google Music back around the time it launched. Less hassle than downloading software etc.
The only real problem is that you can't access the store, which means you can't get any of the free music or buy anything.
You still get the syncing and upload abilities though, which is quite nice. I just need to sort out my music collection now before I upload it
I know that's probably a bit stupid but I can't install the app from the market. It downloads correctly but when it wants to install the app it says it isn't signed properly or so. Is this because it isn't developed for the desire? I would like to use it until my nexus arrives.
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You need to uninstall any previous versions and also make sure you clear data under application settings
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I never had it install before.
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Nebucatnetzer said:
I know that's probably a bit stupid but I can't install the app from the market. It downloads correctly but when it wants to install the app it says it isn't signed properly or so. Is this because it isn't developed for the desire? I would like to use it until my nexus arrives.
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Get your self the market enabler and set it to use verzion us market settings. Uninstall current version then download from market. I did this earlier today and you get the very latest version of the app.
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Found an interesting thread about it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350164
I keep getting an 'error at line 1' message when I click on OK. Even without entering any extra text I also get it
The 'error at line x' is something to do with Windows 7 (possibly x64) editing the torrc file. Had the same issue...
Easiest fix is to go to the Tor folder/data/tor/ then open 'torrc' with Notepad manually. Edit the file by hand, save and restart Tor and it'll accept the changes fine.
I used TunnelBear on my PC to trick Google into thinking I Was in the USA, then accessed Google Music over the internet and registered for the service.
Then on my phone, I downloaded the Music APK from this XDA page and installed it on my phone.
Works fine for me for playing music on my phone and music off my computer which has been uploaded to the cloud.
Play still won't give you access to the music section though as it's not licensed still for UK use.
lol. what's the problem: i'm using music beta since last november here in germany even though its not even released here.
Hmm, used Tor and got my account linked to Google Music. I'm now uploading an album just fine, but when I try to use the Music Manager to listen to the songs, it still says it's only available in the US.
im getting annoyed with the gallery, basically theres a folder on it called instant uploads and i want it gone but cant find it anywhere using a file manager so im assuming its a virtual "cloud" folder and on google plus
how do i delete all the phots from it? and stop it appearing?
i deleted all the photos from my google + account and still theyre there
any ideas?
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im getting annoyed with the gallery, basically theres a folder on it called instant uploads and i want it gone but cant find it anywhere using a file manager so im assuming its a virtual "cloud" folder and on google plus
how do i delete all the phots from it? and stop it appearing?
i deleted all the photos from my google + account and still theyre there
any ideas?
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At some point in time you must've enabled the Instant Upload feature (and have obviously subsequently disabled it). The folder is in Picasa Web Albums, and it is non-removable from what I can see.
maybe this is different in 2.4, but you should have an option under syncing to not sync Picasa and instant upload.
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i dont have picasa on my phone, iv re enabled syncing the google photos and google plus and instant upload trying to wipe the folder but its still there
it has a picasa picture on the folder but i dont have picasa installed and i cant find any settings for it
Google syncing brings Picasa to you in gallery by default. Turn off google photo's sync or edit the picasa web album
When you have the album open in Picasa Web Albums, choose Action, Delete Album - YOU WILL lose all photo's but it should then not show up.
To prevent it again in Google + turn off instant uploads
rosswaa said:
i dont have picasa on my phone, iv re enabled syncing the google photos and google plus and instant upload trying to wipe the folder but its still there
it has a picasa picture on the folder but i dont have picasa installed and i cant find any settings for it
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You don't need to have picasa installed on the phone for this to happen, Picasa Web Albums is online. It is where your pictures are saved when you enable Instant Upload in Google+, something which you must have enabled at some point since you have the folder.
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NPS_CA said:
When you have the album open in Picasa Web Albums, choose Action, Delete Album - YOU WILL lose all photo's but it should then not show up.
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I have been unable to get the Instant Upload album to delete, from Picasa Web Albums. It just stays there.
do you install picasa?
i got rid of it by removing my google account then adding it again and disabled goole photos from syncing then when i signed into google plus i disabled instant upload
I have different issue.
If I click on GALLERY it comes up with message "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped.
REPORT - OK
Any ideas?
Speaking of the Gallery, is there any way to order the folders/albums alphabetically? It seems like they're ordered completely randomly, which is really annoying if you have a lot of albums.
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I have different issue.
If I click on GALLERY it comes up with message "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped.
REPORT - OK
Any ideas?
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Have you disabled any apps? I disabled a pile of crap I don't use (Google+, Books, Talk, News & Weather) and I got the same. Then I re-enabled them and it worked again. Didn't get into trying them one at a time yet.
On de SGS the Gallery-app gave al lot of problems. One of them was that it used al lot of juice. Another was that it not always showed all pictures. For those reasons I installed Quickpic. It is a free app and very reliable. But let's hope that the Gallery-app is improved on ICS.
Sweerts said:
On de SGS the Gallery-app gave al lot of problems. One of them was that it used al lot of juice. Another was that it not always showed all pictures. For those reasons I installed Quickpic. It is a free app and very reliable. But let's hope that the Gallery-app is improved on ICS.
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I also love Quickpic, however the auto-rotate is extremely slow half the time on the Galaxy Nexus. The phone seems to be slow w/ auto-rotate everywhere, but it's even worse in Quickpic.
jabok said:
Have you disabled any apps? I disabled a pile of crap I don't use (Google+, Books, Talk, News & Weather) and I got the same. Then I re-enabled them and it worked again. Didn't get into trying them one at a time yet.
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It's google+.
Stupid to require google+ to be linked to the gallery.
waylo said:
It's google+.
Stupid to require google+ to be linked to the gallery.
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Have you tried clearing the gallery cache/date from app manager after you disabled google+? I bet they become linked upon initial start of gallery.
Yeah, that was the first thing I looked at.
Actually, now that I think about it, I did a settings wipe through titanium backup, but not a cache wipe through app manager.
Hmm. Let me try that.
Edit: Nope, looks like google+ physically has to be present. Silly.
Stupid picasa
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Another weird thing with the gallery. When looking at the details of some images (transferred over from PC/Mac) I get a time of Jan 1, 1970. Normaly taken pictures, screenshots and those send from another phone through bluetooth have the proper time shown.
a problem I have sometimes is I get grey boxes instead of pictures
Just poke and hold on the gallery folder then hit the delete button. Problem solved?
I have been downloading music so that is available to play offline. However, when I wipe my phone I need to re download all of my music(obviously). I was wondering if there was any way to back up the downloaded offline music. I have found the folder where the music is stored and backed that up, but Google Music did not pick it up when I moved the folder back over to my phone. If anyone could shed any light on the situation I'd be very thankful!
did you try titanium backup?
I use Google Music a lot recently. What I figured out to do is to move the music files (that I uploaded to Google Music) to the music folder on my phone. Since the file names, tag data, etc are all the same Google Music treats them as if you downloaded them from Google Music (no duplicates or any weird stuff). So you always have a back up on your PC. I have a folder on my PC with music I specifically upload to Google Music. It makes it easier to keep track.
I hope that made sense...
That solution is easy and makes a lot of sense. But how are you guys downloading your music from the Google cloud? I understand you can download the entire library with the Google Music Manager program on your PC and then copy the files to your device (a bit combersome), but I've never been able to figure out how to download individual songs.
I've tried to get "comfortable" with the whole Google Music cloud thing, but I've got to say, I'm about ready to throw in the towel and go back to the Amazon MP3 app. Amazon has cloud storage too, but it's SO much easier to manage on your device.
Robin M said:
That solution is easy and makes a lot of sense. But how are you guys downloading your music from the Google cloud? I understand you can download the entire library with the Google Music Manager program on your PC and then copy the files to your device (a bit combersome), but I've never been able to figure out how to download individual songs.
I've tried to get "comfortable" with the whole Google Music cloud thing, but I've got to say, I'm about ready to throw in the towel and go back to the Amazon MP3 app. Amazon has cloud storage too, but it's SO much easier to manage on your device.
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You can "pin" tracks, albums, artists, or genres to the device so its local and not streamed. They're kept cached in a specific folder for Google Music's use only.
martonikaj said:
You can "pin" tracks, albums, artists, or genres to the device so its local and not streamed. They're kept cached in a specific folder for Google Music's use only.
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That's the "pin" I've been looking for. Still can't find it in ver 4.1.511. I guess, someday I'll take a few days off from work and do some extensive web research on Google Music. Then I just may find out how to use the dang app. They sure don't make it easy.
Robin M said:
That's the "pin" I've been looking for. Still can't find it in ver 4.1.511. I guess, someday I'll take a few days off from work and do some extensive web research on Google Music. Then I just may find out how to use the dang app. They sure don't make it easy.
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Just long press or hit the triangle in the bottom right of any category (an artist's name, for ex) and hit "available offline" checkbox. It'll then start downloading to the device for offline playback.
The way Google Music app stores the music files for "available offline", it doesn't save them in a normal folder as normal file.
It saves it in it's own random filename in the /android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music folder. So when you wipe data/cache, this gets wipe.
If you look in settings/apps/ you can see Google Music app itself taking huge space.
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Oops. Delete this.
martonikaj said:
Just long press or hit the triangle in the bottom right of any category (an artist's name, for ex) and hit "available offline" checkbox. It'll then start downloading to the device for offline playback.
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Yes, I see that option now. Thanks. You usually have to hit the back button once to get to that page.
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Robin M said:
Yes, I see that option now. Thanks. You usually have to hit the back button once to get to that page.
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Theres also another way. Couldn't tell you where the option is on the Galaxy Nexus, but using ICS (or GB, for that matter) on my G2, you can hit menu > "make available offline" and then check multiple artists, albums, or songs.
martonikaj said:
Theres also another way. Couldn't tell you where the option is on the Galaxy Nexus, but using ICS (or GB, for that matter) on my G2, you can hit menu > "make available offline" and then check multiple artists, albums, or songs.
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Yep, that works too. Now you're making me feel stupid. But you just earned another hit on the "Thanks meter" to bring you up to an even 360.
Robin M said:
Yep, that works too. Now you're making me feel stupid. But you just earned another hit on the "Thanks meter" to bring you up to an even 360.
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Nah you're not stupid. Some things like that are quite unintuitive to say the least. I'd like to see Google keep moving towards putting functions in the foreground rather than hiding them. They're doing this with Android 4 they just gotta keep going with it.
Hello,
Here is a solution for the issues with Google Music Player + Double media entries in the Gallery app.
If you see double media entries in the Gallery App and at the same time your Google Music Player doesn’t work, then:
1. Use a root explorer and delete external.db from /datadata/com.android.providers.media/databases/
2. Replace the Gallery.apk in /system/app with the attached Gallery2.apk and give it the right permissions.
3. Reboot and wait for the media to refresh.
4. Done!
Tell me if that works with you. Good luck!
N.B: I'm not used enough to this website so I may have posted in the wrong section. May a kind MODERATOR move the topic to the right section or simply close it, please. Thank you!
tictico said:
Hello,
Here is a solution for the issues with Google Music Player + Double media entries in the Gallery app.
If you see double media entries in the Gallery App and at the same time your Google Music Player doesn’t work, then:
1. Use a root explorer and delete external.db from /datadata/com.android.providers.media/databases/
2. Reboot and wait for the media to refresh.
3. Done!
Tell me if that works with you. Good luck!
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What is the solution for making people stop posting this stupid things on Android Development section?
burakgon said:
What is the solution for making people stop posting this stupid things on Android Development section?
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Just made a mistake + just wanted to help.
But I see some stupid people like to act like "BOSSES"
What is the solution for making people stop posting this stupid things on Android Development section?
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Whats the correct section for this ?
Apps of course
IREWolfman said:
Apps of course
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It's not an app issue though, it's a generic ics issue, general would be best imho
I really dont get the rudeness of some people....
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sorry guys, but why i have this problem with all roms except the CM9? i explain.. i was with the CM9 for about 3 month and didn't have this "bug", yesterday i decided to flash aokp with all wipes and have double entries in gallery than i come back to CM9 and the problem vanished. why?
Angelu$88 said:
sorry guys, but why i have this problem with all roms except the CM9? i explain.. i was with the CM9 for about 3 month and didn't have this "bug", yesterday i decided to flash aokp with all wipes and have double entries in gallery than i come back to CM9 and the problem vanished. why?
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+1
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Thanks for the solution, music is fixed. (even this is the correct place to post this or not, which I really don't know).
Thanks again.
tictico said:
Hello,
Here is a solution for the issues with Google Music Player + Double media entries in the Gallery app.
If you see double media entries in the Gallery App and at the same time your Google Music Player doesn’t work, then:
1. Use a root explorer and delete external.db from /datadata/com.android.providers.media/databases/
2. Replace the Gallery.apk in /system/app with the attached Gallery2.apk and give it the right permissions.
3. Reboot and wait for the media to refresh.
4. Done!
Tell me if that works with you. Good luck!
N.B: I'm not used enough to this website so I may have posted in the wrong section. May a kind MODERATOR move the topic to the right section or simply close it, please. Thank you!
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As rescanning all the media can take a while if you have lots of music (I got 12GB so a full scan usually takes 30-40mins), I've figured out a way to fix the issue without rebooting and without the need for a full rescan.
1. Go to /datadata/com.android.providers.media/databases/ and take backups of the external.db, external.db-shm and external.db-wal files when media is correctly scanned.
2. When this issue happens, goto Settings -> Applications and clear data for Google Play Music and force close Media Storage.
3. Restore the backups to /datadata/com.android.providers.media/databases/ and set permissions to rw-rw---- (in Root Explorer).
4. Run media scanner. (Lots of apps for that in Play Store)
5. Wait for a few minutes for Google Play Music to import the database again.
6. Done.
I don't think this works for the newly updated play music released yesterday the 18th of July? I erased my external.db files.. (they had numbers behind them not just external.db) but didn't replace the gallery apk as I am not getting duplicate gallery entries. Any one getting the new Google play music to work with out FC?
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I have an alarm app that can play music files stored on the phone.
In my old HTC EVO, I knew that Google Music was stored in a directory (something like android/data/com.google.android.music) but when I go to that directory on my new GNex, it's empty. I'm using ES File explorer to search for music, but can't seem to find any.
I am unrooted and very stock.
Q: which directory does Google Play Music store music in?
It's in a different location now
slinky22 said:
I have an alarm app that can play music files stored on the phone.
In my old HTC EVO, I knew that Google Music was stored in a directory (something like android/data/com.google.android.music) but when I go to that directory on my new GNex, it's empty. I'm using ES File explorer to search for music, but can't seem to find any.
I am unrooted and very stock.
Q: which directory does Google Play Music store music in?
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Yea, it used to be /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music but they moved it. Try looking in /data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
The downside is that all of your mp3s are numbered and not very easy to differentiate when browsing. Not such a big deal if you just want random plays from your offline music or only have a couple available offline but, it definitely sucks if you have a specific song in mind out of 25K offline songs.
Hope this helps!
house4202 said:
Yea, it used to be /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music but they moved it. Try looking in /data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
The downside is that all of your mp3s are numbered and not very easy to differentiate when browsing. Not such a big deal if you just want random plays from your offline music or only have a couple available offline but, it definitely sucks if you have a specific song in mind out of 25K offline songs.
Hope this helps!
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I knew about the numbered mp3 issue. Just a random shuffle in the morning is usually good enough to get me out of bed.
I looked and didn't find
/data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
It just went to: /data - then "Empty folder"
slinky22 said:
I knew about the numbered mp3 issue. Just a random shuffle in the morning is usually good enough to get me out of bed.
I looked and didn't find
/data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
It just went to: /data - then "Empty folder"
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the music is in the location mentioned. i just checked mine.
Zepius said:
the music is in the location mentioned. i just checked mine.
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I'm using ES File Manager. In the settings, I have "show hidden files." Is it possible it shows up as "empty folder" because I'm not rooted?
Try /data/user/com.google.android.music/cache/music. That's where mine is at least.
Use Offline Music Importer. It's an app, by Sapien...
Yes, Music importer works great
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Go back to root
slinky22 said:
I knew about the numbered mp3 issue. Just a random shuffle in the morning is usually good enough to get me out of bed.
I looked and didn't find
/data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
It just went to: /data - then "Empty folder"
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I think you might be in the internal memory or the sd card, still. You need to go all the way back to root. I haven't played around with ES File Manager but it is fairly easy to do in Solid Explorer. Just search Solid Explorer Beta2 by Krzysztof Głodowski in Google Play and you should find it.
Once you are in root, your data folder should have a lot more folders inside.
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I think you might be in the internal memory or the sd card, still. You need to go all the way back to root. I haven't played around with ES File Manager but it is fairly easy to do in Solid Explorer. Just search Solid Explorer Beta2 by Krzysztof Głodowski in Google Play and you should find it.
Once you are in root, your data folder should have a lot more folders inside.
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I downloaded Solid Explorer and tried to go to root /data. "Cannot browse to /data . An unknown error occurred."
As mentioned above - could this be because my device is not rooted?
Meanwhile, I think I'll try that Offline Music Importer.
Thanks for the help, folks.
Actually, Offline Music Importer can detect I have Google Music installed, but can't find any files. I know that there is offline music on my device, because I have clicked on the "on device only" button and I can see the songs.
I think you need to be rooted. not sure about apps that copy them for you like offline music or cloud sniper.
sent from outer space, probably
You'll need root
slinky22 said:
I downloaded Solid Explorer and tried to go to root /data. "Cannot browse to /data . An unknown error occurred."
As mentioned above - could this be because my device is not rooted?
Meanwhile, I think I'll try that Offline Music Importer.
Thanks for the help, folks.
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Yes, sorry, I should have mentioned that your device will need to be rooted in order to access it. I'm not sure of any other way to get to this location, sorry.