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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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.
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Hey guys, new to Android and G2, my G2 just arrived today and I'm in the swing of things. Been doing some app picking up on the Market and it's really just awesome.
A few questions though.
What's with Browser? It lets me select a homepage but when it opens, the Homepage doesn't load. Instead it's the last page I visited. Not a fan of that.
What's the best Video Player out there? I'm using RockPlayer, it's great, but I'd like to lose the ads. If there's no alternative, I wouldn't mind paying the ten bucks, but... if I can avoid this, I'd rather do that.
Also, the Music Player is okay, but I can't seem to get the music to stop. I can pause it, but it doesn't just close out completely.
Thanks for your help, sorry about the noobish questions, but please go easy on me, I'm new -.-
The browser goes to the last page visited because you haven't closed out of the browser completely. You might have just pressed home to get out of the browser, unless you pressed back several times to go to the original page from all the pages that you have viewed, then it will finally go back to the home screens. It will go to the new home page if you press menu, windows, and new window.
I don't have a problem with the stock video player, so I have been using that.
Also, I'm not sure since I don't have a stock rom, but on CM6, if you hold the back button, it forces the apps to close out. You could give that a shot.
The question 1 & 3 are the same actually. The browser and the player still runs in the background, like u just minimize them. They are not closed yet.
To close them the simplest way is to install a thread killer software like ES series or some others.
Q2, I found no better video player [email protected]@
I'm sorry, stock video player? Where's that at? :/
And thanks for the answers on 1 and 3, I'll give both a shot now.
MnemonicSyntax said:
I'm sorry, stock video player? Where's that at? :/
And thanks for the answers on 1 and 3, I'll give both a shot now.
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You know, if you have a video file in your memory card and you click on it using a file browser or if its in a directory where the gallery app picks it up (folder named 'videos' etc), it plays automatically.
MnemonicSyntax said:
Hey guys, new to Android and G2, my G2 just arrived today and I'm in the swing of things. Been doing some app picking up on the Market and it's really just awesome.
A few questions though.
What's with Browser? It lets me select a homepage but when it opens, the Homepage doesn't load. Instead it's the last page I visited. Not a fan of that.
What's the best Video Player out there? I'm using RockPlayer, it's great, but I'd like to lose the ads. If there's no alternative, I wouldn't mind paying the ten bucks, but... if I can avoid this, I'd rather do that.
Also, the Music Player is okay, but I can't seem to get the music to stop. I can pause it, but it doesn't just close out completely.
Thanks for your help, sorry about the noobish questions, but please go easy on me, I'm new -.-
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Use Dolphin HD as web browser, powerAMP as music player..
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I'd recommend u root the phone and install "Ad Free", it solves the annoying ads on your phone
There are a ton of video players in the market. I've tried the ones that seem to be most commonly used by XDA folks: ArcMedia, Rockplayer and vplayer. Rockplayer is my favorite so far. It is able to play every video I've tried (might have to toggle hardware decoding to play a few) and has the most usable interface of those I've tried.
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tazz9690 said:
The browser goes to the last page visited because you haven't closed out of the browser completely. You might have just pressed home to get out of the browser, unless you pressed back several times to go to the original page from all the pages that you have viewed, then it will finally go back to the home screens. It will go to the new home page if you press menu, windows, and new window.
I don't have a problem with the stock video player, so I have been using that.
Also, I'm not sure since I don't have a stock rom, but on CM6, if you hold the back button, it forces the apps to close out. You could give that a shot.
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Is that a function somewhere? Or is that just on the Home Screen and applies to all Apps?
I'm not really trying to stop anything from running, as opposed to having a certain webpage open everytime I open the Browser and no music playing when I open up Music. For those two Apps, I don't want to be where I "left off."
Also, I did root it and put on CM 6.1.1. For the first time doing something like this, I think it went rather well.
Thanks guys, for any help provided.
Dolphin browser is the one I use and I have no complaints.
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Android decides for itself whether to leave an app running when you move away from it, or whether to close it. It usually does a pretty good job.
Most people want the browser to stay at the page they were using so they can go straight back to it. There are task killer apps for Android but it's normally recommended that you stay away from these, since they can cause their own problems.
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Right, I'm not looking to close any apps really. I guess it'd be nice to be able to close an app out, say a game, Browser or Music, but only if you wanted to. If you instead just pressed Home, those apps would stay open so you can go back to them later. But if you were finished with say, surfing the web, you could exit out, it would take you Home like normal.
I don't know, I understand totally about Android and it's ability to multi-task. I'm not really even looking to close things out completely, but if that's the distinction between opening an App from where you last had it to opening an App to it's "home screen" then so be it.
Yeah, it's kind of a different mentality. Pressing the phone's home button is really more of a "show desktop" than an exit. This means a better user experience for the average user though (since as was said before, everything is back to the way they last had it and the programs will load faster since they weren't removed from memory to begin with). Whenever I want to leave the browser on its home screen, I simply close all of its windows before leaving the app (just like opening a new window, closing the last open one will make it go to the home page).
With a custom rom, you can do more of what you are saying. I know with CM, you can assign a long press of the back button to exit out of the foreground program (so now pressing home will leave the app running and long-pressing back will completely exit out of it). I believe the MIUI rom allows that as well. Alternatively, you can use a task manager to do the same thing (though maybe not as conveniently---not sure if any of the task managers have a similar shortcut key feature).
Thanks. This is what I was looking for. I have Cyrogen 6.1.1 on my phone now. Could I ask for some assistance in setting up the long press of the back key? Thanks much!
Sure. It's under Settings->Applications->Development. The last option in the list.
Thanks again so much Quinn. I am very happy now! Just a few more questions and I think I'll be good.
1) I'd like to be able to set my Quickkeys to Back, Foward, and Home. Is there a way to do this, preferably without an App? If not, at least a way to clear out the Quickkeys area.
2) What does the Google App package come with exactly?
3) How do I uninstall some of the Apps like Twitter and Facebook? I don't see a way to uninstall those the normal way.
Thanks for all the help!
MnemonicSyntax said:
1) I'd like to be able to set my Quickkeys to Back, Foward, and Home. Is there a way to do this, preferably without an App? If not, at least a way to clear out the Quickkeys area.
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You can do this by editing your keymap files. An example of an edited one can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837002. The QuickKeys are mapped to user1, user2, and user3. I know you said you didn't want to use an app, but there is a simple one to use called ButtonRemapper (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464). You may be able to install it, use it to quickly edit your keymap file, and then uninstall, but I'm not positive on that. That app page also has a link to a great guide about how keymap files are structured.
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2) What does the Google App package come with exactly?
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I'm assuming you are talking about Google Addons for CM6? You can unzip the file and look in the apps directory, but here's a listing for convenience: CarHomeGoogle, CarHomeLauncher, Facebook, GenieWidget, Gmail, GoogleBackupTransport, GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter, GoogleContactsSyncAdapter, GoogleFeedback, GooglePartnerSetup, GoogleQuickSearchBox, GoogleServicesFramework, googlevoice, HtcCopyright, HtcEmailPolicy, HtcSettings, kickback, LatinImeTutorial, list.txt, Maps, MarketUpdater, MediaUploader, NetworkLocation, OneTimeInitializer, PassionQuickOffice, SetupWizard, soundback, Street, Talk, talkback, Twitter, Vending, VoiceSearch, YouTube.
MnemonicSyntax said:
3) How do I uninstall some of the Apps like Twitter and Facebook? I don't see a way to uninstall those the normal way.
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You can delete the appropriate APK from your /system/app directory. Alternatively, you can simply disable the app with a "pm disable" command in the terminal (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809231). This is usually the safer route---disable the app, make sure your phone is still running properly, then uninstall it if you still want to. If you want a nicer interface for doing all this, you can download TitaniumBackup from the Market (I believe the free version allows both uninstalling and freezing/disabling apps).
Enjoy your new phone!
Dude... open market, click the search button, enter "firefox". Install that. Yes, genuine firefox. Its in beta and still has a few glitches, but ITS FIREFOX!! DO IT!
Google music 3.0 beta official - http://www.mediafire.com/?h97x524mdyzbnn3
Just installed but there's no option for music beta
Razer(x) said:
Just installed but there's no option for music beta
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don't know dude, I just liked the app so thought of sharing it...btw I found the app in xperia x10 forums
you have to be part of the beta before the app offers you the beta services.
Sign up on music.google.com
but you have to be in the USA...unless you...erm...use a proxy...or vpn... but I am not telling you to do that
It might take several weeks before you get your invite though.
Lennyuk said:
you have to be part of the beta before the app offers you the beta services.
Sign up on music.google.com
but you have to be in the USA...unless you...erm...use a proxy...or vpn... but I am not telling you to do that
It might take several weeks before you get your invite though.
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Already tried with no response, guess i'm unlucky
Lennyuk said:
you have to be part of the beta before the app offers you the beta services.
Sign up on music.google.com
but you have to be in the USA...unless you...erm...use a proxy...or vpn... but I am not telling you to do that
It might take several weeks before you get your invite though.
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I signed up to the beta and registered via a vpn but have been using it recently through my normal UK IP. It seems to be working pretty nicely so far
I signed up for the Beta the same day it was annouced/offered and didn't get my invite until June 2, so don't give up yet.
How is this one different than the android market version?
Im guessing for those outside the US, but thought I'd ask.
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in this app, i get duplicates
i have a few songs on my phone and also on my cloud that are the same.
is there any way to view only songs stored on cloud?
because i'd also like to keep some songs local.
it has the option to view offline music available,
im looking for an option to display only "online songs" ( cloud)
off topic, but facebook for android is updated and is available in market
kryptoner said:
off topic, but facebook for android is updated and is available in market
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Now wanting access to your sms!
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nikzDHD said:
Now wanting access to your sms!
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Oh god, i thought you were kidding!
You're Invited!
Welcome to Music Beta, a new service from Google that lets you store your personal collection online and access it instantly without the hassle of wires or syncing.
Enjoy your music anywhere — listen on any web browser or your smartphone or tablet running Android 2.2 or higher.
Save your favorite albums, artists, and playlists on your device so you can keep listening even when you’re not connected.
Create your own custom playlists or build them automatically from a single song.
Get Started
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Got it two weeks ago, uploaded almost 15.000 songs and mixes already. Pretty awesome, songs play almost instantly and completely load over 3g in like 10/15 seconds.
Can confirm you only need a USA IP for actually signing in and agreeing to music manager then installing the app.
After that your normal IP will work with it.
Currently uploading my tunes to it, and working well
Loads quickly via 3G as well, quite handy having access to your library from anywhere.
I don't think you need a USA IP at all. I requested an invitation with a Google Account where the country was set to "UK" and received one weeks ago. I sign into music.google.com using the same account in the UK and have no issues.
YMMV.
I am still trying to find out how I can let Google Music download the Offline content to my external_sd card instead of the internal.
Where is google storing those music files now? Any idea.
Was anybody able to set a song as a ringtone that has been put as offline content?
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Flupken said:
I am still trying to find out how I can let Google Music download the Offline content to my external_sd card instead of the internal.
Where is google storing those music files now? Any idea.
Was anybody able to set a song as a ringtone that has been put as offline content?
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Pardon my lazy, my lackluster google-fu and my necromancy, but bump goes the thread as I echo Flupken's external sd question
I can't figure how to delete a couple of songs. This is driving me insane. I did shuffle all on streaming and now I have some songs that I want off the phone. I know where they all are if I plug the phone into a PC, but I don't want to do it that way. There has to be an option in the app.
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/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music/
the songs seem to be unnamed (as they're in ###.mp3) format. you can verify on your computer it's size and compare w/ the ones in the folder
if you are just streaming them then go into settings from inside the google music app and unselect the cache music check mark. I will say that while the cached music is available offline if your phone actually needs more space google music automatically removes what is needed.
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un selecting it will also automatically remove the temporary stored current music
badassirocz said:
if you are just streaming them then go into settings from inside the google music app and unselect the cache music check mark. I will say that while the cached music is available offline if your phone actually needs more space google music automatically removes what is needed.
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un selecting it will also automatically remove the temporary stored current music
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When you Say unselecting it, I take it you mean clicking settings and Select Make Available Offline and then when the check boxes appear to the left uncheck them.
The problem there is that none of my offline music is already checked when i get to that screen. This is really messing with me. I truly am starting to believe that google didn't implement a way to delete music after you download it.
OK figured it out. Turns out I had to check them for copy offline. Then it downloaded any missing album songs. After that I could uncheck them and they would be deleted.
I doubt that process follows androids new style guide that Matias is pushing. I think there could be a lot more consistency and user Customization that is needed in these apps.
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S4Rs said:
OK figured it out. Turns out I had to check them for copy offline. Then it downloaded any missing album songs. After that I could uncheck them and they would be deleted.
I doubt that process follows androids new style guide that Matias is pushing. I think there could be a lot more consistency and user Customization that is needed in these apps.
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How does this NOT follow his guidelines??
Firstly, the guidelines are for the VISUAL elements Android ICS, not internal workings. And secondly, THIS IS STOCK ANDROID FROM GOOGLE. How would this not comply with anything Google. Holy crap.
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S4Rs said:
When you Say unselecting it, I take it you mean clicking settings and Select Make Available Offline and then when the check boxes appear to the left uncheck them.
The problem there is that none of my offline music is already checked when i get to that screen. This is really messing with me. I truly am starting to believe that google didn't implement a way to delete music after you download it.
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open google music hit the three dot setting tab then select settings. Remove the check mark from cache music if you dont want it to make whatever you stream available offline
S4Rs said:
OK figured it out. Turns out I had to check them for copy offline. Then it downloaded any missing album songs. After that I could uncheck them and they would be deleted.
I doubt that process follows androids new style guide that Matias is pushing. I think there could be a lot more consistency and user Customization that is needed in these apps.
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Believe it or not, but you are not supposed to be bothered by the cached files(the program will handle them just fine if the memory is needed elsewhere). And if you don't want music to cache them, go to settings(uhh consistency) and remove the checkmark from caching music.
Can I use Google Now to launch the music app and play songs or albums on my phone? If I try "play [name of song]" or "launch [name of artist album]" or the like, it does a web search rather than looking at what I have on my phone.
foosion said:
Can I use Google Now to launch the music app and play songs or albums on my phone? If I try "play [name of song]" or "launch [name of artist album]" or the like, it does a web search rather than looking at what I have on my phone.
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google music is great!
if you only want it to look for whats on your phone go into settings and check "on device only", if not, then it will check what's on your phone AND whats on your google account.
Wolfbeef123 said:
google music is great!
if you only want it to look for whats on your phone go into settings and check "on device only", if not, then it will check what's on your phone AND whats on your google account.
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Are you talking about Google Music or Google Now? Google Now does not appear to search my phone for music.
foosion said:
Can I use Google Now to launch the music app and play songs or albums on my phone? If I try "play [name of song]" or "launch [name of artist album]" or the like, it does a web search rather than looking at what I have on my phone.
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You actually want to say "Listen to [artist, album or song title]." You'll then get a prompt asking you which app you want to use.
foosion said:
Are you talking about Google Music or Google Now? Google Now does not appear to search my phone for music.
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I'm so sorry, i really need to go get my glasses, i misread it.
I'm talking about google play music.
I don't think google now can do that.
and if it did, apple would be all over googles ass.
and to tell you the truth back when i had a 4s, the "play [song]" or "shuffle all" was the only useful functionality lol
aberrati0n said:
You actually want to say "Listen to [artist, album or song title]." You'll then get a prompt asking you which app you want to use.
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That worked. Thanks
Is there a list of the actions that Google Now will perform on the phone? The list in the Nexus 7 Guidebook is incomplete.
aberrati0n said:
You actually want to say "Listen to [artist, album or song title]." You'll then get a prompt asking you which app you want to use.
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I guess you learn something new everyday,
thanks!
foosion said:
That worked. Thanks
Is there a list of the actions that Google Now will perform on the phone? The list in the Nexus 7 Guidebook is incomplete.
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http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/ has a list of all the voice actions that debuted in Froyo. I'm not sure if any more have been added since, but that should help get you started.
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You actually want to say "Listen to [artist, album or song title]." You'll then get a prompt asking you which app you want to use.
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I feel stupid. Instead of "listen to _____" I was telling it "play _____", that worked a few times but it failed more than it succeeded. The Listen to command works much better, thanks.:good:
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!
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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!
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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.
house4202 said:
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.