When I flash a new ROM and tell Google Music to download some music for offline, is it overwriting the old music I had told the previous ROM to download for offline? Does that make sense? I just don't want 10 copies of each song because I update ROMs fairly frequently.
Thanks.
That's a good question.. I guess the only way to know would be to download some, find the directory they are saved in, then switch ROMs and check the directory for duplicates.
I would imagine google music keeps a record of what it has downloaded and doesn't scan the directory. When you change ROMs this list gets wiped too and thus it redownloads the songs. Of course I could be wrong but I would imagine backing up google music data with TiBu and restoring it might fix the issue?
Each time when you flash a rom or remove the google account from the music app, the system automatically erases everything(music, album art, etc) back to the stone age. So each time when you flash, you gotta download everything again. It's a PITA for me because I have about 10gb of music in my playlist.
deaffob said:
Each time when you flash a rom or remove the google account from the music app, the system automatically erases everything(music, album art, etc) back to the stone age. So each time when you flash, you gotta download everything again. It's a PITA for me because I have about 10gb of music in my playlist.
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Yeah, I'm currently redownloading my 15GB of music with google music. I might just find the directory with all the files and move it, then use a different player or something. I can't deal with redownloading this every time I flash a new CM10 nightly.
/android/com.music or something similar.
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Music player has all my songs id tags mixed up, undelated the music app and reinstalled it, same thing. Downloaded Poweramp and its taking forever to scan for music and seems like the music is not showing up with any tags.
Could my music be corrupt from all the flashing i'm doing?
Thanks!
More than likely it's the database that's corrupt. Try deleting data from the apps and try again. It could also be a permissions problem with the virtual sd.
I've deleted the apps itself and re installed. So it can't be the data.
how do I reset the permissions on the virtual sd?
Thanks!
Removing the app doesn't always remove the data - especially if the data is stored on the sd.
For permissions, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691097
What's up ya'll? Alright, I've been having a little issue lately with AOSP/AOKP ROMS seeing all of my music. I have 832 songs.
I'm going to be using Poweramp full version and running the newest Pacman build. In my opinion Poweramp is one the better music players out there and more importantly here Poweramp gives you the option of choosing exactly which folders are chosen to be scanned. Now know matter which folders I chose, Poweramp would only find 326 songs. I've chosen all folders and also a full rescan but only 326 songs would be found.
So what I did from here is backed up the Pacman ROM and then restored my backup of the Touchwiz AXIS ROM which sees all of my 832 songs. Using WIFI Transfer Pro I pulled up all my folders onto my laptop. For those that don't know WIFI Transfer Pro is a pretty sweet app. I use it all the time to download ROMS onto my PC and transfer to my phone.
Ok from here I navigated to my folder labeled music and clicked on zip to create a Music.zip. Do not try to flash this, it will just abort. After the Music.zip is created I transferred it to my phone. The total size of my zip is 3.26 gigs. Make sure you have sufficient space on either your internal storage or external storage. I transferred the zip to my external SD.
From here I restored my backup of Pacman. Then went to the Play Store and put in a search ''unzip files to sd''. Found an app called ZArchiver. Using this app I navigated to my music.zip. Hit the zip and then hit Extract. The 832 songs took about 15 minutes to extract. Again here make sure you have sufficient storage for the songs to be extracted. Now go to Poweramp>Settings>Folders and Libraries and check the music folder. All my songs now show.
Now in closing I know there are A LOT of much smarter people here then I at XDA. There probably is a much easier and or faster way of accomplishing this. This is just something I worked on last night and worked for me. I have an idea as to why my internal/external storage isn't being read properly with AOSP ROMS but that's a whole other thread. By the way, I'm using CWM touch not TWRP.
I've noticed a few guys here and there in some threads recently that have inquired about this issue with media storage and AOSP ROMS so hopefully this helps a couple of ya'll out.
caspersfi said:
What's up ya'll? Alright, I've been having a little issue lately with AOSP/AOKP ROMS seeing all of my music. I have 832 songs.
I'm going to be using Poweramp full version and running the newest Pacman build. In my opinion Poweramp is one the better music players out there and more importantly here Poweramp gives you the option of choosing exactly which folders are chosen to be scanned. Now know matter which folders I chose, Poweramp would only find 326 songs. I've chosen all folders and also a full rescan but only 326 songs would be found.
So what I did from here is backed up the Pacman ROM and then restored my backup of the Touchwiz AXIS ROM which sees all of my 832 songs. Using WIFI Transfer Pro I pulled up all my folders onto my laptop. For those that don't know WIFI Transfer Pro is a pretty sweet app. I use it all the time to download ROMS onto my PC and transfer to my phone.
Ok from here I navigated to my folder labeled music and clicked on zip to create a Music.zip. Do not try to flash this, it will just abort. After the Music.zip is created I transferred it to my phone. The total size of my zip is 3.26 gigs. Make sure you have sufficient space on either your internal storage or external storage. I transferred the zip to my external SD.
From here I restored my backup of Pacman. Then went to the Play Store and put in a search ''unzip files to sd''. Found an app called ZArchiver. Using this app I navigated to my music.zip. Hit the zip and then hit Extract. The 832 songs took about 15 minutes to extract. Again here make sure you have sufficient storage for the songs to be extracted. Now go to Poweramp>Settings>Folders and Libraries and check the music folder. All my songs now show.
Now in closing I know there are A LOT of much smarter people here then I at XDA. There probably is a much easier and or faster way of accomplishing this. This is just something I worked on last night and worked for me. I have an idea as to why my internal/external storage isn't being read properly with AOSP ROMS but that's a whole other thread. By the way, I'm using CWM touch not TWRP.
I've noticed a few guys here and there in some threads recently that have inquired about this issue with media storage and AOSP ROMS so hopefully this helps a couple of ya'll out.
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Clear data of music player and media storage. Reboot and wait 10-15mins.
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Tried to use a new program (NotPod) to Sync my PC based iTunes playlist songs with my HTC Incredible. It did not work. Normally I drag and drop songs from the PC to the INC. This time I did a Sync, using NotPod, which initially erased all files from the MUSIC folder on the SDcard. Then, I sync'd a couple songs to test. Ouch. NotPod copied folders and files. I never had any sub folders inside the root MUSIC folder. From that point on, the stock rom based music player does not work. I have WinAmp and that recognizes the SDcard and plays the songs, but not the stock app. I tried a Nandroid restore. No luck. All other apps seem to work. I wiped Davlik. That did nothing.
Even the stock songs that came with the HTC (which I never erased) do not display. I can read them with Root Explorer and play them with WinAmp, but the stock music player does not pick them up. I did try to erase the Music folder and then restore it, with no luck.
Not sure why the nandroid restore did not cure the problem. I also used a program called SDRescan. That helps sometimes when some SDcard files are not recognized. I have run out of ideas.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
Does anyone know why playlists empty after a ROM flash? How to prevent it?
So here is the story:
- I have playlists with songs in them
- I flash a new version of a ROM (wipe cache & dalvik).
- playlists are still there but are empty
- MP3s at still there as well
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I have somehow similar problem, so maybe instead creating another thread I will hook up on this one.
So I use latest (5.04?) version of 4.4.2 AOSP by slv96 and Google Play Music. I've discovered that everyday my Music Libary is resetting, so I have my playlists but they're empty, and 'Liked' playlist is gone aswell. I'm wondering what's causing this to happen.
Did this happen to anybody else?
I tried installing a newer version of the app, but it just doesnt work. All the other versions crash.
(Stock ROM, Lollipop Sense 7)
Make sure the options are checked in settings within the music app. You can try deleting the cache and data of the app and let it reload or go back to the original app (uninstall updates) and update it again.
Mine ain't downloading some of them either, even with legit ID3 tags. Are your ID3 tags on the songs proper?
If you just want to have your album arts (like I do) there are nice apps on the store that download them.