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[Q] Google Music - Got my invite! Any tips/tricks?

After about a month, I finally got it. Uploading my library now, probably going to max out my storage .
Anyone have any hints, tips or tricks on things that can be done with Google Music?

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If you use an AT&T Microcell the Ping delay will go through the roof while uploading and will impact your ability to make calls.
On my 3G iPhone it appears that a song is playing fine but you can't hear. You need hit the pause button on the player and then play button so you can hear a song. Frankly Google Music doesn't work very well on my iPhone.
If you found any tip sites I'd like to know them.

I got an invite 8 days ago & just barely started uploading my music yesterday night. I've got the app for my Epic running SRF 1.1.1 & it doesn't seem to work. Maybe it might have something to do with the phone's modem? I'm not sure, but I'm only seeing the music on my SD. I checked my settings in the app & it is connected to my account, but it won't display the uploaded music at all. Damn it!
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Enfiladedrivein said:
I got an invite 8 days ago & just barely started uploading my music yesterday night. I've got the app for my Epic running SRF 1.1.1 & it doesn't seem to work. Maybe it might have something to do with the phone's modem? I'm not sure, but I'm only seeing the music on my SD. I checked my settings in the app & it is connected to my account, but it won't display the uploaded music at all. Damn it!
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I had the same issue with the app. I had it installed before I received my invite. Simply uninstalled and reinstalled google music on my phone. Issue resolved...for me at least.

Enfiladedrivein said:
I got an invite 8 days ago & just barely started uploading my music yesterday night. I've got the app for my Epic running SRF 1.1.1 & it doesn't seem to work. Maybe it might have something to do with the phone's modem? I'm not sure, but I'm only seeing the music on my SD. I checked my settings in the app & it is connected to my account, but it won't display the uploaded music at all. Damn it!
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Actually because your phone is rooted.
I heard you can clear the apps data and it works , might not but give it a try
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works okay for me on stock rooted ec05.. It fine with a few songs, but once I got to around 10,000 songs both the web interface and the android app became a lot slower and less responsive.
Also, the uploader will rape your home bandwidth if you let it.. My 20/2 ends up slower than dialup with that thing running. There are throttle controls, but they didn't seem to help, the problem only went away for me when I turned it off completely. Also it prevents the screensaver from activating.. wtf? The phone player could use more features, as could the web player. Web interface failed the girlfriend test. After using it for a few minutes she declared it "unfriendly" and went back to using grooveshark.
On the one hand, it's cool having my entire mp3 library available when I'm away from home, but on the other hand grooveshark is still better for me to find new music.

On my rooted Droid X (Apex 2.0 Beta), i've had zero issues.
A few tips: Rather than trying to upload your collection during the day, do it while you sleep. It doesn't modify the bitrate, so if you're uploading a 320kbs file that is 6MB in size ... well, you get the idea.
Be prepared for some organization on the site itself. Unless you're quite particular about your ID3 tags, you will have to rename some songs, locate/update/upload new or clearer quality album art (Google Images works fine for this), and combine groups of songs from the same album into one album listing(generally is the result of some of the songs having no 'Album Artist' and some having it... tip, just highlight all, put the Artist in both groups, Ctrl+F5, win.)
Last thoughts... the widget is really bad right now, but the UI isn't awful. While you can presently filter in 2 ways 1) All music or 2) Only music on your phone,... there isn't a way to only filter online stuff. But, when you have no data connection (3G or WiFi), it will gray the online music out.
But really, take this all with the Beta grain of salt. GMail was in beta at one point, and took awhile to become the slick e-mail machine it is now. I have no doubt Google Music will only get better.

do you know, if i update an id-tag on my computer is the same mp3 going to be updated also on Google Music?

If the file size or name of the music file doesn't change then I don't think a Tag will trigger the re-upload. It may be worth a try though.

Anyone know of a good "free" MP3 tagger, that will go through and ID and correct the tags of my MP3s before I upload them?
I think pretty much all of my MP3s have had their tags removed

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Anyone know of a good "free" MP3 tagger, that will go through and ID and correct the tags of my MP3s before I upload them?
I think pretty much all of my MP3s have had their tags removed
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http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-mp3-tag-editor.htm
Several free ones, with reviews for each one.

I've had Google music for a while now (just started using it recently) and I have to say, for it being beta, it's pretty good. Although, I do have some beef with a few things.
Widget sucks: There's the song name, forward, and pause/play button. That's it. I don't like it and I find myself just playing music through the app itself.
Data is wonky: I've noticed that sometimes that GM will load random songs incorrectly and sound like crap. The only way I've found to fix this is going to settings/apps/music and clearing the data and cache. It has to reload the songs but if you start listening to music on wifi or a good 3g connection, songs will load correctly.
Web Interface, YUCK!: Nit picking here but I hate the look of the web interface. Works great though.
App needs equalizer and lockscreen playlist: I'm drawing this complaint after using Power Amp. If GM could model their app after Power Amp, it'd be perfect
Even though it's all complaining, I still recommend this app to music users (on sprint only). After songs are cached on your phone, it hardly draws any data, but I still wouldn't use it on AT&T and Verizon...but that's just because of their stupid cap. It has loads of potential, and I can't wait to see it

GPS not working, Wi-Fi picky, Problem with music player

Hi guys!
At first I was surprised by the Defy after switching from a iPhone 3G. It's much faster, better camera and battery etc. Although don't get me started on syncing the Defy to a Mac...
Now I do have some problems that really give me headaches:
1. GPS not working
I think the GPS stopped working when I took the phone to the US (I'm from Germany). Which sucks because I wanted to use it for navigation. I Installed the GPS Test App, erased and refreshed the A-GPS Data. Doesn't help. I switched it on and off several times, went into Airplane mode and so on. Nothing.
GPS Test tells me that there are usually 1-4 satellites in view but non in use.
Any help here?
2. Wi-Fi won't connect sometimes
It feels like the Wi-Fi has worse reception that the iPhone anyway but it sometimes just won't connect. Might take 10 minutes until it suddenly does.
3. Music player
This is a minor problem but it's still really bugging me because I'm a big music buff. I have a couple mixtapes and compilations on the phone but I'm not able to play them as they're supposed to be, since the phone splits the Albums into several albums due to the Interpret-tag being different. It still does that after I edited the Album Interpret-tag.
I'm happy for any help. Right now I'm a little frustrated since with the iPhone everything has been so easy and, you know, just worked!
Pascal

What rom are you in? Rooted?
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The regular motoblur that comes with the phone. I just updated to 2.2.2. and at least the GPS is working again. That's the most important thing.
Any recommendations for a slick looking music player that gets the tags right?

Ok, so GPS again not working anymore. Only finds one satellite and does not use it. I crossed the border from Canada to the US, could that have anything to do with it?

which rom have you flashed？
GPS with problem maybe your rom is broken.

As I said, it's the default ROM. Recently updated to 2.2.2, not rooted or anything.

You're using default froyo not rooted? Are you using tmobile usa? Have you check the settings-location and security, make sure gps and network are checked. What app are you using for gps, because some app turn gps on/off so you hane to check again.
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Id3 issue on original update
The problem with id3 tags after update to official 2.2.2 is a known and annoying one. Sometimes a whole album is not recognised, but usually its just few songs from it, random track numbers.The bug is with Android's library, so it prevails in all the players that work with it... It goes to such extent that in some music players you look at the song-no tags, you select edit tags and all tags are properly shown in the editing window.Save and than boom, unknown artist, track again.
My solution: Use folders instead of library (powerAmp player or other)
As for gps, just today I stopped getting fix on satellites (after a month, so I hope it will come back)...

Obscene Data Usage form Google Music

Google Music has managed to drive my data usage up to nearly 10GB since the 15th with me having only used it to stream a handful songs (less than 30mins) and nothing else! I swapped from the stock ROM to Android Revolution HD about a week ago, and the data usage screen shows the background data for Google Music at just under 2GB since the ROM switch (2GB in approx. 7 days )!
Maybe it has something to do with my 12,000+ song library, but I doubt it. Any clues as to why it is using so much background data when the app as rarely been used?
Side Note: Thank God for unlimited data plans else this would have been costly...
(Please disregard typo in title. Form should be from.)
[SOLVED]
Reseting Google Music has stopped the extreme data usage, even with the app's settings re-enabled to what they were before reseting.
Steps taken:
- Clear data for Google Music
- Revert Google Music back to factory version
- Reinstall from the Market
- Reconfigure app settings

If you have "download over WiFi only" unchecked and have told Google Music to to "make available offline" or something has been caching, it could easily pull down gigs of music. Kinda unlikely but its possible if you've checked the right boxes.
Go check your offline only music collection in the app, see if it's cached a lot of it?

martonikaj said:
If you have "download over WiFi only" unchecked and have told Google Music to to "make available offline" or something has been caching, it could easily pull down gigs of music. Kinda unlikely but its possible if you've checked the right boxes.
Go check your offline only music collection in the app, see if it's cached a lot of it?
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Precisely. If you checked "make available offline", then it'll download your complete library.
I've been using Google Music for months now (well, since it came out, actually) and have used it for all of my music now (ie I'm streaming all of my music over Google Music rather than keeping it on my SD card) and have never come even close to 10GB of usage total (or more than about 2GB over a month for Gmusic) and that's with listening for about an hour or 2 each day.

'make available offline' eh?... i've had that checked off since i first started using google music on my old thunderbolt and have never had an issue like this. even now, it's still checked on my nexus and not using crazy gigga's like what he's experiencing. that's bizarre

I do have "make available offline" checked, but I have not told Google Music to make any music available offline besides the recently played cache it keeps. If I toggle Google Music to only display songs available offline, it only shows ten.
Also I used Google Music on my old HTC Incredible, and never had this issue. Maybe I'll try resetting Google Music on the device...

if you have it set to stream high quality, then it will eat up a lot of data - Google Music streams 320Kbps files at high quality.
that adds up.

oscillik said:
if you have it set to stream high quality, then it will eat up a lot of data - Google Music streams 320Kbps files at high quality.
that adds up.
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Even then 10GB is a lot of music. Heck, maybe with FLAC you'd get 10GB a month with reasonable listening, but that's without caching anything and still it's possible but unlikely.

If u have unlimited y r u worrying . Try checking " only download music for offline availability via wifi". That might stop all the background dl. Or check restrict background data when u click music under data usage
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I have had "only download over wifi" checked for the last 24hrs, and Google Music used a additional 0.25GB in that time period. This option should not matter has I never tell Google Music to download any songs for offline use.
The high quality streaming should not be the culprit either since I have opened the app to stream music in the last 24hrs.
The app seems to just be using 0.25GB a day without any user interaction.
As to why I am concerned even though I have an unlimited data plan, I do not like that something is going on with the phone that I cannot understand, and there is the fact the Verizon might start throttling my speeds due to the high usage.
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I hadn't really used google music much at all, literally one drive around town in the car for about 15 minutes and it had used 56 MB. So after reading this I streamed one song and told it to make it available for offline listening. It was 14.35 MB to do that. I would agree, that is a lot of data for a small amount of music. Looks like the thing to do is go through and make it available off line while on wifi.
Now I am curious where the phone stores it and how much memory each song takes up. With the android file transfer MTP program on my mac I cannot find the songs I have stored for off line music. It is not in the music folder or anywhere obvious. I will dig into the phone with Astro and figure this out when I get a chance.

bmolloy said:
I hadn't really used google music much at all, literally one drive around town in the car for about 15 minutes and it had used 56 MB. So after reading this I streamed one song and told it to make it available for offline listening. It was 14.35 MB to do that. I would agree, that is a lot of data for a small amount of music. Looks like the thing to do is go through and make it available off line while on wifi.
Now I am curious where the phone stores it and how much memory each song takes up. With the android file transfer MTP program on my mac I cannot find the songs I have stored for off line music. It is not in the music folder or anywhere obvious. I will dig into the phone with Astro and figure this out when I get a chance.
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I don't think they're stored as normal mp3 files. all renamed, iirc

bmolloy said:
I hadn't really used google music much at all, literally one drive around town in the car for about 15 minutes and it had used 56 MB. So after reading this I streamed one song and told it to make it available for offline listening. It was 14.35 MB to do that. I would agree, that is a lot of data for a small amount of music. Looks like the thing to do is go through and make it available off line while on wifi.
Now I am curious where the phone stores it and how much memory each song takes up. With the android file transfer MTP program on my mac I cannot find the songs I have stored for off line music. It is not in the music folder or anywhere obvious. I will dig into the phone with Astro and figure this out when I get a chance.
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Look in /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music -- that's where music I've asked to be available offline is stored as numbered mp3 files, and it's presumably also the temporary cache for recently-played music.

Well reseting Google Music seemed to do the trick. The background data hasn't changed for two days straight now. Must have just been a bug that had the app constantly communicating to the servers.

SuzakuTheKnight said:
Well reseting Google Music seemed to do the trick. The background data hasn't changed for two days straight now. Must have just been a bug that had the app constantly communicating to the servers.
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Figured as much. It may have even been hanging on caching one song and trying over and over. Google Music likes to do stuff like that

this is the prime example of when the cloud services are not really delivering as advertised
reason why the 16GB version is just too small for a media / gaming phone

Hi. Im having same problem with massive data usage. Im kind of new to this- so can someone guide me through resetting Google Music? I cant seem to delete it from my phone entirely. I know you mentioned re installing from the market- but whenever I go there it just gives me the upgrade option- which I did- but still doesnt seem to change anything. Sorry! And thanks to everyone in advance for any help!

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Hi. Im having same problem with massive data usage. Im kind of new to this- so can someone guide me through resetting Google Music? I cant seem to delete it from my phone entirely. I know you mentioned re installing from the market- but whenever I go there it just gives me the upgrade option- which I did- but still doesnt seem to change anything. Sorry! And thanks to everyone in advance for any help!
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Settings > Apps > All > Music > Clear Data & Uninstall Updates
That will reset the app to factory settings and allow you to pull the newest version from the market again. While this stops the problem, it is not a true solution to the issue as we have yet to identify what is actually causing the usage.
Before wiping, could you post your settings for the app? And any information such as library size and the number of songs you have told Music to store locally would be helpful in identifying the cause.
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Thank you! I appreciate the help! What do you need for settings for the app? sorry! Im new to smart phones- so- I need to be walked through alot of this still! But- let me know any info you need and Ill be glad to get it for you. Thanks
That will reset the app to factory settings and allow you to pull the newest version from the market again. While this stops the problem, it is not a true solution to the issue as we have yet to identify what is actually causing the usage.
Before wiping, could you post your settings for the app? And any information such as library size and the number of songs you have told Music to store locally would be helpful in identifying the cause.
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I currently have 7172 songs on Google Music. I have not stored any songs locally so far. Today started my new billing cycle- and I did nothing with my phone except play 1 song- streamed from Google Music. My data went from 0.000 GB to 0.076 GB after only playing 1 song- that lasted probably about 4 and a half minutes. Pretty crazy. Last month- I used up 2 GB of data in 10 days- and maybe streamed about 30 minutes of music during that time. A Verizon rep told me it takes about 30 hours of streaming music to use up 1 GB of data. I dont know if thats true or not. But judging by what others using it are telling me- I have something WAY wrong. So- Im going to try the info from above to reinstall and see what happens. Thank you for all of your help- and let me know if I can be of any help with additional info.
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Ive also wondered if it may have something to do with my settings under music. I have a Razr- and everything is unchecked except "Download Via Wi-Fi- only" and "Cache music-temporarily store streamed music." Those were both already checked with the installation. Should I uncheck the "Cache music" box? Is it pulling down alot more data maybe to temporarily store streamed music? Just wondering about this too! Thanks again!

I were uploading about 2GB of music from my computer to Play Music, and when that was done my phone gave me a warning that the app Play Music had downloaded 2GB of data over 3G, now I can't use my 3G for three weeks... When I take a look at Play Music's data folder there's only about 100MB of songs, as there should be.
I had set the app to only download via WiFi, but stream via 3G. Why could this have happened? Since I only have 2GB of memory on the phone, and the used data hasn't increased, what happened really?
Thanks

[TUT]How to use Google Music outside the US.

Since i done a bit of research and dug around a bit on xda i finally came up with a thread that shows me how to get it working. And it actually does and i for one find it amazing.
What you get is with Google Music you get to have a 20,000 song space over the air firstly. That is awesome. You can play music offline or while you out and about and that frees space on your phone. More details regarding Google music you can get it here
Now on with the tutorial:
1) First download hotspot shield from here
2) Once you downloaded then install it on your pc. Once you install then start it up. I suggest to use either Firefox or Google Chrome.
3) What hotspot shield does it basically does is to use your browser as a VPN. That gives the impression that you are in America for example and you can download google music. Think of it as market enabler that you use on your phone for apps that are only available in the US or other countries.
4) Once hotspot shield is installed run this and the "shield" will go from red to green. This means it's running.
5) Then go to play.google.com and then to shop->shop music and register or login with your gmail address.
6) Download and install google music manager and exit hotspot shield.
7) Once done enjoy your music on any phone. For android just download the apk given in the OP.
So there you go...a very nearly full functional use of google music....let me know what you think and if it's helped you out. Feel free to share the guide if you like. Just make sure you ask me first and give link of my thread to yours. Once you finished all the setup and everything else with your account, no need no longer need to use hotspot so you can uninstall it from your pc
Thanks to truthlesshero for his guide that helped me get me started.
Google Music Manager download from here for MAC
For Windows it is here
And if this guide has helped you out do not forget to hit that thanks button

Doesn't work.. asks me to "Add a new payment method", if I click Cancel or the X in the top right, it doesn't proceed and doesn't setup my Music Library and cannot upload music, and it doesn't actually get the Free song I chose.
I think they have worked out this method and are now asking for a USA credit card to confirm you are a USA citizen, even tho they do not charge your card.
Bummer..

I just used a free VNC, like TunnelBear, and created my account through web browser.

I have an account with http://uktvproxy.co.uk/ for watching SKY UK as I live abroad now. I signed upto to Google music a few months ago, put all my collection online and the best thing is that it works just fine on my mobile without having to be logged into a proxy.
It's a good service, but for me, on my other phones there has been about a 3-5 second delay in between changing songs - that feels like an eternity to me. Not sure how to improve the speed.
If it ever gets like spotify, where the music starts/changes almost instantly, then I'd use it more often.
I have no issues when using on my pc though.

Leighm0 said:
Doesn't work.. asks me to "Add a new payment method", if I click Cancel or the X in the top right, it doesn't proceed and doesn't setup my Music Library and cannot upload music, and it doesn't actually get the Free song I chose.
I think they have worked out this method and are now asking for a USA credit card to confirm you are a USA citizen, even tho they do not charge your card.
Bummer..
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Did you download music manager? i still can get into the store but only to download the free songs that it shows up in the free songs section my friend.
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Here is an easier step by step method to register to Google Music outside US. (you can use is without any proxy after you are done)
engadget.com/2011/11/19/how-to-use-google-music-from-anywhere-yes-outside-of-the-unit/

himmelgr said:
Here is an easier step by step method to register to Google Music outside US. (you can use is without any proxy after you are done)
engadget.com/2011/11/19/how-to-use-google-music-from-anywhere-yes-outside-of-the-unit/
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that requires you to download the tor browser and although it sounds easier i can sure it does not.
look all you do is download hotspot shield. then install and start it up. get firefox up and running and then just go into google music and follow the steps...piece of cake..once you setup your account with google music and set up everything on pc which it takes five minutes, then all you got to do is just start listening to music. and every time you go on google music on your pc just make sure you sign in with your email account that you set up the google music with..and then you can uninstall hotspot shield

not working for me either. I'm using Tor browser, if i browse to whatismycountry.com it tells me i'm in the USA, so the proxy is working. But when i go to music.google.com and log in i get the following message:
We're sorry. The Google Play music player is currently only available in the United States.
when I go to play.google.com i do get the option to enter the music store, but then when i try to add a free song it tells me to add a new payment method...
Then when i fill out all of the fields (apparantly i live in the US, in Somecity, Alabama) it tells me my phone number is invalid.
Adding a random american phone number (i used games workshop's customer service phone number) works, and I can now "purchase" free songs.
Next issue, when i try to buy a free song i get the message "Oops, we could not determine if this item is compatible with your device. Please try again later."
No idea how to fix that, so I'm stuck for now. music.google.com still says unsupported, and no songs can be added.

Piquedram said:
not working for me either. I'm using Tor browser, if i browse to whatismycountry.com it tells me i'm in the USA, so the proxy is working. But when i go to music.google.com and log in i get the following message:
We're sorry. The Google Play music player is currently only available in the United States.
when I go to play.google.com i do get the option to enter the music store, but then when i try to add a free song it tells me to add a new payment method...
Then when i fill out all of the fields (apparantly i live in the US, in Somecity, Alabama) it tells me my phone number is invalid.
Adding a random american phone number (i used games workshop's customer service phone number) works, and I can now "purchase" free songs.
Next issue, when i try to buy a free song i get the message "Oops, we could not determine if this item is compatible with your device. Please try again later."
No idea how to fix that, so I'm stuck for now. music.google.com still says unsupported, and no songs can be added.
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are you downloading music manager firstly? and then you do know you can not buy songs..you can only access the free ones. honestly i got it working for me otherwise i would not be posting this...

Right guys try this for me please
install hotspot shield. Once installed run this and the "shield" will go from red to green. This means it's running. Then go to music.google.com and register or login with your gmail address. Download and install google music manager and exit hotspot shield. Start uploading your music. Once done enjoy your music on any phone.
For android just google google music.apk and install and for all other phone/tablet(including wp7 and iPhone/iPad) just go to music.google.com
Hope it helps someone now

interesting. I'm at work, so not everything is possible here concerning proxy's. But once i tethered my internet through my phone I could use hotspot shield, and that just worked first try! I have downloaded the google music app on my computer!
now i'm going to download that apk and install it on my phone.

Piquedram said:
interesting. I'm at work, so not everything is possible here concerning proxy's. But once i tethered my internet through my phone I could use hotspot shield, and that just worked first try! I have downloaded the google music app on my computer!
now i'm going to download that apk and install it on my phone.
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nice one
Right re done the OP and made it more simpler and easier to figure out and this now should work..Apologies for any inconvenience guys..Please if someone has tried it now let me know if it works.

I did have to find myself another google music apk, because the one included in the first post did not display my online music. For those who have the same problem; i used this one:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7dVhfTYRlROUURGYnRWXzg4ZVk/edit

Piquedram said:
I did have to find myself another google music apk, because the one included in the first post did not display my online music. For those who have the same problem; i used this one:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7dVhfTYRlROUURGYnRWXzg4ZVk/edit
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its not downloading..i will upload the same version as yours then i found it on my pc..Uploaded..Just uploaded the new version in the OP now.

Hi guys, just to confirm that it is working.
Although i haven't tried it with hotspot shiled. At work we are using USA proxy so i just downloaded and registered at work, got the APK installed also and uploaded 8000+ songs when i went home (it took a looong time ) now i can listen all my songs from work, home, HOX, anywhere with internet access...

I tried the engadget method, didn't work. Would just hang at the final stage of registration.
Had no probs using a program called Hide My IP. It works with the free 14 day trial. Just set IP to a US one and register for google music.
http://www.hide-my-ip.com/
I think it's been mentioned that you can update the apk in the OP. I'm currently using v4.1.513, and don't even know if that's the latest.

This does work, I've been using google music for a few months now and I'm in the uk. Just drag and drop your music into the relevant pc folder and your phone will sync it.
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Ga73 said:
This does work, I've been using google music for a few months now and I'm in the uk. Just drag and drop your music into the relevant pc folder and your phone will sync it.
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cheers mate all you got to do is once you download music manager the rest it is just as easy as you said...just add the folder that you want in music manager press upload and job done

hi i couldnt also get it to work on my main pc, so i thought.
i got the not avalible in your country thingy.
anyways i went upstairs to my laptop (which has unblock-us installed on the wifi router - i have two routers one with unblock-us and the other standard) and just put in the url - staight in with a bucket load of free tunes (375 tune or 24hs 38mins worth).
Im unsure if they let the original instal went though or if my unblock-us was the thing that sorted it, either way im happy!!! really nice app that works seemlessly on all my android devices.
time to free up the music from my machines now and sync them though the cloud!!.
thanks again OP., btw i had now probs with the supplied apk, streaming working a-ok here

audiobookman said:
hi i couldnt also get it to work on my main pc, so i thought.
i got the not avalible in your country thingy.
anyways i went upstairs to my laptop (which has unblock-us installed on the wifi router - i have two routers one with unblock-us and the other standard) and just put in the url - staight in with a bucket load of free tunes (375 tune or 24hs 38mins worth).
Im unsure if they let the original instal went though or if my unblock-us was the thing that sorted it, either way im happy!!! really nice app that works seemlessly on all my android devices.
time to free up the music from my machines now and sync them though the cloud!!.
thanks again OP., btw i had now probs with the supplied apk, streaming working a-ok here
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No probs mate. I tell you what guys the forum here of the One X is ten times better and more appreciative than the S2 forums. That is why i am so glad i got this phone now and no more need to help out there on the s2 at they do not appreciate when someone tries to help out..Anyways glad it is working for you mate.

Spotify not working

Got the watch to replace my LG watch sport. Love wear os, hate all hardware it comes in. I honestly don't really like tizen but I literally cannot find any other watch that will last more than 10 hours and has Lte, so galaxy watch it is.
One of the biggest problems so far is streaming. I don't get it. Wear os has all sorts of options for this, google play music, pandora, last fm... I was doing great with pandora premium and youtube premium (with google play music included). But now that im on the galaxy watch they're doesn't seem to be a way to stream without the phone nearby. No pandora app at all, obviously no Google play music app since Google is a bratty teenager these days, the only 2 things that seem to be available are tidal (lol not on a million years) and spotify.
So I download the spotify app for the watch... Wait no I didn't, it doesn't exist on the store despite multiple advertisements I watched making a point of it. Looking into the forums turns out Samsung has since hidden the spotify app god knows why. So after a few days of complaining online I find a direct link to the galaxy store spotify page. Great! Now I installed it. And open it up... Can't connect to phone, please open spotify app on phone... It says this as I'm staring at my phone automatically open spotify... Ok, close the watch app, open it again now that the app is already open on the phone. Can't connect to phone please open the spotify app... Weird, manage to dismiss the warning. I'm presented with 3 options, steam on wifi, stream on lte, and remote. Knowing the first two require spotify premium I try the last option. Nothing, literally nothing, it's like the button isn't even there, no haptic feedback, no warnings, nothing.
Ok, remote isn't why I wanted a watch anyway, my end goal is to run with JUST my watch. So since I'm financially well enough I decide to get premium to use the other options. So I upgraded to premium spotify, made sure it was premium on the phone by playing specific songs, and im good to go right? Wrong! Even though I reinstalled the watch spotify app, remote doesn't change its behavior. So I try wifi, it asks for user and password. I painfully enter it with the flip phone style keyboard aaaaand? Failed to log in, try multiple times very carefully to no avail. Same story on lte button. At this point I'm so mad streaming music is the main reason I want an lte compatible watch!
So... Am I doing something wrong? Is spotify to blame? Or samsung? Still have a few weeks before my return window expires, any help or info would be greatly appreciated.
I'm on a note 9 for the phone
My spotify is through a Facebook account
I have cell service on the watch from tmo

You need to use the Spotify ID to connect, not the Facebook login, it wasn't working for me. Just go to Spotify settings on a browser and set up a device password to make it work.

Today, Spotify has been upgraded to the watch (not a little trouble). For the time being, it looks like all the functions are working again. Check out the Galaxy Store.:good:

Seems to be working only on Samsung phones though. I don't see the Spotify app in the Galaxy store (Belgium / Pixel 3 XL). Just got the watch yesterday, loving the hardware, software not so much at this point...
Do you happen to still have the direct link?

VenQWish said:
Do you happen to still have the direct link?
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http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=com.spotify.w-spotify

It won't even let me download the app.

Nope, me neither. Seems they don't really support the combination Galaxy Wear + Non Galaxy phone... What a disappointment this is.

It could be a store location or a watch region issue, you could ask samsung support to see why and if it's a store location use a vpn and try to download it or if it's the watch change the region if it's a big deal for you.

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It could be a store location or a watch region issue, you could ask samsung support to see why and if it's a store location use a vpn and try to download it or if it's the watch change the region if it's a big deal for you.
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How can I change the ragion of my device? I really don't care having it to Italy as it is, I just want to use spotify on it since I have a premium account. Thanks in advance

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How can I change the ragion of my device? I really don't care having it to Italy as it is, I just want to use spotify on it since I have a premium account. Thanks in advance
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It's an issue with Samsung and Spotify, I've been talking to Samsung UK and Spotify cares and they advised it's a known issue and they are working to fix it. I'm in the same position as you guys

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How can I change the ragion of my device? I really don't care having it to Italy as it is, I just want to use spotify on it since I have a premium account. Thanks in advance
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Yes you can change the region of the watch but you should know that doing so it will only allow Samsung Pay cards of that country and for some it's a must have.
Before you do anything you should check what region you want to add and find the code for it, because the region names are just 3 letter codes and it's hard to know what is going on when selecting the code(there are a lot of them) and you don't want to spend hours guessing to change it to a new one. And before you change the region write down the one your watch came with so you can go back if you need it or want it later down the line.
The first step is to download SDBstarterKidv1.zip from here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74585286&postcount=330
Then you follow the steps in here(it says gear sport but it works fine on galaxy watch).
Also when it says "debugging mode on" you need to select it on the watch and restart it so it works.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sm...nging-region-samsung-gear-sport-r600-t3771324

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It's an issue with Samsung and Spotify, I've been talking to Samsung UK and Spotify cares and they advised it's a known issue and they are working to fix it. I'm in the same position as you guys
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Did they tell you about an eta for the fix? Will the app be discoverable on the galaxy store?
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and.u said:
Did they tell you about an eta for the fix? Will the app be discoverable on the galaxy store?
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They didn't give an ETA but when it's fixed they said it will be back on the galaxy app store.
In the meantime you can use the stock music player on the watch to control Spotify from the phone, and also just about any music app on phone.

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They didn't give an ETA but when it's fixed they said it will be back on the galaxy app store.
In the meantime you can use the stock music player on the watch to control Spotify from the phone, and also just about any music app on phone.
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Yup I know. I’m using this actually but hope the Spotify fix will come shortly. By the way, are you using the watch with a BT headphones? Because some times when I ho running with my AirPods it happens that one pod disconnects itself for awhile and then reconnect automatically. Is it just me?

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Yup I know. I’m using this actually but hope the Spotify fix will come shortly. By the way, are you using the watch with a BT headphones? Because some times when I ho running with my AirPods it happens that one pod disconnects itself for awhile and then reconnect automatically. Is it just me?
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I don't use Bluetooth headphones so I can't help you with that unfortunately, I use wired earphones

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Yup I know. I’m using this actually but hope the Spotify fix will come shortly. By the way, are you using the watch with a BT headphones? Because some times when I ho running with my AirPods it happens that one pod disconnects itself for awhile and then reconnect automatically. Is it just me?
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Just today I ran with my Bose Soundsport and everything worked fine.

Yuzain said:
Just today I ran with my Bose Soundsport and everything worked fine.
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My AirPods today too. Yesterday was too windy, probably that was the issue
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Has anyone noticed the battery consumption of Spotify on the Galaxy Watch SM-R815F?
I went for a 30 min run today. I played music with Spotify offline. Battery dropped from 93% to 70% during the run. According to the battery monitor Spotify accounted for 17% of those 23% (the rest was screen, S Health and Strava).
17% battery consumption for 30 min of music seems quite high to me? Or is that normal?
I haven't tested the normal music app to compare. I assume bluetooth takes some battery but still.