Ok so this has been pissing me off for a very long time and I have done a lot of research and read through a bunch of forums and im still NOWHERE. When you save music to the SD card in google music on our LG optimus G it saves it to /data/data/com.google.android.music/
This is a HORRIBLE place to save music. Every time you wipe data you lose all the music you have downloaded which in my case is upwards of 10 gigs. Not fun to download 10 gigs of music every time i switch roms. I could merely not wipe data, but the problem with that is its then a dirty wipe and ive been doing this long enough to know that dirty wipes don't always go perfectly. So on to the solutions I have tried that have failed:
1.) Use the music+ app made by a user here on XDA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2140756
Now this solution seemed to work at first because when you download the music for offline use you can literally store it anywhere. So store it on the simulated sd card and your problems are solved right? wrong. after downloading all the music, wiping your phone flashing a new rom and restore the apk+data with titanium i find out that the app can not see any previously downloaded music that still exists in that folder and thus when you try to download more music, it wipes everything and starts fresh.
2.)Use Directory Bind created by another user on XDA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
now I had some hopes for this one but unfortunately it cannot access data stored in /data/data i dont think it has root permissions, which is the problem
3.) I briefly tried symlinking the data from a different folder (though i may have done it wrong i didn't put my whole heart into the attempt)
this didn't work either (unless i simply did it wrong.)
If anyone has a solution that does actually work I would greatly appreciate hearing about it because its at the point where i hesitate before flashing roms because i dont want to lose all my music.
Also please don't suggest simply putting the music on my phone and using a different player. i have come to find that i need to use google music as not all my music fits on the amount of storage we are given and i inevitably need to stream it sometimes.
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. I hope this thread also helps others having the same issues.
Edit: this is interesting. im gonna take a crack at it see if it helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1842568
I didn't read your whole post because I'm tired, but I do know you can place the music in whatever place you want, and the music application will pull it up.
Edit: also, in my experience, any music I've saved through the music app has stuck through several rom flashes, including EOS and CM.
Tried a few things, including the methods in that last link you posted. I was missing pictures since flashing CM because of the sdcard/0 partition thingy it created. They seem to have come back. Maybe that will fix your music issue.
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outerpip said:
I didn't read your whole post because I'm tired, but I do know you can place the music in whatever place you want, and the music application will pull it up.
Edit: also, in my experience, any music I've saved through the music app has stuck through several rom flashes, including EOS and CM.
Tried a few things, including the methods in that last link you posted. I was missing pictures since flashing CM because of the sdcard/0 partition thingy it created. They seem to have come back. Maybe that will fix your music issue.
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Yeah im kind of hoping that the most recent solution i have found will solve my problem (deleting the nomedia thing) i haven't tried it yet but i would have to use google music+ for this not the regular. you can put your music elsewhere and google music will read it but see i want to have the adaptability of just clicking the save offline music thing to both add music to my offline, and remove music from it. its just convenient. If i had it in a different spot on the sd that wouldn't work.
when you flashed between eos and cm, did you factory reset in between? because if i dont do that the music will stay but i dont want to be constrained that way
There is an app called cloud music importer or something like that. It logs into your Google music account and then allows you to download your music. It stores it in the music folder under cloud music. Google music player will still play it too. The free version of the app only allows 50 downloads. There is an in app purchase that is tied to your Google account so you don't have to keep purchasing it.
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There is an app called cloud music importer or something like that. It logs into your Google music account and then allows you to download your music. It stores it in the music folder under cloud music. Google music player will still play it too. The free version of the app only allows 50 downloads. There is an in app purchase that is tied to your Google account so you don't have to keep purchasing it.
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Good idea but not what im looking for. two apps instead of one. and then the music is separate from the music in the google music app itself. kinda defeats the purpose
EDIT: i might end up giving in and doin this. i have been unsuccessful in just about every way im testing this app out to see how well it works
just realized this cant be my solution because i can't fit all my music on my phone otherwise this would be a good solution
You don't have to download your whole library. Just the albums or playlists that you want. I mainly use it to place music on my phone so zombie run can see it
Edit: I'm totally with you tho and wish it was back to how it was in the beginning instead of just downloading inside the app
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Related
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/google-music-limits-device-deauthorization-makes-flashers-pay/
Check out this thread on google music if you use it and love to flash rooms. Says google music will only allow 10 devices, so if you flash a lot of rooms you may have to open a new account
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No sweat, just deauthorize your google device friends..
"Sign into your Google Music account via a PC. In the upper right most corner of the Music page, right next to your photo, if you have one, is the cog. Click on the cog and you will be presented with options. Select music settings and viola. You will quickly and easily see every device currently authorized to your Google music account along with their dates."
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http://androidspin.com/2011/12/17/h...uld-deauthorized-google-music-synced-devices/
You can only dauthorize 4 devices a year now.
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Just tested it and it will only allow 4 devices to be deauthorized before it gives you the "sorry you have deauthorized to many devices" message. That's going to be problematic if you change DD's every other month.
Google sooooo stupid.
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Yeah I sent a nasty e-mail about this.
At least you guys get Google Music, it's not available here in Canada. Well technically it's not available, there are ways around it I guess but you still don't get the whole service/experience.
anybody know how to reset your music database? I wanna clear it and re-sync it
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anybody know how to reset your music database? I wanna clear it and re-sync it
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Try wiping it through titanium.
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It sucks as a service anyway. You have to jump through hoops just to get what you pay for in a format that you can take elsewhere. I use it like the Amazon app store, download freebies or cheap stuff and ignore it otherwise.
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I really hate this since I use this a lot. Will we have to re-authorize if we restore google music though Titanium?
According to the edit, Google has fixed the issue but the deauthorization still shows 4 as the limit.
I just went through and deauthorized 9 accounts like a week ago. Who knows.
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Yeah I sent a nasty e-mail about this.
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as did i.
dillym34 said:
You can only dauthorize 4 devices a year now.
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Not true I just deleted all 9 of mine
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They should have updated to an unlimited amount as of the new year and I could be wrong but I believe it registers devices not roms.. meaning if you flash a rom for our t989..that's 1 device regardless if its juggs, cm7 or darkside.. build.prop will determine device
this might be a little off topic, but is there a music app that lets me create a playlist easily without having to add songs 1 by 1? i just want to be able to play my 2000 songs in random order without the same songs repeating. i tried to do this by play shuffle all but once it stops and i start the next day, some song from previous day gets played again.
They reverted back till they make it where it.reads.the.phone id number because.the.build.prop was a stupid idea.
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dn3g3l said:
this might be a little off topic, but is there a music app that lets me create a playlist easily without having to add songs 1 by 1? i just want to be able to play my 2000 songs in random order without the same songs repeating. i tried to do this by play shuffle all but once it stops and i start the next day, some song from previous day gets played again.
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In subsonic you can just add everything to play then shuffle and save the playlist. At most it would be 26 + numbered artist names to add via play now. The random shuffle feature doesn't add very many songs. I think one file manager will allow you to create a playlist just by selecting the directory that contains the music. Its not estrongs. Can't remember the name of it.
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Awesome they reverted back, I was able to deauthorize the remaining 4!
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They should have updated to an unlimited amount as of the new year and I could be wrong but I believe it registers devices not roms.. meaning if you flash a rom for our t989..that's 1 device regardless if its juggs, cm7 or darkside.. build.prop will determine device
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It went by the rom for me. My phone was listed like 8 times.
ok i love this site because u guys do reply <3
ok first of all i installed paranoid android for my phone today and when i installed it everything turned out excellent and i was happy but i decided to go and hear music but when i open apollo or play music theres nothing and my phone reads my external sd and im kinda getting mad idk what to do can u guys help me?
Did you rescan your media card? Sometimes the info doesn't read all the way after a ROM flash.....try rescan media app in the market. That don't work, try a reboot.
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Did you rescan your media card? Sometimes the info doesn't read all the way after a ROM flash.....try rescan media app in the market. That don't work, try a reboot.
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thanks for the reply and i have tried reboot also as going back to my stock rom and where it reads it perfect but flashed it again and the same problem and at the moment im trying then app
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thanks for the reply and i have tried reboot also as going back to my stock rom and where it reads it perfect but flashed it again and the same problem and at the moment im trying then app
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actually if u havent gone back to stock ull just be doing things rashly without looking further into it, this same problem happen to me with meridian player, i couldnt find my music on the list nor it would find it, i come to learn that i need to search for it under the folder section, if apollo and the other music player have the option to search under folder then u can just look for it manually and play it from there, it should fix the problem, u just gotta find the place where ure music is at.
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actually if u havent gone back to stock ull just be doing things rashly without looking further into it, this same problem happen to me with meridian player, i couldnt find my music on the list nor it would find it, i come to learn that i need to search for it under the folder section, if apollo and the other music player have the option to search under folder then u can just look for it manually and play it from there, it should fix the problem, u just gotta find the place where ure music is at.
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tried all that stuff cant find nothing its like it cant scan it or something :/
edit: i think i was able to get it to work i tried to reformat it from my computer but it wouldnt work but then i used go manager and wiped my sd card and i passed one song from usb tranfer and google play picks it up and apollo but its weird how it worked on ics but not for jelly bean
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tried all that stuff cant find nothing its like it cant scan it or something :/
edit: i think i was able to get it to work i tried to reformat it from my computer but it wouldnt work but then i used go manager and wiped my sd card and i passed one song from usb tranfer and google play picks it up and apollo but its weird how it worked on ics but not for jelly bean
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i also used chmod 755
Update:nvm it wasn't it was ICS bind that work and when I unmounted it it didn't work anymore help me
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I want to sync my itunes music to my new note 2 and I know there are some different apps to do this. I am planning on using Easy Phone Sync because I want to try and transfer SMS messages to. My question is, will I be able to choose where the music is strored? I want it on my SD card, not the internal memory. Just trying to see if anyone has past experience with this. I have about 30gb of music and dont want to have to drop and drag all my music to do the transfer to the SD card.
Also, what is the best way to backup so if i screw up I dont have to start all over? My phone is not rooted so I dont think a couple backup managers on here will work.
Thanks
Hey i also used easy phone and you can choose where the music will be saved.
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For best music iTunes sync to Android phone use 'isyncr'. Paid app though.
Does all u mentioned and syncs everything include arts and rating and lyrics.
Most importantly it's STABLE.
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I tried all those apps. I believe Wifi Tunes Sync Pro to be the best. They have a free version that limits the number of files you can sync, but it's a good way to try it out!
It syncs album art, playlists, and it has a very easy to use interface. I can't complain! You can pick where it goes as well, by default it goes to phone memory, but you can change it very easily in the options.
Looking for some help here. Long time viewer/poster, first time I've had a problem. Perhaps I can find help.
After a music transfer last night, my phone is no longer recognizing the files in my SD card's Music folder. The files can still be located and played through ES File Explorer and other file manager apps, but all my music players (Play Music, Winamp, stock HTC player) do not show them.
Upon searching the forums and the Internet, I have noticed this problem exists across multiple devices, and the solutions are easy to do and seem to work...for everyone except me. Clearing app data/cache, uninstalling/reinstalling, using SDrescan, searching for .nomedia files (none found anywhere), unmounting/remounting, wiping and reflashing my current ROM (DigitalKarma V8)...nothing works, and I am running out of patience. I am close to completely resetting the phone and reformatting the SD card (after backing up, of course...I'm not THAT stupid )
It's likely I may be doing something wrong, but to be safe, I want to see if there is anything I am either missing or overlooking in order to fix this common yet annoying problem. Help would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah the best step if you've tried everything would just be to reformat your sdcard because it sounds like something broke on that
OH. 1 thing before you do that, make sure that the permissions for your music is set to readable by everyone, hopefully that fixes it
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Yeah the best step if you've tried everything would just be to reformat your sdcard because it sounds like something broke on that
OH. 1 thing before you do that, make sure that the permissions for your music is set to readable by everyone, hopefully that fixes it
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Wait, hold the phone. Using File Manager to search my SD card, I find a whole s***load of .nomedia files. ES File Explorer couldn't find them...guess I found a new file manager lol
Now to delete all those files and try this thing again...wish me luck.
Fixed! Looks like I did miss/overlook something, and deleting those .nomedia files took care of everything. Now that I have my music back (and a new file manager...well, not really new, I've used it occasionally in the past), I can get back to enjoying the piece of classic awesome we call the EVO 4G. Consider this case closed.
Put "[SOLVED]" in the thread title please
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Ah, I knew I forgot something. Thanks for the heads up. Like I said, first time I've had a problem/question.
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Fixed! Looks like I did miss/overlook something, and deleting those .nomedia files took care of everything. Now that I have my music back (and a new file manager...well, not really new, I've used it occasionally in the past), I can get back to enjoying the piece of classic awesome we call the EVO 4G. Consider this case closed.
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That's exactly what you do is delete all those .NO MEDIA files. Also, there's an app called Rescan Media that will work
My GS3 will not play any music file. It wont even play Pandora. If I navigate to the file with a file explorer and try to play, it still won't play regardless of which media player I use but one.... I can play them with "Poweramp". Thats the only app I've been able to use to play my mp3s. I have no clue what's going on. I'm rooted. I seem to remember having to edit some system files to gain write access to my SD Card. I'm wondering if that have anything to do with this issue. I even roll back the updates on the Google Play Music app... No dice. I appreciate any advice.
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My GS3 will not play any music file. It wont even play Pandora. If I navigate to the file with a file explorer and try to play, it still won't play regardless of which media player I use but one.... I can play them with "Poweramp". Thats the only app I've been able to use to play my mp3s. I have no clue what's going on. I'm rooted. I seem to remember having to edit some system files to gain write access to my SD Card. I'm wondering if that have anything to do with this issue. I even roll back the updates on the Google Play Music app... No dice. I appreciate any advice.
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You changing the system file is most likely the cause. When i tried it my phone went all wonky and I wasnt able to view anything. Id either odin back to stock or flash a different rom :fingers-crossed:
I will see about setting the edited files back to original state. If this was the reason for the files not playing then why does Poweramp work? Also I'm not sure if Pandora should've been affected by that either. Though, I'll find the steps I use to gain write access to my external SD card and reverse them. Let u know how it go.
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I will see about setting the edited files back to original state. If this was the reason for the files not playing then why does Poweramp work? Also I'm not sure if Pandora should've been affected by that either. Though, I'll find the steps I use to gain write access to my external SD card and reverse them. Let u know how it go.
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Poweramp must have not used that permission. Pandora most likely did. I'd flash a stock based ROM like wicked X or singularity if you want stock but still want that permission set by default
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I remove the line to the "permissions" file that I had edited. Same result. The edit that I did to allow write access to my external SD card was just adding some text (a new line of code) to the file. Nothing was removed from what was originally there. I agree that this may be the culprit but I'm not convinced. I'm pretty surprise that no one else seems to have this issue.
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I remove the line to the "permissions" file that I had edited. Same result. The edit that I did to allow write access to my external SD card was just adding some text (a new line of code) to the file. Nothing was removed from what was originally there. I agree that this may be the culprit but I'm not convinced. I'm pretty surprise that no one else seems to have this issue.
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Hmmm. The only other suggestions I have are flash a new ROM, or Odin back to stock
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