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I installed Spotify on my Nexus today and whenever I try to listen to a song I just get a "INFO" box that is blank. I checked the settings and it's configured to sync over 3G and Wifi, but not 4G. Could that be an issue?
This is the first time using spotify so im not sure if thats a new issue or if I misconfigured
turn 4g of on your phone and try again.
it should work fine, the app is ICS compatible
Denniz0229 said:
turn 4g of on your phone and try again.
it should work fine, the app is ICS compatible
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how do I turn off 4G, and why dont they make it work on 4G =D
I would uninstall and reinstall the spotify app. I play music over 4g all the time. The syncing options are for syncing your playlists offline so they don't effect how your stream music.
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+1 for reinstalling Spotify.
That did it for me
Is it possible to do this:
Tag a song I hear in the car with Shazam
Use the option to listen in spotify
download the song to my phone over spotify
set the download directory to my google music folder so it automatically syncs with my home pc?
When you download music in spotify, you don't actually get an mp3...spotify keeps it separate so that it's available to listen to offline through spotify, but isn't available to distribute (anti-piracy measures). It's also how they assure you keep paying for spotify (you can't keep an offline song for more than 30 days without "checking in" to spotify by going online.
that sucks! Any good apps to actually pull down the mp3?
Random Reboots?
Has anyone else experienced random reboots while listening to Spotify?
I have synced a large number of playlists for offline play (over 4G), but now almost half the time I am using Spotify my GNex does a reboot at some point while listening to Spotify music.
I haven't verified if this issue deals with local (non streamed) music in general, because I only have a handful of local MP3s stored on the phone (was planning on using Spotify for most of my music needs). To be clear, this is not a streaming issue - all of the tracks and playlists I am listening to have already been synced to the phone.
Any thoughts? Suggestions?
Am I the only one experiencing this . . . ?
DroidHam said:
Is it possible to do this:
Tag a song I hear in the car with Shazam
Use the option to listen in spotify
download the song to my phone over spotify
set the download directory to my google music folder so it automatically syncs with my home pc?
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This whole post is kind of nonsensical because you don't have access to the Spotify music as an mp3 and there's no such concept as setting a "download directory" in Spotify. As well, Google Music on your phone won't ever upload music to sync with the cloud. The only music that gets synced/uploaded to the cloud is through the Music Manager application on your desktop computer. The Google Music app is simply for accessing / playing the music / making them available offline.
javroch said:
This whole post is kind of nonsensical because you don't have access to the Spotify music as an mp3 and there's no such concept as setting a "download directory" in Spotify. As well, Google Music on your phone won't ever upload music to sync with the cloud. The only music that gets synced/uploaded to the cloud is through the Music Manager application on your desktop computer. The Google Music app is simply for accessing / playing the music / making them available offline.
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I didnt realize you cant save the mp3s,i guess if i could i could "save" them to my dropbox account which would sync them to my own desktop. I was hoping to be able to hear a song in the car, tag it with shazam, download and have it on my home computer. Ah well
I apologize if this has been answered already, but I couldn't find anything about it. I have all of my music from iTunes synced with Google Music, which I can listen to on my phone. Anything new I add to iTunes will automatically be synced into Google Music, and that's great. But I would like the reverse to be applicable as well. I want the music I download on my phone from various websites and apps to be synced to Google Music, so when I log into Google Music on my laptop, the songs I downloaded on my phone will show up there (the website). Is there any way to make this possible? The music I downloaded from my phone will show up in the Google Music App on my phone, but it apparently doesn't sync it to the Google Music servers. I've tried many things, such as making the songs "available offline," but to no avail. Is this just impossible to do? Do I need to put the music in some sort of folder so that it will be synced with Google Music servers? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
anton2009 said:
I apologize if this has been answered already, but I couldn't find anything about it. I have all of my music from iTunes synced with Google Music, which I can listen to on my phone. Anything new I add to iTunes will automatically be synced into Google Music, and that's great. But I would like the reverse to be applicable as well. I want the music I download on my phone from various websites and apps to be synced to Google Music, so when I log into Google Music on my laptop, the songs I downloaded on my phone will show up there (the website). Is there any way to make this possible? The music I downloaded from my phone will show up in the Google Music App on my phone, but it apparently doesn't sync it to the Google Music servers. I've tried many things, such as making the songs "available offline," but to no avail. Is this just impossible to do? Do I need to put the music in some sort of folder so that it will be synced with Google Music servers? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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There is no way to do this as of now. The app doesn't upload to Google Music services.
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There is no way to do this as of now. The app doesn't upload to Google Music services.
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Ah, I see. Well thanks for enlightening me.
I'm not sure how much music you're downloading, but you can probably try to automate it as much as possible using Dropbox. Trying to find something similar brought me to this link: lifehacker.com/5501200/how-to-automatically-sync-any-song-you-download-to-itunes. From there you can continue to automatically sync to Google Music. It seems a bit convoluted, but once it's set up, it may suit your needs.
wrldtreker said:
I'm not sure how much music you're downloading, but you can probably try to automate it as much as possible using Dropbox. Trying to find something similar brought me to this link: lifehacker.com/5501200/how-to-automatically-sync-any-song-you-download-to-itunes. From there you can continue to automatically sync to Google Music. It seems a bit convoluted, but once it's set up, it may suit your needs.
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Wow. This is really interesting and great! Although it would take a little effort to find all my music on my SD card and then upload that to my dropbox, and then have it sync to iTunes, it might be worth it. Also, this might create duplicates in the Google Music app on my phone (i.e. Google Music recognizes new music in iTunes, uploads it to the server, and now on my phone app, it has that particular song on SD card and Google Music servers). But nevertheless, thanks!
I use the Google Play Music app to play music that's on my phone (as opposed to music that's in the cloud). If I put a standard extended m3u playlist on the phone, the app shows some of the songs in the wrong order.
Extensive detail of the problem is at http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/50425/wrong-playlist-order-in-google-play-music-app/50496
One person who posted there has the same problem.
Do others have the same issue? Any idea how to fix it or at least better diagnose why it's happening?
Yes, same problem here. Most songs keep in order but some don't.
It seems to be related to either the length of playlists, mistakes in the playlists, or the use of subfolders. It doesn't seem that fixing the play list fixes the sort order.
My playlists for albums all import fine. I think the largest album I have successfully copied over is about 24 files. The common thread for all these good playlists is that the playlist is in the same directory as the songs in the list.
But I do get playlists that are screwed up.
The latest was 65 songs long and had some mistakes in it (misspelled filenames). It also had songs from the folder I put the playlist in as well as songs from some subfolders. When I had fixed the mistakes, it still is misordered. I tried deleting the playlist from the phone, then deleting it from Play (it still listed the playlist as if it existed), then recopied it to the phone. I even tried deleting them and renaming the playlist to a new name and copying it back over. No joy. Funny thing is, it always imports in the same (incorrect) order.
There must be a memory leak in their m3u playlist file reader, I imagine related to reading subfolders.
In my case, playlists which play fine in other music players have problems in the Google app, so I doubt the problem is with the playlist. I've only tested long playlists, so that could be the cause.
I'm somewhat surprised Google hasn't fixed this. I've since moved to Shuttle music player, which does everything I want and doesn't have any issues with my playlists.
Hello.
I'm trying to listen to offline music with my Smartwatch 3. I have configured Google Play Music to download music to Android Wear, but when I start the player in the watch it states "no music available....".
I have a lot of music stored in the phone which can be played from Google Play Music, but it doesn't get copied to the watch. All the tracks are stored in the microUSB, none of them have been downloaded from google.
Any idea of how to get music into the watch?
Thanks.
lm_1970 said:
Hello.
I'm trying to listen to offline music with my Smartwatch 3. I have configured Google Play Music to download music to Android Wear, but when I start the player in the watch it states "no music available....".
I have a lot of music stored in the phone which can be played from Google Play Music, but it doesn't get copied to the watch. All the tracks are stored in the microUSB, none of them have been downloaded from google.
Any idea of how to get music into the watch?
Thanks.
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Heres a guide showing how to download music via Google Play Music to Android Wear.
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/10/24/how-to-store-music-on-android-wear-for-offline-playback/
On a separate issue, does anyone know how to start Google Play Music from their watch to their phone?
I was out running the other day with both watch and phone. I clicked on GPM on my SW but it said no music downloaded to watch. In the end I had to get my phone out to start GPM so I could control it. Does anyone know of any 3rd party app that would solve this?
Thanks, I had already tried it but didn't work for me. Perhaps offline music only works with downloaded music, not with music directly stored on the phone.
Regarding to your question, if I understood correctly, you want to start from your watch Play Music on the phone. If you select on your watch "Start->Play Music" it will try to play offline music, but if you select "Play Music" on the first level menú (without selecting Start), it will open Play Music on your phone and start playing the last song.
Regards.
lm_1970 said:
Thanks, I had already tried it but didn't work for me. Perhaps offline music only works with downloaded music, not with music directly stored on the phone.
Regarding to your question, if I understood correctly, you want to start from your watch Play Music on the phone. If you select on your watch "Start->Play Music" it will try to play offline music, but if you select "Play Music" on the first level menú (without selecting Start), it will open Play Music on your phone and start playing the last song.
Regards.
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Get wear mini launcher - it is perfect for this watch! swipe to the left and select the app to run
two important details before transfering music to watch:
1.- Do it with battery level 70% or more in the watch. The transfer fails with low battery.
2.- You must have in the phone less than 4Gb of downloaded music. If you have more music downloaded to your phone than the storage of the watch, the transfer will fail too.
I know. If you have a lot of music in your phone for offline playback this is a mess...
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two important details before transfering music to watch:
1.- Do it with battery level 70% or more in the watch. The transfer fails with low battery.
2.- You must have in the phone less than 4Gb of downloaded music. If you have more music downloaded to your phone than the storage of the watch, the transfer will fail too.
I know. If you have a lot of music in your phone for offline playback this is a mess...
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Thanks, but when you say downloaded, you mean downloaded from google play music only? The music which has been directly copied and stored in the microsd/memory of the phone is never going to be transferred to the watch?
Regards.
Exactly, the music must be in the cloud first. Remember you can store 20.000 mp3 for free in Google play music.
The path that works:
Before to send to watch, the music has to be downloaded from Google music account (from the cloud, meaning music from premium service or your own mp3 previously uploaded to Google music) to your phone for offline playback.
So first upload to Google music your own mp3 (if you are not premium), then download to your phone (to internal or external memory) and when you're done select download to wear.
The transfer to watch is very very slow, but it works fine if you do it that way.
king conan said:
Exactly, the music must be in the cloud first. Remember you can store 20.000 mp3 for free in Google play music.
The path that works:
Before to send to watch, the music has to be downloaded from Google music account (from the cloud, meaning music from premium service or your own mp3 previously uploaded to Google music) to your phone for offline playback.
So first upload to Google music your own mp3 (if you are not premium), then download to your phone (to internal or external memory) and when you're done select download to wear.
The transfer to watch is very very slow, but it works fine if you do it that way.
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Understood. Thanks a lot. What a great idea from Google, upload tracks to the cloud and then download again to the phone. They really want our info in the cloud...
Yeah that's the Google "price" to use their services. 20.000 tracks to upload for free is a very decent proposal.
I can't wait for another app that will allow the simple transfer of music to the watch without having to jump through bunches of hoops. It is bound to be available very soon.
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I can't wait for another app that will allow the simple transfer of music to the watch without having to jump through bunches of hoops. It is bound to be available very soon.
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I found a reference in the online manual for the SW3 that Sony intends to use the walkman app for that as well, in addition to Google Music. Even better: according to the manual you should get sync per playlist. Also, it would sync via the tracks stored on the device (or so it seems). Alas, my current version of Walkman does not contain this functionality, so this reeks of a bit of a botched launch...
see here: http://support.sonymobile.com/gb/swr50/userguide/Music/
Or does this work for anyone?
There are new instructions on how you can dictate certain playlists to dowload onto the watch. When the music is being transferred, you want to go into your phone and go to downloads and uncheck the playlists that you do not want at this step. Can the USB port be used for other reasons besides being a charging port? It would really be nice to be able to just load it that way rather than bluetooth. I am hoping the walkman app gets an update to play music on the watch.
Just found out that a new version of the walkman app is being released which brings the functionality alluded to in the manual of the SW3. Didn't receive it yet on my Xperia Z1 yet, so couldn't test it.
Source: http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/11/26/walkman-app-update-8-5-a-0-6-brings-android-wear-support/
¡Yes! This one works. Tested on my Galaxy S4, it installs a "Walkman" component in the SW3. You can select in the phone which playlists you want to download to the watch, and then play them form the SW3.
Thanks.
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New Walkman app: tested on Xperia Z1 Compact (+ SW3 of course) - works fine - as advertised. Dissapointing are the long transfer times, but it is obvious BT limitation. Hope that some future AW updated will enable Wifi funcionality, which will be used then for the music transfer purpose.
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Thanks, but when you say downloaded, you mean downloaded from google play music only? The music which has been directly copied and stored in the microsd/memory of the phone is never going to be transferred to the watch?
Regards.
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I think it is not correct (in current version of Google Music). I use Google Play Music without uploading anything to the cloud (I actually disabled Play Market in settings). I just copy all my tracks to my phone internal memory, and I'm able to synchronize all my tracks with the smart watch and listen them in off-line mode. No uploading to Google.
You need patience when you copy your music from the mobile phone to your watch - it is very slow, and it's better to connect the power adaptor (it requires 70% battery, otherwise it won't transfer files).
Hi,
I am having a problem with the HEOS app on my Pixel 2XL. Having just cancelled my Spotify Premuium account (have to have premium to stream to a HEOS device), and knowing the app allows streaming music directly from the phone, I thought that by uploading my music library to Google Play Music service, I could simply select 'This Phone' is the music source section, then select the album/artist/track, I wanted to hear. Anyway, absolutely no music is shown to allow me to select. I wondered if it was because the music was cloud stored, so I downloaded a couple of albums to the phone and tried again. Still no music showing in the HEOS app. It will play directly through the phone speaker or headphones, but simply isn't listed to allow streaming. Its all very frustrationg! I have emailed the guys at Denon (HEOS) to see if they might have an answer, however as I don't know if its an app problem, or a phone problem, I thought I should seek some guidance here.
Thanks
Steve
Racehunter said:
Hi,
I am having a problem with the HEOS app on my Pixel 2XL. Having just cancelled my Spotify Premuium account (have to have premium to stream to a HEOS device), and knowing the app allows streaming music directly from the phone, I thought that by uploading my music library to Google Play Music service, I could simply select 'This Phone' is the music source section, then select the album/artist/track, I wanted to hear. Anyway, absolutely no music is shown to allow me to select. I wondered if it was because the music was cloud stored, so I downloaded a couple of albums to the phone and tried again. Still no music showing in the HEOS app. It will play directly through the phone speaker or headphones, but simply isn't listed to allow streaming. Its all very frustrationg! I have emailed the guys at Denon (HEOS) to see if they might have an answer, however as I don't know if its an app problem, or a phone problem, I thought I should seek some guidance here.
Thanks
Steve
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The trouble here is Google Play Music isn't one of the services offered by HEOS. If you have the music stored physically on your phone you should be able to connect at minimum by Bluetooth and play it. If that doesn't work, maybe clearing app cache and restarting the app might get it to show up.
Hope this helps a little..