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[Q] iCloud?

Anyone have a solution for a rooted Android to support iCloud's music app features?

Ugh Google Music?
music.google.com

DizDroid said:
Ugh Google Music?
music.google.com
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I was just about to make the same suggestion...

Google Music or Amazon MP3 are both viable solutions. Apple stuff(not going to say iCrap, I use Macs myself) generally doesn't play well with non-apple products.

DizDroid said:
Ugh Google Music?
music.google.com
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Google Music is okay. I couldn't really get the file download for offline mode to work right.
I've used iCloud for Music on my iPad and wifes phone and I really like how the file download for music not on the device works. My primary music app on my Droid is Spotify...which is almost giving me what I was hoping for. Thanks for the suggestions.

willjr0k5 said:
Google Music is okay. I couldn't really get the file download for offline mode to work right.
I've used iCloud for Music on my iPad and wifes phone and I really like how the file download for music not on the device works. My primary music app on my Droid is Spotify...which is almost giving me what I was hoping for. Thanks for the suggestions.
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Mine downloads fine Make sure to do it through Wifi though. Are you talking about offline caching of the music or actually downloading it to your phone? You can do both with Google Music

Google Music Storage

Does anybody know where google music stores purchased music on your device? I am trying to transfer my purchase to a different music player on my phone as I dont really like google music.

I am having the same problem. I found the files and copied them over but the other players still don't pick them up.
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kingcarlo12 said:
Does anybody know where google music stores purchased music on your device? I am trying to transfer my purchase to a different music player on my phone as I dont really like google music.
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Should be in data/data/com.google.android.music

teshxx said:
Should be in data/data/com.google.android.music
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oh, I do not want to listen to music using this software

dark_and_WArr said:
oh, I do not want to listen to music using this software
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Copy files from there to your internal memory or sd card to use it with other players. data/data is a system folder so other players can't access it. Or better yet download google's Music Manager on your desktop and download mp3's to your desktop and then transfer them to your phone.

Best way to get iTunes Music onto One

I'm looking for the best way to get my music from iTunes locally onto my HTC One.
Preferably, I'd like to remove the remaining DRM on my iTunes music, and let google play music do the rest (the only songs not on play are DRM-protected).
From there I think I'd just download the library and put it on my phone.
But mainly I guess I'm asking how to remove that DRM?

If you are willing to pay $25 for the year, iTunes match will allow you to download your library drm free. That is what I did and then used Google Music to upload to the cloud.
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You can make mp3 versions of your songs within iTunes itself then put it on any device you want. That's what I do.
Go to iTunes settings/preferences then "general" then click the button that says "import settings" and select MP3 encoder. Save the settings.
Then right click the songs you want to convert and select "create MP3 version." You can either keep or delete the AAC version. I delete it because I don't want 2 versions of the same song.
I'm pretty sure it removes DRM... because once I do this, I'm able to do anything I want with it. Amazon cloud, google, etc.
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Easiest way, use a music converter program to convert to DRM free MP3, then upload them to google music. I personally like the program sound taxi to do this, can queue up as many songs as you want, it will convert 8-12 at a time until they whole queue is done.

Insertnamehere12 said:
Easiest way, use a music converter program to convert to DRM free MP3, then upload them to google music. I personally like the program sound taxi to do this, can queue up as many songs as you want, it will convert 8-12 at a time until they whole queue is done.
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yeah I'm currently trying to burn my music to an audio CD to remove the DRM and re-ripping them to my library. I already did a quarter of my DRM music that way.
The rest of it is on google music.
But can I just drag the MP3s onto the phone?

crazyg0od33 said:
yeah I'm currently trying to burn my music to an audio CD to remove the DRM and re-ripping them to my library. I already did a quarter of my DRM music that way.
The rest of it is on google music.
But can I just drag the MP3s onto the phone?
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Thats the more painful (and costs money) way of converting, but it works.
Yes you can just put the music on ur phone, I myself prefer to have it on google music... but I have unlimited data so it doesn't matter for me.

I use poweramp and it plays every song I have from iTunes.

Insertnamehere12 said:
Thats the more painful (and costs money) way of converting, but it works.
Yes you can just put the music on ur phone, I myself prefer to have it on google music... but I have unlimited data so it doesn't matter for me.
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yeah no unlimited anymore for me so i cant be streaming everything

I use iSyncr to transfer music to my phone.

I convert anything I buy in iTunes directly to mp3 and then it uploads to the Google cloud... No problems...
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mbh87 said:
I use iSyncr to transfer music to my phone.
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Thanks. iSyncr works great.

Download doubletwist
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Wow, what a blast from the past seeing this thread again.

new phone

hi,thinking of downsizing to a nexus 5 or z1 compact then remembered if i get nexus 5 i will have to stream my music from play music so just wondering how can i play my music offline if i decide to get the nexus 5:good: sorry meant to say im on note 2 just now

tonybhoy said:
hi,thinking of downsizing to a nexus 5 or z1 compact then remembered if i get nexus 5 i will have to stream my music from play music so just wondering how can i play my music offline if i decide to get the nexus 5:good: sorry meant to say im on note 2 just now
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Didnt realize that was an issue! Whats stopping you installing a music player such as VLC or WinAMP on your phone?

tonylee000 said:
Didnt realize that was an issue! Whats stopping you installing a music player such as VLC or WinAMP on your phone?
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what I mean is Nexus has no sd card slot so all my music would be in the cloud and it would use all my data to listen to it so that's why I want to know if I could listen offline

You answered it yourself... if it's in the cloud... it means it's on the internet... if you're not on the internet (online), then you can't access them.
That being said... how much free space you have on your Nexus... because nobody needs ALL their music at one time. Surely you can afford 500mb or more to put 100 tracks on physical memory (then use a good player to play them anytime).

cyberboob said:
You answered it yourself... if it's in the cloud... it means it's on the internet... if you're not on the internet (online), then you can't access them.
That being said... how much free space you have on your Nexus... because nobody needs ALL their music at one time. Surely you can afford 500mb or more to put 100 tracks on physical memory (then use a good player to play them anytime).
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i have 45 gb on an sd card and usually just hit random :good:

I have 200GB + ... that doesn't mean I put it all on my phone or SD card or listen to all of it. You can't have everything in life man... learn to compromise and cut it down to 2GB (that's around 55-68hrs of music depending on size) of music you really like... or get a phone with SD card slot where you can random.
***Again though, if you have Note2 and want to downsize, you're going to run into things you can't do or get on other phones compared to your Note2.
I wouldn't get the Nexus 5 then... go for the Sony or maybe S4??

Just got Pixel XL how come it's not playing my M4a files?

I've been a long time android user but for the last 6 months went with the iPhone 7 plus just to try something different, long story short iPhone failed me so I decided to give the pixel XL a try. I love it but I acquired a lot of iTunes music over the past couple months and for some reason when I put them on the Pixel no matter what player I try it wont play them. I have tried Poweramp which was always a favorite, blackplayer, stock google player and nothing seems to work. Any ideas? I have googled the issue and it seems the Pixel can play M4a so what's going on?

rbtrucking said:
I've been a long time android user but for the last 6 months went with the iPhone 7 plus just to try something different, long story short iPhone failed me so I decided to give the pixel XL a try. I love it but I acquired a lot of iTunes music over the past couple months and for some reason when I put them on the Pixel no matter what player I try it wont play them. I have tried Poweramp which was always a favorite, blackplayer, stock google player and nothing seems to work. Any ideas? I have googled the issue and it seems the Pixel can play M4a so what's going on?
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Hi... Maybe a DRM issue? iTunes purchased music is protected and can only be played on a device having the same iTunes account no?
Good luck...

Ya, I thought they got rid of that years ago. I know Apple used to do that but the files work on all my other devices like computer, laptop, but I guess it's not the biggest deal. I converted them to MP3 and now they work fine.

I don't think Google Play Music (assuming that's what you're using) supports .M4a natively. You could upload them using the music manager or try a third party app. VLC tends to play just about everything.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1100462?hl=en

rbtrucking said:
Ya, I thought they got rid of that years ago. I know Apple used to do that but the files work on all my other devices like computer, laptop, but I guess it's not the biggest deal. I converted them to MP3 and now they work fine.
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Ah... Strange. Still it would be better to get them working without the need of reencoding once again. It certainly kills the audio signal a bit more.
Hopefully you'll find a way to play the originals
AJZ12 said:
I don't think Google Play Music (assuming that's what you're using) supports .M4a natively. You could upload them using the music manager or try a third party app. VLC tends to play just about everything.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1100462?hl=en
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Strange, he alsp tried also Poweramp. Playstore description says it should play m4a. Apple certainly did something here...

5.1 said:
Hi... Maybe a DRM issue? iTunes purchased music is protected and can only be played on a device having the same iTunes account no?
Good luck...
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In theory, only files downloaded from Apple Music streaming (.m4p files) should be affected by DRM protection. .m4a files should have no issue on Poweramp.
This doesn't mean Apple didn't do something to encrypt the .m4a files so they can only be played on Apple devices. It wouldn't surprise me. This is a big reason why I don't really like Apple products. Apple pretty much tells you how to use the device and almost force you to use it that way just to try to lock you in their ecosystem.

AJZ12 said:
In theory, only files downloaded from Apple Music streaming (.m4p files) should be affected by DRM protection. .m4a files should have no issue on Poweramp.
This doesn't mean Apple didn't do something to encrypt the .m4a files so they can only be played on Apple devices. It wouldn't surprise me. This is a big reason why I don't really like Apple products. Apple pretty much tells you how to use the device and almost force you to use it that way just to try to lock you in their ecosystem.
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That's right boy am I getting sick of there crap! Honestly I am HUGE into music and consider myself an audiophile and get a lot of my music in either FLAC or WAV directly from CD and the iPhone was always very picky about what WAV files it would support and it doesn't support flac at all, wont even let you transfer it to the device. I've had instances where I would go to my music library and ALL the music that I hadn't bought from iTunes would just be GONE out of the blue. I googled it, and it turns out it's a very common issue and even the guys on macrumors suspect's it's a tactic by apple to get you to only use iTunes purchased music on their devices.

AJZ12 said:
In theory, only files downloaded from Apple Music streaming (.m4p files) should be affected by DRM protection. .m4a files should have no issue on Poweramp.
This doesn't mean Apple didn't do something to encrypt the .m4a files so they can only be played on Apple devices. It wouldn't surprise me. This is a big reason why I don't really like Apple products. Apple pretty much tells you how to use the device and almost force you to use it that way just to try to lock you in their ecosystem.
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I'm not surprised at all. Since Poweramp is supposed to support m4a, it's definitely an issue with Apple. I remember 10 years ago when my wife had the first or second iPhone and i had to convert songs in mp3 or flac to aac or whatever format to play them. Now she uses my ex N6P :angel:
rbtrucking said:
That's right boy am I getting sick of there crap! Honestly I am HUGE into music and consider myself an audiophile and get a lot of my music in either FLAC or WAV directly from CD and the iPhone was always very picky about what WAV files it would support and it doesn't support flac at all, wont even let you transfer it to the device. I've had instances where I would go to my music library and ALL the music that I hadn't bought from iTunes would just be GONE out of the blue. I googled it, and it turns out it's a very common issue and even the guys on macrumors suspect's it's a tactic by apple to get you to only use iTunes purchased music on their devices.
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Now you're free to play whatever you want on your phone :good:
(Except original m4a Apple files <-- sarcasm )
Cheers...

rbtrucking said:
That's right boy am I getting sick of there crap! Honestly I am HUGE into music and consider myself an audiophile and get a lot of my music in either FLAC or WAV directly from CD and the iPhone was always very picky about what WAV files it would support and it doesn't support flac at all, wont even let you transfer it to the device. I've had instances where I would go to my music library and ALL the music that I hadn't bought from iTunes would just be GONE out of the blue. I googled it, and it turns out it's a very common issue and even the guys on macrumors suspect's it's a tactic by apple to get you to only use iTunes purchased music on their devices.
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And with the development of USB-C and the state of modern hardware, lossless file formats will actually be lossless on phones instead of just a waste of space. Most apps converted lossless files to lower bitrates while playing and if the app didn't, the DAC did.
It's ridiculous. In my eyes, Apple looks like they are making desperate attempts to hold onto as many customers as possible by making it as inconvenient as possible to switch to a different platform. iOS is lagging behind Android now in settings menu organization and overall functionality, and I think they know it. I'd use to have to root a phone just to do some of the things an iPhone could do until the OG Moto X, which was the last phone I rooted and that was only for hotspot access when I had my original unlimited Verizon plan. I have lost interest in root access on my daily driver now that Android does everything I need plus more. I thought I'd root my 6P once I experienced a limitation but there wasn't ever a time with the 6P that Android let me down (besides a software-based noise canceling mic issue but Google replaced the phone for free because of it). I didn't even root the only Nexus phone I ever owned and still haven't seen the need to root the Pixel.
I was using my friend's old iPhone while I was waiting for my replacement 6P to arrive and ran into so many inconveniences that I kept asking my friend if I could jailbreak it. He didn't want me to so let's just say it was a horrible experience. You can't even put the cursor in the middle of a word to correct a typing mistake unless you use the magnifying glass long-click thing or the spacebar slide feature on the keyboard. On paper, the functionality of iOS and Android is "closer than ever" but the little things make a huge difference.
P.S. iTunes is absolute garbage. It's the modern day Windows Media Player. I feel bad that iPhone users are basically forced to use it to transfer music from a computer to the phone.