This may be a ridiculous question to some, but for the life of me I can't figure out how you can save music using cloud services & then stream it using the stock Google music player. I'm trying to make some space on my Galaxy Nexus since I have a lot of music, so I saved my music to Google Drive but the only way I can play these files is through the Google Drive app itself.. So when I exit, stops playing.. I'm convinced I'm obviously missing something, so any help would be much appreciated.
Hi,
You need to upload your music to Google Play Music (https://play.google.com/music/).
Go to the website, log in with your Google account. You will need to download the Google Music Manager softwarre on your computer. Using it you can upload up to 20000 songs to your Google Play Music Account. Once you are done with that, you can use the web link mentioned above to access your music on the internet from any computer. Alternatively, you can use the Google Play Music app on your GNex to sync/download/stream music from your Google Music account.
I have been doing this for ever now and works perfectly (except for the slow 3G connection in my country).
DocJ8403 said:
This may be a ridiculous question to some, but for the life of me I can't figure out how you can save music using cloud services & then stream it using the stock Google music player. I'm trying to make some space on my Galaxy Nexus since I have a lot of music, so I saved my music to Google Drive but the only way I can play these files is through the Google Drive app itself.. So when I exit, stops playing.. I'm convinced I'm obviously missing something, so any help would be much appreciated.
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ya just use google music. it's great.
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).
I just purchased this watch yesterday and have been trying to download music to with no luck. I never used the watch before the update so I don't know what it was like before but I tried going through the Google music application on my phone and have the add music to wear setting checked but there's nothing on there. Then I tried selecting music straight from the watch to sync and selected a bunch of songs and now I don't know if it's working.
Have you selected some songs to copy to the watch in the Google music app? The "add music to wear" setting alone is not enough.
I finally got some songs on it. I didn't realize how complicated and non intuitive the process was going to be. I just came from a Samsung gear s2 and it was so simple to add music. None of the music I had saved s on my phone already was transferring, just new music I re-downloaded from the Google play store.
I'm using WearMedia from Playstore to copy and play my music mp3s on the watch (stand alone)! Very cool
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I finally got some songs on it. I didn't realize how complicated and non intuitive the process was going to be. I just came from a Samsung gear s2 and it was so simple to add music. None of the music I had saved s on my phone already was transferring, just new music I re-downloaded from the Google play store.
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Not only new music. As I stated before, you can select songs to be copied on the watch, but you have to select them. Not all of your songs will be copied to your watch.
I am thinking to use the stock Google Play Music to play MP3 I have locally.
I don't want to use streaming services like Spotify or Saavn (or I don't want to subscribe to Google Play Music Subscription too)
How well does this Play Music handle local MP3? Also, It says I can upload 50,000 MP3s to my online storage for free.
It is very confusing because I had a Moto Phone before and my some of locally stored MP3s refused to play and it said 'Online connection required to play this song' even though it was my own local MP3 file.
I refuse to move to 3rd party apps.
Can someone elaborate how to efficiently work with MP3 files locally on Play Music without a subscription service?
sharukhmohammed said:
I am thinking to use the stock Google Play Music to play MP3 I have locally.
I don't want to use streaming services like Spotify or Saavn (or I don't want to subscribe to Google Play Music Subscription too)
How well does this Play Music handle local MP3? Also, It says I can upload 50,000 MP3s to my online storage for free.
It is very confusing because I had a Moto Phone before and my some of locally stored MP3s refused to play and it said 'Online connection required to play this song' even though it was my own local MP3 file.
I refuse to move to 3rd party apps.
Can someone elaborate how to efficiently work with MP3 files locally on Play Music without a subscription service?
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It plays local mp3 files stored on your device just fine, when you launch the music player, just press the X in the top left or say that you dont want to subscribe and after that you will see all your music you have on your phone.
I almost going crazy here, but if anyone here is using Google assistant and YouTube music on a note 10 can someone confirm if you experience this behaviour.
I use the band muse as an example.
Firstly make sure YouTube music is the default music provider for Google assistant.
While the phone is unlocked ask "hey Google, play muse" and Google assistant try to play in Google music, not YouTube music.
Then try to lock the phone and say the exactly same thing, and it works and play in YouTube music.
Anyone have any idea how this can happen that Google assistant works when the phone is locked or on lock screen, but when unlocked it does not respect the provider.
Tried with Spotify too and same issue
Update: it's a bug, but to solve it, go into Google music and deauthorize all phones, then uninstall Google music. You need to deauthorize the phones before uninstall or Google assistant want to reinstall Google music
i also have same issue. it doesn't hear me sometime .
i can't using it when screen is locked.