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I'm getting this error message "music temporarily unavailable. couldn't play the stream you requested". I only have 3 devices authorized and I am having no issues with playback on my computer, however every song is giving me this error, whether over 4G or Wifi on my GNex. This issue started happening two days ago (around the time the European Google Play Music store updates were occurring / not sure if it's related). My issue was happening before the most recent Google Music update (a day or two ago?) as well as after. Also, not sure if it's relevant but I've almost filled my 20,000 song limit.
Anyone else figure this out / had this issue / have advice? Thanks!
Stock GNex on Verizon.
I have the same message starting today, but only for certain songs on my Galaxy Nexus.
I'm at 3.000 on song limit so I don't think that's it. Streaming on PC and other phone (Nexus S) is fine.
I am in Canada, which doesn't officially have Music yet, but then the streaming is working fine on devices so I don't think that's the issue.
vcmic said:
I have the same message starting today, but only for certain songs on my Galaxy Nexus.
I'm at 3.000 on song limit so I don't think that's it. Streaming on PC and other phone (Nexus S) is fine.
I am in Canada, which doesn't officially have Music yet, but then the streaming is working fine on devices so I don't think that's the issue.
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I was getting this message frequently the other day (Tuesday) but since the update to Google Play Music, I haven't had any problems. BTW, Music is available in Canada now...sorta. We can upload and stream (music.google.com doesn't block you from the webpage anymore and you can download Music Manager) but we don't have a music store or nothing like that. It got flipped on around the same time they announced Music for Google TV in Canada.
I've also been getting the same message on my tablet since Tuesday. I noticed it after the last Play Music update. Since I didn't know what to do, I uninstalled the app and did a fresh re-install to no avail.
No problems playing on cell or computer. And I don't think song limit is an issue here... I don't have more than 500 songs myself.
Besides, my problem is not with all songs, just some... not sure, but seems like the ones I'm having problems with are the ones I have gotten for free from Play Store ("Free Song of the Day" type of songs).
Hopefully somebody has more info on this issue, a suggestion... Or if we are lucky perhaps it's a temporary glitch and it resolves itself some time soon.
~ fitzbg
I think I've fixed it. Let's put it this way: I know that at least 2 of the songs that had disappeared (i.e. gave the "Music temporarily unavailable." error) are available now. I followed the instructions I saw for people having problems with the Play store after a recent update on the androidcentral forums. I tried to give that link, but as a noob on XDA I'm not allowed. Search for: "Problem since 4.1.2 update" android central, if you want to see my source...
I followed the same steps there, but instead of doing it for the Play store I did it for Google Play Music.
I did the following:
1. Make sure you're signed into Talk. (not sure if this one is actually required, but I did do it).
2. Go to setting>apps>all>Google Play Music
3. Clear data (note that this means that all your locally stored music and playlists will disappear).
4. Uninstall updates
5. Go back to the list of All Apps and click on Google account manager,
6. Clear data
7. Force stop.
8. Power off and leave it off for a minute or two (I removed my battery to be extra sure) then re-boot
After your phone restarts you will notice that Google Music Player will update (if you had automatic updates allowed in the Play Store for it).
9. Open Google Play Music and let it sync with the servers.
After a couple of minutes all the music from your locker should be visible.
Again, I have tested it for 2 missing songs only. So far so good. :fingers-crossed:
I will post later if I find anything else.
@vcmic: thanks so much! this works for me indeed you're my savior :highfive:
Worked for me as well. Minus the being signed into Talk part. (I skipped that part)
Thanks!
This solution worked for me too on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
Thanks
Worked for me as well on Motorola Atrix HD which just got updated from 4.0.4 to 4.1.1.
Also didn't touch Talk although I was signed in before.
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vcmic said:
I think I've fixed it. Let's put it this way: I know that at least 2 of the songs that had disappeared (i.e. gave the "Music temporarily unavailable." error) are available now. I followed the instructions I saw for people having problems with the Play store after a recent update on the androidcentral forums. I tried to give that link, but as a noob on XDA I'm not allowed. Search for: "Problem since 4.1.2 update" android central, if you want to see my source...
I followed the same steps there, but instead of doing it for the Play store I did it for Google Play Music.
I did the following:
1. Make sure you're signed into Talk. (not sure if this one is actually required, but I did do it).
2. Go to setting>apps>all>Google Play Music
3. Clear data (note that this means that all your locally stored music and playlists will disappear).
4. Uninstall updates
5. Go back to the list of All Apps and click on Google account manager,
6. Clear data
7. Force stop.
8. Power off and leave it off for a minute or two (I removed my battery to be extra sure) then re-boot
After your phone restarts you will notice that Google Music Player will update (if you had automatic updates allowed in the Play Store for it).
9. Open Google Play Music and let it sync with the servers.
After a couple of minutes all the music from your locker should be visible.
Again, I have tested it for 2 missing songs only. So far so good. :fingers-crossed:
I will post later if I find anything else.
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I've just tried to do this but couldn't see any app called "Google account manager" in the all apps section. Would love to resolve this, it's doing my head in!
Didn't Work
vcmic said:
I think I've fixed it. Let's put it this way: I know that at least 2 of the songs that had disappeared (i.e. gave the "Music temporarily unavailable." error) are available now. I followed the instructions I saw for people having problems with the Play store after a recent update on the androidcentral forums. I tried to give that link, but as a noob on XDA I'm not allowed. Search for: "Problem since 4.1.2 update" android central, if you want to see my source...
I followed the same steps there, but instead of doing it for the Play store I did it for Google Play Music.
I did the following:
1. Make sure you're signed into Talk. (not sure if this one is actually required, but I did do it).
2. Go to setting>apps>all>Google Play Music
3. Clear data (note that this means that all your locally stored music and playlists will disappear).
4. Uninstall updates
5. Go back to the list of All Apps and click on Google account manager,
6. Clear data
7. Force stop.
8. Power off and leave it off for a minute or two (I removed my battery to be extra sure) then re-boot
After your phone restarts you will notice that Google Music Player will update (if you had automatic updates allowed in the Play Store for it).
9. Open Google Play Music and let it sync with the servers.
After a couple of minutes all the music from your locker should be visible.
Again, I have tested it for 2 missing songs only. So far so good. :fingers-crossed:
I will post later if I find anything else.
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I just did that and it don't' work. The only diference is that I have a HTC One S and that you can't remove the battery.
vcmic said:
I think I've fixed it. Let's put it this way: I know that at least 2 of the songs that had disappeared (i.e. gave the "Music temporarily unavailable." error) are available now. I followed the instructions I saw for people having problems with the Play store after a recent update on the androidcentral forums. I tried to give that link, but as a noob on XDA I'm not allowed. Search for: "Problem since 4.1.2 update" android central, if you want to see my source...
I followed the same steps there, but instead of doing it for the Play store I did it for Google Play Music.
I did the following:
1. Make sure you're signed into Talk. (not sure if this one is actually required, but I did do it).
2. Go to setting>apps>all>Google Play Music
3. Clear data (note that this means that all your locally stored music and playlists will disappear).
4. Uninstall updates
5. Go back to the list of All Apps and click on Google account manager,
6. Clear data
7. Force stop.
8. Power off and leave it off for a minute or two (I removed my battery to be extra sure) then re-boot
After your phone restarts you will notice that Google Music Player will update (if you had automatic updates allowed in the Play Store for it).
9. Open Google Play Music and let it sync with the servers.
After a couple of minutes all the music from your locker should be visible.
Again, I have tested it for 2 missing songs only. So far so good. :fingers-crossed:
I will post later if I find anything else.
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Worked like a charm, I also skipped step 1. Before this fix not one song played now I've tested over a dozen and they all played. Thanks
vcmic said:
I think I've fixed it. Let's put it this way: I know that at least 2 of the songs that had disappeared (i.e. gave the "Music temporarily unavailable." error) are available now. I followed the instructions I saw for people having problems with the Play store after a recent update on the androidcentral forums. I tried to give that link, but as a noob on XDA I'm not allowed. Search for: "Problem since 4.1.2 update" android central, if you want to see my source...
I followed the same steps there, but instead of doing it for the Play store I did it for Google Play Music.
I did the following:
1. Make sure you're signed into Talk. (not sure if this one is actually required, but I did do it).
2. Go to setting>apps>all>Google Play Music
3. Clear data (note that this means that all your locally stored music and playlists will disappear).
4. Uninstall updates
5. Go back to the list of All Apps and click on Google account manager,
6. Clear data
7. Force stop.
8. Power off and leave it off for a minute or two (I removed my battery to be extra sure) then re-boot
After your phone restarts you will notice that Google Music Player will update (if you had automatic updates allowed in the Play Store for it).
9. Open Google Play Music and let it sync with the servers.
After a couple of minutes all the music from your locker should be visible.
Again, I have tested it for 2 missing songs only. So far so good. :fingers-crossed:
I will post later if I find anything else.
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Yep, this worked for me also. Two years later.
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...
king conan said:
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.
dprantl said:
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.
lm_1970 said:
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).
Received my watch yesterday and tried to send music from google play music to it, but even though the box to download to android wear is ticked, nothing is sent.
The music is already on the phone but there's no other songs or buttons I can see.
Thanks in advance for any help
fatgit said:
Received my watch yesterday and tried to send music from google play music to it, but even though the box to download to android wear is ticked, nothing is sent.
The music is already on the phone but there's no other songs or buttons I can see.
Thanks in advance for any help
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you must have battery above 75% or sync won't start!! it's the same also with othe programs like sony walkman
Same problem here. watch battery and phone battery are both plenty over 75%
Both were plugged in and at 100% for about 5 hours
I only got walkman download music to the watch. Googles software didnt work sofar.
fatgit said:
Received my watch yesterday and tried to send music from google play music to it, but even though the box to download to android wear is ticked, nothing is sent.
The music is already on the phone but there's no other songs or buttons I can see.
Thanks in advance for any help
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For Google Play, you have to upload your music to the Google Play cloud, even if it's your own music and already on the phone, and then download it back to your phone, and then, only then, can that music can be transferred to your SW 3. The Sony Walkman application does not have this requirement. I found I could transfer a Stitcher Play Later podcast to the SW 3 using the Sony Walkman app or anything stored locally on the phone. Not the case with Google Play unless I uploaded the file to Google first.
That explains a lot and is not something im gonna use
The music is uploaded to Google Play (and then downloaded to the phone).
I'll try the Walkman route and see how that goes
It goes well, i am using that method
I have searched but i can't find the option to sync to the watch in the walkman app.
Is it supposed to work over throw?
How do you initiate the transfer?
Hey there. You can enter any playlist and you have a switch to transfer to watch.
Create a play list and make sure both the phone and watch have at least 75% battery. View the pkaylist in on the phone and there's a switch to download to the watch.
It took a while to transfer 700Mb.
Thanks. But i must be really blind. I created a playlist and can't find any switch for it. The only switch i see is under Settings ClearAudio+
Both devices are over 80% battery.
I have Walkman version 8.4.A.4.4 installed.
either i am blind or it is not supported in Germany?
//Edit: or could it be that because i unlocked and rooted my smartphone that because the license stuff gets lost it is not possible? (they are mp3 files from me)
I'm using 8.5.A.0.6
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
Aydie said:
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.
Cant for the life of me get google music to work on the SW3 (paired with a S7 Edge running stock marshmallow). Anyone had similar?
Downloaded 2 playlists to my phones internal memory as instructed online, one of my own uploaded music to the service, and one of music i hadnt uploaded (signed up for a google music trial to see if that was the reason).
Phone and watch are connected in the actual wear app fine etc. Set up properly in the google music app settings and can see the playlists both there ready to go to the watch from the 'manage wear downloads' section and my watch shows, opened up the app on the watch and then 'play on wear', eventually after maybe 15 seconds it shows all my available playlists and the 2 playlists id downloaded onto the phone are in orange, but nothing happens after that. No sync. Even though i set it to sync when it asked me when first opened the app on the watch. I can select and deselect playlists and an orange tick card pops up at the bottom of the screen, when i click that it just goes back to the watch main face. Left it to see if it starts but nothing.
Tried factory resetting the watch, uninstalling updates for play music on phone, updating again, clearing cache of the app, even clearing the cache on the phone, watch fully charged or on charge, same with phone, also tried 2 bluetooth headsets to see if it wasnt picking that up right.
Anyone think of anything ive missed (apart from factory resetting the phone)? cheers.
markgranto said:
Cant for the life of me get google music to work on the SW3 (paired with a S7 Edge running stock marshmallow). Anyone had similar?
Downloaded 2 playlists to my phones internal memory as instructed online, one of my own uploaded music to the service, and one of music i hadnt uploaded (signed up for a google music trial to see if that was the reason).
Phone and watch are connected in the actual wear app fine etc. Set up properly in the google music app settings and can see the playlists both there ready to go to the watch from the 'manage wear downloads' section and my watch shows, opened up the app on the watch and then 'play on wear', eventually after maybe 15 seconds it shows all my available playlists and the 2 playlists id downloaded onto the phone are in orange, but nothing happens after that. No sync. Even though i set it to sync when it asked me when first opened the app on the watch. I can select and deselect playlists and an orange tick card pops up at the bottom of the screen, when i click that it just goes back to the watch main face. Left it to see if it starts but nothing.
Tried factory resetting the watch, uninstalling updates for play music on phone, updating again, clearing cache of the app, even clearing the cache on the phone, watch fully charged or on charge, same with phone, also tried 2 bluetooth headsets to see if it wasnt picking that up right.
Anyone think of anything ive missed (apart from factory resetting the phone)? cheers.
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I'm not sure if this will help, but you might try unpairing the watch from the phone and then go into the Google Play Services settings and wipe the Wearable Storage data. Then factory reset the watch and wipe the data on the Android Wear companion app... reboot the phone and watch... and then pair the watch with the phone again.
That should give you a fresh start and hopefully help to get things synced up.
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I'm not sure if this will help, but you might try unpairing the watch from the phone and then go into the Google Play Services settings and wipe the Wearable Storage data. Then factory reset the watch and wipe the data on the Android Wear companion app... reboot the phone and watch... and then pair the watch with the phone again.
That should give you a fresh start and hopefully help to get things synced up.
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Will give that a bash now, cheers
mattnmag said:
I'm not sure if this will help, but you might try unpairing the watch from the phone and then go into the Google Play Services settings and wipe the Wearable Storage data. Then factory reset the watch and wipe the data on the Android Wear companion app... reboot the phone and watch... and then pair the watch with the phone again.
That should give you a fresh start and hopefully help to get things synced up.
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unpaired the watch, went into play services and wiped the wear storage. Factory reset the watch and cleared the data in the wear app and uninstalled it. Rebooted both and set it all up again from scratch. Opened the app on the watch and turned on music sync. Initially said i needed to plug in power which i did, and then it showed the playlists, clicked on the ones i had been testing with and then the orange tick and it goes back to the watch face as before. Checked the settings in the play music app and all looks as it should. Still wont sync. :silly:
Unpaired with S7 Edge, factory reset and setup with my LG G Pad, worked a treat, music sync'd without any issue.
Unpaired, reset etc and set back up fresh with the S7 Edge. Same issues. Arghhhhh!!!
Wonder if its something permissions related on the S7 thats doing it not allowing the transfer of files to the watch. Saying that tested with wear media app and that sync'd across music files fine. Anyone any ideas?
Managed to get this sorted.
Was reading through this
https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/android-wear/DGr1WPiy9Po/Sv6ThhXmDAAJ
And saw a comment about taking out the sd card, so did so and it worked immediately even though play music was saving to the internal storage. Very weird. But glad it's sorted.
markgranto said:
Managed to get this sorted.
Was reading through this
https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/android-wear/DGr1WPiy9Po/Sv6ThhXmDAAJ
And saw a comment about taking out the sd card, so did so and it worked immediately even though play music was saving to the internal storage. Very weird. But glad it's sorted.
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Glad to hear that you got it fixed. I'm sure this will help someone else.
There was music files on the sd card but not relating to Google play music, must have been trying to scan this possibly. Who knows. Anyway, yeah hopefully someone finds it useful.