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.
I just got my AT&T LG G3. I have logged into my Google Play Music account. I try to download my playlists to my phone and it starts to download the tracks, but then it times out. I get 'Cant download music right now. Will try again later'. Anyone else seen this or having this same problem?
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
Before my phone updated from 8.0 to 8.1 Google Assistant would open Deezer, which is the music streaming service I use. Now it refuses to and I can't re-set it to do so, as I only get the choice of Google Play Music or Spotify. Is this down to Google or Deezer?
Has anyone been able to do this? I've seen a video where someone had offline music stored but I don't have an option to do it. Tried uninstalling Spotify from my phone and watch to start again. Then downloaded both from the Google play store but the version on my watch looks so basic. No search options just a list of recently played items when I swipe right. All I can do is select one and it will start playing on my phone. No options in the settings either. Has it downloaded an old version for me or something? I have Spotify premium although it was through Vodafone
I think I've sorted it...
Went into settings, about watch, storage and accepted the permissions, now I can download songs!