I have search the forums and not found what I'm looking for so I will start a thread.
I just used Google play to purchase a album and I selected the download to device option so I wouldn't have to deal with any storage in the cloud. the issue is when I scan folders for new music or using the power amp app, it cannot find this new music. I have used root explorer and can not find the folder Google play placed my purI feel pretty stupid starting a thread for this but any help would be appreciated
Sorry, but when you purchase music from Google Play you have to use their app to play it back, which is Play music. I do not believe there is an option to download your music, because it is a cloud based service. Amazon mp3 is the same thing as google play music, but you have the option to download your music rather than only stream it, which is much better imo.
immajew69 said:
Sorry, but when you purchase music from Google Play you have to use their app to play it back, which is Play music. I do not believe there is an option to download your music, because it is a cloud based service. Amazon mp3 is the same thing as google play music, but you have the option to download your music rather than only stream it, which is much better imo.
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I was afraid this is what I would find out. I normally purchase my music from Amazon via the download function. Kinda pissed I made the purchase now and can't burn a copy of it for the CD player in the car.
He is correct, can "only" be played via the Google Music app, but there is a work around. Amazon does let you download instantly, but music is 260kbs, Google is 320kbs. You can download your google Music on your pc and manually transfer to your device like any other mp3, or even upload it to amazon and download from there.
Google Music removes the instant dl, but adds full mp3 quality sound.
You then can use any music app.
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annoyingduck said:
He is correct, can "only" be played via the Google Music app, but there is a work around. Amazon does let you download instantly, but music is 260kbs, Google is 320kbs. You can download your google Music on your pc and manually transfer to your device like any other mp3, or even upload it to amazon and download from there.
Google Music removes the instant dl, but adds full mp3 quality sound.
You then can use any music app.
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This is correct... The website allows 2 downloads of each song, presumably so you don't download it to all of your friends computers.
However, you will find the files under /data/data/com.google.android.music/files, but unfortunately the filenames are just numbers, again presumably because they don't want you to copy the songs. It will just be a pain to find which is which.
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Has anyone figured out a way to play externally downloaded podcasts (mp3s) using Google's "Listen" app?
(In other words, use Listen to play something that was not downloaded by the app)
I would love to know this too - if I download an mp3 of a podcast which is no longer hosted online can I somehow add it to the Listen app and listen to it through that or do I have to add it to the Music app?
I asked on the Google forums and it looks like it's impossible
The files have hidden information embedded or something so that Listen will pick it up.
I put some music on my phone, but I only selected certain tracks. For example, I picked 4 songs from an album and it shows ALL the songs that I have from that artist in my phone and they're all playable. I plug in my nexus 4 and check the music folder and it only has the 4 songs that I put in there. I don't use any sort of clouds either.
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I put some music on my phone, but I only selected certain tracks. For example, I picked 4 songs from an album and it shows ALL the songs that I have from that artist in my phone and they're all playable. I plug in my nexus 4 and check the music folder and it only has the 4 songs that I put in there. I don't use any sort of clouds either.
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Are you using Google play music?
halluci293 said:
Are you using Google play music?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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In that case, Google play music will show you all of the music that you've uploaded to your account, regardless of whether or not it's physically on your phone. So if you have the full album uploaded to play music, then you'll see the full album on your phone. If you want to play songs that aren't physically on your phone, it will stream them over the internet from play music.
You can hide music that's not on your phone if you go into the play music app, tapp the arrow next to 'All Music' at the top left, and select 'On Device Only'
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In that case, Google play music will show you all of the music that you've uploaded to your account, regardless of whether or not it's physically on your phone. So if you have the full album uploaded to play music, then you'll see the full album on your phone. If you want to play songs that aren't physically on your phone, it will stream them over the internet from play music.
You can hide music that's not on your phone if you go into the play music app, tapp the arrow next to 'All Music' at the top left, and select 'On Device Only'
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I don't remember uploading any music to google play music. How can I delete them?
nvus said:
I don't remember uploading any music to google play music. How can I delete them?
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Go to http://play.google.com/music on a pc. You can see what you've got there and delete them if you want.
By the way, you Google gives you some free music when you buy a Nexus 4, so that might be what you see uploaded there. I think I had about a dozen songs that Google added to my play music account for free.
Once you delete any music file from your Google play account, it makes it permanent. So make sure that you don't delete anything you paid for, because if you do, then you will have to buy it again. It doesn't work like apps where you buy it and if you delete it you can always re-download it again. If you delete paid music from your Google play account, then its permanent delete. I found that the hard way!
If I ask my phone to play some music, say "OK Moto X play some Marillion" it does a Google search then plays a random MP3 file in my Music folder using Google Play Music.
OK, very smart, but I have and prefer Shuttle music player.
So how do I get Shuttle to be the default MP3 player in this situation?
In a file explorer I have set Shuttle as the default app for MP3 files but when using Moto Voice it still starts up Google Play Music.
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If I ask my phone to play some music, say "OK Moto X play some Marillion" it does a Google search then plays a random MP3 file in my Music folder using Google Play Music.
OK, very smart, but I have and prefer Shuttle music player.
So how do I get Shuttle to be the default MP3 player in this situation?
In a file explorer I have set Shuttle as the default app for MP3 files but when using Moto Voice it still starts up Google Play Music.
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I believe google play music is the only player that Google search will use. I use to use poweramp and never had luck with that.
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Solved it.
When Google search comes up and starts playing the music, showing the Google Play Music icon top right, there is a hamburger you can select and then choose the music app of choice.
Simple when you know how but not very intuitive. Would have been nice to have been asked the first time.
Spoke too soon. The above isn't a permanent change as far as I can see. Next time I tried asking for music it reverted to Google Play Music again.
Hi all, anybody know of a music player that will syce between multiple devices including a pc? I usually use the Amazon music app but they've discontinued music uploads. Amy help would be great thanks.
Google play music is not without its flaws but it will at least do this (as long as you can live with uploading only from the PC or by using workarounds like a cloud storage synced folder).
I never noticed Amazon had disabled uploads for non-paying customers - there were things I liked better about the player, but the free storage limit was too small to be useful to me anyway.
if you use iTunes you can use iSyncr and sync your playlists to your android devices and use Poweramp or a music player of your choice. Poweramp is a top notch player with a high quality EQ btw. I used to use Google Play Music from time to time but it is lousy at syncing from my computer to the cloud and to the phone and tablet. it adds the same albums like 4 times over in the playlists and gets them all screwed up. So i gave up.
https://support.google.com/googleplaymusic/answer/1075570?hl=en
This is googles sync tool, point it at your music folder on your PC and let it rip. Songs will be streamable from the Google music app.
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Hi all,
After copying my music files (mp3) to my OP8Pro I can't seem to get them showing in the YT Music or Google Play Music app. Once I opened them from file manager they will show....
With over 1000 songs it's no use opening them one by one to get them showing within the music app. Does anyone have a clue how to get them showing all at once?
I did the same and on Google music they show up automatically and YouTube music it's under local files I think
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Hi all,
After copying my music files (mp3) to my OP8Pro I can't seem to get them showing in the YT Music or Google Play Music app. Once I opened them from file manager they will show....
With over 1000 songs it's no use opening them one by one to get them showing within the music app. Does anyone have a clue how to get them showing all at once?
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Just get the best music player there has ever been on Android.
Poweramp, absolutely no equal. And of course it'll allow library editing amongst other features, definitely worth buying the pro version too, it's a great app..