I'm having a few issues with Google Music. Firstly, I have the Google Music Manager set to automatically upload songs added to iTunes, it however doesn't upload anything automatically, I have to go into the settings and do it manually all the time.
Secondly, on the app on my Galaxy S, songs will constantly repeat unless I set shuffle on. Is it supposed to be like this or am I experiencing problems?
How can I fix both issues?
Thanks!
I encountered another issue: all my songs on my external sd have disappeared from the Google Music app. There are no options to import or refresh library..
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Hello,
I recently upgraded to ICS and am having trouble using Google's Music Player to play my music. Note that I'm trying to play music from my SD card; I have no music uploaded to Google's Music Player. It worked fine in Gingerbread.
For some reason any time I click on a song an error pops up saying "Music Playback Error - unable to play song" or something similar. Not to mention I have duplicate playlists (3 of the same playlist) in my Playlist list.
Anyone know of a fix for this? I like the layout of the default Music Player but should I just switch to another player? Any suggestions?
Kaaji1359 said:
Hello,
I recently upgraded to ICS and am having trouble using Google's Music Player to play my music. Note that I'm trying to play music from my SD card; I have no music uploaded to Google's Music Player. It worked fine in Gingerbread.
For some reason any time I click on a song an error pops up saying "Music Playback Error - unable to play song" or something similar. Not to mention I have duplicate playlists (3 of the same playlist) in my Playlist list.
Anyone know of a fix for this? I like the layout of the default Music Player but should I just switch to another player? Any suggestions?
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i just experienced this error also just few hours ago & until now i cant play my favorite music . shall we transfer all music files in SD?
Im having the same problem. i tried formatting both sd cards but everytime i go back into google play the music is still there and is unplayable. in my other music player the same problem. im on the stock ics build unrooted. i also cleared cache in settings and in stock recovery as well. im about to root and flash a custom rom but would rather not have to do all that. any suggestions?
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also i have not set up cloud storage so it should not be related to that either
Work around google play music
I found a work around- not a solution to the issue with the app...but I'm playing my music!
Open a web browser on your phone to music.google.com
When I do that all my music is right there. It plays fine. I guess its what the ipad/ipod/iphone peeps use to creep onto the Google music cloud. Ironic...
-Running a Droid X
I was told to move music to internal. Its running fine so far, but time will tell
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Everything Root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773659
Returning to Stock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652398
Found a solution to my problem
Just wanted to chime in on how I found my fix, although it was for issues playing off the cloud, when I originally copied songs to SD then deleted off.
My Google Music would play music and gave me a playback error message. But I figured it was due to songs that I had originally copied to the external SD, and recently deleted. Playing those songs from the cloud gave me the error, while songs I never copied to SD played just fine.
So my thoughts were that the phone probably still thinks its playing those songs from the SD when it shouldn't because I deleted them.
My solution: turn off data and wifi, set google music to show only what was on device (because it still thinks songs were still stored in the phone), and deleted every single song one-by-one, a tedious process.
Then go manage apps and cleared app cache, uninstalled the app, reboot, reinstall, turn on wifi+data... and voila, those songs are playing off the cloud again.
If that didn't work then I would've factory reset.
I would think that this would work too for songs that were on SD card, but when I had problems with external SD music, I just cleared app cache, unmount SD and reboot.
Hope this helps for anyone else that runs into this problem.
Have u tried using another music app vincom jb mod has no music player I prefer player pro its very nice and has many options compared to stock
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Never had problems from gingerbread to ics ran it from SD music check ur settings or run it thru kies
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Just wanted to chime in on how I found my fix, although it was for issues playing off the cloud, when I originally copied songs to SD then deleted off.
My Google Music would play music and gave me a playback error message. But I figured it was due to songs that I had originally copied to the external SD, and recently deleted. Playing those songs from the cloud gave me the error, while songs I never copied to SD played just fine.
So my thoughts were that the phone probably still thinks its playing those songs from the SD when it shouldn't because I deleted them.
My solution: turn off data and wifi, set google music to show only what was on device (because it still thinks songs were still stored in the phone), and deleted every single song one-by-one, a tedious process.
Then go manage apps and cleared app cache, uninstalled the app, reboot, reinstall, turn on wifi+data... and voila, those songs are playing off the cloud again.
If that didn't work then I would've factory reset.
I would think that this would work too for songs that were on SD card, but when I had problems with external SD music, I just cleared app cache, unmount SD and reboot.
Hope this helps for anyone else that runs into this problem.
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Clearing Google Play Music Cache and wiping Data would have been enough.
Solved my problem this way!
Google play error
I have a rooted Asus Nexus 7
I had a problem with Google play music
It would stop playing part way through songs
But I found a solution to the problem
Uninstall the factory installed app with titanium backup
Then go to Google app store and search for google play and reinstall the app
It now works fine for me it has been functioning for 3 days with out problems
As much as google support wanted me to unroot my device or they wouldn't help me with my issue I hope this helps everyone out
A small solution that worked for me.
I just received a error meesgae when I trued to listen to my music on android tablet. I found a solution that worked for me. I removed my SD card and then placed it back into my tablet. Then I went to setting>storage and set storage to SD card. I went back to Google music player to make sure my device was looking for music from the sd card. My music is saved on my device so of course there was no music to be found. Then I went back to storage settings and selected device for storage. Went back to music player there was all music and they all played fine.
Hello, I just want to know how the Google Play Music app know where and how to select the songs on my device's local storage in order to play them in the app? In fact, on the external SD card of my phone, I made a folder with all my songs in it and when I open the app, all songs will automatically loads up in the app. But the question is that the setting of the app is dead simple; it does not even have the "music folder' selection in which I can tell what songs the app have to scan. Why and how everything comes out automatically and what happens if I have more than one "music folder"? How to app will scan? Thanks.
I want to know this as well cause Google Music isn't bad but just being able to play music when your online is just crap when you have music stored on your phone.
Android has something called a media scanner, it usually runs after boot has completed (it may also update here and then while the device is running).
So this media scanner scans all your data for music/videos/pictures so that these files can easily be accessed by any app. So it does not matter where your files are, it just finds them.
If you add music through any non standard app to your storage this may not trigger the media scanner, thats why recently added music may not show in those apps using the media scanners results.
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Hello, I just want to know how the Google Play Music app know where and how to select the songs on my device's local storage in order to play them in the app? In fact, on the external SD card of my phone, I made a folder with all my songs in it and when I open the app, all songs will automatically loads up in the app. But the question is that the setting of the app is dead simple; it does not even have the "music folder' selection in which I can tell what songs the app have to scan. Why and how everything comes out automatically and what happens if I have more than one "music folder"? How to app will scan? Thanks.
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You should see a tack icon above the song or go to the menu and clickkeep song or download.
Remember to click thanks ifi helped.
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Thanks for your suggestion but now I'm using Player Pro and it's much more better.
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For those of you who have had these problems (which is a number of you, as I found out after a quick search), I had the same problems and found a solution after tinkering about. The alternative, deleting all old music and resyncing, often still gave me problems so I'm hoping this will be helpful. If anyone has found a more elegant solution, please share it.
Step 1: Create a NEW Playlist in iTunes WITH A UNIQUE NAME THAT YOU HAVE NEVER USED BEFORE.
This is important. For whatever reason, the music player will assume a playlist with a name you've used in the past is already synced and it will ignore it. It also has to be a NEW playlist, not an old playlist that you rename. I used "Test1", "Test2", etc. Don't worry, you'll be able to change it to something else later.
Step 2: Add one song to the playlist that you do not actually want in the playlist.
Again, important. When you sync in the next step, the playlist that appears in google music won't contain the song you added.
Step 3: It may take a minute or so for the playlist to appear in the list of playlists to sync; wait until it is visible and then sync the playlist with google music manager.
Step 4: Wait for the Playlist to appear in google music. It will appear as an empty playlist.
Step 5: Remove the song from the playlist in iTunes and wait for the playlist to disappear from the list of playlists to sync in google music manager before syncing the playlists.
Empty playlists are not recognized as syncable so they will eventually disappear from the list of playlists that you can sync.
Step 6: Add ANOTHER song you do not actually want in the playlist
Again, when you resync in the next step, the song will not appear in the playlist on google music.
Step 7: Wait for the playlist to appear in google music manager, and then resync.
Step 8: After the playlist appears again in google music, add all the songs you actually want in the playlists, and sync the music manager.
You might have to sync a couple times and/or wait a couple minutes, but eventually, you will see that the songs are being added to the playlist in google music.
Step 9: After your songs are added, you can rename the playlist both in iTunes and in Google Music. It will still sync properly if you add and/or remove songs from it.
This is really annoying issue that keeps happening ..over and over and over again. Is there no solid fix? Anyone confirm this working without occurring again?
Thanks for posting this but I've tried this and it doesn't appear to work. I get all the way down until the part where I add the music I want on the playlist but my playlist doesn't sync.
Question though, your instructions miss out what to do with the last song you add to your playlist that you don't actually want on the playlist. Should this be deleted before I add the songs I do want on the playlist or after? Also, do I require do to this for all my playlists that have the duplication issue?
The duplication issue is driving me insane. So if anyone can help it would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I also have this issue. I have 3 or 4 songs duplicated in my library. So annoying.
Has anyone tried third party apps like DupeOut?
Still a bloody issue! Fix this **** google it's horrible
Yep...still happens. Solution above helped for a while, then back to this crap again.
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My Google music manager would upload the songs, upload the playlist name, but the playlist remains empty. This only started the beginning of this month and its driving me nuts! I use itunes to upload the playlists and I have un and reinstalled both itunes and music mananger several times hoping to solve the issue.
Can anyone shed some hope onto my problem?
robindra said:
My Google music manager would upload the songs, upload the playlist name, but the playlist remains empty. This only started the beginning of this month and its driving me nuts! I use itunes to upload the playlists and I have un and reinstalled both itunes and music mananger several times hoping to solve the issue.
Can anyone shed some hope onto my problem?
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This is the same problem I'm having. Google Music Manager will upload all my songs as well as upload the playlist name, but in Google Music, the playlist will remain empty.
Google Music Manager is such a buggy app and has been from the beginning!
JDStone said:
This is the same problem I'm having. Google Music Manager will upload all my songs as well as upload the playlist name, but in Google Music, the playlist will remain empty.
Google Music Manager is such a buggy app and has been from the beginning!
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Same here. I have tried removing all music and playlists online, clearing app data on my phone and tablet, uninstalling music manager and all preferences and files, created new playlists in iTunes and re-added the songs (even removed all music from iTunes and re-imported it), rebooted, re-installed music manager and tried to upload things again, everything uploads but my playlists are *STILL* empty. I have tried this from Mac Mavericks and even Windows 8.1. It was working perfectly fine a couple weeks ago, wonder if Google updated something that broke the playlists from populating. I sent them an e-mail, but haven't heard anything. Granted, it's a free service and you get what you pay for, it's frustrating to see a service with such great potential fall short because of a few bugs. I kind of wish they would come out with their own offline music player that would interface directly online, so I can get rid of iTunes once and for all!
Hi just got my new Nexus 5!!eek! It's amazing and when I tried to put all my music on to it, I opened Google play music, all the music was there but when I click on any song, it says music playback error cannot play track. This is really annoying. I have tried a reboot as I did some research (others are having this issue) and also I've tried settings, apps, media storage, clear data, which also has fixed most people's. I use mp3s from my own laptop and don't download them from Google play by the way. Help much appreciated!! Thanks!
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Hello everyone, I have an issue with my nexus 5: when I copy a song to the music folder in my nexus 5, the music player doesn't refresh unless I rename the file (for example by removing and rewriting the same letter) or move it from my file manager. This occurs with google play music app as well as any other external player from play store.
Please help me figure out what I can do!!
You may not be giving the player enough time to scan for media, it does not occur instantaneously. First I have heard of this.
Try restarting the phone or clear the cache and wipe the data for the app.
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You may not be giving the player enough time to scan for media, it does not occur instantaneously. First I have heard of this.
Try restarting the phone or clear the cache and wipe the data for the app.
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Nothing changes if I clear the cache/data, instead if I reboot the phone the songs appear in the library.. but I don't think it's normal that everytime I transfer a song I have to reboot my phone! :/.. isn't there a way to manually refresh the library?
If you are just using music stored on your I would recommend a different player besides Google Play Music, but if you have music in the cloud/ device I would use that. Google PLay Music just acts strange I think for music that is on the phone, like sometimes it just doesn't recognize that it's on the phone if you have "all music selected" vs "on device". I recommend poweramp or if you are on a custom ROM apollo is pretty good and comes with a lot of ROMS. Back to the subject at hand I think that it has something to do with the mediascanner settings. Check those.
It's something to do with copying the files from PC using a wire. I WiFi my songs over using Es file explorer and have no issues with Play Music local play back.
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