I'm a participant in Google Music (beta). I gotta say that I love it. Not having all that music on my devices is wonderful.
However, here's an oddity that I can't seem to fix or explain.
I ripped a CD to my collection on my PC on Friday. Saturday when I went to play that album on my Galaxy Tab it was there and played fine. Perfect.
Then, yesterday, I went to play this same album using Google Music (beta) on my Thunderbolt. It wasn't there. I couldn't find it in Artists, Albums or with search. Gone. I went back to look at my Tab and, yes, it's still on there.
So, the question is: Why doesn't my Thunderbolt have the new album? Is there a way to refresh Google Music?
Should I uninstall and reinstall Google Music?
Both the Tab and the Thunderbolt are running version v3.0.1.339
Settings, Accounts and Sync, Google, make sure Sync Music is checked.
You can press the Sync Now button there.
Make sure in Google Music player you have not checked "Offline Only" in Library options.
kierandill said:
Settings, Accounts and Sync, Google, make sure Sync Music is checked.
You can press the Sync Now button there.
Make sure in Google Music player you have not checked "Offline Only" in Library options.
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Sync Music was checked.
I did the Sync Now anyway.
"Offline Only" not selected.
No change.
It couldnt hurt to re-install the app.
It appears to be a combination of a bug in Google Music and a mistake on my part.
First, the bug in Google Music. It turns out that the songs didn't appear anywhere but the Tab. I couldn't find them in Google Music on my PC or any Android device except the Galaxy Tab (more on that later.) I looked at the Music Manager on my PC and it was stuck trying to upload the songs for this newly added album. They were stuck at 0% uploaded.
I'm in a conversation with the Google Music folks now trying to figure out why those songs won't upload. My next step is to send them a log and a database file.
Why do the songs appear on my Galaxy Tab? Well, that's my mistake. They are physically loaded on the tab. I had been experimenting copying files from my network shares using a network app and those were the files I copied. Google Music found them and included them in my list of music.
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I just realized my stock music player had no settings. After google the same problem, I noticed that it is probably because my associated google account had no google music beta account yet. then I got an invitation and sign this account with google music. then follow another post, go to system settings to clear data for music app, go back to the music app, setting appears. I check the my google account, it started to sync the music.
on my pc side, i was uploading my music to google music. so on my TF, it just showed some of the uploaded music. I let this uploading process run overnight. This morning I found uploading is finished. But my TF is frozen at what it had last night. it didn't refresh the list even i click refresh. I went to system setting, clear music app data, go back to music app again, now it is back to original status -- no music and no settings menu in the music app again. Does anyone know what is going on? Previously I installed google music beta from market and it seems this app is just the stock music app (no separate icon)
figured out myself. Need to clear cache under app and kill all running music process
I've been buying songs off Google Music. For the life of me I can't figure out how to download the music files onto my computer?
I've synched the songs to my phone so I can listen to them offline, but I don't know where on my Vibrant the files are placed.
I logged onto Google music via the web, and I don't see any option to download the files, all it does is allow me to play my music purchases.
What the heck? I'm about to go back to iTunes.
Can someone help me please.
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So I figured it out kind of. You can log onto Google Music via the web. Go to the list of your songs, then click the little arrow next to the song. It gives you the option to download the song onto your computer. It says there is a limit of doing this only twice.
The other option it says is to use "Music Manager" desktop application which doesn't have limits. Now my new question. How do I get Music Manager? I can't find a Music Manager application on Google search.
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What a STUPID PLACE to put the Music Manager desktop application download. It is under "upload" link on the right upper corner of Google music via web. Ya because "upload" is where you should put a download file. Idiots
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Now Music Manager scanned my hard drive and is forcing me to upload my music from my hard drive up to the cloud. Seems no way to opt out of doing this upon initial setup.
This is the worst experience. Is Google serious?
iTunes and Zune marketplace aren't even this complicated
What is the best to store music. I have double twist, but it is a pain to sync my checked songs in Itunes. I am coming from a iphone, had one since 08. I also uploaded most of my music I listen to to Google Music. Is that the easiest? I am afraid with double twist it will sync all of my music. Also will stock music app play songs that I have on Google Music?
Thank
I have DoubleTwist, but I only use it for AirPlay, not for syncing, so I can't speak on that part.
The Play Music (Google Music) player is the only player that will stream your Google Music from the cloud. However, within Play Music, you can download songs to your device. At that point you need a third-party app to convert the downloaded Google Music songs to regular mp3's for use with other apps like the stock app or DoubleTwist.
Sorry, I can't recall what any of these third-party apps are called, but if you google around, you should be able to find them.
If you want to keep music on your phone (which is of course handy for when you don't have a data connection), I use Syncr, which seems to have an easier interface, and less buggy than DoubleTwist. I just dump the music I want into playlists, and sync the playlists to my phone using Syncr.
Haven't used Doubletwist in a while. But when I did, it seemed that more times than not, it would try to synch all my music to my phone, regardless of the fact that I indicated to only sync certain playlists. Since I have something like 40+ GB of music, it lock up my computer, and fail to sync successfully anyway (since there is obviously not enough storage on the phone). Then I would have to start over synching, and on subsequent attempts, it would finally do what I wanted.
I find the solution I use to be quite useful and actually pretty awesome.
I've uploaded my entire music collection to Google Music. Yeah, it takes a while, but just leave your computer on for a couple of nights and it will finish.
Next, I made sure everything was well-organized. I only keep complete albums (like buying a CD), so sometimes there will be a song or two that need to be manually grouped into the album. Do this!
And finally, go into the Google Music app for your phone, select a few albums, and make them 'Available Offline'. It takes a minute or so to get an entire album transferred onto the device. Make sure you do this while on WiFi.
Since my phone can't hold all of my music, I select about 10 albums or so- more than I can realistically listen to while I'm out, and swap in/out albums when I get new ones or want to listen to something else.
It's also pretty useful if you stumble into anywhere with WiFi and want to listen to your entire music collection- something a lot of us cannot do even with 32GB phone storage. You can also make some more music 'Available Offline' when you find WiFi out in the wild.
This has worked wonders for me so far.
So does Google music not let others tie into their service? Big disappointment IMO, I am coming from windows phone and iPhone that have these app silos. Android has a file system and I thought this could be avoided.
I want to use the new HTC Music Hub and at first thought that it was going to tie-in from Google music and bring down all of my music as well as tie-in with local music I have on the phone. Which I am realizing is not the case. All the HTC Music Hub is going to do it let me launch Google music... Disappointing
New question though. Can Google Music two-way sync from the phone? Let's say I download an album from the internet onto my phone. If I put it in a certain folder will it sync? or is there an option in Google Music to upload music from the phone to Google Music?
And last but not least, can the Google Music player play music stored locally on the phone?
You can only add songs to Google Music from your computer, for now.
If you make music 'Available Offline', it becomes stored locally and you can listen to it without an internet connection.
You cannot use Google Music to listen to non-Goolge Music locally stored music.
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I find the solution I use to be quite useful and actually pretty awesome.
I've uploaded my entire music collection to Google Music. Yeah, it takes a while, but just leave your computer on for a couple of nights and it will finish.
Next, I made sure everything was well-organized. I only keep complete albums (like buying a CD), so sometimes there will be a song or two that need to be manually grouped into the album. Do this!
And finally, go into the Google Music app for your phone, select a few albums, and make them 'Available Offline'. It takes a minute or so to get an entire album transferred onto the device. Make sure you do this while on WiFi.
Since my phone can't hold all of my music, I select about 10 albums or so- more than I can realistically listen to while I'm out, and swap in/out albums when I get new ones or want to listen to something else.
It's also pretty useful if you stumble into anywhere with WiFi and want to listen to your entire music collection- something a lot of us cannot do even with 32GB phone storage. You can also make some more music 'Available Offline' when you find WiFi out in the wild.
This has worked wonders for me so far.
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This is exactly what I'm thinking of doing if I get the One X. Some questions...
Is is simple to swap in/out albums for offline listening? (When on wi-fi.)
So the music is stored locally when downloaded for offline listening? For the One X would that mean the 'phone storage'? (The 9.8 available for media.)
Any idea how long it would take over wi-fi if I hypothetically chose 6 GB of music to download for offline listening?
How well organized is your music once you use the Google Music app? Any bugs? (Songs missing, artist listed twice, anything else.)
Thanks in advance for your answers.
I just went from a custom Gingerbread rom to a custom ICS rom and now when I open Play Music it only shows my music that I have on my device. The 9,000+ songs I have in my Play Music library don't show up at all. I have it connected to my account and if I go into settings a choose Refresh music from Google Play nothing happens. Anyone else have this problem or have any suggestions?
Figured it out. Had to go into account sync settings and enable music to sync.
Good job.
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Thanks!!
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!