I'm becoming extremely frustrated with Google Music. I realize it is early, but it seems to be slow, and the UI on my netbook on the actual website is straight up horrific. There are two things i wish to do as of right now, one being if i add a song to music.google.com and it syncs to my phone, i want it to automatically be able to go to "available offline" rather than going through and finding it. Second, i wish there was just a folder like the folder for itunes "automatically add to itunes", only for Google music. This would be of great convenience considering my Google Music syncs with Itunes correctly about half the time... Sorry for the long rant...
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I live and die by smartlists and the ratings through itunes. That is the one thing keeping you from using android. After attempts with almost every program including doubletwist, I have found a solution.
iSyncr along with its paid ratings widget has finally worked for me. The developer helped me figure out the problem at first that it has to be set for the internal sd card (not the external sd card I added). That with the mixZing app and all is well. I even use the two program's widgets on one scree for an almost ipod interface. I can finally start editing my music on the fly. While the ratings need to update to itunes to affect the playlists, so no on the fly playlist editing, but I can finally weed out the songs that suck.
Anyways, thats my rant for all the iphone defectors that miss that part of their old phones.
Oh yeah, and if its games you want, go directly to gameloft.
wakeupkeo said:
I live and die by smartlists and the ratings through itunes. That is the one thing keeping you from using android. After attempts with almost every program including doubletwist, I have found a solution.
iSyncr along with its paid ratings widget has finally worked for me. The developer helped me figure out the problem at first that it has to be set for the internal sd card (not the external sd card I added). That with the mixZing app and all is well. I even use the two program's widgets on one scree for an almost ipod interface. I can finally start editing my music on the fly. While the ratings need to update to itunes to affect the playlists, so no on the fly playlist editing, but I can finally weed out the songs that suck.
Anyways, thats my rant for all the iphone defectors that miss that part of their old phones.
Oh yeah, and if its games you want, go directly to gameloft.
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Very interesting read, thanks
I got my Google Music invite today. I uploaded around 14 GB of music. This was around 2500 songs. It looks like Google limits the number of songs, not the storage. You can upload 20,000 songs.
Thoughts:
The "app" on my PC is kind of cool. Just go to music.google.com from your browser and start listening.
The Google Music app for Android on the T-bolt works well. I created a quick playlist on my PC and it was available on the T-bolt instantly. The app is fast and stable.
When playing music with the Android phone app, it will actually download and cache about 5 songs.
My biggest thought is that Google must be a little vexed about Verizon's new policy about charging for data. This will discourage users to store their music data in the cloud if Verizon is going to start the meter running every time you want to listen to music. Google's whole philosophy is to use the network, not local storage.
ever since last update... i keep getting FC on (process com.google.android.music)
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I have been using GMusic for a bit now. I use it in a different fashion than most people.
I only upload the songs I will use in a current play list. Total is around 20-30 sonds at a time. I delete songs I no longer listen to since the orig copy is on my computer.
I find this make the service very usable for the gym, car, etc. Dealing with thousands of songs would drive me nutz.
I have about 13.7k songs for my google music and its pretty awesome. The app does have some issues such as not going to the next song in the playlist but its all minor compared to what it is capable of.
I agree with the crashes though. I havent been able to get it to work on 3g/4g with bamf 2.1 remix or gingertheory 4.3
Trying now with bamf 2.1 nte.
Theres a thread here regarding the crashes: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134027
Bummer about the crashes. I am running CM7 and I have not had any yet. Hopefully it stays that way.
The only thing I dont like about the cloud is,read the fine print,everything you upload becomes theirs even if you delete it they keep a copy of it.why?
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been using it for a couple weeks my self love it so far cant wait to see where google takes it in the future. Also who care if they keep a song i upload even after deletion it is just music.
Well lets see,copyright laws and its not only for music it pertains to anything on any cloud,me I prefer to keep my stuff local,doesnt bother me one bit,that way its only me that has access.
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satseaker said:
Well lets see,copyright laws and its not only for music it pertains to anything on any cloud,me I prefer to keep my stuff local,doesnt bother me one bit,that way its only me that has access.
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Dont know about you but i could care less if google kept mp3 files i uploaded and did something with them. they would be the one breaking copyright laws so thats their problem. I personally dont upload anything other than music to cloud services like "google Music " like this thread is talking about not cloud storage or dropbox. but to each their own.
I have google music but am switching to amazon cloud.
Reason being my wife and I have separate gmail accounts and so it requires 2 google music accounts. Amazon lets whoever has your email and password access your music.
I'm pretty happy with it. Would love to Bluetooth control in the future. When using BT headsets,the stock music app only works.
I really don't listen to music on my phone very much. I have a desk job and keep Pandora streaming while at work. On my ~hour commute to and from work, I listen to audio books (it's the only time I get to "read"). But, I do enjoy music and have over 200GB of MP3s. Occasionally, I do want to listen to some of my music using my phone, such as when doing yard work or between audio books. Service around here is spotty, so streaming is typically out of the question.
I use Ubuntu on my PC. My phone is a Captivate. (As soon as I can cut off from AT&T, I'm upgrading!) It's been running SlimICS for a while, but I'm getting ready to upgrade to SlimBean.
I've tried a lot of different programs on the PC, and a lot of different apps and haven't found anything that fits my use. This is what I want:
What I want from the Android App:
- Designate a particular folder as the source for music. This is the big one for me. I don't want it catching my audio books (I have a dedicated audio book player that I love, but it's not suited for music), audio recordings, and other sound files. All but two apps I've tried didn't have that capability and one of those didn't seem to really work right. Why is that so rare of a feature?
- Use ID3 tags, including album art. But that's fairly common.
- Easy navigation. By artist, album, song titles, etc. Don't rely on "playlists." I don't build them. Just show me all my music and let me easily chose if I want to play a particular album, everything by a particular artist, a particular genre, everything all mixed up together, etc.
- Lock screen controls.
My favorite music app so far is 3 (Cubed). But, specifying a music directory doesn't work. It has a menu option to only look in a folder your specify, and I've enabled that, but it's still seeing my audio books and other sound files. It has lock screen controls but I don't like the way it changes the lock screen. And it has a beautiful interface interrupted by these ugly "pop up" boxes. I love using parts of it, but find other parts hard to use.
What I want from a Ubuntu program:
I'm currently using RhythmBox, and it's OK. It serves most of my needs except the big one. How it syncs to my phone. I have a LOT of music and I hate building playlists. I also hate trying to manually go through the thousands and thousands of songs trying to pick out which ones I want to copy to the phone. I just don't have that kind of time. What I want it to do is just randomly pick songs until a threshold that I set has been met. For instance, copy 5 GB of random songs from my entire collection to my phone. Or, copy 3 hours of random songs from the Metal genre. Or perhaps I'm in a Dylan kind of mood so I want it to copy 3 hours of random Bob Dylan songs. And if there's something specific I want to put on the phone, I can do that manually.
So, am I overlooking something that will give me these options? Is there something out there for me?
ubuntu: moc
android: poweramp
I am pleased with both.
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I haven't looked at PowerAmp because, well... it's not free. Free isn't a requirement, but I just don't feel like I listen to music on my phone enough to justify paying for an app like that.
Now, about moc... I had not heard of that before. I googled it and read about it, but I don't see any way to do what I'm wanting to do.
yeah, its different than what you want. The complete opposite, actually. But I still recommend it -- it grows on you. Worth an apt-get.
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I haven't tried it yet, but this program looks promising: http://mr-random.sourceforge.net/docs.html#Doc/
Give PowerAmp a try, they have the trial version. Once you've tried it, it's hard to use any other.
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HeathicusF said:
I really don't listen to music on my phone very much. I have a desk job and keep Pandora streaming while at work. On my ~hour commute to and from work, I listen to audio books (it's the only time I get to "read"). But, I do enjoy music and have over 200GB of MP3s. Occasionally, I do want to listen to some of my music using my phone, such as when doing yard work or between audio books. Service around here is spotty, so streaming is typically out of the question.
I use Ubuntu on my PC. My phone is a Captivate. (As soon as I can cut off from AT&T, I'm upgrading!) It's been running SlimICS for a while, but I'm getting ready to upgrade to SlimBean.
I've tried a lot of different programs on the PC, and a lot of different apps and haven't found anything that fits my use. This is what I want:
What I want from the Android App:
- Designate a particular folder as the source for music. This is the big one for me. I don't want it catching my audio books (I have a dedicated audio book player that I love, but it's not suited for music), audio recordings, and other sound files. All but two apps I've tried didn't have that capability and one of those didn't seem to really work right. Why is that so rare of a feature?
- Use ID3 tags, including album art. But that's fairly common.
- Easy navigation. By artist, album, song titles, etc. Don't rely on "playlists." I don't build them. Just show me all my music and let me easily chose if I want to play a particular album, everything by a particular artist, a particular genre, everything all mixed up together, etc.
- Lock screen controls.
My favorite music app so far is 3 (Cubed). But, specifying a music directory doesn't work. It has a menu option to only look in a folder your specify, and I've enabled that, but it's still seeing my audio books and other sound files. It has lock screen controls but I don't like the way it changes the lock screen. And it has a beautiful interface interrupted by these ugly "pop up" boxes. I love using parts of it, but find other parts hard to use.
What I want from a Ubuntu program:
I'm currently using RhythmBox, and it's OK. It serves most of my needs except the big one. How it syncs to my phone. I have a LOT of music and I hate building playlists. I also hate trying to manually go through the thousands and thousands of songs trying to pick out which ones I want to copy to the phone. I just don't have that kind of time. What I want it to do is just randomly pick songs until a threshold that I set has been met. For instance, copy 5 GB of random songs from my entire collection to my phone. Or, copy 3 hours of random songs from the Metal genre. Or perhaps I'm in a Dylan kind of mood so I want it to copy 3 hours of random Bob Dylan songs. And if there's something specific I want to put on the phone, I can do that manually.
So, am I overlooking something that will give me these options? Is there something out there for me?
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The best suggestion I can give you is not a PC application, but is rather a piece of hardware. I would recommend getting a Pogoplug and an external HDD. Connect the Pogoplug to the HDD and then connect the Pogoplug to the internet via cat5/6, then create an account and download the app on your phone.. in this scenario, the only limit to what you want to store and how much space you have is the capacity of your external HDD; This device can support multiple HDD's, so its pretty much limitless.
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The best suggestion I can give you is not a PC application, but is rather a piece of hardware. I would recommend getting a Pogoplug and an external HDD. Connect the Pogoplug to the HDD and then connect the Pogoplug to the internet via cat5/6, then create an account and download the app on your phone.. in this scenario, the only limit to what you want to store and how much space you have is the capacity of your external HDD; This device can support multiple HDD's, so its pretty much limitless.
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I appreciate the suggestion, and it looks like a nice product, but I fail to see how that accomplishes my goal.
Searching video or music always returns tons of but you never have a chance to enjoy many of them since manually tapping around is so annoying. You need a strong vehicle to travel through this amazing but huge media world.
Coolshare Explorer enables you to "travel" around in popular video/music lands like Youtube or SoundCloud automatically. It collects what you search and play them randomly (or in the order you like) one after another. You can either let it auto switch to next one for you or you can have full control by swiping
right (next) or left (previous). You can also bookmark what you like to your playlist for later enjoyment.
Just search "Coolshare Explorer" in Google play to get it.
How the hell do you make the most recent added tracks on Google Music appear at the top so you don't have to scroll thru your whole damn bloody playlist to get to the track you just added?
WTF
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How the hell do you make the most recent added tracks on Google Music appear at the top so you don't have to scroll thru your whole damn bloody playlist to get to the track you just added?
WTF
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Excellent question. Hopefully someone has the answer. My guess is that you cannot. It takes forever to just find the albums you own. The search feature does not list the albums in your library on the first page of search results if you have multiple albums by the same artist. It first finds the artist, the radio stations, and videos. You need to go into the artist, then scroll down to find the albums in your library. Such a waste of time.
The "New" play music versions have been horrible since the update after 4.1.513, when Google started really pushing their "unlimited' streaming service. Nothing is intuitive about the newer versions. I really hate the first row of "It's Monday today, play something for..." WTF is that? Try playing an album - in proper track order - with the new version... What a pain. NOT driving friendly. Sure, I can now say, "Ok Google, play xyz by abc" and sometimes the right album will play, but often in the wrong track order. More often it isn't what I wanted from my library. Seriously irritating..
My last (rooted) phone had 4.1.513 installed, and only that version. Thankfully, I had a TB backup when the crap updates started. If we can ever properly root the Qualcomm s7, I am hopeful that 4.1.513 will install OK on Marshmallow... Then again, the likelihood of rooting the US S7's seems to be dwindling each day. Very depressing.
Se, with our shiny new s7s, we are stuck with the latest crappy Play Music version. I really miss the Recently Played "flip" screen with the album covers. So intuitive. So long gone.
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*sigh*
Lol I just downloaded Samsung music
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