I have about 5.5 gb of music stored on Google Music.
I downloaded the Google Music app on my galaxy phone and then told it to make all my music available offline.
All my music downloaded and is available offline but I can't figure out where the phone is actually storing it and the amount of storage used only went up by ~3gb.
I knew at some point, but I don't use that feature anymore. I think it might have been on the internal sd . . . sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music
If that's not it, install DiskUsage and find it. Should be fairly easy if storage use went up by 3 gigs.
That was it.
Thank you.
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Hi, my cell phone is Droid x, which has 8G ROM in it. except for the system itself takes a few space, the majority is wasted. and now i want to put my music ,films, and maps in it. then i changed the permission of /data to 777, and copy music, films, maps(data of a navigation software) to /data. but to my disappointed, though films can be played, music & maps cannot be identified. does everyone has some ideas to make the most of 8G ROM? as i know, many, many android phone has 8G, 16G, and even 32G, so it should be a method to full use the space, otherwise the superfluous will be non-useful.
Any reply appreciated.
You said films could be played... I would guess you can play/use the other media you have, but having the application find it would be more of a challenge (IMO). Try using a file manager that sees root and selecting the file there to see if it plays.
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Root explorer is a great app on the market that really gives you freedom, but you do need to be rooted to use it.
Thanks a lot.
maybe i should change a media player to play movies which in ROM. but i mean that, is there a app that can map ROM files to SD card files, making all installed apps
identified files in ROM correctly and use those files just as they are in SD card? and i dont need another apps such as root explorer to open it. i have been looking for the app for a long time but get nothing. am i the only one need such a app?
Hello XDA Friends!
Device: SCH-I535 16GB
Stock Rooted ICS 4.0.4.
32GB SanDisk Ultra HC 1
This is the problem i have run into.
At first i had my music on the internal memory but its only 16GB so i had to move my music to the External memory. When the music was on the Internal Google Play Music read all my music. Now it doesn't recognize my music.
I have tried refreshing the music in the Play Music settings, i restarted my phone searched google and forums i even had Google give me a call to try to fix it but they walked me through all the steps i have already went through.
Is anyone else experienced this problem and-or have a solution?
Thank You in advance
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Hello XDA Friends!
Device: SCH-I535 16GB
Stock Rooted ICS 4.0.4.
32GB SanDisk Ultra HC 1
This is the problem i have run into.
At first i had my music on the internal memory but its only 16GB so i had to move my music to the External memory. When the music was on the Internal Google Play Music read all my music. Now it doesn't recognize my music.
I have tried refreshing the music in the Play Music settings, i restarted my phone searched google and forums i even had Google give me a call to try to fix it but they walked me through all the steps i have already went through.
Is anyone else experienced this problem and-or have a solution?
Thank You in advance
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I have no problem i do have music on external sdcard have it in /mnt/extSdcard/media/audio/music
not sure if dir matters
have you tried to clear data and or cache?
if not even try to uninstall and reboot re install
hope that helps
All of my music is on the ext SD card and, for me at least, things work w/o any problems. However my stuff didn't start out on the internal SD card.
Does the stock music player work since you've moved the music to the ext SD card?
Have you tried going into the app mgmt and clearing the Google Play Music settings to see if that helps?
Thanx for the help but i tried all of that and it still didnt work im going to flash CleanROM 1.2 hopefully that works
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All of my music is on the ext SD card and, for me at least, things work w/o any problems. However my stuff didn't start out on the internal SD card.
Does the stock music player work since you've moved the music to the ext SD card?
Have you tried going into the app mgmt and clearing the Google Play Music settings to see if that helps?
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the music player works with all my online music but it wont pickup the music on the phone unless its in the internal memory
Hi.
If anyone in future has this issue, first step of troubleshooting is go into settings->storage and check the SD card appears there.
Second step is again in settings, open apps & find the app called Google Play or Google Play Services, open it and press "clear data"
after doing this, the next time you open Google Play it should have picked up any music you have on your SD card.
I have the same exact problem, except Google Music starts off seeing all my albums on the external card, but if I try to add new ones they aren't seen. I've tried clearing the data in Google Play services, and used a couple different "refresh SD" apps. Nothing works. It's so frustrating. Anyone got any other suggestions? The old school android music app doesn't pick up new additions either.
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I have the same exact problem, except Google Music starts off seeing all my albums on the external card, but if I try to add new ones they aren't seen. I've tried clearing the data in Google Play services, and used a couple different "refresh SD" apps. Nothing works. It's so frustrating. Anyone got any other suggestions? The old school android music app doesn't pick up new additions either.
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had this issue with the Google play music player for a long time. The thing is whenever you add new music or make changes to your playlist etc - it takes Google play music awhile to recognize and take effect. For example last week I added about 30 or 40 new songs to my phone I had to wait at least an hour or more (not sure because I didn't really time it) until I saw the changes in my Google play music. Even in the Google play music market comments you can see a lot of comments that speak to the same issue.
Ok finally getting my wife talked into getting an android phone. The Problem is her Itunes library. Its huge!! Is there any legal way to get all her media to work on an android device. I think this will be a deal breaker if we cant and I am sooooo sick of apple and Itunes. Can anyone help?
If you get a Samsung device then you can use Kies just like she would use iTunes with her iPhone! (It even works via WiFi)
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Ok finally getting my wife talked into getting an android phone. The Problem is her Itunes library. Its huge!! Is there any legal way to get all her media to work on an android device. I think this will be a deal breaker if we cant and I am sooooo sick of apple and Itunes. Can anyone help?
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One way easily transfer her media content that is perfectly legal, is to navigate to the folder where iTunes stores it's media and then copy that folder to her phones sdcard (Either internal storage or external storage). For example say you wanted to copy her music, go the iTunes music folder on your computer's hard drive, select the folder and copy the folder to her phones storage. You can then repeat this process for any videos, pictures, etc. she has stored in iTunes to transfer them to her phone. When copying music from iTunes to the phone it may ask if you want to covert the music to be playable on the phone, select yes and let it convert the music which will then be playable on her phone.
Agree with above. Just find the files and copy them over like you would with a usb drive. Sooner you break free from Apple the better
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jpinks said:
Ok finally getting my wife talked into getting an android phone. The Problem is her Itunes library. Its huge!! Is there any legal way to get all her media to work on an android device. I think this will be a deal breaker if we cant and I am sooooo sick of apple and Itunes. Can anyone help?
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Check out google play music. You can store up to 20 000 songs on their server for free. Then just keep the rest on the device with a 32/64GB sd card
Will this work for HTC as well as Samsuck? I had the original Galaxy and that left such a bad taste I got myself an HTC One XL and still think its great was going to get her the new HTC One. Sorry for the delay in replying life sucks LOL
Yes it will, open play music on the same PC as all the stored music and sync it to the cloud, then make sure the app is on the phone and either play from the cloud or download to phone.
Otherwise just transfer music to sd
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I'm thinking about utilising Google drive for more uses such as storing my music etc.
I know I can do this but is it easily listened to if I do?
Also can I put app data on drive and still use games, eg if I have ff3 and the app is installed to my phone, could I then move the data folder into drive and it would still work?
Cheers
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doug143 said:
I'm thinking about utilising Google drive for more uses such as storing my music etc.
I know I can do this but is it easily listened to if I do?
Also can I put app data on drive and still use games, eg if I have ff3 and the app is installed to my phone, could I then move the data folder into drive and it would still work?
Cheers
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I would think of Google Drive as more of a 'online locker' rather than an extended memory card.
While you can store music on it and access it via your phone, you'll find it much easier to have your music directly on your phone.
If you want your music to be stored online, look more into Google Play. It'll host your music online and you can listen your songs with the stock Play Music app on the Nexus 5 as long as your signed into the Google account it's connected to.
More info here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1075570?hl=en
As for games, I don't believe Google Drive will allow you to play games with data files stored onto it. It'd be a very risky move even if you could! You'd need an extremely reliable connection or you could corrupt data.
I have a question for anyone using Google Play music. Has anyone else noticed that when playing music using All Music uses much more battery than just On Device even if ALL of your music is on your device. I've noticed that in my data usage screen Google Play Music stays as the highest consumer of data which makes no sense as all my music is locally stored. Chrome or Play Store should be the highest user of data. I am only playing music that is store on my SD card and have noticed a time or two that when fast forwarding in a song it'll buffer as if it's streaming. I've also went to play a song a couple times and noticed it buffering as well. Anyone else seen this????
has your music been uploaded as well as saved to the device? if so it may not have recognized that.
thats the only theory I have as I had an album on my device that got uploaded but it kept them separate. The only way I could tell is if i went to save to device and it was blacked out.
Yeah the music is both saved to the phone via usb transfer and has been uploaded onto the Google servers. But yeah it seems like it is keeping them separated for some reason ei. if the song is both on the phone and on the server when All Music is chosen it prefers to play from the server instead of the phone storage.
Maybe try just downloading the music to your device and get rid of the stuff you manually saved. Not sure how many files we are talking here. And naturally, you would want to do this via wifi
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I've thought about that but we're talking about 20GB+ of music. lol Which really wouldn't be a big deal except that after any clean flash of a ROM I'd have to redownload everything again.
Then there's no point on having your music on the cloud
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That's how Google wants it though. It seems the only way to get album art working on the My Library widget is to upload your local music to google's servers but it seems in this case it is then streaming those files instead of using the local ones.
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bblzd said:
That's how Google wants it though. It seems the only way to get album art working on the My Library widget is to upload your local music to google's servers
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^^^^Exactly, this is why I uploaded to the cloud^^^^ Even if I used id editors or album art editors after every rom flash I'd have to go back and reinput album art that was missing. At least this way the art stays. I do think I've found the culprit though. I had been using Bank's core gapps on SlimKat which requires you yo download most Google apps through the Play Store as this gapps package contains minimal apps. After using SlimKat's gapps again which has Google Play music as a system app and not a user app, it seems to have gone away. It really shouldn't matter how the app is installed but it seems to have helped.
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^^^^Exactly, this is why I uploaded to the cloud^^^^ Even if I used id editors or album art editors after every rom flash I'd have to go back and reinput album art that was missing. At least this way the art stays. I do think I've found the culprit though. I had been using Bank's core gapps on SlimKat which requires you yo download most Google apps through the Play Store as this gapps package contains minimal apps. After using SlimKat's gapps again which has Google Play music as a system app and not a user app, it seems to have gone away. It really shouldn't matter how the app is installed but it seems to have helped.
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I've searched the issue after running into it myself and there are unresolved forum posts all over about it. Even using Album grabbers to replace already existing art hasn't got the widget to show anything but blank squares for some including myself. Of course while listening to the music the album art works normally and replaces the lock screen.
Editing the ID tags might do the trick you say?