[Q] Play music - General Questions and Answers

I uploaded all my music to google, but a few apps I use have mp3 files installed on the sd card of my droid charge. How can I set the Play music app to look only at my online music and forget the music on my phone?
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[Q] Downloading MUSIC

how can i get the music in my itunes to properly play in my htc inspire. ? should i download an alternative music player or do i have to format my music
You can always use doubletwist download from market and onto your computer...it is almost like iTunes but for android
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If the Music is in the Itunes format mpa? or something like that you can get an Itunes alternative software like http://www.getsharepod.com/ and rip the music off yer iphone back to Mp3.
The stock music player will play iTunes (AAC/m4a) files. Just copy the files directly to your SD card. The default directory is sdcard/media/audio/music.
My files are on the root directory of the SD card in a file called 'Music' and it had no problem finding them.
Sign up for googles music beta and upload your music then stream them on your phone and save your space on your sd card.
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idk about that music beta it seems like a great idea but it takes forever in a day to U/L any music if your over 4gs I could be wrong.
Like some of the other post talk about double twist is good for that also their is a app called ISync seems like it will also do the trick..
For me I just save them to the Pc as Mp3s and drag n drop I hated using Itunes.
Google Music uploads from your PC/Mac, so it will use your home internet connection not your phone's. Your phone will just stream the music from Google's servers. Probably the easiest way I've found to "have" all of my iTunes music on my HTC.
WinAmp. Supports iPods and Android Phones... And all of Apple's formats.
In addition to mentioned above, there is an app by DoubleTwist that allows over the air syncing with iTunes and your music folders, if that is what you want. Just search doubleTwist in the market and the app should come up.

[Q] Google Music

Hi,
Does anyone know where the Google Music app stores the downloaded music on the sd? I uploaded some music files to my Google Music account and my sensation made it available offline... as i know that means it downloaded the music on my phone.
I'm interested because i'm running on ARHD 3.1.6 with Beats and i want to use the stock music app. I certainly don't want to copy all my music on the sd card once more assuming the Google music app has already done that.
Or one way around, is it possible to use the Beats enhancement in the Google music app?
Thanks in advance
SeptimiuB said:
Hi,
Does anyone know where the Google Music app stores the downloaded music on the sd? I uploaded some music files to my Google Music account and my sensation made it available offline... as i know that means it downloaded the music on my phone.
I'm interested because i'm running on ARHD 3.1.6 with Beats and i want to use the stock music app. I certainly don't want to copy all my music on the sd card once more assuming the Google music app has already done that.
Or one way around, is it possible to use the Beats enhancement in the Google music app?
Thanks in advance
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Google music doesn't store anything on your sd card that's the beauty of the program which is why it requires its own music player which acts like YouTube and streams your music. Unfortunately beats is not able to be accessed through a msound enhancer altho I believe that if you set beats on your music app then switch to google music the enhancement remains.
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It does save to the SD card
SD/Android/data/com.google.Android.music/
In here you will find a "cache" folder and a "music" folder (music folder is created when you save music for off line use)
Thanks
bicycleray said:
It does save to the SD card
SD/Android/data/com.google.Android.music/
In here you will find a "cache" folder and a "music" folder (music folder is created when you save music for off line use)
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Thanks, found it. Unfortunatly in that folder the files don't have their original names like "asd fgh - xyz.mp3" , theire stored as file1, file2, file3 etc..
Anyway now i just need a way to make the HTC Music app find them and play them.
Edit: There is a .nomedia file in that folder. Deleted and now i can play them in HTC Music app
nice im bout to do that
SeptimiuB said:
Edit: There is a .nomedia file in that folder. Deleted and now i can play them in HTC Music app
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Hmm, doesn't seem to have any effect for me - I removed the .nomedia file and opened the music player, waited for it finish scanning my SD card, and the Google music cached songs don't appear. I can tap on the song in ASTRO and play it, but it's impossible to know what's what based upon file names. Wondering if maybe Google Music is stripping all tags from the music files and maintaining those tags independently so you're hooked into their player?
brett_c said:
Hmm, doesn't seem to have any effect for me - I removed the .nomedia file and opened the music player, waited for it finish scanning my SD card, and the Google music cached songs don't appear. I can tap on the song in ASTRO and play it, but it's impossible to know what's what based upon file names. Wondering if maybe Google Music is stripping all tags from the music files and maintaining those tags independently so you're hooked into their player?
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Also selecting the HTC music app to play through file manager still doesn't allow you to set beats audio. I had no luck the say as you Brett
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[Q] play music (google music) can't find music on sdcard

hey guys, im running ARHD 6.5.1 XE and i'm having problems with the included play music (formerly google music) app. i can access all my cloud music but i've got about 5 gb of music on the sdcard which play music isn't able to detect. ubermusic and the htc music app all see it though.
i've looked in settings and there's nothing that seems to be hampering it. can someone tell me how to fix it?
thanks!
littleasian said:
hey guys, im running ARHD 6.5.1 XE and i'm having problems with the included play music (formerly google music) app. i can access all my cloud music but i've got about 5 gb of music on the sdcard which play music isn't able to detect. ubermusic and the htc music app all see it though.
i've looked in settings and there's nothing that seems to be hampering it. can someone tell me how to fix it?
thanks!
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It isn't stored on your SD card, it is stored as Cache for the app itself. If you want the music to be on your SD card, then you will have to use the physical program on the computer call Google Music Manager to download them to your computer and then transfer them to your SD card
littleasian said:
hey guys, im running ARHD 6.5.1 XE and i'm having problems with the included play music (formerly google music) app. i can access all my cloud music but i've got about 5 gb of music on the sdcard which play music isn't able to detect. ubermusic and the htc music app all see it though.
i've looked in settings and there's nothing that seems to be hampering it. can someone tell me how to fix it?
thanks!
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I've had this problem with Google Music not seeing my music on the SD card. My solution has been to go into settings - apps, google music app and clear data and cache. Then fire up google music again and it should see your SD card's music.
irrelephant said:
It isn't stored on your SD card, it is stored as Cache for the app itself. If you want the music to be on your SD card, then you will have to use the physical program on the computer call Google Music Manager to download them to your computer and then transfer them to your SD card
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No.
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gustav30 said:
I've had this problem with Google Music not seeing my music on the SD card. My solution has been to go into settings - apps, google music app and clear data and cache. Then fire up google music again and it should see your SD card's music.
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Don't work for me....
This happened to me before I just played music in another player then play music detected my music or try to manually play a song on your sd card with play music.
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Play music can't play song after I relocated them

Hi all.
All my music players seem to be unable to play the songs that I moved from internal storage to external SD card. When I try to play. Play music says "couldn't play the track you requested"
But when I use total commander. The song is there. And when I play from total commander. All the music players were able to play.
I have tried reinstalled the apps but doesn't seem to help. My guess is the music players stored the previous songs' location, and are unable to find them now since I relocated them. (I tried to refresh on the music players list doesn't seem to help either)
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks you
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Try to clear the app data/cache. Or remove you sd card and put it back in.
Sounds like all you need is to make the music player do a media scan so it recognizes the files from their new location instead of searching for them in their old location...
I've dealt with that before, usually the methods I mentioned above solved the issue right away. Good luck.
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Clear the cache. Works like a charm. Thank you!
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Google Play Music doesn't see mp3's on my N5

I have tons of mp3's stored in the music folder of my Nexus 5. Poweramp can find them and play them fine. Play Music though, says that no music is found on my device. Any idea why?
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