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Solutions for music?

Hi Guys
Now that the voodoo sound kernels are out i would love to use nexus as my main music player but i simply cant fit my libary on.. all my music is 15gb. Ive seen some apps like subsonic but u need to leave your computer on all the time..
Are there any better solutions like shrinking the music or something like that? Really bugging me

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Guitarfreak26 said:
Hi Guys
Now that the voodoo sound kernels are out i would love to use nexus as my main music player but i simply cant fit my libary on.. all my music is 15gb. Ive seen some apps like subsonic but u need to leave your computer on all the time..
Are there any better solutions like shrinking the music or something like that? Really bugging me
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I've mentioned this before, and I'd hope it'd be launching today but it did not: Google Music, as it is currently known, will search your computer for music and then give you access to the music you already own to be streamed to another device while also allowing you to buy more music.

Yeah i heard about that It really sucks though, spotify is ok but they dont have everything i want lol

Guitarfreak26 said:
Yeah i heard about that It really sucks though, spotify is ok but they dont have everything i want lol
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I understand the issue...I have 65 gigs of music which I've trimmed down to 32gigs for my iPod and now I would rather use the most convenient solution of my phone but I don't know how I can cut it down that much.

How did you cut down to 32? Just didnt transfer all of it?

Guitarfreak26 said:
How did you cut down to 32? Just didnt transfer all of it?
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...pretty much? Its an iPod. You can fill it with however much you want you just have to turn off autofill.

I do love the nexus s but for the life of me wish it had a card slot.. lol..

Guitarfreak26 said:
I do love the nexus s but for the life of me wish it had a card slot.. lol..
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Ya...I'm starting to understand the complaint =/

Two of the best options that I have tested that are available now are Audiogalaxy and Subsonic.
Audio galaxy is extremely simple to setup and is a pure streaming option as it does not cache the songs to your device. It has an option to stream the music in high quality or in lower quality if you are in a non 3g/wifi area. Also, its 100% free.
Subsonic is more difficult to setup because you have to enable port forwarding on your router. Some people do no like to open up ports on their router because of the potential security risk. Subsonic not only streams the music to your device but it also cache's to your internal storage which comes in handy if your signal drops. Another feature is via a web page you can download any song in your library, my brother downloaded have of my library from his pc at his house. The web service is free but after an initial 30 day trial the android app costs, cant remember how much atm.
Overall I prefer audiogalaxy for its simplicity and ease of use.

Do you find it heavy on your data usage?

The main issue I have with audiogalaxy and subsonic is that you need to have your computer (source) constantly on or else you wont be able to stream it to your phone.
mspot is a good choice to put your music directly onto its servers so you can play it from the cloud. however it only offers 2gb free and if you want 10gb+ of online storage you have to pay per month.
I have decided to go with grooveshark and rdio for my music streaming. at least i get an endless selection of songs and I can download the songs and albums Im interested in listening to at that point in time.

Bronk93 said:
Two of the best options that I have tested that are available now are Audiogalaxy and Subsonic.
Audio galaxy is extremely simple to setup and is a pure streaming option as it does not cache the songs to your device. It has an option to stream the music in high quality or in lower quality if you are in a non 3g/wifi area. Also, its 100% free.
Subsonic is more difficult to setup because you have to enable port forwarding on your router. Some people do no like to open up ports on their router because of the potential security risk. Subsonic not only streams the music to your device but it also cache's to your internal storage which comes in handy if your signal drops. Another feature is via a web page you can download any song in your library, my brother downloaded have of my library from his pc at his house. The web service is free but after an initial 30 day trial the android app costs, cant remember how much atm.
Overall I prefer audiogalaxy for its simplicity and ease of use.
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There is an easy setup guide for subsonic. Just search subsonic here and it should show up. I'd prefer subsonic over audiogalaxy simply because it supports folder structures. I don't use playlists much because all of my music are organized via folders.
Guitarfreak26 said:
Do you find it heavy on your data usage?
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Subsonic only uses data if the music isn't cached on your phone already. So if you find yourself listening to different music every single day, then it might use a lot of data. Otherwise, if the music is already saved in your storage, it will just play it from there rather than streaming it again. You can also set up the storage size you want it to take up on your internal storage. I set mine up at 500 MB.
Also, subsonic is supporting videos. Not all formats yet since they are still working on it, but they are supporting one video format (forgot what it was).

CM7 ROM - "Connected Media" option?

In the stock and even custom Sense ROM's, there is a Connected Media option that picks up the media servers I have setup on my PC's (Tversity) to stream to my DirecTV receivers automatically; my phone picks up my servers and can play my videos/movies with no problem.
On the CM7 mod, I have no such option and have been looking for one; I've tried a couple apps, one called UpnPlay (I think) and it would see the servers and folders but would play nothing. The other couple I tried had the same result. Am I doing something wrong?
I realize this may seem like a petty thing to complain about, but it's something I really like on the Sense ROM, but I like everything else about running CM7... is there a happy medium?
Thanks,
-Mid

This obviously is a very particular issue. It sounds like you have looked into this as much as you could. Unless you find someone who uses this same feature that could provide some more insight, you may have to consider going back to a sense based rom if this is a deal breaker for you.
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Download skifta from the market. Works great.
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Yeah, this is definitely a dealbreaker, as my connected media is something I use pretty often. I recall trying Skifta, and it had the same result - my servers populate, but no videos play; they list fine, but when you tap on them, nothing happens. Ugh!

Midnight1970 said:
Yeah, this is definitely a dealbreaker, as my connected media is something I use pretty often. I recall trying Skifta, and it had the same result - my servers populate, but no videos play; they list fine, but when you tap on them, nothing happens. Ugh!
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Huh, they played for me, except the mkv's, I haven't tested them. Most of my vids are from TOTALLY LEGIT SOURCES and are divx encoded AVI's.

[Q] Google music does not stream on kd1 - Solved

Rooted with bali kernel stock kd1. Did not have any other problems, Netflix is streaming, music player plays fine local files but won't stream from Google music.
It does sync alboms info but when I hit play it is trying to stream and cannot do it, just hanging...
Does anybody have an idea of what is going on?
Edit: well, the reason was that Google Music is limiting number of devices per account to 8 (including PC). So, my SGS4G was 9th and out of luck for streaming. Solution is obvious - get into GM account and delete devices you don't use anymore.

Sounds like a connection issue. Fix permissions and try flashing a different modem. Also make sure you are signed in properly in the app
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Google Music Censoring....

Any way to get it to stop replacing explicit songs i upload with their censored version? A grown man should be able to hear the word **** if he damn well pleases to.
And no, the "block explicit songs" option is not enabled

When you upload a song, it wont use your version unless you're the first to do so. Google wont waste space having a million copies of the same track.
Unfortunately its probably that a censored version was uploaded by someone else.
I would expect them to have one of each up there but that may not always be the case
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http://lifehacker.com/5971448/fix-incorrectly-matched-songs-on-google-music
Does this option still appear or is that an outdated fix?

cmstlist said:
http://lifehacker.com/5971448/fix-incorrectly-matched-songs-on-google-music
Does this option still appear or is that an outdated fix?
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actually yes it does.
But still, me having to go through thousands of songs to do this (yes, pretty much every explicit song is censored, havent found any of my original uncensored versions yet) is a bit tedious and shouldnt be a problem in the first place. O well, back to power amp with my downloaded music i go.

Interesting, none of my songs ever matched at all. Maybe it's because most of my library had volume levels normalized using Replay Gain.
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cmstlist said:
Interesting, none of my songs ever matched at all. Maybe it's because most of my library had volume levels normalized using Replay Gain.
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Makes sense
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I love Play Music for purchased/All Access music, but if you're looking for it purely as a locker I would recommend Amazon Cloud Player.
I think that the upload functionality of Play Music is primarily meant as a supplement for things that are not available for purchase/subscription, as there are plenty of issues they haven't ironed out like the one you posted. Hence why it's free, I guess.

raptir said:
I love Play Music for purchased/All Access music, but if you're looking for it purely as a locker I would recommend Amazon Cloud Player.
I think that the upload functionality of Play Music is primarily meant as a supplement for things that are not available for purchase/subscription, as there are plenty of issues they haven't ironed out like the one you posted. Hence why it's free, I guess.
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its a shame, this freed up 5 gigs of internal for me. Really hurting for a sd card slot now. Though i do have the meenova card reader, i dont really wanna have to keep it in 24/7.
Hopefully someone comes up with a case that has a built in OTG card reader at some point. Thats money im willing to spend without hesitation

Have you looked at Amazon's cloud player? It's really a good solution as a music locker.

Actually I wonder if my accident could be your solution. What if you wiped your Google Music account clean, normalized the audio level of all your local MP3s using Replay Gain (e.g. MP3Gain), and then re-uploaded? The adjusted files may not be recognized as matching Google's tracks, which would then avoid any clean-ification.
Or possibly clean up the ID3 tags first as well. That's one thing I did with all my downloaded music before adding to iTunes (and by extension Google) - fixed the ID3 using a batch editor and applied Replay Gain.

TheAtheistOtaku said:
Any way to get it to stop replacing explicit songs i upload with their censored version? A grown man should be able to hear the word **** if he damn well pleases to.
And no, the "block explicit songs" option is not enabled
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It's extremely irritating and very arbitrary. Everything by Queens of the Stone Age is censored, for example. Plenty of either bands are not. So annoying.

Play music on multiple devices at same time

I'm trying to play my music that playing on my pc "windows" to some of my android devices.
The thing is i have multiple old android phones and i want to stream my music to them all being synced at same time. all of them will be on the same network but in different rooms ofc.
I tried stream what you hear with soundseeder but they are way out of sync. like 10 sec delay. I'm trying to find a less delayed solution as i will be moving from room to room often and going from 1 room to another hearing a weird shift and delay in music won't be fun at all.

_LuciferMorningstar said:
I'm trying to play my music that playing on my pc "windows" to some of my android devices.
The thing is i have multiple old android phones and i want to stream my music to them all being synced at same time. all of them will be on the same network but in different rooms ofc.
I tried stream what you hear with soundseeder but they are way out of sync. like 10 sec delay. I'm trying to find a less delayed solution as i will be moving from room to room often and going from 1 room to another hearing a weird shift and delay in music won't be fun at all.
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There are other apps in the PlayStore that allow playing music with multiple devices in "party mode", the free ones aren't going to help, you will probably not find a completely free option, you will need to at least pay for premium service in one of those apps, but you take your chances because you won't know which of them work well or not until after you pay for it.
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Droidriven said:
There are other apps in the PlayStore that allow playing music with multiple devices in "party mode", the free ones aren't going to help, you will probably not find a completely free option, you will need to at least pay for premium service in one of those apps, but you take your chances because you won't know which of them work well or not until after you pay for it.
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Can you share with me some of these apps names if you don't mind ?

_LuciferMorningstar said:
Can you share with me some of these apps names if you don't mind ?
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Do a Google search for:
"Apps to play music in party mode on multiple devices"
That will give you plenty of suggestions. Sometimes, quite often really, you just can't beat a simple Google search.
This is where I like my JBL bluetooth speakers using JBL connect to connect multiple speakers to one device. Better audio quality and no latency.
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