The "Listen to" voice action no longer works as it should with Google Play Music
I see an ancient thread specific to Galaxy Note II. I think this is not device specific and related to the Google Play Music refresh.
When I used to say "Listen to artist" it would automatically start playing music if it matched an artist in my library on Google Play Music. Now I say "listen to artist" and it says playing request but then displays an icon for that artist in the app, I click on the icon and it shows a list of albums, I click on "all songs" and then have to hit the menu button and click "shuffle" to start playing all songs from that artist. If I say "listen to song" the song starts playing automatically. I have tried 4 different album names I see in my library and "listen to album" just does a google search for "listen to album". I have an HTC One with Android 4.1.2 with Google Play Music version 5.0.1026J
Is this still working properly for anyone else?
I have this exact same problem using htc one x on old Google music app it would automatically start playing the song or album I asked Google search to play .but now when I do a Google voice search for the song album it just takes me to the album or song by that arrest I then have to press play manually which sort of defeats the purpose of having voice search.
I don't like the Google Play Music application much, so basically what I was wondering was if I could play kept google play music songs and albums in another player such as PowerAmp somehow. From what I have seen there is no way to do this because google incorporates some sort of DRM in all of their music files, which makes sense, because they don't want people just copying and pasting kept music files that they didn't actually buy. I have determined the location of the saved music files to be in "root\data\data\com.google.android.music\files\music" if I am in the wrong spot please let me know. I have pulled the saved music files (MP3's) from this location but can not manage to play them in any music player. I also tried running them through a converter just for the hell of it but the converter instantly crashes when I try converting the file. I don't think there is anything that can be done about this but if anybody has any ideas please let me know!
not possible. stop trying
I don't think you can get them from your phone but you can most definitely download the songs to your computer as regular mp3's. You can then put them on your phone and use any media player.
on a desktop/laptop, open google play music. pick what songs you want, then press download. the downloaded songs that you got using google play music desktop can now be played in other music applications.
Even still...if you have not purchased the song, you cannot download it. All of the music in "My Library" that you've uploaded can be dl'd but not songs you randomly hear and "Add to my Library"
Unless I'm doing something wrong....
You can not download music on a pc unless you have purchased that music. On the android application there is however and option to download music to the device in a hidden location (root\data\data\com.android.google.music\files\music). You can download them, but like I said they are encrypted or have some sort of DRM incorporation so you can not play them anywhere but within the play music application. I don't think it's possible. I just wanted a few opinions on it.
Hi Guys,
I'm from Brazil and I just bought a Nexus 5 to migrate from an old iPhone 3GS and I'm trying to sync all my iTunes Playlists to the new device, I saw that the Google Music Manager is the simplest way to do this but I can't access the Google Music page from my country. I tried to use a VPN service to enable it but needs a credit card to do the finish the process. Can any good soul download the executable and upload for me? Yes, I google it a lot and couldn't find...
Thanks a lot!
Google Music Manager is great for getting all of your music uploaded to Google Music, but if that's not available in your country it won't be much help to you. EDIT: By this I mean that even if you get the Music Manager to install and let you upload your music, you won't be able to get it back down to your phone.
I would use DoubleTwist
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doubleTwist.androidPlayer
DoubleTwist is a music player that has support for syncing with iTunes.
raptir said:
Google Music Manager is great for getting all of your music uploaded to Google Music, but if that's not available in your country it won't be much help to you. EDIT: By this I mean that even if you get the Music Manager to install and let you upload your music, you won't be able to get it back down to your phone.
I would use DoubleTwist
DoubleTwist is a music player that has support for syncing with iTunes.
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So, are you saying that even if I downloaded the executable program to my PC, I was unable to sync my iTunes songs?
sidgabriel said:
So, are you saying that even if I downloaded the executable program to my PC, I was unable to sync my iTunes songs?
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you could sync them to google music, but you wouldnt be able to use google music.
Zepius said:
you could sync them to google music, but you wouldnt be able to use google music.
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That's that I want, only sync the songs to the phone, I'm not intended to use Google Music, I use another app to listen my musics.
sidgabriel said:
That's that I want, only sync the songs to the phone, I'm not intended to use Google Music, I use another app to listen my musics.
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Right, that's not what the Google Music Manager is for. The Google Music Manager uploads songs to the Play Music service. You can then use the Play Music app on your phone to play back the songs. You can download the songs through the app as well, but they are saved in such a way that only the Play Music applications can play them (technically other players can play them, but the metadata is not saved so you can't actually view the song names or any artist/album info).
Just forget about the Music Manager, it's not what you want. Download DoubleTwist on your phone and computer and it will let you sync your iTunes library directly.
Thanks for the answer, I'm already using it.
Can I use another media player app to access songs downloaded with Google play music?
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Thanks for the topic and for the link, I'll try it after work.