Hey,
I am having an odd kind of problem with Google play music (version 5.01) on HTC Sensation running Elegancia Rom V 7.0.2
Initially when i install google play music and set it up by selecting my google account, it reads all the songs on my sd card and I am able to listen to all sd card music without any problems....but then on its own, after some time, the google play music app stops recognizing my songs and instead i see this screen(attached image 1) when i open the app.
(What you should normally see on opening the app should be something like attached image 2)
I am able to remedy this problem by going to clearing data in the app settings then opening app again and selecting account again...but i have to do it once almost every day, so its a drag..
Has any one else had this issue?
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Hi all,
I've been jumping between different ICS ROM bakes to find the one that suits me best, and have had to change some because they've become so laggy after running for a week or two, and I couldn't figure out why.
I'm currently on CyberGR's ROM v7 and it works great on my phone with SIO and lulzactivev2 CPU setup, no overclock, 18hrs+ with medium to heavy usage. Perfect.
But this morning, my MP3s started to skip and the phone was lagging and taking a second or two to notice each keypress.
The one thing I'd done, is sign in to Google Music (previously, I hadn't even started the app as I always use the widget).
I immediately told it to hide my online music, and tried to disable any sync'ing of the 20,000 tracks I have in Google Music, but it just sat there, lagging, 100% CPU, and a spinning circle.
Force-killing the App made no difference either. The phone was just lagging constantly, even though Music.apk was no longer running.
Reboot. Wait for it to settle... lag.
It just wouldn't go away.
So, I opened the App Info on Google Music, cleared all App Data and it's App Cache, and boom. Lag gone.
Open up Google Music, intro about online music, etc - press Back to ignore - play MP3s, all playing smoothly...
Has anyone else experienced this?
Does having a large online Google Music library mean I can't have it linked on my phone?
Is there a way to stop it asking me to sign in every time I start up Google Music?
I can start it via the widget, then open it... but the widget might not be on the track I want to listen to
Settings. Accounts and sync. Uncheck google music.
Now why didn't I think of that... hadn't noticed it hiding at the bottom of the Sync list.
Yup - lag is gone... Ok, that was easy!
Thanks
But does of course mean that I can't use the online Google Music thing... but hey, better then a nag screen I 'spose!
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
Paris_Carter said:
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
tgmorris said:
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.
timmytutone said:
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.
Hey.
I've got some difficulties understanding Google Play Music's behavior on Android.
When i put an album onto my external SD-card, Google Play Music correctly finds it and marks it with a blue, vertical pin, stating that this album is stored locally. I can neither pin it, nor unpin it because its not managed by the cloud. Makes sense so far.
But when i upload this same album into the Google Music-Cloud with my PC (using the Google Music Manager), Google Play Music on my Android device detects this and suddenly turns the album to a grey, angled pin...
When i click this pin it starts downloading the whole album. But this doesn't make sense, since it is already available offline.
I would say the pin should simply stay blue and thus prevent unnecessary downloading.
Another interesting thing is, that if I play this album while the pin is grey and angled, it seems to play the locally available ones without caching anything (I monitored /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music ).
Am i doing something wrong or is this the desired behavior?
I would be glad about some comments on this.
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?
I'm having issues getting an error trying to play anything. I unchecked cache in the app, cleared data and cache through Apps in settings, deleted and reinstalled, this even happened in stock rom and a custom rom. Suggestions?
Bump for no resolution...
What is with another music titles?
Whether I stream or play downloaded music, I get the same error...
Do you have the app set to downloaded only?
It won't even let me play downloaded music. It's starting to get annoying...
Shot in the dark here...
Do you have multiple Google accounts on your phone?