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[Q] google music

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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Best Cloud Service?

So I have a 4S atm and am using icloud, its awesome that it backs up your whole phone and you can restore so easily, but 5gb's is kinda low and you cant store your music on icloud unless its purchased from itunes, you can put your own tracks but you need to pay for itunes match which is $25 a year+more storage which starts at $20 for only $10 gbs. Kinda pricey.
Then we have google which is confusing to me, how many gbs for google music? Do you have to pay eventually for google music? Then you have gmail, then you have picasa for photos, wish it was all integrated....
Then there is skydrive which offers 25gb free and no upgrade options, the good thing about it is that its all integrated and you can store any file in that 25gb and play, use, download anytime on a WP7 device or use on your iphone with the client. Sounds good!
Finally we have dropbox, I really like the idea of you making a folder on your pc, then putting stuff in their and it syncs across all your devices but does your computer have to be on at home? Also 2gb free is measly and the next upgrade is 50gb for 100$ a year, a lot of money....
So which do you use and think is the best? Im planning on buying the htc one x and apparently it brings 25gb of dropbox free but eventually it expires which sucks.

I use DropBox exclusively and have gotten up to 23GB of space so far. Did this by doing their free upgrades and referrals using temp emails

Google been on cloud since the beginning. Your phone is backed up with Gmail account, this includes contacts and apps.
Google music allows you to upload 20000 of your own music in addition to music you purchase from the Google play store. Its free!
For pictures I have them backed up on Google+. Its free.
My misc stuff on Google drive. 5gb free.
This is how I am currently using Google's cloud services.
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wendellc said:
Google been on cloud since the beginning. Your phone is backed up with Gmail account, this includes contacts and apps.
Google music allows you to upload 20000 of your own music in addition to music you purchase from the Google play store. Its free!
For pictures I have them backed up on Google+. Its free.
My misc stuff on Google drive. 5gb free.
This is how I am currently using Google's cloud services.
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Sounds good. How many gigs is google music? Also will there be any charges in the future?

solidkevin said:
Sounds good. How many gigs is google music? Also will there be any charges in the future?
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I believe you're able to store up to 25000 songs on google regardless of size and if you buy music from them, it won't be count toward your current songs limit
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Prefer Dropbox, good web and pc app
storage to 18GB for free +

Google Music is 20,000 songs based on a certain size per song, so if you use bigger songs you will have less space.
I use them all!!!
Dropbox, Ubuntu One, Google drive and Google Music. Why not?

Skydrive is 7gb for new users
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mArtinko5MB said:
Prefer Dropbox, good web and pc app
storage to 18GB for free +
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How can I get the 18gb? Easy?

you have to invite a friends to DrobBox, one friend is 500MB+ up to 16GB for free.

I use google and dropbox to get the most out of there services. As stated before Google lets you upload 20,000 songs for free but if you really need to you can pay an additional fee and get more space. Dropbox increases your space based on referrals or if you prefer you can just pay for an increase also.

Dropbox hands down. It's the only one with Linux support. Never had any problem. A little pricey, but I don't expect the best to be less.
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Honestly, Google music (I have over 50+ albums on my phone.
I also use Box because I got 50gb free... I'm good

Use them all, win win situation.
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So I just uploaded my whole library on google music and I put some documents on google drive, honestly all I need! Very impressed with google..

SkyDrive FTW
I love the way Windows Phone works with SkyDrive. I can create a Excel file in my desktop, save on SkyDrive, edit in the build in app in the phone or even in the WebApp in the browser.
For me Google Drive is not a complete tool. I can't edit Excel files in Desktop and Web. The one I create in Web only can be change in web and created in desktop only can be view on the web. You can't edit.

i use sky drive and box

Google Music Questions

(re-posting this in relevant board, sorry for duplicate)
Hi Guys,
I gather not many people actually use Google Music in the UK due to the required work arounds to get it but I am quite interested in using it.
For those who do/have used it:
Do you like it?
Is it worth the work around hassle to gain access?
Will getting it now via the workaround cause problems when it's actually released?
What worthy alternative services are there that aren't iTunes/iCloud/Match?
I want a music service in which I can own my music as well as purchase music, add my existing music to the service, and sync between devices.
I feel like there's nothing that does that apart from iTunes Match and Google Music

I love it, its my everyday music player... I no longer keep music files on my phone because I stream it from the cloud.

Likewise. I have been using it for a few months and it is absolutely life-changing. I just uploaded my entire music collection and now just stream it all instead of having it stored on my phone or memory card.

But how do you guys upload it in countries other than US?
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AMoosa said:
Likewise. I have been using it for a few months and it is absolutely life-changing. I just uploaded my entire music collection and now just stream it all instead of having it stored on my phone or memory card.
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If you need the APK to get the app on your phone, how do you get updates?
Do you have to use a proxy only to sign up or do you need it for desktop streaming?
Can your purchase music in the app?

Once you register via proxy you can use it anywhere, Play store for music doesn't work but who cares.

You only need the proxy for initial registration. For everything else, no proxy required. So in reality, its very little effort for lots of awsomeness

[Q] Apple to Android Problem

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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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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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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Google Play Music: All Music Vs. On Device

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.

AndrasLOHF said:
^^^^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?