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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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Google Play Music Not Working With External SDCard

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.

[Q] Galaxy tab 2 10.1 questions

Hey all,
I just bought this tablet today, after trading in my 32GB playbook, nice machine; no apps (atleast non that appealed to me), plays my music well. haven't tried video yet...
having issues getting my windows 7 64 bit computer to even see the tab... using the normal mtp setting... have to set it to camera to have it connect... and that is even giving me some issues like disappearing from windows explorer all together
not sure why this is...
anyone know if there is a certain driver that this things supposed to use?
Also if i have any other questions about the device i will add them to this thread.

batkinson001 said:
Hey all,
I just bought this tablet today, after trading in my 32GB playbook, nice machine; no apps (atleast non that appealed to me), plays my music well. haven't tried video yet...
having issues getting my windows 7 64 bit computer to even see the tab... using the normal mtp setting... have to set it to camera to have it connect... and that is even giving me some issues like disappearing from windows explorer all together
not sure why this is...
anyone know if there is a certain driver that this things supposed to use?
Also if i have any other questions about the device i will add them to this thread.
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For music try 3, google play music android music player or ported walkman app from SonyEricsson mobiles (search the forums)
For videos try moboplayer,mx player,dice player or bsplayer
Install kies or samsung drivers and try also google drivers (search the forums)
Try to root the tab and install cm10 work good in this tab
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Mohamedselim said:
For music try 3, google play music android music player or ported walkman app from SonyEricsson mobiles (search the forums)
For videos try moboplayer,mx player,dice player or bsplayer
Install kies or samsung drivers and try also google drivers (search the forums)
Try to root the tab and install cm10 work good in this tab
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for music and one of the reasons for getting an android tablet... Power AMP with rock EQ preset enabled.
as for the driver thing, i uninstalled the driver from device manager and rebooted the computer, it redetected the tablet and installed fine, though it did take longer to do so this time, but it worked.
as for rooting... not sure yet. though i would love to get the kobo app working normally... whatever this preinstalled ReaderHub thing is it hijacked my library.

wifi times out...
Another question... is there aa way to keep the wifi running constantly while streaming video? It likes to stop mid stream forcing the video to pause while it rebuffers more (which sometimes causes the video to start over or crash)... very annoying in my opinion. I do not hsve this iissue on my win 7 wifi desktop.
I am running the stock browser since it allows me to access all my crome bookmarks and has working flash (.17 build from the adobe flash download archive site)

I think their is option to disable sleep of wifi in setting
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Settings, WiFi ,upper right corner 3 dots ,advance settings.
Pp.
Transmitted from another galaxy with a Jellybean infused P-5113 full of Unicorn porn.

PanchoPlanet said:
Settings, WiFi ,upper right corner 3 dots ,advance settings.
Pp.
Transmitted from another galaxy with a Jellybean infused P-5113 full of Unicorn porn.
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Only option there is regarding keeping wifi on during sleep...

batkinson001 said:
Only option there is regarding keeping wifi on during sleep...
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I think this is the right option
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I would try it anyway it may help, I see your scenario, while streaming or playing video tab should be awake anyway.
This is an issue when streaming music and the screen times out. You have nothing to lose trying it.
Pp.
Transmitted from another galaxy with a Jellybean infused P-5113 full of Unicorn porn.

No way to control music??

It looks like there is no way to control music currently?
Until recently I have been using the Smart Extras Music app and Media Button control apps to control my music player (Google Music). Now that I have updated to KitKat, the Smart Extras Music app crashes.
Sony should be ashamed. This is one of the main uses of the damn watch. :cyclops:
I am developer by trade, so I will use Sony's API to create an app to do it, but it is infuriating that I have to!
This sort of stuff is the reason I sold my Xperia S and bought a Nexus!

I just picked up a sw2 and have the n5, willing to test for you if need be
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the standard music player works fine for me controlling google music on my Moto X with kitkat

deadcatt said:
It looks like there is no way to control music currently?
Until recently I have been using the Smart Extras Music app and Media Button control apps to control my music player (Google Music). Now that I have updated to KitKat, the Smart Extras Music app crashes.
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A possible solution could be to find another working music player smart extension on the Google Play.
In my case the Sony music player extension no longer works after the latest update, so I bought this one and it works well with my S4 stock music player and it's also fast responding:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.disrapptive.smart.music
If you want to try, consider that if you'll not be satisfied with it you have 15 minutes to eventually ask for a reimbursement.

Re: No way to control music
Sony should create a application that could help in stoping and playing music from the Smartwatch

If you have poweramp player installed, you can use it's plugin. It supports SW1 and SW2.
And what about default app for SW1 - it works with both default player and poweramp. Don't know about SW2.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonyericsson.extras.liveware.extension.music
Check this default app out.

Re: No ways to control music
Yes I did not find any way to control to music over smartwatch..

Works fine for me on my N4 with 4.4.2 in ART mode and Google Music. It sometimes takes a few attempts but then works fine. I just don't see any album art on the SW2.
Make sure you don't have some sort of task killer and that you didn't Greenify the Sony apps.

A Redditor created a new extension to control music. His one shows album art and also supports the new "low power" mode: http://www.reddit.com/r/smartwatch/comments/1ty29q/smartwatch_2_music_control

Ive solved this problem with remote widgets app and Its perfect.
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mbirth said:
A Redditor created a new extension to control music. His one shows album art and also supports the new "low power" mode: http://www.reddit.com/r/smartwatch/comments/1ty29q/smartwatch_2_music_control
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I can't find a download link on this reddit-page?!

Paschinski said:
I can't find a download link on this reddit-page?!
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At the top of the page inside the square: "Here you can download the app itself" - just click the version number to dl.
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The links appear to be dead.. can anyone upload the app here, if that is ok with the dev?
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vrl13 said:
The links appear to be dead.. can anyone upload the app here, if that is ok with the dev?
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This link works. Click on "To Download" below the ad in the middle of the screen.

mbirth said:
A Redditor created a new extension to control music. His one shows album art and also supports the new "low power" mode: http://www.reddit.com/r/smartwatch/comments/1ty29q/smartwatch_2_music_control
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I get:
Parse error
There was a problem while parsing the package.
Nexus 4, Android 4.3. I guess perhaps the guy has written it only for 4.4 for now?

I had a chance to have a closer look. It is a permission error:
Code:
permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri
I don't have the full text of the log cat entry, as stupid me didn't save it before factory reset my phone.
Anyway, it turns out the Sony music control app is getting a permission denied error under KitKat when it attempts to retrieve album art.
The work around is to root your device. I hadn't gotten around to rooting my N4 until now. My N4 is now rooted, and it all works fine.
It is a pretty piss poor effort by Sony that they haven't fixed this. On Facebook their excuse was that "their phones don't run KitKat yet". Big deal Sony, you market you watches to other brands of phone too. This is exactly the sort of attitude that caused me to sell my Xperia S and get a Nexus.

deadcatt said:
I had a chance to have a closer look. It is a permission error:
Code:
permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri
I don't have the full text of the log cat entry, as stupid me didn't save it before factory reset my phone.
Anyway, it turns out the Sony music control app is getting a permission denied error under KitKat when it attempts to retrieve album art.
The work around is to root your device. I hadn't gotten around to rooting my N4 until now. My N4 is now rooted, and it all works fine.
It is a pretty piss poor effort by Sony that they haven't fixed this. On Facebook their excuse was that "their phones don't run KitKat yet". Big deal Sony, you market you watches to other brands of phone too. This is exactly the sort of attitude that caused me to sell my Xperia S and get a Nexus.
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My Nexus 5 is rooted and yet the Sony extension has never worked well, in fact it's easily the worse part of the watch. I have had no problems with anything else, aside from the music app. I wonder how did you get it to work with root? Do you need to give it permission elsewhere?
The above app from the Reddit thread works nicely, very simple but, album art is sort of there and it only plays/pauses but, it WORKS which is the main thing.

Disabbling Google music in application manager on My note 3 makes the SW2 control music on the stock music player which is the one I like to use
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MX Player doesn't detect OTG videos

Hi, I bought a Motorola One Power 2 weeks ago. Although everything is good about this phone, the only problem I encounter is that OTG videos don't show up in MX Player but all of them do show up in Strorage/Gallery and I can even run them but it's inconvenient to play videos from gallery. Does anyone have a solution to this? I've searched a lot and found none.
P.S. MX Players plays OTG videos in my other smartphone HTC Desire Eye running android Lollipop.
P.S I bought a new sandisk 128 GB USB type-C OTG for this one, also I'm running Android 9 Pie

Chacha Mango said:
Hi, I bought a Motorola One Power 2 weeks ago. Although everything is good about this phone, the only problem I encounter is that OTG videos don't show up in MX Player but all of them do show up in Strorage/Gallery and I can even run them but it's inconvenient to play videos from gallery. Does anyone have a solution to this? I've searched a lot and found none.
P.S. MX Players plays OTG videos in my other smartphone HTC Desire Eye running android Lollipop.
P.S I bought a new sandisk 128 GB USB type-C OTG for this one, also I'm running Android 9 Pie
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We regret the inconveniences. MX Player's OTG support currently depends on the OEM's implementation. If the OTG drive is mounted on a regular location like /storage, MX Player will automatically scan the drive and show the list of files. In several recent devices, it is mounted in a secured location so that third-party apps can't directly access it without some special techniques. As Gallery and Inbuilt file manager's have system level signature, they can access the OTG device without any such restrictions.
However, We will share this issue with our relevant team for further evaluation of the possible improvements in the feature. Meanwhile, your patience is highly appreciated.

MXPlayer said:
We regret the inconveniences. MX Player's OTG support currently depends on the OEM's implementation. If the OTG drive is mounted on a regular location like /storage, MX Player will automatically scan the drive and show the list of files. In several recent devices, it is mounted in a secured location so that third-party apps can't directly access it without some special techniques. As Gallery and Inbuilt file manager's have system level signature, they can access the OTG device without any such restrictions.
However, We will share this issue with our relevant team for further evaluation of the possible improvements in the feature. Meanwhile, your patience is highly appreciated.
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No problem, it works now. I rooted my phone and did some tweaks after reading some relevant posts on this forum.

@Chacha Mango
I have same problem with you, cannot detect usb otg in kenzo with custom rom nitrogen os. When in miui it not any problem.
May i know where you found the solutions, maybe it can solved my problem too.

I have the same issue, which I posted some days ago. I would really appreciate a reply from the devs, for an app that is NOT free and we paid for it. Still nothing. At least you got one...

skyhirules said:
I have the same issue, which I posted some days ago. I would really appreciate a reply from the devs, for an app that is NOT free and we paid for it. Still nothing. At least you got one...
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We regret the inconveniences. As we mentioned earlier on this thread, it purely depends on how the device mounts the USB device. If it can be read without any restrictions, MX Player should be able to read and list your files without any issues. However, we have already highlighted this with our relevant team and added to our roadmap. We will do our best on bringing some convenient methods to browse the files when the USB storage is not directly accessible.

xtrude said:
@Chacha Mango
I have same problem with you, cannot detect usb otg in kenzo with custom rom nitrogen os. When in miui it not any problem.
May i know where you found the solutions, maybe it can solved my problem too.
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Really sorry for the late response, I stopped checking XDA as I rarely got replies here. So here's the solution. I kept it bookmarked in case I need it in future. If your phone's rooted.
1. Open Terminal/ Install one from Google Play Store
2. Type these commands/code:
su
sm set-force-adoptable true
And save.

Chacha Mango said:
Really sorry for the late response, I stopped checking XDA as I rarely got replies here. So here's the solution. I kept it bookmarked in case I need it in future. If your phone's rooted.
1. Open Terminal/ Install one from Google Play Store
2. Type these commands/code:
su
sm set-force-adoptable true
And save.
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Sorry late report...
Your solution Its work for me,, i can play movie direct from ufd in mxplayers....

The other app ES File explorer supports USB storage on the same android ROM version.
But MX Player doesn't.