Hey when you wipe your phone to install a new rom does all the Google play music get wiped too? I know before the wipe i had all the music pined to my phone but after the wipe it is not. I don't wanna double download it to my phone and take up excessive storage if its still there and i just need to change something.
That's a good question because I know playlist stay if you have sync on but I know when you flash a new Rom the serial of the phone changes so basically it gets added as a new device in the listing of Google Music.
Did you wipe internal SD? If so then they are gone for sure.
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Play Music stores your downloaded music in the app data. It should always get wiped unless you backup and restore it with titanium.
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If you have the songs downloaded to the micro sd card and you do not wipe the sd card. The songs should still be there. At least that is what is happening to me.
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If you have the songs downloaded to the micro sd card and you do not wipe the sd card. The songs should still be there. At least that is what is happening to me.
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Interesting because that didn't happen to me, although it was a playlist that I put together of music that I do not own so that could be the difference.
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If you have the songs downloaded to the micro sd card and you do not wipe the sd card. The songs should still be there. At least that is what is happening to me.
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Once again, Google Play Music stores the downloaded music in it's app data..not on your SD card. It will get wiped with a new ROM install. You must be using a different music app.
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I may have misunderstood what the op is asking then. Is the op asking where the music files downloaded to? If so, the op can choose either internal or external storage location. It is stored in an app data folder though like you said; the app data folder (with the music files) would be determined on which location you choose.
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this may be me just being lazy..... but I installed poweramp, then looked for the music which I put on an sd card. It couldn't see the folders, except for the internal memory. the other way to play was to use the library function, but I want folders and to get it to redownload the art.
I tried to move the music with estrong, but it crashed, then I tried with the built in file manager it also crashed, anyone else had this?
I may just go down the usb route....
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Hi iamdarren,
No reply for a while, so I will give it a go: first off did you get a notification by the tablet for a plugged in SD card? After I plug in my SD card I get a brief message "preparing sd card" (or something of the sort), then I get SD card icon next to the clock in the lower right corner.
Basically if you don't see any of these, there might be a problem with the SD card. Can you test with a different card?
Good luck,
rio
iamdarren said:
this may be me just being lazy..... but I installed poweramp, then looked for the music which I put on an sd card. It couldn't see the folders, except for the internal memory. the other way to play was to use the library function, but I want folders and to get it to redownload the art.
I tried to move the music with estrong, but it crashed, then I tried with the built in file manager it also crashed, anyone else had this?
I may just go down the usb route....
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solved....
I used astro and no crashes, so its all good. I dont think there is anything wrong with the SD card.
Brand new to the skyrocket, I have tried both CM9 and AOKP and have issues with external storage. My gallery pull all my pics from the external perfect so i know the o/s is seeing it. When i use astro file search nothing shows up on my external, and when i go to play music through my blutooth, google music wont play anything and jetaudio plays but cuts in and out. Is this a common issue everyone, and is there a fix for it?
Both my internal and external work fine on aosp roms. Are you saying you can't find the internal SD? :thumbup:
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My internal works fine.Google music recognizes music on my external but says it can't access
the files to play them.jetaudio will play them but cuts in and out.
If I open astro file manager and choose external SD nothing shows up
Have you tried fixing permissions? I always try that when something isn't quite right.
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Fixed permissions, rebooted, opened astro file manager,
Clicked on external SD,it says directory empty. I also noticed jetaudio is only recognizing
A portion of my music. I don't get it. I would normally think its a bad install,
But I do a complete wipe everytime and it does the same thing with Cm9
Are you selecting external SD from within the emmc folder? That will show as empty. To see the contents go up one level in the directory and select SDCard. That is external and emmc is internal on AOSP Roms.
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Thank you,that worked,sometimes I am an idiot.lol. now if I can figure
Out why google music wont play any of my music, everything would be
Perfect.
I had the same problem, drove me to the brink of insanity, lol. I flashed another rom and decided it wasn't good so I flashed back and somehow everything worked. Not sure how but it worked.
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xallinvaynex said:
Thank you,that worked,sometimes I am an idiot.lol. now if I can figure
Out why google music wont play any of my music, everything would be
Perfect.
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Glad that was it. I believe there is some instructions for deleting the media db files in the CM9 thread in order to force a rescan. Try searching "media db" in there.
Thanks are great, thanks button is better
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Solved-thanks for everyone's help, this is what I had to do to fix the music issue.
Uninstall music apps, use root explorer do to data/data/android.com.provider.media,delete database folder, boot into recovery,delete cache, reboot,reinstall music app
Hi there, I have searched here and cannot find the answer. How can I get music to automatically save to my external sd card? Right now everything saves to my internal and I have to move it to my external. My pics save to sd card because there is a setting under camera.
I am running stock, unlocked BL and rooted
Thanks
Your post is rather vague since you don't say how you're downloading music in the first place. Are you referring to Google Music or something else? Anything you download from the internet is either downloaded to wherever you specify or only to your internal "Download" folder.
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Your post is rather vague since you don't say how you're downloading music in the first place. Are you referring to Google Music or something else? Anything you download from the internet is either downloaded to wherever you specify or only to your internal "Download" folder.
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Sorry....I use an app called Gtunes music downloader from the play store.
I will look and see if I can play with the settings within the app.
Thanks
The cache for Play Music on my phone is getting to be too much and sometimes even becomes too big for the available memory I have internally. Is there any way I can get it to cache externally? Or have the "pinned" music to save to an external sd card?
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Anyone?...
I realize googles basis for streaming your music vs storing it on the device, hence the lack of external storage options in their flagship phones (which is without a doubt the root of my problem).
My question is has anyone figured out a way to have the app pin your music to an ext sd card? I thought maybe having it installed on the ext sd would help but I want to know what you guys think before I do that (not that I know how, lol).
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Luckily it's in the settings settings>clear cache
Edit: read your question wrong, sorry. Try moving the folder itself
Edit: You can use a file manager to set the folder the music usually stores to to link to a folder on the ext SD Card
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Since Nexus 5 don't have Micro SD card. How can I backup my songs if I want to Factory data reset without using PC? I know I can tranfers all kind of files, everythings using USB cable to PC and I know I can backup all my photos using from Google photos app which is every nice and easy to use. Is there another way to backup my songs? I can't seem to find the app for it.
'wipe data/factory rest' doesn't wipe user files, only system files
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this is just wrong.
wipe data wipes the /data partition, no matter what. a custom recovery doesnt wipe the emulated sdcard folder but does indeed wipe everything other (user files). system files never get wiped. hence. after a factory reset you wouldnt have anything lef to boot. for /system to be wiped you have to use a custom recovery.
as for OPs question: no pc no full backup afaik. you could easily use airdroid or something like that to transfer the files without any cable hassle.
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Since Nexus 5 don't have Micro SD card. How can I backup my songs if I want to Factory data reset without using PC? I know I can tranfers all kind of files, everythings using USB cable to PC and I know I can backup all my photos using from Google photos app which is every nice and easy to use. Is there another way to backup my songs? I can't seem to find the app for it.
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I usually store the songs on google music, and stream from there to my phone - in other words, instead of storing my music locally on my phone/pc/tablet, I just store it on google music (and keep one copy of the music in another location for backup)
For pictures, as you said, Google+ is pretty good - I store standard size, so unlimited backup. If there are pictures that I really want full size, I back it up to dropbox or copy or box
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this is just wrong.
wipe data wipes the /data partition, no matter what. a custom recovery doesnt wipe the emulated sdcard folder but does indeed wipe everything other (user files). system files never get wiped. hence. after a factory reset you wouldnt have anything lef to boot. for /system to be wiped you have to use a custom recovery.
as for OPs question: no pc no full backup afaik. you could easily use airdroid or something like that to transfer the files without any cable hassle.
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ok then, poor choice of wording on my part...i should have just said "your music will not be deleted" :cyclops:
Hmm sound easy for me. I will considering doing this. Thanks.
jj14 said:
I usually store the songs on google music, and stream from there to my phone - in other words, instead of storing my music locally on my phone/pc/tablet, I just store it on google music (and keep one copy of the music in another location for backup)
For pictures, as you said, Google+ is pretty good - I store standard size, so unlimited backup. If there are pictures that I really want full size, I back it up to dropbox or copy or box
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Only in stock, I think it will delete but since I'm not using costum recovery it can. Lol thanks advance.
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ok then, poor choice of wording on my part...i should have just said "your music will not be deleted" :cyclops:
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