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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?

[Q] Music playing, but no sound

The problem:
My M8 is having difficulty playing music with sound. When I try to play music on the phone, the song will play. However, there will be no sound coming out from the speakers.
What I tried already:
I tried using a different music player. I downloaded Shuttle+ and tried to play, but I keep getting the same issue. Sometimes, when I reboot the phone, the stock music app works properly, but after the currently playing song is done, it would again play but not produce sound. If I go to the Shuttle app and play a song while the song plays with no sound on the stock music app, the Shuttle app works fine. But then after the song is done on Shuttle, I have to switch to the stock music app for sound to come out properly.
I remember how Google limited SD card functionality (my music was on my sd card). So I transferred the songs onto the phone storage, but I still have the issue. Then I figured that the issue might be my mp3 files. I deleted them all to try to isolate the problem. I tried playing song from the Google Play Music app and it appears to be working fine. This morning, the google play music also exhibiting the same problem. So even Spotify is having the problem. The music will load and the slider will move to indicate the song is playing, but again no sound. I tried deleting the data of all the music apps I have and they still do not work properly.
I have xposed modules installed so I disabled all of them and restarted the phone, but the problem persists.
Also, the boomsound speakers are functioning properly. Youtube videos and regular video files play with sound. I only appear to be having problems with music.
Phone modification:
This is probably really important to figuring out what the issue is. My phone is rooted and S-off. I have xposed installed with the following modules: forced immersive mode, greenify, keepchat, nfciconremover, snapshare, unicon, youtube adaway.
Other than that, the phone is stock.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
EDIT:
Solution
I performed a factory reset and started all over to isolate what modification caused this music bug.
Turns out, it was flashing the Tethering mod located here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708548
If you are currently experiencing this problem, go back to pure stock OR simply flash this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2731893
Now, if you still want tethering, install this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2715671.
I can confirm that installing that will give you tethering and not break music functionality!

Did you check the media output setting
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mopperx2 said:
Did you check the media output setting
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How can I check the media output setting? Do you mean within the android settings app?

There is a quick settings tile. You may have to enable it
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mopperx2 said:
Did you check the media output setting
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There is a quick settings tile. You may have to enable it
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I have not enabled it via quick settings. But I have enabled it yesterday by selecting "My phone" from within the stock music app.

barbaraswee said:
Are you using any music apps? If you use it please uninstall this and try to use built in music player or reset your phone. then its ok.
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As noted in my post, I tried using both the built in music player and an alternative 3rd party application. And I do not think a factory reset will benefit here because I have checked every setting and already reset the data on the music applications.

You're not connecting to a Bluetooth source? And silly question but is the volume turned up? Lol
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The Stig 04 said:
You're not connecting to a Bluetooth source? And silly question but is the volume turned up? Lol
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No bluetooth source. And yes the volume is maxed out! haha

dannyyang524 said:
No bluetooth source. And yes the volume is maxed out! haha
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My wife and I are having this same problem. It happens with Amazon and Google's music player, and maybe others; however, I have never tested them. It will play one track, and then the following tracks will keep playing; however, now sound will play through the speakers or head phones. I thought it might have been something I installed, but my wife started complaining about it on her M8 too. We just got them April 26th. I rooted and S-off both of them the same day. I have been working on mine mostly, but have done little to my wife's M8. I have been searching for a solution, but have found nothing. The weird thing is if I leave it alone for a while, it will randomly play tracks and then stop again.I can play Audible books all day long with no problem. I have yet to find a solution.
Rob
Edit: My solution was to install ViperOne ROM which fixed the problem; however, I see the OP has found a solution to the problem.

I have kinda of the same problem. If I start playing music with Google Play Music and then just stop/close Google Play Music. Then later on if I try to go back to Google Play Music it will play but there is no sound. If I try to use the HTC Music app, it will work again, but if I stop/close HTC Music app. Then later on try to play music with HTC Music app, it will play but there is no sound. Ill have to go back to Google Music for it to work again and so on.
So freaking weird!!

I thank God for am not having this weird problem.

Exactly same problem. Revolution HD ROM installed.
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Rikko011 said:
Exactly same problem. Revolution HD ROM installed.
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It is because you enabled Harmon Kardon sound enhancement and you are not S-OFF. Check out this post and flash the first uninstall zip from the bottom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2737498

cowboy1995 said:
It is because you enabled Harmon Kardon sound enhancement and you are not S-OFF. Check out this post and flash the first uninstall zip from the bottom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2737498
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Thank you, this is exactly what solved my problem. Did S-OFF flashed different ROM and then used the thread that you linked to flash H/K sound. Works like a charm now.
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Totally fixed this problem for me. It was driving me crazy. THANK YOU!!!
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It is because you enabled Harmon Kardon sound enhancement and you are not S-OFF. Check out this post and flash the first uninstall zip from the bottom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2737498
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Same problem here. VLC plays it all! Im also rooted and custom rom installed.

cowboy1995 said:
It is because you enabled Harmon Kardon sound enhancement and you are not S-OFF. Check out this post and flash the first uninstall zip from the bottom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2737498
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:good:
Thank YOU!

cowboy1995 said:
It is because you enabled Harmon Kardon sound enhancement and you are not S-OFF. Check out this post and flash the first uninstall zip from the bottom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2737498
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Big thanks! I recently had to get a new M8 under warranty & I made the grave mistake of updating my firmware before I gained s off so now I gotta use sunshine. I haven't got around to paying the $25 to gain s off. Meantime, I flashed my backup of ViperOne which I had on my previous M8 which had H/K enabled. Luckily, I kept the H/K enable/disable folder so I was able to flash BoomSound with no problem. Everything functions properly now!

what is OP coz i have the same problem

thanks mopperx2

[Q] Disable stock music player

Hi there,
I don't like to use the stock music player. I want to use Spotify only.
If the music is playing and the device is locked, I push the power button und get the lock screen, with the music controls in the upper area. If I hit "pause", the fun begins: Spotify stops playing and the stock music app starts playing. This is just ridiculous.
I tried to set Spotify as default music player, but that doesn't change that behaviour. I installed Nova Launcher, but I cannot "disable" the stock apps as I have no root.
Are there any possibilities to disable the stock music app without root?

diskostu said:
Hi there,
I don't like to use the stock music player. I want to use Spotify only.
If the music is playing and the device is locked, I push the power button und get the lock screen, with the music controls in the upper area. If I hit "pause", the fun begins: Spotify stops playing and the stock music app starts playing. This is just ridiculous.
I tried to set Spotify as default music player, but that doesn't change that behaviour. I installed Nova Launcher, but I cannot "disable" the stock apps as I have no root.
Are there any possibilities to disable the stock music app without root?
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Hello,
I had the same issue and I used Titanium backup Pro to freeze the app.
Now mini controls are only controling my current music app.

glycero said:
Hello,
I had the same issue and I used Titanium backup Pro to freeze the app.
Now mini controls are only controling my current music app.
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Thanks a lot, I'll try that.

diskostu said:
Thanks a lot, I'll try that.
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oh ! sorry : I read too quicly : it does require root access....

Seems not possible without root i have the same Problem with Google play music. Stock music begins to play...

Think positively that the default player comes with many free music.

But its not possible to control the music through lock screen. Thats a big gap

I am having this same issue. Stock lock screen seems to have media controls permanently locked to stock music player. The most infuriating thing is the artwork and everything is displayed as you would expect, but as soon as you touch a media control it activates stock music app.
What a pain in the arse bug Hauwei. how did you screw that up!?!

diskostu said:
Hi there,
I don't like to use the stock music player. I want to use Spotify only.
If the music is playing and the device is locked, I push the power button und get the lock screen, with the music controls in the upper area. If I hit "pause", the fun begins: Spotify stops playing and the stock music app starts playing. This is just ridiculous.
I tried to set Spotify as default music player, but that doesn't change that behaviour. I installed Nova Launcher, but I cannot "disable" the stock apps as I have no root.
Are there any possibilities to disable the stock music app without root?
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just uninstall it ..

Did anyone find a solution for this problem without rooting?

mohjarr said:
Did anyone find a solution for this problem without rooting?
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Have you tried changing the default music app? Settings -> Manage Apps -> Default app settings -> Music
Doesn't help me with Pocket Casts, but if Spotify shows up here you might have a solution.

Raithlin said:
Have you tried changing the default music app? Settings -> Manage Apps -> Default app settings -> Music
Doesn't help me with Pocket Casts, but if Spotify shows up here you might have a solution.
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You can't change the default music app to Spotify. In addition, I've already tried changing it to something other than the default music app but it still does't work.
It seems like the only way to do it is to disable the stock music app - but I don't have root

Damn, you're right. Just tried it with PowerAmp with the same result. The lock screen is even worse, overlaying the Huawei buttons (that don't work) over the PowerAmp lock screen controls. The smart cover controls serve only to stop the music, and once paused you have to unlock to play again.
This may be what pushes me to root...

Raithlin said:
Damn, you're right. Just tried it with PowerAmp with the same result. The lock screen is even worse, overlaying the Huawei buttons (that don't work) over the PowerAmp lock screen controls. The smart cover controls serve only to stop the music, and once paused you have to unlock to play again.
This may be what pushes me to root...
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Even with root you won't be able to solve the stock lockscreen music button mess ... Huawei did a lot right with the Mate 7 and with EMUI, but they also have a lot of silly bugs that can drive you crazy ...

vonotny said:
Even with root you won't be able to solve the stock lockscreen music button mess ... Huawei did a lot right with the Mate 7 and with EMUI, but they also have a lot of silly bugs that can drive you crazy ...
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Thanks for that. I do agree - there is a lot in EMUI that I would normally root to implement - and this is sadly something we will have to live with, for now. Thankfully Pocket Casts monitors the buttons on my Nokia Monster headphones, and that's how I pause/unpause anyway.
Does anyone know of a forum we can voice our concerns on? Perhaps a feedback mechanism that Huawei monitors...

UPDATE: I found a solution for this dilemma. You'll need root though. The music player controls in the lockscreen can actually be used to control ANY currently running music app and even show title and album cover. HOWEVER, you'll have to UNINSTALL the Huawei Music app from the system folder, which is what you need root for. Once the Huawei Music app is gone (remember: UNINSTALLED, NOT frozen), the fixed link between the lockscreen controls and the stock music player are gone.

Sweet. Gives me a good reason to root. Now to go find that thread...
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Damn, looks like my firmware has been updated beyond what works for a live root solution.
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Raithlin said:
Sweet. Gives me a good reason to root. Now to go find that thread...
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Damn, looks like my firmware has been updated beyond what works for a live root solution.
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BL unlocking is a bit quirky, but you can always revert back to the stock BL after flashing CWM. Rooting once you have unlocked your BL is easy-peasy.

You can disable the Music app out right i do this via adb shell using the following command.
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.mediacenter
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This can be done without root as it only uninstalls from the user not the phone so factory reset will get the app back.
Make sure you reboot after to make it take effect.

How to remove music application?

Hi,
The app is taking over spotify when I try to listen to music with Bluetooth in my car. I asked assistance in spotify forum but they could not help.
The app is built in as people know and there is not even disabling option. How can I get rid off it?
Thanks in advance

Leilebule said:
Hi,
The app is taking over spotify when I try to listen to music with Bluetooth in my car. I asked assistance in spotify forum but they could not help.
The app is built in as people know and there is not even disabling option. How can I get rid off it?
Thanks in advance
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have you tried to change default app settings?

vertex444 said:
have you tried to change default app settings?
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Thank you for the respond. Yes i tried, but there isnt any other available option. Writing with my honor 6 so excuse some typos. Also my main language is not english.
Let me explain this better:
I use spotify with bluetooth to listen to music through my car stereo, which is pioneer mvh 360bt. Everything worked; i could see the song details etc in the stereo display screen and next or previous buttons worked with stereo buttons. Making it very easy to change a song while driving. Suddenly i could no longer see song details and buttons to change songs stopped working also. No idea what may cause it. I did not change or install anything suspicious, except updates on apps obviously. What i discovered is the built in music app, which started to show song details in stereo screen and took over spotify. Basicly the whole controlling is in the music app now. I tried to figure out how can i get spotify back as it used to be, no luck yet. I deleted all songs related to music app and so on. Now i can play songs through spotify, but i cant change songs with stereo buttons and the screen show no title or no name. I think the stereo and bluetooth still connects to music app while leaving spotify outside.
What i tried to do:
Reseted phone to factory settings
Tried two different apps: bluetooth connect and play app, autoaudio bluetooth help. These programs did not change anything.
Messed with phone and stereo settings..
I think i will also reset the stereo settings just to make sure.. But my girlfriends Sony xperia m2 aqua functions as it should, so the problem must be in my phone, not in stereo.
TLDR: How can i get rid off built in music app and make my spotify to function again with my "honor 6 - bluetooth - pioneer mvh 360bt" so i can change songs with stereo buttons and see the song in stereo display screen?
Spotify said that they cant help me with the issue so i hope i could get some help here.
Feel free to ask more questions and details. Thanks in advance.

have you tried to uninstall spotify or music updates to that version that worked?

vertex444 said:
have you tried to uninstall spotify or music updates to that version that worked?
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Hi,
Yes. I tried to install Spotify again, many times. I also tried to install previous versions of spotify with no luck. Though might be a problem that I didn't possibly delete "old files" causing the issue still be there.
The music software, I have absolutely no idea what is it and how can I find previous updates. The software is called "Musiikki", which is "Music" in englishand the version number is v7.0.21.
Btw, I found more threads about similar issue with other Honor 6 users, but also some other phone models having them. Seems like they appeared after installing newest or second newest version of Spotify, but it's weird that I can't even fix the issue anymore by reinstalling older version of Spotify.
What really makes me think is this place where I can change default music application. I can only see there this music software and google play music, but Spotify will not be there, not even with older version.
Tomorrow I am going to reset my phone still one more time and install Spotify version where everything worked. Meanwhile I will also reset my car stereo. If I can't get this to work, I am out of ideas..
Thanks in advance.

i have Music version V6.9.6, try to uninstall updates to Music, from Huawei App Center

vertex444 said:
i have Music version V6.9.6, try to uninstall updates to Music, from Huawei App Center
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Hi. I guess it is worth to try. I downloaded Huawei App Store APK, installed it and I found the Music software but unofortunately I can't do anything for it.. How am I supposed to uninstall the program or even install previous version?

Leilebule said:
Hi. I guess it is worth to try. I downloaded Huawei App Store APK, installed it and I found the Music software but unofortunately I can't do anything for it.. How am I supposed to uninstall the program or even install previous version?
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did you uninstalled the huawei app center? didn't you had it when you bought the phone?
try an phone restart or reset to factory( wise idea - make a backup first)

The phone is european version so it uses google softwares. Anyway i figured out, installed older version of spotify and it started to work. Will keep this version untill spotify fixes this.
Thank you.

Leilebule said:
The phone is european version so it uses google softwares. Anyway i figured out, installed older version of spotify and it started to work. Will keep this version untill spotify fixes this.
Thank you.
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you're welcome
if u want to uninstall the Music app you have to do it from Hi Suite from a PC, at least for H60 L02 phone version.

Lockscreen music controls

Hi everyone!
I've looked and seen that some of you had troubles with the lockscreen music control. I'm on B162 and have the same problem as you guys do; I was just wondering if this problem got solved with an update since the B162 or if you guys still have the same problem.
Thanks a lot!

PrimuSSaintS said:
Hi everyone!
I've looked and seen that some of you had troubles with the lockscreen music control. I'm on B162 and have the same problem as you guys do; I was just wondering if this problem got solved with an update since the B162 or if you guys still have the same problem.
Thanks a lot!
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Using the stock Huawei music app lockscreen music control works just fine (B1xx and now on B3xx as well) :good:

Pfeffernuss said:
Using the stock Huawei music app lockscreen music control works just fine (B1xx and now on B3xx as well) :good:
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Yeah but what I hate about the Stock Music App is that there is no "Genre" tab, and i'm someone that loves just selecting a genre and listen to whatever I have on my phone. Also, I'm trying Spotify Premium for three month (there was a promotion that costed me 1€ for 3 months), so I don't really use anything else.
Any other ideas?

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Yeah but what I hate about the Stock Music App is that there is no "Genre" tab, and i'm someone that loves just selecting a genre and listen to whatever I have on my phone. Also, I'm trying Spotify Premium for three month (there was a promotion that costed me 1€ for 3 months), so I don't really use anything else.
Any other ideas?
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what I ended up doing was just installing Microsoft's "Next" lockscreen app from the play store, and enabling the setting to "use password lock only".
It's a workaround, but it works well (works with fingerprint unlocking and doesnt make you have to unlock twice, usable media controls with spotify and all other media apps)
just make sure you grant it every possible permission, battery setting etc and it should work fine. its not like the huawei lockscreen was really any good anyway.

With B320 lockscreen music controls show album art from Google Play Music, in previous versions that did not work, so maybe other apps will work too.