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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.

Google Play music behaving weirdly on Sensation

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?

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] Podcasts and streaming audio cutting out

I am using a stock rooted US Moto G, and I have had podcasts (through both Pocket Casts and DoubleTwist) and MLB At Bat audio streaming stopping randomly.
Has anybody else had this issue? Any solutions?

rpogorek said:
I am using a stock rooted US Moto G, and I have had podcasts (through both Pocket Casts and DoubleTwist) and MLB At Bat audio streaming stopping randomly.
Has anybody else had this issue? Any solutions?
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I have the exact same problem. Podcasts stop playing suddenly.
This usually happens when using chrome, particularly when scrolling.
A few observations:
- The app doesn't crash - launching it again and pressing play starts the podcast at the exact same spot meaning the app safely shutdown.
- Closing all apps and tabs to free up memory usually helps but is no guarantee it won't stop again within a few minutes.
- Happens with several podcast apps I tried - all of which use about 60mb of RAM when playing
- Happens with downloaded and streamed podcasts. But stopping is more likely with streaming versions (I guess the stream is buffered to RAM meaning it's more likely to be killed)
- Every time the podcast stops I have been using a web browser (I've tried Chrome, Chrome beta, Firefox, Opera and UC browser)
My theory is that android is killing the process to free up some RAM but I'm not sure what can be done to prevent this.
A few things I have looked into are 'nice' and 'minfree'. I tried increasing the priority of my podcast app with nice but that didn't seem to help at all.
Changing the minfree settings did seem to have some affect, but it was still getting killed off eventually.
I don't know much about android to look into it any further ( this is my first android device), perhaps someone with more experience can advise.
I guess this is just one of the limitations of the MotoG and 1gb of RAM

same here had it with the beyondpod ,sound cloud apps
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I think I figured out a solution to this problem, you need to be rooted though.
Install the 'app settings' xposed module, select your music/podcast app then enable the 'resident' option.
This makes sure the app remains in memory and stops android from killing the process.
Seems to be working for me for the past day now

Google play music app issue

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?