I just found out about the Media Go program by Sony, which let's you sync music, video and pictures and view/play them.
It looks much better than Winamp and Mediamonkey, and works easier too.
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Download at the Sony Website:
http://mediago.sony.com
It works with other brands too, a SGSII user reported this working great.
It works with any Sony multimedia device,kinda surprised you found out about this now
also to add album art to mp3's use this program,all the players will read album arts correctly
Hi,
I've been using the program since it's launch a few years ago. I think it's visually the best program of it's kind...I agree it's easy to use and for phones it's pretty good software I think.
But...it duplicates songs a lot, and I don't always know why. I know that if I imported music by CD without connection to the internet, then look up song info in Media Go it keeps the old songs AND finds the info of the new songs...it duplicates some songs on my SD and I don't know why.
I've been chatting about this on the Sony Forum. Many 2011 Sony devices have a problem with version 2.1. No matter what your sync settings, every time you connect your phone it resyncs everything in your library...I've a lot of music/tv/podcasts...that's a nightmare. I wish I could tell it that some of my music is not music but actually podcasts.
Overall it's a great program, just a few issues left......
p.s. downgrade to version 2.0 if you have these problems, they go away, find it on softwareinformer.com past versions.
Album art
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I've been using the program since it's launch a few years ago. I think it's visually the best program of it's kind...I agree it's easy to use and for phones it's pretty good software I think.
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I would like to ask, that do you know how to embed album art to the mp3 file itself (using Media Go)?
I know, that I can link album art, but it is not always embedded in the file.
My test is: I add the album art to the song properties is Media Go, and then play the music in VLC. If it shows the album art, then I assume it embedded.
I am running the 1.6 version (higher versions fail to retreive info from Gracenote database for me).
Hi ^^ I think that will work; download album artwork, then sync to your device, the artwork becomes embedded after download is complete. Does that answer your question?
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Hi ^^ I think that will work; download album artwork, then sync to your device, the artwork becomes embedded after download is complete. Does that answer your question?
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I was hoping for a solution, that doesn't require to send my song to the device, but I'll definitely give this method a try!
Strange story: I had an album, which I set art to. Later, I use the 'VLC check" I mentioned before, and only 1 song had the art. So I selected all the songs in the album, and set the artwork for them together. After this, the covers were there with every song?!?! ... Tried to do this with other albums also, but without any luck. I have noooooo idea how this works anymore!
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Hi ^^ I think that will work; download album artwork, then sync to your device, the artwork becomes embedded after download is complete. Does that answer your question?
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It worked!
Now I only have to send all my music to a device and transfer it back!
If someone has a solution, that doesn't include so much copying, please don't keep it to yourselves!
Strange
Hi all!
I am having this strange issue, with one of my mp3-s.
I set the album art in MediaGo, and transfer it to my thumb drive to make it embedded.
After that, when I play the music from the thumb drive, an another picture is embedded, always the same one, which I don't even have.
I tried different downloads of the mp3, different drives, different pictures ... this keeps happening!
Anyone can think of a solution?
Hi, one solution which usually works for artwork and playlist problems is deleted Android's build of those details. Go to apps, all apps, media storage, delete. Now restart the phone. Album artwork, thumbnails and playlists recount from the very start.
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Hi, one solution which usually works for artwork and playlist problems is deleted Android's build of those details. Go to apps, all apps, media storage, delete. Now restart the phone. Album artwork, thumbnails and playlists recount from the very start.
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I use a pendrive / storage unit / thumb drive / usb stick (or idk what you call it) for this embedding. But the mentioned same image gets embedded, even if I use a usb stick, that has never had that mp3 on it! ... this is why I'm confused
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Im looking for a karaoke app for android... Now i know there are several on the market, but none of them are compatible with cdg karaoke files which is what i could really do with seeing as i have over 30,000 karaoke songs, it would come in handy on the move.
Anyone know an app that can do this?
I was looking for a karaoke app some days ago and there appears to be 1 app that can play cdg files: Karaoke now available in the market and at http://www.tricerasoft.com/kn/karaokenow.htm
However, from what i understand from their website it seems you can not load your own cdg files and there is no trial version available.
If you buy the app let me know if it works with your own cdg files, maybe i will buy it as well.
I bought it. It seems to work well, and you CAN load your own songs, it just isn't obvious from their interface.
In the settings, choose to have downloaded files "Save to External Memory" (i.e. the microSD on my EVO)
Annoyingly, this puts downloaded songs in the root of your SD. When you open Karaoke Now, go to Search and Search All Local Songs. Anything you have copied to the root of your card will then be searchable and playable.
Files must be unzipped, as far as I can tell.
Enjoy!
Hint
Thank you for this link to a karaoke App for Android that reads MP3+G from SD card!
By the way, you can get the app for free. Instead of downloading it from the Android market, go to the website above and download from their website for free. Then you can transfer the file to your phone and install it with an android installer like "Onymous App Installer". Or you can use your phone's browser.
The actual version lets you search for karaoke file anywhere on your SD card!
Is there a correct way of naming the files since I get this from the "Local Songs List"
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I can only see the artist name.
This is how my mp3+gs are named/tagged:
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Never mind. Just got reply from their Support Operator:
You can ignore the ID3 tags because we don't read the ID3 tags on the phone. However the filename should be:
Artist - Title - Album Code
And optionally:
Artist - Title - Album Code (manufacturer - genre)
And the space dash space must be a real "-" (dash), not an extended character that looks like a dash. You can download one of our songs from the catalogue to the SD card and refer the naming.
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Where I can find free karaoke songs? I haven't a internet connection on my phone now, but I would test it now with a free legal song!
Ulduzsoft Karaoke Player is a nice and free cdg player for Android
I use Ulduzsoft Karaoke Player app which is free. I'm a karaoke fun and also collect thousands of cdg+mp3
Karaoke Now! app from tricerasoft.com is nice as well but I do not like the interface and its hard locating to the folder.
http://m.amazone-kindle-fire.apps.opera.com/en_us/karaoke_now.html?pos=1 you can download it here.
I used to search high and low for music player appz for the X10 Mini.
Besides the Spotify player/client for streamed music from that paysite (I have a premium account) I use the PowerAMP to play my own music (mp3s ripped from my CDs thats legal in Sweden as long as I just makes copies for myself) ,
PowerAMP is good and has a lot of bling-bling even for a pay app. Had some issues with the PowerAMP that it started to play tunes every now and then.
Like plugging in or out the 3,5 jack (at home) or connected the Samsung SBH650 bluetooth headset.
As the X10 Mini has a great multitasking capability that meant that PowerAMP played music when I tried to listening to music from Spotify.
Since the latest SE update the PowerAMP seems to stay shut when not actuallu tapping it's play button
Does someone out there found players, that have become a favourite?
PS. Love to use the Spotify music streaming and Google Maps and GPS simultaneous when driving. As long as there are 3G cover maps, GPS-positions as well as the music will work without glitches from this little magic box, we call X10 Mini. Don't know about the Pro, never had one
My favourite is WinAmp. Just really handy to use. Although before this I used TuneWiki - it has an awesome lyrics function.
I find the full version of Meridian the best.. even has an audiobook tab.. and video etc..
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I find the full version of Meridian the best.. even has an audiobook tab.. and video etc..
Kiwi
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send apk or link here!!
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send apk or link here!!
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Can you not find it in Android Market?
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Google or search on youtube for some demo vid's of the features...
(you will need to buy the full version to have all the features tho )
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(you will need to buy the full version to have all the features tho )
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that's why asked for apk.. need full version!
I recommand Mortplayer, one of the oldest player with tons of features. I'm using it since i have had my HTC Magician (WiMo2003) in 2004.
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that's why asked for apk.. need full version!
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Funny guy huh?
but seriously.. its a great app, I recommend checking it out (even the free version is pretty good)
Mortplayer is the best. At least in my eyes.
You can play all files in one folder, not just from playlists, or song / artist / album.
Cubed. The coolest player ever. And it´s free.
MortPlayer
MortPlayer
Music PlayerPro. Advanced version of standard android player.
I use PowerAMP
Though the letters are too small,it can play any format of audio including FLAC and also has an equalizer....
So its the bets in my eyes....
doubleTwist & Btunes
doubleTwist
Btunes
Best for me..
i prefer winamp, but i didn't hear much music via my mini pro, ipod in car-use
PowerAmp.. the best one.
I tried all cited players, and all uses more battery that original. So I decided keep stock player mod version, found here on forum. Its usefull; it doesnt have to many resources but I can play for hours without drain my battery.
I listen thru the default stock player but then I found this PowerAmp and decided to test it. It simply blow me away... Great player with music tag aditor, album art auto download and those equalisers are awesome...
Features wise; Poweramp.
I try Cubed because it's free and I found it very good, widget included and nice user interface (but a little difficult at first look) !
I'm looking for a method of syncing my music files to my phone so I can use it as my main MP3 player. There are some things that you should know first:
I use the stock Music Player that comes with the Galaxy S3, as it does everything I want it to (embedded album art, lossless formats). The only problem is with gapless playback; if Jelly Bean brings gapless playback to this player I'll keep it but if not, I'll switch to GoneMad
I keep my entire music library in one unorganized folder, with all the individual files just thrown into a folder. The files are all properly tagged though.
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I want to keep my music on my phone and have it be a carbon copy of my mp3 folder. For instance, Foobar2000 recognizes immediately whenever I make a change to the folder (change a song's tags, add a song, remove a song). I'd like to sync my phone like this; run a script or something and it'll sync to be exactly like my music folder.
My music totals up to be about 13GB. My phone is 16GB and the card is 8GB, which totals up to about 19.2GB. This is where most methods I've tried fail; they aren't smart enough to recognize my phone as one drive with combined memory. I'm actually not sure if any software can do this, that'd be great if it could. Otherwise it looks like I'll have to shell out money for a bigger SD card just so I can have all of the files on one drive
It's a long shot, but I'm desperate here. Seems like syncing things to Android is harder than it should be. Google Music is not an option for me, sorry.
Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.
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I'm looking for a method of syncing my music files to my phone so I can use it as my main MP3 player. There are some things that you should know first:
I use the stock Music Player that comes with the Galaxy S3, as it does everything I want it to (embedded album art, lossless formats). The only problem is with gapless playback; if Jelly Bean brings gapless playback to this player I'll keep it but if not, I'll switch to GoneMad
I keep my entire music library in one unorganized folder, with all the individual files just thrown into a folder. The files are all properly tagged though.
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I want to keep my music on my phone and have it be a carbon copy of my mp3 folder. For instance, Foobar2000 recognizes immediately whenever I make a change to the folder (change a song's tags, add a song, remove a song). I'd like to sync my phone like this; run a script or something and it'll sync to be exactly like my music folder.
My music totals up to be about 13GB. My phone is 16GB and the card is 8GB, which totals up to about 19.2GB. This is where most methods I've tried fail; they aren't smart enough to recognize my phone as one drive with combined memory. I'm actually not sure if any software can do this, that'd be great if it could. Otherwise it looks like I'll have to shell out money for a bigger SD card just so I can have all of the files on one drive
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It's a long shot, but I'm desperate here. Seems like syncing things to Android is harder than it should be. Google Music is not an option for me, sorry.
Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.
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This is a stretch but in early days of ics we used an app called directory bind. You could theoretically make one huge directory by binding external and internal directories into one.
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This is a stretch but in early days of ics we used an app called directory bind. You could theoretically make one huge directory by binding external and internal directories into one.
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I have a few gripes with using that software. It requires root, it's outdated which makes me believe that it won't work on later versions of ICS and/or Jelly Bean, and by reading the description I don't think that it does what I'm looking for. Besides, there must be some reason you guys stopped using it
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I have a few gripes with using that software. It requires root, it's outdated which makes me believe that it won't work on later versions of ICS and/or Jelly Bean, and by reading the description I don't think that it does what I'm looking for. Besides, there must be some reason you guys stopped using it
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If you don't want to root and want to have all of your music in one folder and have it "sync" then either get a bigger SD card or buy an iPhone. Simple.
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If you don't want to root and want to have all of your music in one folder and have it "sync" then either get a bigger SD card or buy an iPhone. Simple.
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Okay, let's say I did get a bigger SD card.
Can you recommend a syncing method?
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Okay, let's say I did get a bigger SD card.
Can you recommend a syncing method?
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Personally I organise my music collection into album folders so I don't need to sync anything.
When I download something I copy the folder over.
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Actually I have my entire PC collection synched to play music on the web ~12k songs and I'm overseas. I only keep 2gb in my phone. If you want to know secret pm me
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Actually I have my entire PC collection synched to play music on the web ~12k songs and I'm overseas. I only keep 2gb in my phone. If you want to know secret pm me
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If you actually read the OP you would see that Google play isn't an option.
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Personally I organise my music collection into album folders so I don't need to sync anything.
When I download something I copy the folder over.
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That is Sucked
I have waited a TWO WAY SYNC option (FOR FLAC MUSIC) for very very long time on ANDROID
Doubletwist, i-sync etc are not useful here because they are stick to Itune.
I have used many time to search but it is nothing there.
My situation is
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I am using FOOBAR2000 as my major player. My entire Library is FLAC and APE music with tag and organized well
I am using an Galaxy S now
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What I want is:
TWO WAY SYNC from FOOBAR to ANDROID. (rating and playcount changes from the Phone can be synced back to FOOBAR)
Just LOSSLESS, don't transcode it.
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I have some ideas to search for but it is nothing
1/ Let Itune watch changes in FOOBAR (playlist, tag etc, but it is impossible) and sync to Android phone using isync or douletwist. That OK for two way sync but you need transcode all FLAC file to APPLE LOSSLESS
2/ Use Winamp, but this soft cannot have 2 way sync
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Ahhhhhhhh, I just need a way to sync my lossless library to my Samsung. What the hell ANdroid only let you copy and paste music like very simple think. Music is a kind of thing that sticks to our feeling. so Smart playlist, rating, playcount should be REQUIRED for Synchronization
I decided to let this subject get its own thread since I guess that it can be important.
I bought a 128 GB SanDisk Cruze and a USB-OTG cable (Startech) today for the Ultra and can report that it works perfectly. The drive mounts properly and everything seems to be perfectly OK.
To me, it is a great way to expand the storage capacity when needed and it is a great way to store media files etc and offload photos and videos taken with the camera to the flash drive when necessary.
Here is a picture of the Ultra with the Cruze attached.
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Well this is nice to know in case we are traveling and we want to watch a lot of (1080p) movies
Would the flash drive use more power vs using a high capacity microsd card?
File system?
What is the drive's file system? I just want to make sure... can it read NTFS drives?
It seems like my drive is formatted as FAT/exFAT when I checked it. I haven't tried NTFS on the Ultra.
I think it is a great idea to use it for movies - it is also easy to move it between devices. I have a lot of 1080p movies but some of them are really big, 5 GB or so and I am transcoding them down to around 2 GB. They still look great on the device and with HandBrake and H.264 in the MP4 container, Sony Movies can play them (I have noticed that I fails to play my mkvs with Dolby audio).
I can recommend MovieBrowser uPnP for those that want to watch a lot of movies on any Android device. It has a nice widget and a very elegant UI where the movies are presented, the information is automatically downloaded and put in place. I think it is a very nice front end for a movie collection and makes it very enjoyable browsing it. The only drawback is that it is a bit picky with the recognized players, i.e. it can't send a movie to whatever player. Sony Movies works so it can be selected as the default player and then it starts playback when a movie is selected in MovieBrowser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adree.moviebrowser.upnp&hl=en
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It seems like my drive is formatted as FAT/exFAT when I checked it. I haven't tried NTFS on the Ultra.
I think it is a great idea to use it for movies - it is also easy to move it between devices. I have a lot of 1080p movies but some of them are really big, 5 GB or so and I am transcoding them down to around 2 GB. They still look great on the device and with HandBrake and H.264 in the MP4 container, Sony Movies can play them (I have noticed that I fails to play my mkvs with Dolby audio).
I can recommend MovieBrowser uPnP for those that want to watch a lot of movies on any Android device. It has a nice widget and a very elegant UI where the movies are presented, the information is automatically downloaded and put in place. I think it is a very nice front end for a movie collection and makes it very enjoyable browsing it. The only drawback is that it is a bit picky with the recognized players, i.e. it can't send a movie to whatever player. Sony Movies works so it can be selected as the default player and then it starts playback when a movie is selected in MovieBrowser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adree.moviebrowser.upnp&hl=en
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Awww too bad... i was hoping it can handle NTFS... i know it is an android or kernel limitation..
If it was ntfs, no need to transcode files bigger than 4gb as the NTFS system would let you handle big files.
As for the video player, i just use BSPlayer.. never failed me..
Thanks for the reply!
I use BSPlayer too, it is great but it seems that there has been a Dolby licensing problem so the latest versions lack support for Dolby Digital. I hope they can resolve it.
I am transcoding my movies more because I think that 4-5 GB is a bit too big for the device when equal picture quality can be provided with 2-2.5 GB. So in my case, it is about using the space more efficiently.
***NOTE***: I take absolutely no credit for developing this app or supporting it. Flash at your own risk. Developer's thread here. Stop by and thank him if you use and like the app.
That being taken care of, most of you on this board know how much I love music. This app allows all your music stored on Google Music to be mounted on a virtual hard drive on your internal sdcard. This allows a number of popular players to play all your music stored in the cloud as if its on your internal memory. This save precious internal memory space for movies, pictures, etc.
Besides freeing up storage space, another added bonus for Viper4Android users is that V4A processes 100% of the time when streaming with GMusicFS. As many have posted, V4A intermittently and randomly stops processing tracks when streaming with Google Play Music. Tricked into thinking all the music is on the internal sdcard, V4A works flawlessly. No more spikes in volume/sound quality! :good:
While you'll be fooling the hardware as to where things are stored, you will NOT be fooling Verizon data usage tracking nor your battery into providing enough juice to play nonstop. You're still streaming the music from Google, you're just using a different player. So if you have data plan or battery concerns, this app is not your solution. I've found the battery drain to be in between Pandora and iHeartRadio.
Installation is very straightforward with one exception. You must grant TWO superuser permissions. The first is to create the virtual hard drive itself (the metadata) and the second is for adb shell to actually mount the drive. A visual walkthrough:
When you first install the app, it immediately asks for superuser permission. Grant it and then log onto your Google Play account (mine is blacked out in these screenies). It will automatically start syncing your music's metadata to your internal sdcard. This will fail. Expect it to fail and do not close the app:
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This is due to the shortcuts to all the cloud music being created, but the virtual hard drive is not mounted yet. It's funny to see this transition period when you look in settings\storage. Notice my 16GB internal sdcard has 71.98GB of miscellaneous files :silly:
After you get the failed to mount message, keep the app open. Wait for another superuser request from ADB shell and grant it:
Once this is properly done, the virtual drive is mounted and it will automatically scan the metadata. Once it completes, you can use any media player to access your new virtual library of music. Even though it seems logical to point the player to the metadata folder, you must point your player to the blank /gmusicfs folder:
I have Google Play's All Access feature and while the free version of the app allows you to play 5 All Access tracks per launch, for $2.49 it a no-brainer to get the unlocker for this app and have access to your entire library without restrictions. As you can see here, I'm playing Eminem's new single "Bezerk" released only days ago. You can also see I now have full access to my 12,049 songs stored on Google's servers in PowerAmp
I want to emphasize one last time that the last two screens show the music is streaming. This WILL suck up your data plan and it will suck up your battery because the music is streaming and it prevents your phone from properly sleeping:
When it's all said and done, for me, this is an easy choice to install. I have more room on internal memory because I don't have to store music on it. I also get the assurance that Viper4Android will work consistently 100% of the time and I'm getting amazing sound from my phone.
Grab the app from here and don't forget to stop by @bubbleguuum's thread and thank him for a great app!
This is very interesting, but will it also allow cached/downloaded music from Google Play to play in other players as well?
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This is very interesting, but will it also allow cached/downloaded music from Google Play to play in other players as well?
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No, this caches it's own tracks seperate from play music. You can use any music player, even Play Music to play the tracks, but some of the players have different problems. Player Pro for instance has to be open first before you start GmusicFS, or it won't see the drive. I also noticed, it took 10 minutes or so for Player Pro to see everything. As far as caching, it can only cache entire albums, and all that can be done from the notification window.
I do like what the app does, because I hate Google's player, but I have not been using it lately, just because I hate having a process to do every time I reboot my phone.
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I do like what the app does, because I hate Google's player, but I have not been using it lately, just because I hate having a process to do every time I reboot my phone.
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I've never used Player Pro and I see your comment about having to start the player first, but there's an option within GMusicFS mount the drive on reboot. Perhaps this will help you?
twolasrnames said:
No, this caches it's own tracks seperate from play music. You can use any music player, even Play Music to play the tracks, but some of the players have different problems. Player Pro for instance has to be open first before you start GmusicFS, or it won't see the drive. I also noticed, it took 10 minutes or so for Player Pro to see everything. As far as caching, it can only cache entire albums, and all that can be done from the notification window.
I do like what the app does, because I hate Google's player, but I have not been using it lately, just because I hate having a process to do every time I reboot my phone.
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I had taken a look at this briefly and didn't see a way to cache files to an external sd so I wound up uninstalling. Is that still the case?
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Ironclad Lou said:
I had taken a look at this briefly and didn't see a way to cache files to an external sd so I wound up uninstalling. Is that still the case?
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Try FolderMount to map it to a directory on an SD Card. That my do the trick.
roboots21 said:
Try FolderMount to map it to a directory on an SD Card. That my do the trick.
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are the cached files named with song and artist? it would be nice to have a way to take these songs and move them to a usb stick for use in other players without internet access
ddarvish said:
are the cached files named with song and artist? it would be nice to have a way to take these songs and move them to a usb stick for use in other players without internet access
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No, that won't work. The databases created by this app are just pointers to the actual files on the Google servers. They still stream from there. This app just allows you to use other players besides Play Music to do so.
still available?
wwonka69 said:
still available?
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Sure. Just click the developer's thread link in my OP and download the apk to sideload.