I have what I believe to be a strange problem but I am hoping I am not the only one with it. When check songs in google play music to make available for offline play the app also adds other random songs to offline availability. To make it even stranger she I go to remove tho songs the offline play pin is NOT checked and when I choose the option to only show offline music the music shows up but is greyed out however it can be played. I went to the google music storage cache and sure enoug the music is there. I thought I would just manually delete it but with useful names like 1034.mp3 it makes it difficult. (the directory is /sdcard/android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music/ ). Anyone else experiencing a tying similar? I am running CM9 atm but was running CM7 not too long ago with he same problem and had it as well on stock touchwiz.
So when I want to stream one particular song I noticed that the Google Play Music app downloads and caches the previous/next few songs for quicker access. How can I prevent this? It uses a lot of data and I usually only want to listen to the one song I chose to stream.
For example if I play a 6 mb song i noticed it uses about 40 mb to stream just that one song. Then I selected a different song to stream and immediately went into settings > download queue and noticed it was loading more songs than the one I requested. I only want to listen to the 1 song I chose, so how can I prevent the other songs from loading? As far as I can see there is no way in the app's settings but there has to be another way to stop this inconvenience.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I have a T999 galaxy s3 running on stock rooted ICS
Also, if this is in the wrong forum I apologize (feel free to move it if it is), but I felt like this is a problem with the app on android and that maybe others were suffering from this too!
Just bumping to see if anyone knows why this happens? And if there is a way to to stop it because it is really affecting the usefulness of streaming from google play!
So I know that the play music app is basically all the songs linked to your google play account and our not necessarily downloaded or drm free. I just bought a song today and noticed it was there in that app after I pressed the button with the head phone picture after purchase. Also a cd a burned onto my pc is in that same app after I had added to my play music using the music manager so does music basically update to your phone automatically when you add music or anything else to your play account? My phone was plugged into my pc but I didn't do anything or at least don't think I did. I am used to having to deal with itunes and syncing everything so I may be over thinking all this but is that basically how music on android works? You buy a song on your phone and add it manually to the play music app or if you buy a song on your web browser or upload your own music to your play account on your pc everything just goes to your phone automatically if you have wifi? Also what does that tack icon mean by the music? For some songs I press it, it turns white, and in the status bar I see "keeping requested music" I always stop it though before it gets to 100% Sometimes the tack icon is blue and when I hit it I see "this music is already stored on this device" which I do not get because with the exception of the song I just bought all my music was dragged and dropped to my phone because everything was converted from itunes to drm and 2 songs were just downloaded from my play music..
Finally my Persona 4 album has artwork in my play library on my pc but on my phone there is no album artwork. Is there anyway to add the album artwork on the phone?
I'm not sure where to post this, but i'm having a weird issue with play music
i have all my songs uploaded to play music. i listen to them using my laptop browser and ipad play music app
All my songs are also present on my phone's storage,
when i use the play music app on my android phone, music that are liked,deleted, or added to a play list doesnt appear on my cloud, it doesnt sync to the ipad or my laptop browser. (i'm not a noob, i obviously enabled sync for play music)
i'm thinking this happens because android play music app confuse the duplicate music that exist in my phone and in the cloud.
I need to keep my music in the phones local storage because i dont have fast internet access on mobile data.
How can i make google play music android app to display ONLY online content?
currently the only option is "all music" and "on device"
I have two questions in regard to the Music Unlimited app/function that is integrated with the Walkman.
1. While using the Walkman App, I am searching music (I'm a paid subscriber) within Music Unlimited. I am trying to download a song, not just simply add to my playlist, for playback while off-line. Does anyone know how to go about this? Do I have to download the actual stand-alone Music Unlimited app to have this "offline/download" playback feature? The attached screenshot does not show an option for "download".
2. The second question is when I do add a song to my playlist, how do I delete it once I no longer want it? The only way I was able to delete a song when saving it to my playlist via the Walkman app is to go directly to the Music Unlimited website on my PC, log on, and then delete song from my playlist. This is not cool, and it's unacceptable that I can add a song to a playlist via the Walkman/Music Unlimited app on my Xperia Z3 (D6616), but not have the option to delete it, without having to log on to a PC.
I also never found any purchase option, I would advise you to stick to a non manufacturer based store like GooglePlay Music, etc that way you have the same experience on any phone like when you upgrade/change models. You can still use Sony sound effects like Clear Audio+ in Google Music app.
I don't believe you can purchase/download through Music Unlimited. Sony chooses to make you pay for subscription rather than purchase and ditch subscription. From a sustainability perspective, its good business. I am a subscriber.
augie7107 said:
I don't believe you can purchase/download through Music Unlimited. Sony chooses to make you pay for subscription rather than purchase and ditch subscription. From a sustainability perspective, its good business. I am a subscriber.
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Any pros/cons versus Google Play Music? Well, putting downloads aside.
augie7107 said:
I don't believe you can purchase/download through Music Unlimited. Sony chooses to make you pay for subscription rather than purchase and ditch subscription. From a sustainability perspective, its good business. I am a subscriber.
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Music Unlimitd does allow for downloading for offline playback. This is allowed on the pc, as well as the official Sony Music Unlimited stand-alone app (avail in Google Play). But for some odd reason, the option is not available via the Walkman app. It really doesn't make sense since it's a Sony phone, with a Sony music player app, integrated with a Sony music service application.
I do have a subscription and am able to download songs for offline playback as mentioned earlier on the pc and through the actual stand-alone Music Unlimitd app.
In the walkman app you have to go to download the playlist.
Also make sure to go into settings and authorize your device for offline playback. This and the ability to mix playlist are the two things I miss from google music.
calbrs said:
In the walkman app you have to go to download the playlist.
Also make sure to go into settings and authorize your device for offline playback. This and the ability to mix playlist are the two things I miss from google music.
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Just as calbrs said,
You need to add to a playlist then there is an option within the playlist to download for offline usage [emoji13]
AJHutchinson said:
Just as calbrs said,
You need to add to a playlist then there is an option within the playlist to download for offline usage [emoji13]
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Hey all, thanx for the tips! So I downloaded the song to a playlist and chose offline playback. It works! However, It will only play from the playlist. I was hoping I can put my whole library on random, and the downloaded song will play, but it appears as blacked out, and unable to playback, unless I play from the playlist. Suggestions?
Eric Violette said:
Hey all, thanx for the tips! So I downloaded the song to a playlist and chose offline playback. It works! However, It will only play from the playlist. I was hoping I can put my whole library on random, and the downloaded song will play, but it appears as blacked out, and unable to playback, unless I play from the playlist. Suggestions?
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Eventually I said screw it and went back to Google Play music. The walkman app kept deauthorizing my device for offline playback, and the UI just sucked.
Google play also gives out free albums every week, this week imagine Dragons/Gaurdians Mix Tape 1, both free. Also free music from new artists monthly.
Also Google play is better as a cross platform service. I use it on laptop, iPad and Z3.
Long term Sony's music service can't compete with iTunes, Google Music, Spotify etc. I'm sticking to Google.