Ever since Froyo I've been using AppAlarm Pro along with Google Music to launch a specific playlist of songs as my alarm each morning. AppAlarm Pro would use a Music Playlist "shortcut" to create a new intent which would launch the playlist in Google Music, waking me up. Yesterday's update to Google Music apparently introduced a change which causes playlists not to play when they are launched without the user pressing play. Instead of waking me up this morning, my alarm just opened the music without playing it.
I intend to downgrade to the previous version of Google Music by finding an older apk. If anyone else uses a similar setup to wake up to their music on Google Music I'd be interested knowing how you're working around this issue. Is there a specific intent which actually works with the updated Google Music app? Here's the intent I've been using which just stopped working:
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#Intent;action=android.intent.action.VIEW;type=vnd.android.cursor.dir/vnd.google.music.playlist;launchFlags=0x4000000;S.playlist=9;end
IMHO, the new Google Play Music upgrade is horrible. They eliminated the nice scrolling Recent list in landscape mode, which is super convenient considering that I use GPM daily in my car dock. The new version is like the new App Store, which mixes all and recent in one. It's awful.
Have you reverted to a previous version yet? I tried converting my previous adb backups to tar files so that I could extract the old apk, but both this method and a simple dd (my backups are not encrypted) resulted in corrupted tar files. I wonder if copying them from NTFS to ext4 messed something up. I'll probably try installing the copy from this thread; it seems much easier.
EDIT: I found a version 4.5.194 apk here, which is much more recent than the one in the previous link. Oddly, the media controls in the notification bar no longer work, but that's an insignificant price to pay for a working alarm. I'll be hanging on to this apk, so if the link ever goes down feel free to PM me for a copy.
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I cannot stand the Blur music app, mainly because you can't browse an artists songs by artist, only by their album (ie if I have an artist with 5 songs from 4 albums, I cannot listen to them in a row without going back and changing album, take up battery life). I downloaded the new Google one, like it, tho I don't care for the cloud part, but when I run it, after I've ended the Blur music app in task manager, it comes back on when I run the Google one.
If I freeze the Blur one via Titanium Backup, will I run into problems?
Also, anyone know if Blur is gonna update that? I do love their internet radio feature, I don't even use pandora. I like a lot on the GB Blur, just not the music app.
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I cannot stand the Blur music app, mainly because you can't browse an artists songs by artist, only by their album (ie if I have an artist with 5 songs from 4 albums, I cannot listen to them in a row without going back and changing album, take up battery life). I downloaded the new Google one, like it, tho I don't care for the cloud part, but when I run it, after I've ended the Blur music app in task manager, it comes back on when I run the Google one.
If I freeze the Blur one via Titanium Backup, will I run into problems?
Also, anyone know if Blur is gonna update that? I do love their internet radio feature, I don't even use pandora. I like a lot on the GB Blur, just not the music app.
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I have completely uninstalled it with Titanium Backup and has been using Music Playerpro since.
Absolutely no problems a week since removing it.
go into menu>settings>applications>manage applications>All>Music (the motorola one) and select clear defaults. next time you load a music file it will ask you to select your media player and you can pick Google Music and set as default.
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.
Google Music must store its "now playing" information in a file. If you play a song, pause it, reboot your phone, open Google Music and hit play, it'll continue playing where you left off before you rebooted your phone.
I'm trying to figure out how I can "bookmark" a particular spot on a track so that if I play another file, I can jump back to the first track at the bookmarked spot.
Anyone have any idea where this file would be or how I can go about looking for it?
Thanks!!
Perhaps it's embedded into the cached music file itself? Just a guess but it would make sense to me if I were to create an app like that.
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If anyone cares, I found it
/data/data/com.google.android.music/shared_prefs/Music.xml
I created two scripts, one that backs up this file and one restores it. Takes care of what I need done. Android is awesome.
I apologize for the simple question, but the guides do NOT cover it. I can copy music to my "Music" folder and the music appears in the stock Music app (as well as DoubleTwist), for example. But if I copy a podcast file to "Podcasts" directory it does not appear in the default player.
How do i get this to work? The default player has no mechanism for downloading and it seems like the Podcasts directory would be the most logical place! DoubleTwist is great for playback and downloading, but in a perfect world I could use the podcasts in any player just like i can with music. Since the built-in Music app supports avrcp 1.3, I can see playback info on my BT head unit, so I'd love to have that.
Anybody figured this out? it feels like such a stupid question.
one last note: i am NOT stock, I am running Revolution HD 8.0, though this SHOULDN'T matter? Maybe something IS broken there, but in my searches elsewhere I don't see anybody else asking this question.
refresh the media library after you copy music to your device
OK, I finally got the podcasts to show up by creating a sub-directory "Podcasts" in the "Music" directory. I was hoping to get clever and create a symbolic link between the music player source and DoubleTwist (or another podcast app) so the default player would pick it up, but that doesn't seem to be an option on this phone
Thanks!
I just started using google play and purchasing music through them. For a few days, everything was fine but then some artists started dissapearing. Eventually all my old music was completely gone. All the files are still there on my phone, but can only be sampled through my file viewer. I'm assuming that Google play just disabled them all for piracy reasons, but thats the thing. I purchased more than half of it on iTunes growing up.
Does anyone know of a solution to this problem, or maybe a way that I can edit the music so that google doesn't pick it up as 'Pirated'?