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"
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I use Google Play Music as my main music player. I have all my music online, nevertheless, I don't know why some music from games are shown it my list. I would like to listen only the songs I have online (avoiding the music in my Device).
Do you know it there's an option in the app? I tried with a file called ".nomedia" inside the folders which have the music, but it haven't work. Any idea?
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 use Google Play music in my Android head unit in my car to stream my music library as well as cache the songs locally.
Today I added my girlfriend's google account so we can stream her music in the car, but unfortunately when I added her Google account to Google Play Music, all the cached music from my account was deleted. It doesn't mention this when you add the second account, but it does warn you when you actually toggle between them in Play Music.
Are any of you familiar with a workaround for this issue? I would like to be able to toggle between both accounts and cache songs from both accounts to my device.
illmatik said:
I use Google Play music in my Android head unit in my car to stream my music library as well as cache the songs locally.
Today I added my girlfriend's google account so we can stream her music in the car, but unfortunately when I added her Google account to Google Play Music, all the cached music from my account was deleted. It doesn't mention this when you add the second account, but it does warn you when you actually toggle between them in Play Music.
Are any of you familiar with a workaround for this issue? I would like to be able to toggle between both accounts and cache songs from both accounts to my device.
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Well, that's was weird I don't think that it should get deleted try opening the Google Play Music Application> Open the Menu>Settings>Google Account . Switch the Google Account back to your and you will start seeing the music purchases you have made ! And by the time you switch back to your girlfriend google account you will see the music purchases she has made. Try doing it ! I am sure it will work out for you :fingers-crossed:
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Well, that's was weird I don't think that it should get deleted try opening the Google Play Music Application> Open the Menu>Settings>Google Account . Switch the Google Account back to your and you will start seeing the music purchases you have made ! And by the time you switch back to your girlfriend google account you will see the music purchases she has made. Try doing it ! I am sure it will work out for you :fingers-crossed:
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Just to clarify, all my Google Play music is uploaded myself, not purchased. When I switch accounts in Google Play Music, it warns me that all downloaded music will be deleted. And it does delete them... after switching back to my account and enabling "Downloaded Only" music, it's all gone.
This sucks because I'd like to have as much cached music as possible for when I don't have data accessible. Would it maybe be possible to use a second music player app for listening to my girlfriend's content?
i have a good bit of music uploaded as part of the 50,000 tracks it lets you upload....typically bootleg live albums which wont be on likes of spotify.
anyway...is there a way to make the app only show me the tracks uploaded and not them mixed with whats on my device ?
i don't want to add a .nomedia file to folders as my local music app won't see them then.
i'd just like to have one app for the google play stored online music and another for local to phone music, if possible.
thanks in advance for any replies.
This might not be the way Google intended the app to be used, but if you go to "Settings > Apps > Google Play Music" and clear the storage/data of the app, then, when you open the app again, just Deny the "Storage Permission" that the app will ask. This way, the app won't have access to your phone's internal/external SD card and the Music on it.
This should not affect you being able to download your 50000 songs for offline use, as Google Play should download this to own partition on your phone which it does not need permission to access.
I have quickly tried it on my phone, and it works (it hides my local songs and only shows the songs part of my Google Play Music subscription).
yup...thats the answer...thank you
Hi! So I recently got Youtube music and merged my library of purchased songs from Play music with YouTube music. However if I now have Youtube music can I I disable Google Play Music safely? Will that affect my purchased music or anything else on the phone? Also if it is safe(is it?) and I go ahead and disable it if I purchase a new song from the Play Store will it automatically go to Youtube Music?
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Hi! So I recently got Youtube music and merged my library of purchased songs from Play music with YouTube music. However if I now have Youtube music can I I disable Google Play Music safely? Will that affect my purchased music or anything else on the phone? Also if it is safe(is it?) and I go ahead and disable it if I purchase a new song from the Play Store will it automatically go to Youtube Music?
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Youtube music doesn't work with Per-song Payments, it's more like spotify with a monthly subscription that let you listen/download every songs you want.
Idk if you'll still be able to buy music from google play after Google play music shut down tho, but yes it's safe to "disable" Google play music after having fully transferred your purchased songs to YT music.
Ok thanks ! I hope Google doesn't kill their store for music it's a really good alternative for when something isn't on Apple Music and iTunes for some reason. Otherwise I use Apple Music.