It's 2015, Lollipop is out, bigger and bigger phones are sold and it looks like nobody still needs those little plastic thingies from the past. How do you call them? S.. S-D.. S-D-something... SDcard! Yep that one!
More specifically, I'm writing for my poor old SGS, which needs quite hard an SDcard. I'm running KK (and the killing blow on ExtSD was pretty hard, but solutions were found). I'm having a lot of trouble with Play Music (5.7, the lastest one). I recently got a chromecast. WOW, so beautiful! It really was worth the price. So I tried to stream a song on my device. It couldn't, songs have to be the ones on my online library. Not a big deal I thought : "time to upload everything to GMusic and download it back with Play Music for Android. Let's just pick a Sunday and give my phone some time." But my music was on sdcard1 (external one), and Play Music refuses to accept it, willing to store everything on sdcard0 (internal one). I don't have space on my internal memory due to the fact that most of the Android System just does not like sdcard1. So I was keeping application data, DCIM and downloads in sdcard0 and Music, Documents and Pictures on sdcard1. I cannot move the stuff from sdcard0 to sdcard1, so I need my music to be on sdcard1.
I was sure Google introduced the option to save songs on the external memory (Or maybe I googled it wrong), so where is this option? I can't find it anymore.
I also tried with some "walkthroughts" which were hinting to remove the "files" folder from /data/data/com.google.android.music/ and replace it with a link to a "files" folder on ext sd. Didn't work, guess because it was made for phones where Google Play Music saved files INSIDE data/data/com.google.android.music/files. On my phone, music is saved on sdcard0, in .../android/data/com.google.android.music/files , and sdcard's filesystem does not allow links.
tl,dr
How can I save my Google Music offline library on Android to ext SD without links and keeping it recognizable by the Play Music server?
Thanks for reading.
Edit 1 : after really deleting my whole music library the free space detected by Google Play Music grew. I was quite happy, and even believed for a second that it was going to use both storage locations and split media among them. I was wrong. I have the message "6gb of free space" still there, and by the same time the error "can't download music for offline play : not enough space". Gogol pls
anyone can help with this?
Can't download music as it says I have now space. Have over 18gb on internal, over 60 on external card.
Anyone else have this issue?
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I'm not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but I can’t seem to find any posts about it anywhere.
I can easily access my SD card through a file manager and play music files through that. However, whenever I try to open any of my songs (stored on my external SD) with Google music it simply cycles through each song in the list displaying the "cannot play the requested track" error over the album art in yellow.
This only occurs when the music in question is stored on the external SD card. Any music I try to play from the internal storage will play, and any music I attempt to stream will play. (Music that I have both streaming copies of and copies of on my external SD do not work).
I read somewhere that ICS handles file systems differently, but as I remember Google music worked when I first installed the rom. I have tried every combination of uninstalling and clearing the data in Google music, both with and without the SD card inserted. Any thoughts or recommendations?
(Afterthought: I also get the notification that "Music has stopped working" every time I reboot the phone)
(Afterthought II: I have been using these forums for nearly two years and have yet to be disappointed, thanks guys)
I had the same problem. Solved by uninstalling power amp - somehow it must have been conflicting. So try and uninstall any third party music players. Hopefully someone else has a better solution?
Clear your music cache/data again and change the file path. If your music is on external, it is now called emmc. I use PowerAmp and you can configure what files you want it to scan.
I don't have any other third party music players installed. And Google music does not give the option to scan certain paths :/
My external sd is 32 gigs, but that's not all of my music, so I like the option to stream.
extravillager said:
I don't have any other third party music players installed. And Google music does not give the option to scan certain paths :/
My external sd is 32 gigs, but that's not all of my music, so I like the option to stream.
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You are right, Google music doesn't provide an option to scan certain folders but in my case, clearing cache and data worked and I know this sounds crazy but I removed my SD card and re-inserted and that seemed to work.
Also, what I also did was install a third party app that does allow you to scan a particular folder and once it worked on that app, GM seemed to also work
You have probably tried these options but perhaps this will help
Will give that a try today
easy fix
settings, apps, music storage, clear cache / data.
been covered many times. someone ought to put it in the ics passion op.
Coming from a gNex with 32gb to a 16gb RAZR(which apparently means 8gb) I;m already out of space on my internal card according to storage i only have 500mb free. I;m rooted and running Gummy ROM.
Is there anyway to reclaim the 8gb that Motorola decided I should access or possibly move the GoogleMusic cache location to my 8gb External SDcard installed?
/mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
Delete everything in that folder and your problem is solved. Unfortunately there's no way to convince it to use an alternate location.
I actually want the music to stay there, I use Google Music as my primary music source and dont want to always eat up data for the music I listen to most. I was just hoping I could convince it to store the music on my SD.
You might try just moving the files to a visible location on sdcard-ext- they're not so much cached as downloaded outright in MP3 format so your player should see them. The downside is you'd have duplicates of all those tracks, and I'm not sure if it keeps ID3 information intact.
yeah, I just decided to lower the amount of music I have set to offline and reclaimed 1gb of space back.
I just realized that my music player is not picking up on the music files I have on my external SD. I have them under the folder "Music" on the SD card's root. I copied songs over to the phone's internal memory - aka internal SD's "Music" folder, and the stock music player was able to see them. I'd like to keep the music on the SD card - is this not possible?
It is totally possible... I use WinAmp (primarily) and have about 500 sings on my SD Card in the Music folder and no music at all on the internal storage, it works fine, the stock player and Google Music see them as well.
Try going into Settings-Apps-<player your using> and Force Stop, then Clear Data, then launch the player again... remember if you have a lot of music it might take the app a while to load and index everything.
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It is totally possible... I use WinAmp (primarily) and have about 500 sings on my SD Card in the Music folder and no music at all on the internal storage, it works fine, the stock player and Google Music see them as well.
Try going into Settings-Apps-<player your using> and Force Stop, then Clear Data, then launch the player again... remember if you have a lot of music it might take the app a while to load and index everything.
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Well that's good to hear. But I just tried it and no luck. It's not even indexing or searching. I am using the default music player and it starts up like there's an empty card. I am actually now on newtoroot's one XxX rom, and the default player is doing the same as stock Google music also behaves the same.
I've tried unmount/remounting the sd card, no luck.
Not sure if this matters, but this SD card is a carryover from my Thunderbolt. So it has a lot of apk backups and other crap. Also, I noticed that I actually lost my video file collection on the SD card somewhere along the process. I am not exactly sure, but I think it's when I first moved it to the Rezound, because now that I think about it, I don't ever recall seeing the couple episodes of Futurama I keep on my SD card.
The original folder structure was on SD/media/video and SD/media/music. The video folder is now empty. I've since moved the music folder to the SD's root. There are no .nomedia files in the folders.
Hmmm... interesting, I didn't think the Rezound was that picky, is the music directory in the root of the sd card properly capitalized as "Music"? that is how it is on mine, and the files in it are just ordinary MP3 files...
How many MP3's do you have in there... I have around 500 and when I open Music after changing anything (even just adding one file) the little revolving circle in the My Library bar sits there for a solid 3-4 minutes before anything shows up. WinAmp takes just as long initially, but if you add or delete a file it sees the change in seconds.
I just tried adding a file to the /media/music directory on my SD Card and it showed up fine, but the stock Music player also took another 3-4 minutes to re-index everything before the list populated at all. WinAmp had it in the list before I could scroll down to that artist.
Are you sure the SD card is mounting correctly? Go to Settings -> Storage and scroll down to SD Card and make sure it shows "Unmount SD card" and it is not grayed out and it shows used and available space on the card.
FWIW, on this phone, I am on the stock 3.14.605.12 OTA ROM.
Yep it is. And I have only about 500MB worth of mp3s, so not that many. The thing is, the music player isn't even trying to search for it I read another post on droid forum with similar problem last night (lost the link). I think that poster mentioned maybe too many stray apk backups is causing the search to choke. The SD card is definitely mounted correctly - I just unmounted and remounted again to make sure.
Yep I was on that same stock OTA before this one XxX rom. Same result.
I am going to swap out sd card with the stock rezound 16gb, which should be completely fresh except for a nandroid backup.
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Yep it is. And I have only about 500MB worth of mp3s, so not that many. The thing is, the music player isn't even trying to search for it I read another post on droid forum with similar problem last night (lost the link). I think that poster mentioned maybe too many stray apk backups is causing the search to choke. The SD card is definitely mounted correctly - I just unmounted and remounted again to make sure.
Yep I was on that same stock OTA before this one XxX rom. Same result.
I am going to swap out sd card with the stock rezound 16gb, which should be completely fresh except for a nandroid backup.
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Hmmm... could be the issue with too much other "junk" on the card I guess, mine is fairly clean, 50 or so camera shots, a handful of backups and some some other stuff, less than 500MB in total besides the music.
Seems odd that the Music app isn't even trying though, have you tried another player like PowerAmp or WinAmp? WinAmp Pro with the Album Washer plug-in is the BOMB, sync music over WiFi to the phone if you have WinAmp on your PC too, pretty sweet.
Yep it's working now. That must have been it - the thunderbolt SD card was too cluttered. I suppose I'll just have to go in and clean it up a bit. Sheesh Rezound, what's next, gonna make me clean my apartment too?
In internal storage??
Or did I miss something very obvious?
I have Google Music download songs for offline usage. And Downloaded a couple of TV/Movies. BANG! my internal storage got eaten up almost 5 GB immediately.
And I am looking at 200 MB free space remaining in Phone and 30GB free in my external SDCard but have NO WAY to move the music and movies to the external card...
So the only work around without rooting or much hacking is ... to delete Google Play Music data completely. and Download my songs using desktop manager and copy music from computer to external card...
Still , this is stupid and the apps are official Google apps. Now I can't dare to buy a movie and save it in phone to watch on a flight.
Any smart solutions without rooting , please help!
I don't Know what your options are as far as fixing this without root, but you can trick your phone Into using your external sd by Creating Junctions/smlinks using rootexplorer.
I have an LG G Stylo from Cricket so its only got 8gb internal storage. I rooted it to try and figure out what was causing the system folder to grow outta control. I realized that every time I play music that I have stored on my sd card either with the stock music app or with Google music a "writeXX.pcm" file gets written in /data. The XX represents numbers that are presumably assigned to each "listening session". This doesn't seem to happen with other music apps downloaded from the play store so that's my current workaround (deleting the files seems to have no effects on the music or anything else). I do have a Google music subscription though and would like to just use one app for all my music. Does anyone here know why this happens?
Bump. Any clues?
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I have an LG G Stylo from Cricket so its only got 8gb internal storage. I rooted it to try and figure out what was causing the system folder to grow outta control. I realized that every time I play music that I have stored on my sd card either with the stock music app or with Google music a "writeXX.pcm" file gets written in /data. The XX represents numbers that are presumably assigned to each "listening session". This doesn't seem to happen with other music apps downloaded from the play store so that's my current workaround (deleting the files seems to have no effects on the music or anything else). I do have a Google music subscription though and would like to just use one app for all my music. Does anyone here know why this happens?
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I am in a very similar boat. I have the Stylo as well and have been running out of storage almost weekly. I reset the phone and dont really install anything, within a week its full again. I rooted my phone as well trying to find out where the space is going. I located hundreds of WRITE####. PCM files on the ROOT/DATA folder. So now i can delete them but i have no idea whats writing those audio files. I had hundreds of songs on my sd card, but this week after reset, i didnt listen to anything, not even pandora. So it's not making them while listening to music, it's something else. Any more info from your side?
MY initial thoughts could be some internal program on the stylo is "copying" songs off the SD card for some reason. To test this I have copied off all of my pcs and music from the SD card and wiped it. So there isnt anything to see. I also increased permissions to the DATA folder, my second thought is it can create these .PCM files but cannot delete them.
wild shots in the dark basically.
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I am in a very similar boat. I have the Stylo as well and have been running out of storage almost weekly. I reset the phone and dont really install anything, within a week its full again. I rooted my phone as well trying to find out where the space is going. I located hundreds of WRITE####. PCM files on the ROOT/DATA folder. So now i can delete them but i have no idea whats writing those audio files. I had hundreds of songs on my sd card, but this week after reset, i didnt listen to anything, not even pandora. So it's not making them while listening to music, it's something else. Any more info from your side?
MY initial thoughts could be some internal program on the stylo is "copying" songs off the SD card for some reason. To test this I have copied off all of my pcs and music from the SD card and wiped it. So there isnt anything to see. I also increased permissions to the DATA folder, my second thought is it can create these .PCM files but cannot delete them.
wild shots in the dark basically.
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I ended up just using power amp for my sd card music and Google play music for whatever music I don't currently have in my collection. I have found that even playing my collection through Google's music player it still writes those files.