Basically I have a lot of downloaded/offline Google Play Music on my ext. SD Card. I just upgraded to LG V10, and google play music does not recognize I have any downloaded music. I have set Play Music to use ext. SD card, etc.
If I were to re-download everything again, it would take me like a week, probably more.
Does anyone know how to fix this quirk ?
Thank you !:fingers-crossed:
chrisrotolo said:
Basically I have a lot of downloaded/offline Google Play Music on my ext. SD Card. I just upgraded to LG V10, and google play music does not recognize I have any downloaded music. I have set Play Music to use ext. SD card, etc.
If I were to re-download everything again, it would take me like a week, probably more.
Does anyone know how to fix this quirk ?
Thank you !:fingers-crossed:
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maybe just redownload again :/
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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.
Yesterday I noticed that Google's new music app had been downloaded to my Amaze. However, none of the 13gb or so of songs from my SD card were showing up in the app. Refreshing the library didn't show anything either.
It turns out that Play Music won't find any music in /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd. As soon as I copied an album to /mnt/sdcard/Music from /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/Music it showed up in Play Music. Problem is, I don't have nearly enough space on my internal memory for my music. Anyone figure out how to get it to scan ext_sd?
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Well it works for me. Why do u say it goes from mnt/sdcard when u can just skip going to the /mnt and go straight to /sdard folder? But to help with you problem, the new Google Play Music only allows 20000 songs to be uploaded to it. Maybe u have more then that.
But I'm guessing in ur case it's just stupid. Try making a folder called download in ur sdcard2 or extcard (same thing ) if there isn't one, and put all ur music in that folder. That's how mine is setup up by default and Google Play recognized my music from there. Reinstall if that don't work. Good luck!
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I have been having the same issue with this. I kinda figured it out today. take the music out of your music folder and have it just be on the sd card. Yes i know its ugly and makes managing stuff more of a pain in the ass, but Play music will recognize your music.
I tried this with 15+ gigs of music and for some reason it will not recognize all my songs. I don't think I'll be using this method as a permanent fix, but let me know if you have more success with it.
Tried Chadworth66's suggestion and it did not work. improperburial's suggestion actually did work, but as he said it was very ugly. I don't know of a better fix, so I think I'll pass on Google Music for the time being.
Could it be that Play Music only goes but so many levels of subfolders deep? Any way, until Google fixes this I'll continue using the (HTC) Music app on the phone. Though I may go ahead and upload my music for backup purposes. I don't really want to pay T-mobile for the privilege of playing (ie, streaming) my own music.
I'm having this problem as well. It recognized my music for a while but when I plugged it into a computer (not mine, I don't have one) to transfer music to a friend, they all disappeared from my library. They're still on the SD card, but Play Music won't list them. They're not buried or anything, they're just in a folder on the SD card titled Music.
My Evo's unrooted. Google Play music was doing fine finding the music on my external SD card and playing it, but all of a sudden, last week, it can no longer find those songs. If I use a file explorer, I can still find the music. 3rd party players are able to find it (even the HTC music player), but google music can't. I've cleared data on the app, I've downloaded and used the Rescan Media app..nada.
Anyone else have this problem? or a solution?
Thanks!
Mine has trouble finding music until I restart the phone. Also, google music has its own folder on sdcard(1). Try putting the music in there and rescan media.
Anthonicia said:
Mine has trouble finding music until I restart the phone. Also, google music has its own folder on sdcard(1). Try putting the music in there and rescan media.
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thanks!
What's up XDA,
I'm running the AoCP ROM on my Note and it's been having some trouble with playing music. I had all my music on a 32g sd card that came from my old phone. I never had the phone with the stock rom so I have no idea if this is just ROM related. The stock music app kinda sucked at playing the music, it kept crashing. Uninstalled that, downloaded google music, and it didn't crash as much but I would skip to the next song and it just wouldn't play. Uninstalled google music, downloaded winamp, and got the same results as with google music. So I removed the SD card to format it and put the music on again. I think that maybe the two phones store and find the music differently. But I formatted the SD and then even removed it. But, when I went to go look google music, all the songs we're "still there." They weren't really there, it wouldn't play any of them... The phone somehow stored all the album artwork, artists, song names, all that stuff. And yes I tried clearing the app data and cache and even uninstalled and reinstalled. All the music apps still show that the songs, or at least what's left of them, still exist on the device. I've searched through a ton of folders to try and find where that data might have been stored so I could delete but my searches have been unsuccessful. I have everything backed up on my computer, but I'm sure if I clear the phone data and then just restore from what's on the computer, the problem will still be hidden somewhere in the files on my computer. Any help with this guys?? or has anyone else had a similar problem?? I've tried lurking through the AoCP rom thread but haven't found anything like this... Doesn't help that the search is down right now.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
You have to wipe media stotage under all apps.
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I have a problem with Google Play Music. I love everything about the app. I'm not a subscriber to Google Play Music, but I love using it for the music I have on my SD card. However, unlike my stock Samsung music app, I can't seem to delete music from the app. Like when I use the stock Samsung music app and delete music, it gets deleted from my SD card as well. But, when I delete music from Google Play Music, it doesn't delete from my SD card and the music stays on the google play music. Any help?
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I have a problem with Google Play Music. I love everything about the app. I'm not a subscriber to Google Play Music, but I love using it for the music I have on my SD card. However, unlike my stock Samsung music app, I can't seem to delete music from the app. Like when I use the stock Samsung music app and delete music, it gets deleted from my SD card as well. But, when I delete music from Google Play Music, it doesn't delete from my SD card and the music stays on the google play music. Any help?
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Just delete it from your SD card.
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