Hi All,
I have the original Droid Turbo which has no option to expand storage via SD card. I would like to expand my storage via micro USB drive/OTG (On The Go) to download my Google Play Music songs since I don't have the data to stream.
Question: If I buy a micro USB storage expansion drive, will I be able to download songs from Google Play Music to it, then plug in the drive for access to the downloaded music when I get ready to listen to it? Also, will I have the ability to specify that Google Play Music songs should be downloaded to the storage expansion drive instead of internal memory (32GB)?
Thanks so much for any help that you can give!
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swbarnes91 said:
Hi All,
I have the original Droid Turbo which has no option to expand storage via SD card. I would like to expand my storage via micro USB drive/OTG (On The Go) to download my Google Play Music songs since I don't have the data to stream.
Question: If I buy a micro USB storage expansion drive, will I be able to download songs from Google Play Music to it, then plug in the drive for access to the downloaded music when I get ready to listen to it? Also, will I have the ability to specify that Google Play Music songs should be downloaded to the storage expansion drive instead of internal memory (32GB)?
Thanks so much for any help that you can give!
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Some time ago I put the data on sdcard, I removed and after a couple hours I insert it back and all the music was deleted 1x1 by PlayMusic....
Well that was maybe 8 months ago, maybe you can use now days without issues...
Another thing: I don't know if this app allows or recognize an OTG device...
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I don't know if anybody else has any issues with google music not recognizing music stored on their sd card, if their phone already has internal storage, but I have noticed on my HTC Amaze that google music will only recognize the music on the internal storage and not all of the songs I had on my micro sd. Is it possible to modify google music to read or find music from more than one location on your phone?
PS I have more music than what would fit on the the phones storage so moving songs from micro SD to the phones internal storage would not be an option.
Delete The google music app and then reinstall it from some other source ! Maybe there's some problem in the APK !
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PlusAndroid said:
Delete The google music app and then reinstall it from some other source ! Maybe there's some problem in the APK !
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I talked to another amaze owner that had the same problem. The issue is that google music will only recognize music files that are saved directly on the root of the SD card. As soon as the files are moved into a folder within the SD card it stops recognizing that the music is there anymore.
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I talked to another amaze owner that had the same problem. The issue is that google music will only recognize music files that are saved directly on the root of the SD card. As soon as the files are moved into a folder within the SD card it stops recognizing that the music is there anymore.
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I have my Music Files arranged in a folder in the SD Card, still the Google Music App recognizes them!
you may use another music player to play the songs on ur tf card
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I have my Music Files arranged in a folder in the SD Card, still the Google Music App recognizes them!
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what phone do you have? does it have internal storage and a sd card slot? I have it on my nexus one and it has no problem recognizing music on the phone at all. I think something about having more than one storage place makes google music get all weird.
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what phone do you have? does it have internal storage and a sd card slot? I have it on my nexus one and it has no problem recognizing music on the phone at all. I think something about having more than one storage place makes google music get all weird.
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Yes, it has both, internal storage as well as sd card!
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I am using tune sync to transfer music from my itunes to my s3
i cant get the software to transfer to my external memory card
when i select storage location i get
\mnt\sdcard\music
or
\sdcard\music
which one is the external memory card ?
i can add a location if neither are but dont know how to show the external memory card would be like above but pointing to the external card
can anyone help please
thansk
both of them are the internal sdcard. The external sdcard is located at /mnt/extSdCard/
Excellent working perfect now
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hmmmm never knew about this app would of come in handy a few days ago :/ How do u find the app does it sync itunes to your device in the same folder structure Itunes is in on your comp?
Have you had any problems with files not being seen by your device but being on the storage?
Right firstly on itunes u need to make ur music into playlists which basically means that u drag ur music (album for example) from the music to the bottom left of itunes
U need to download the tunesync for windoww as well as the app on ur phone
Type in tunesync in market its through the market there is a free try before u buy option and the full version
U can select in the androis app which folder to put it into. . U have choice of internal sd card but i wantdd external sd so u ned to point it to the external sd
There ia a free version to try first it only does 20 songs
U need in thr app to click on the sync enable
On the s3 set the path to /mnt/extSdCard/
It is well worth the money
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Sync playlists and music from iTunes (MAC) to ext SD with Kies
I have posted in another thread a way to sync (with USB cable, then much faster than WiFi), whatever music you want from your MAC iTunes, including your iTunes playlist, to the external SD Card of your Galaxy S3.
Perhap you want to take a look to it and if it helps you.
Cheers,
Paco
Thread: "what can't sync my music playlist "
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.
Hi, I recently purchased one of these Android 4.1 Car stereo units http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528349 (I've looked all over that thread and haven't been able to find a solution to my problem.)
I want to be able to use Doubletwist player as my main music player, and I want it to be able to read the files on my external usb hard drive (plugged into the back of the unit).
The unit recognizes the USB hard drive, as I can access all the files through certain other music players and through any file explorer. The problem is that Doubletwist won't recognize anything other than the internal storage and the SD card.
I emailed Doubletwist and they replied with this:
DoubleTwist Player uses two sources to recognize files (& the associated metadata) and playlists on the device.
1. Sync database created/updated by the computer application during a sync.
2. Android Media Scanner (AMS) database which is updated by the Android Media Database service.
So if the storage location isn't seen by the AMS service, doubleTwist Player will not import information about these files into it's database.
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Is there any way to edit what directories the Android Media Service looks at? Then I could simply swap the sd card and usb drive directories (I don't use the SD card slot at all). Or does anyone have another solution to get this to work?
Alternatively, I just want decent music player similar to Doubletwist. I like Doubletwist's intuitive UI, the fact that it uses playlists and the fact that I can "play next" or "add to play queue".
I have tried Poweramp and I don't really like the interface, and Rocketplayer would have been fine but it is really buggy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
P.S. Forgot to mention, the usb directory is /mnt/usb/mnt1
Any ideas?
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Hi,
I bought a Samsung Duo flash drive with both USB and micro-usb connectors, and while the drive is recognized fine on my Moto X, due to the permission change in Marshmallow (How does storage access change on Android 6?), none of the apps I care about (Neutron Media player, Smart Audiobook Player) can see the flash drive.
In lieu of the apps being updated, is there a way to mount/symlink the drive somewhere accessible to my apps?
Apologies if this question has already been answered; I did multiple searches, but didn't find any solutions.