Questions tagged [google-play-music]
For questions specifically about Google Play Music, the native music app on Android 4.0 (and higher), and the related cloud-based music streaming service.
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Join/Merge external SD with internal SD card?
I have a Samsung device of 8GB with an SD card of additional 32GB.
I'm using many apps that cache data for offline use (mainly Google Play Music), these apps are not smart enough to determine the ...
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Google Play Music downloaded music not storing on SD card
I have a Motorola Moto G3 with a measly 4GB of storage, so I bought a 32GB SD card. I installed it as internal storage. I have a subscription to Google Play Music and spend a lot of time without an ...
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Automatically switch to Chromecast audio
I have a group of Chromecast audio devices setup in my house. Is there a way for my phone to automatically start casting when I connect to the same WiFi network?
Ideally I want to be able to listen ...
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Ogg Vorbis file not listed in media player
I have an Ogg Vorbis file (.ogg), which was discovered by the fancy new music player on Android Kitkat and it played fine. However, now that it is no longer officially a "recently added" file, I ...
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Music players isn't finding tracks on Samsung Galaxy S3!
The music player in Samsung galaxy s3 isn't finding my tracks. I tried different application like google play music but nothing seems to read my tracks at all.
This problems happened suddenly I don't ...
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Where are music files downloaded from the Google Play Store stored on an Android device?
I am wondering how music files, downloaded from the Google Play Store, are stored on an Android device.
In other forums on this site, I found that they are located in the /sdcard/Android/data/com....
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Transfer downloaded google play music from phone to computer?
I downloaded some music from Google Play on to my phone. Right now I cannot get my (Ubuntu Linux) computer connected to wifi. So my question is if there is any way that I can use a USB/micro USB cable ...
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Show Play Music's 'now playing' notification on Windows PC
At my desk, while working, I typically stream music from Google Play Music (GPM) using my Chromecast Audio device linked up to my hifi. I control this via my Samsung Galaxy S5.
What I'd like is some ...
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I can't find my .nomedia folder or the folder it is in anymore, but the files still seem to be there
I recently followed the advice posted from How do I keep audiobook separate from Google Music? by @Tzunki in order to keep my audiobooks out of Google Play Music.
I made a .Audiobooks folder and put ...
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Why is Google Play Music the only app that produces a "Browse" button on my car stereo?
If I connect my phone via Bluetooth to my car (2016 Toyota Corolla), and then play music using the Google Play Music app, the car shows a Browse button, which allows me to navigate through artists and ...
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Can I remove the .nomedia file from Google Music downloaded music folder?
I'm running version 4.1.511 of the Google Music app.
When it downloads songs for offline use they are stored in
/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
This folder has a ....
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Android music pauses when using headphones
This started happening a few days ago but my phone stopped to play music (pausing) on headphones when I:
Screen off
Notification menu is pulled down
Opening all applications on the default stock ...
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How can I pin offline tracks at a lower bitrate with Google Play Music?
I'm using an HTC One S running Android 4.2 (actually Cyanogenmod 10.1).
I recently uploaded my entire music library to Google Play Music, and have started using the Google Music app on my phone.
I'...
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Google Play Music - Error while retrieving information from server
Google Play Music - Error while retrieving information from server. When tapping Get Started. Screenshot:
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Wrong playlist order in Google Play Music app
I use the Google Play Music app to play locally stored music on my Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.3. I have created some playlists in standard extended m3u format on my computer and transferred them ...
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Google Play Music - Edit tags of Remotely Stored Music?
I am often surprised by the treatment of MP3 names by the native music player, Play Music. Fairly frequently albums are split, or unexpected titles pop up, etc. I am pretty meticulous about ID3s in my ...
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Google Music 'Unknown Artist' only in Android App
So I have an album that for some reason shows up as of an 'Unknown artist' in my library in the Google Music app. I already fixed the tags in Foobar (and also checked them again with MP3Tag) and then ...
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How can I stop Google Play Music from automatically downloading my library?
I listened to some of my music library on Google Play for the first time, and unbeknownst to me, it started to download the whole library (12,00 plus tracks) to my phone, completely using up my ...
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"Unknonwn Artist" only on Google Music with corred ID3 tags
So, before you dismiss this question please continue reading for all the details.
I have my music collection on an SD card on my phone. All my music is very well organized, I'm almost OCD about it. ...
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How do I cancel my Google Play Music subscription?
I signed up for a trial of Google Play Music but didn't cancel it before the trial period expired. Now it's taking £9.99 from my card every month. How can I make it stop?
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Getting all MP3s on Android and be able to listen to them
I'm an avid music lover, and over my long life collected many rare CDs. I made MP3s of these CDs and had happily listened to them on my iPhone using iTunes.
This week I switched to Android (Samsung ...
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How do I reliably access my music library in Google Play music from my car's bluetooth system
i have a Samsung Galaxy S6 and 2015 Mazda. In general, access my music via bluetooth in my car works much better when I disable Google PLay Music and only use the native music app. However, I would ...
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music is stuttering
So I have a zte z557bl running android 7.1.1 and ive been using google play music, but every time I would open a app, open the notification bar, lock my phone or go to the home screen, it would stop ...
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Shuffle songs across albums on Google Play that have been downloaded to Android phone
I'm new to Google Play and have just downloaded a good bit of my music to Android phone. I like to shuffle but am dismayed to find the only facility for shuffling appears to be within album and not ...
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Syncing music from device to cloud with Google Play Music
On my Android device, I've recently downloaded some music. The Google Play Music app recognized the music, and shows it within the app.
However, I am not sure how to sync this new music from my ...
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Purchased music won't play without wifi
Why won't the songs I purchase from Google play actually play without wifi? I have set the settings to download without wifi. I don't care about the data. I don't like waiting until I get home to be ...
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How can I exclude Sound Recorder files from Music library
I am a fairly new Android user. I am using a Lenovo Vibe K4 Note running Android version 6.0.
I have two basic queries related to each other. My first question is about the Google Play music library (...
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Download transfer question
I downloaded a music album from the Google playstore on my Samsung phone. How do I transfer that album to my Samsung Music App?
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How does one remove a single song from a downloaded album?
I have purchased an album on the play store and downloaded the entire album to my Android device, through the Play Music app. I want all of the songs from that album on my device, except for one.
If ...
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Unable to clear user data in Google Play Music
Google Play music occupies more than 1GB on my mobile phone. As you can see in the screenshot below, User Data accounts for most storage around ~1GB.
When I press the Clear Data button, the screen ...
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Move playlist from one application to another in android
So I have Google's Play Music application that I used till now. But since couple of days I'm facing issues with this app, it hangs a lot, doesn't respond to the commands, and I even updated it few ...
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Copy Album Art from One Song to Rest of Album
I'm uploading music and Google auto-detects some of the artwork, but not all of it. Is there a way to copy the detected artwork to all of the songs in the album?
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Using Google Play Music on Galaxy S6 WITHOUT starting subscription
This is so annoying. I am trying to add music to my mothers Galaxy S6 and play it with the default player: Google Play Music. But despite getting all the files onto the phone in the music directory, I ...
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How can I disable album art on my lock screen?
I'm not a big fan of my lock screen getting hijacked by whatever music app is currently playing. Is there a setting, app, or work around that can disable album art from being displayed on my lock ...
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Google Play Music keeps putting non-music audio files into my music library
So now all of my audiobooks and ring tones are in there with my songs and there's no way to seperate them even though I keep my music, audiobook and ringtones in separately files on my SD card.
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How to delete podcast on Google Play Music?
I use Google Play Music and I need to delete old podcast, but have not been able to find a way to do it. Any ideas that might assist?
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Can't find music I downloaded from Google play music
I just downloaded the Google play music subscription and downloaded a bunch of music that is supposed to download to my SD card but cannot find any of my music and its also not downloading to my SD ...
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Is music bought from Google Play Music DRM-free?
It is clear to me that with a subscription to Google Play Music you can only play "your" music (either online or offline) with Google Play Music player (see Google music: offline listening after ...
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Sync _all_ music in Google Play Music to local storage
This might sound a little crazy, but I'd like to sync my entire Google Play Music collection to my external SD card on my Galaxy S5. Is there a setting in Google Play Music which will sync everything? ...
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Why are certain songs on Google Play Music greyed out on my phone but not on PC?
Here's one that's been driving me crazy: The other day, I noticed songs on my phone's "Thumbs Up" playlist, songs that were both bought from Google Play or from elsewhere, were greyed out on my phone.
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Android "google play music app". How force it play ONLY local songs on my phone
How to force "google play music app" play ONLY songs I paid for and downloaded to my phone.
In other words how to restrict it from contacting the web and using my data allocation.
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Google play music account switch
I recently moved to Canada and updated my payment profile. How do I change my google music subscription from the old one to the new one WITHOUT losing the saved music, albums etc...
Your help would ...
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Can other apps play music from my Google Music library?
I have uploaded my song collection to Google Play Music, and use my phone to listen to them.
Now, if I copy the original music files directly to my phone storage, I can then use any app I want to ...
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Can I share my Google Play "cloud" music with a family member?
I've uploaded all of our music to Google's "music in the cloud". I can play it on my Android phone (Droid X). I'd like my wife to be able to play it as well on her HTC Incredible).
Is this allowed?
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Google Play Music can't see WMA files on Pixel 2
On my PC, I have a library of WMA files that I have ripped from CDs using iTunes.
About 6 months ago I got Google's Pixel phone, and wanted to load a bunch of the music onto my phone. A quick ...
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How to remove a song from Google Play Music without removing it from the storage?
I recently added a couple of ringtones and notification sounds to my phone by placing them into my storage's Ringtone and Notification directories respectively, and I can select them from the sound ...
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How do I keep audiobook separate from Google Music?
So every time I add an audiobook to my Nexus7 it automatically put it into google music. And then of course if I'm listening to music I suddenly get part of a story, which is really annoying.
I tried ...
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Prevent apps from pausing Google Play Music
Some applications tend to pause my music. I know it is paused because the Google Play Music widget shows the play button and pressing it resumes the song. Is it possible to remove that function or ...
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Google Play Music draining humongous amounts of battery
Around a couple of weeks back, my phone battery started draining really quickly. In the battery settings view, I could see that Google Play Music is consuming huge amounts of battery.
I have tried ...
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Switch music apps depending on bluetooth connection (car/headphones)
To start, I have a 2016 Mazda CX-5 and a Galaxy S7. Google Music works best in my car because for whatever reason because I am able to view the "Root" menu and explore artists, songs, playlists, etc. ...
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