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Is music bought from Google Play Music DRM-free?
It is not DRM protected
source:
Is Music Bought on Google Music DRM-Protected? where the first post in reply talks of user deploying purchased app to Dropbox for unlimited use
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Is music bought from Google Play Music DRM-free?
The song is yours. Simply install Music Manager for Google Play Music on your computer to download your songs. I think it's also possible from the website just haven't tried that.
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Prevent apps from pausing Google Play Music
The behavior is determined by Play Music, which gets notified when another app requests audio focus (as per the documentation). Unless there is an option in Play Music's settings to disable this ...
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Is music bought from Google Play Music DRM-free?
Note that they do put a secret tag on their files, which restricts adding it to other Google Play accounts. Say, for example, you change your email address, they don't give you the ability to move it ...
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Google Play Music frequently flashing in notification bar and notification tray
I also saw thius notification flashing briefly. As far as I can tell, it is related to connectivity changes (switching from WiFi to mobile and vice versa). For the time being, I've disabled ...
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Is accessing Google Play Music subscription files legal?
Form the Google Play Terms of Use
Capturing of Streams. You may not use Google Play or any Content in conjunction with any stream-ripping, stream capture or similar software to record or create a ...
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Purchased music won't play without wifi
Stumbled across this thread since I am having a similar issue with my unlimited google music subscription; hope your issue has been resolved by now!
I had this issue happen randomly to me. I was able ...
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Why are certain songs on Google Play Music greyed out on my phone but not on PC?
I managed to fix it by checking my settings, "stream only on wifi" was turned on some how.. once I turned that off, everything available as before
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Cannot find where Google Play Music stores downloaded files (different from similar posts)
if it's downloaded on internal, it's locked in com.music but you'll just see Music.id file and you cannot access that database without password.
And its not encrypted if it's being downloaded to sd ...
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"Unknonwn Artist" only on Google Music with corred ID3 tags
Bit late, but maybe I can help someone else who finds this.
I also had this apparent problem and in my case it seemed to be related to album art. I managed to fix the relevant files by re-saving the ...
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Can't find music I downloaded from Google play music
Google Play Music app is storing music files in your phone's internal memory, which means that you can't access them without root access.
They are located in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/...
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Location for custom Ringtones/Alarms/Notifications that hides them from Play Music?
Just create a new folder/directory in internal storage of your phone with name 'Notifications' and place all your notification tones that you have downloaded in this folder.
Finally go to settings > ...
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Some songs don't show up in Google Play Music on phone?
Android does not support many formats by its MediaPlayer library.
Check http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html to see if your codecs are supported.
If you don't use a player ...
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Android Auto: Google Play Music
Android Auto is just a display interface app on your head unit. It doesn't control what types of Android apps are allowed, and it doesn't actually run the app itself. That's all done by the smartphone ...
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What happens to my Google Play Music library when I unsubscribe?
What happens when you cancel your subscription from Google support page says (emphasis added)
When the end of the billing period is over and your subscription is canceled, you won't be able to access ...
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How do I cancel my Google Play Music subscription?
The Google Play support website explains how to cancel the Google Play Music subscription. From your Android device, you do it from inside the settings screen of the Play Music app. Or on a desktop ...
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Why is Google Play Music the only app that produces a "Browse" button on my car stereo?
This "browse" feature is probably part of "Audio/Video Remote Control Profile" aka AVRCP. AVRCP has different versions with different feature sets. Browsing of playlists was ...
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Why is Google Play Music the only app that produces a "Browse" button on my car stereo?
The Bluetooth snoop log with the other players shows that the players do not support browsing as part of the GetFolderItems request on AVRCP.That is the reason why browsing is not working with other ...
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How can I exclude Sound Recorder files from Music library
I have found a solution to the first problem thanks to the reference by beeshyams.
MortPlayer Music allows you to choose which folders to draw your music from. Hence, in my case, I removed all the ....
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Can't find music purchased
You use the Google Play Music app available from the Play Store. You should be able to sign right in to it and access all of your songs and playlists right away.
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Adding music to the Play Music queue
No, you don't need to be using a play list to add stuff to the queue. As soon as you select music to play it adds it to the queue. To add more to the queue, navigate to an artist, album, playlist, or ...
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Music keeps pausing
I once had that problem with a previous Android phone.
The problem turned out to be my earbuds. They (or perhaps the connector) were going bad, and apparently sending extra signals through the ...
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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
Many thanks to @gertmenkel. I found the hidden files using ES Explorer and deleted out the "." so that the file wasn't hidden anymore. The audiobooks are still not in my Google Play Music ...
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Can't find music I downloaded from Google play music
I had a similar problem. My music don't download either even after it says download complete. Also I couldnt hear my ringtone when I got a call. For this I wrote down all the apps and contacts I had ...
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Cannot find where Google Play Music stores downloaded files (different from similar posts)
This is from Windows 10
After reading all the posts and digging through my S7 to find my music files I downloaded from Google play, I found the location where they are stored.
Simply plug in your ...
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Why would external Storage Location be unavailable in Play Music and Play Movies?
I had a similar problem on my Lenovo P70A on Android 4.4 and 5.x as well.
The solution for me was to manually create the folder "com.google.android.music" under the "/Android/data" folder on my ...
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Why are certain songs on Google Play Music greyed out on my phone but not on PC?
It's actually quite simple. Those songs aren't available because you have no internet connection, and Google never cached them on your phone for offline music.
To test this out, try this: Connect to ...
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How to remove a song from Google Play Music without removing it from the storage?
Hello everyone and thank you for your answers, I've finally managed to accomplish this with a very simple solution: The Android media storage service will not index media files inside directories ...
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How to delete podcast on Google Play Music?
If you downloaded them within Google Play Music, you can delete them one at a time.
Tap the info icon to open the episode details
Tap the check mark that indicates it is downloaded
A menu will pop ...
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