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google music app taking too much space? *solved*

Hi guys as the title states I have google music and I uploaded quite alot music from my laptop but when I looked under setting - applications - manage apps I notice that the google music app is 2.2 gb big? If I undestand correctly the purpose of the app is to stream my music collection right? Nothing should be stored locally unless its pinned. So maybe there's something I can change in google music? Because its not worth having the app if it takes that much space. Thanks in advance.

There's a setting in the app to cache and download music. You can try un checking those
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thanks I found it my settings had it so that it was cacheing music for offline.

[Q] Google Music Offline Location

Hi Guys,
I have searched the forum for possible answers to my problem, but couldn't find any satisfing answer.
I have uploaded all my music to Google Music, but as I only have 1GB of mobile data in my plan, and no WiFi at work, I decided to save some of my albums on my internal storage, so I can play it offline.
There is an option called "Choose on device music" which when you choose it, saves the files to make them available offline, but the problem is I can't find it anywhere on my device.
I have found possible locations in Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache - this is what google search gave me, but there is nothing in that folder. I have used the ES File Explorer with root roghts, as I thought, maybe its hidden somehow, but the result was exactly the same.
Could anyone pleas help me and tell me where the music stored from Google Music is located? And how does it exactly work? Does it simply download all the files you choose to your storage?
My temporary solution was just simply copying the music from my laptop using the USB cable.
Thanks in advance.

When you pin it to your device you play it right from the Google play music app. There is an option for on device music only in the settings menu, use this when you want to see your downloaded music.
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Yes,I know that, but my problem is, I'd I make it available offline then I need to wait for it to download and I'm wondering what it's the location of the downloaded files, because the one that I mentioned in the OP doesn't seem to be right.I'm also suffering it's the music made available offline takes as much since on the device as the same music chipped straight from my pc.
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What exactly are you wanting to do? I guess I don't understand why you need to know where its stored. I'm not trying to be a wise guy.
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check this path. And musics are randomly numbered.
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I would like to remove it when not needed anymore and also other music players can't find those stored albums.
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@dany7915: that's exactly what I meant. Thank you for that
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Google music not working!

After deleting my album art from a few songs with album art grabber, google music started to bug. Whenever i play a song it starts with dashes and end with 0. Also when i move the cursor, it skips the song. Please help asap
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xmagiicsx said:
After deleting my album art from a few songs with album art grabber, google music started to bug. Whenever i play a song it starts with dashes and end with 0. Also when i move the cursor, it skips the song. Please help asap
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Have you tried to uninstall and re-install "Google Play Music" from the market?
Otherwise go to Settings > Apps and clear App Data

Tried to do both( uninstall updates and clear data) however is not working
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xmagiicsx said:
Tried to do both( uninstall updates and clear data) however is not working
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Connect phone to a PC and check for music and artwork cache folders under Android folder.
Remove them, disconnect phone, restart phone and try again.
Is the music on the phone, or in the cloud?

My music is in the storage. Ill try that method when i get home
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xmagiicsx said:
My music is in the storage. Ill try that method when i get home
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I think the folders are;
Internal Storage\Android\data\com.google.android.misic
Internal Storage\Android\data\com.android.providers.media\albumthumbs
If you still have issues, then move (not copy) all the Music files to your PC and check the ID3v2 tags in Windows Media Player or iTunes.
Some tag editors may change more than just the album art. Fix them there, then move them back, or get a Google Music account and upload them to the cloud. You can edit the tags in the cloud with a desktop browser as well. I have more than 11,000 songs in the cloud and less issues than when I only kept a small number on my phone.

Also its label .mpga instead of .mp3
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Now its not working on itunes either due to having no album art
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I found a solution, I need my album art back to return to mp3 form however I can't install the file, I need to get it from somewhere
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What are people using to sync iTunes to s4?

Everything I have tried is rubbish I only want to sync selected iTunes songs not whole music collection
Have tried Google music , double twist and was sync all useless..
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what's wrong with copying the songs from pc and pasting on the phone ??

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Everything I have tried is rubbish I only want to sync selected iTunes songs not whole music collection
Have tried Google music , double twist and was sync all useless..
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I use an app called iSyncr. It's available on the Play Store.

Google music hogging storage

Yesterday I was looking at my storage usage, play music had over 500mb of data. I cleared data and it went down to 12mb. Checked again today and there's 200mb in there. I hadn't even opened it since I cleared data. Wtf is it doing in the background? I'm guessing it's downloading music to the device, because it's killing my data also, but it's not downloading it to any obvious folder. I don't see any settings to control this, typical of a google app the settings are quite minimal. I haven't selected any songs to be pinned to the device either.
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Don't sync your Google Music and it will not use quite as much. When you do Sync the music file get stored in /data/data/com.google.android.music in the files folder. ....
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Word. I never used the sync feature even though I had it set up, so I just deleted everything from my play library. I'm on the all access trial. Any song I can stream from my library I can stream from Google, so why bother.
Thanks :thumbup:
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There's a modified google music apk floating around which let's you save the music to any directory (thus offloading it onto an SD card potentially).

Make sure you hit the "on device" setting so it doesn't stream everything and kill your data

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Don't sync your Google Music and it will not use quite as much. When you do Sync the music file get stored in /data/data/com.google.android.music in the files folder. ....
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That's not the case on my phone. I am using ES File Explorer.

I don't know why I just checked again on my phone and thats where it is are you not syncing your music
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Play music is at it again. 510mb of data nowhere to be found. Luckily whatever it's doing, it did on wifi this time. I can't find anything in any location. No songs, nada. I'm close to deleting it and canceling my subscription.
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You did say you were streaming right?
Use Greenify and make it hibernate while not in use
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I haven't been streaming much, and when I do it's on wifi. This is app data not cellular data.
I unchecked sync google play music, automatic caching in the app, and cleared all data and it hasn't downloaded anything to my internal storage in two days. If I could contact google about it I would, because it downloaded 500mb of something to my phone over 4g, and that ain't right.
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Yeah I checked mine too and it had over 800 megabytes of data also I just froze it I'm not going to deal with it until I get it fixed or either I will revert to the old one
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Make sure you've disabled the option that automatically caches streamed music locally.