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.
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I've had Creamed Glacier since its Beta 4.1, and then entire time, I have found that my phone doesn't locate music files at all. If I have a music app, it will show that there are no music files on the sd card, while I have over 2GBs worth of them. I have put them in the correct folder, and it has worked on GB, but when I switched to ICS I found that music was no longer being discovered on my sd card (also videos).
Is there a fix for this?
What are you doing on 4.1? There's beta 6.1.
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I have 6.1 beta. I said I've had creamed glacier since its 4.1 beta.
Reflash. I use mixzin and music works me.
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I have 6.1 beta. I said I've had creamed glacier since its 4.1 beta.
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I had the problem, if you have any music apps like power amp,Google music uninstall them power off remove SD card, insert SD card power up and let phone read SD card, it should work now. Some music apps mess with the stock music app I don't know why.
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Hmm...still not working. The phone still doesn't see any of my music, regardless of the apps I have uninstalled. This is indeed a weird problem.
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Hmm...still not working. The phone still doesn't see any of my music, regardless of the apps I have uninstalled. This is indeed a weird problem.
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Try clearing cache and data in the music app then do what I said in the post above
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I went ahead and did exactly what you did. I had the Google Music app, PlayerPro app, and the phone's own "Music" app. I disabled the phone's music app, deleted cache and everything else I could find. I disabled and reenabled it. I uninstalled both PlayerPro and the Google Music app. Still no go.
Thanks bmakk2055 for the support you've shown me thus far.
I've deleted every music app, then reinstalled a new app, deleting cache and everything. Still no go.
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I went ahead and did exactly what you did. I had the Google Music app, PlayerPro app, and the phone's own "Music" app. I disabled the phone's music app, deleted cache and everything else I could find. I disabled and reenabled it. I uninstalled both PlayerPro and the Google Music app. Still no go.
Thanks bmakk2055 for the support you've shown me thus far.
I've deleted every music app, then reinstalled a new app, deleting cache and everything. Still no go.
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I have the same problem and this isn't just with music, it happens in gallery too.
That's why i'm not using it right now, cause it pissed me off when i got in the car and couldn't listen to my music.
Also, it's really annoying how i had to yell at my phone to get people to hear me during phone calls.
I put some mp3's in sdcard/music. They do not show up in the play music app. I hit settings, refresh, but they still don't show up.
What's the deal?
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I put a fair amount of music in that same location and I got an error about one file but all the others show up and play normally.
Maybe try restarting the app? Otherwise it might be something about the files themselves that the app is having problems with.
Try am app called "SD card rescan" that a worked for me with slight patience or try rebooting it
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Mine showed up eventually, the app seems to take its own sweet time finding stuff
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I had to wait a week for it to show that I had added songs to a playlist
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Mine take a reboot to show up.
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I have tried rebooting, turning the device off, etc. When I click on any of these mp3's, play music opens and plays the files. So the app has no problem playing these mp3's.
Obviously it's not rescanning the device.
Edit: still no joy this morning. Then I turned the device off and back on.
Now it shows up under artist, but not album. Is there some secret to making a folder so it shows up under albums?
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Now it shows up under artist, but not album. Is there some secret to making a folder so it shows up under albums?
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In whatever you're using to sideload the mp3's, you can make sub-folders in the target folder. If you're connecting from a PC with USB, you can simply make folders the same way you do on your PC. I did this, and now the folder shows up in the music library.
The Android OS have a system service called the "Media Scanner" that will once in a while scan your storage for media.
I read the thread and what is been reported is two different points:
1. Sometimes it really does take a bit for the scanner to kick in and start its thing. 99% of time you reboot it does perform a full scan, so rebooting and waiting a few minutes before checking always helps.
2. the music show under artist but not album, that is to do with the MP3 tags. If you check your mp3 on Winamp or iTunes there are options to change/edit the MP3 tags, where you can set artist name, album name, year, style, album art, etc, etc... if those info are correct in the file, it will show on the player in the correct section, if it is not correct, well.. fix it, then move to your device.
hope it helps.
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2. the music show under artist but not album, that is to do with the MP3 tags.
hope it helps.
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Well, it finally also showed up under albums. What's weird is it showed up under artists a few hours b4 it showed up under albums. What's up with that?
Another question: After copying MP3's to your device, even after they show up in the Play Music app, they do not get uploaded to your Play account?
I went out today and thought I would listen to this album on my phone. It didn't show up. Back at home, it doesn't show up on my computer's web browser when connected to my Play account. So is it a one way upload? Computer to cloud, but not mobile device to cloud?
Yep, the only way to upload is from the PC. The mobile app was never meant to do it.
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I put mine on Google's servers A lot easier to stream it all rather than worry about remembering to copy it to my phone and tablet.
Usually I do too. But I downloaded this album direct from the artists web site on my Nexus. Later I will connect it to my pc and copy it over.
It just seems so archaic.
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I was having some similar issues, but after trying out a few different things that seemed to work for others, mine showed up. Not sure exactly what was the magic trick, but a mix of restarting, rescanning, etc. seemed to help... Thanks all!
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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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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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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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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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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Hi all,
Nexus 4 is running on Lollipop 5.1.1 stock.
For the longest time, audio files are not detected by any of the music players be it Play Music or any third party apps.
Since I have ton of data on my phone I cannot format it either to install a new rom.
Streaming songs over YouTube or music apps works flawlessly just cannot play the MP3 files on my phone.
Any suggestions to rectify it will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
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Are the files visible when connected to your computer or through an app such as ES File Explorer?
Yes, they are visible. I can play them individually but a music app doesn't detect them.
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I don't have an answer but suggest trying some new app like Rocket player. Library info will be rebuild from scratch so may be that'll solve it
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Take this with a grain of salt, but I think you can try wiping data of the "media storage" app in settings and rebooting. This will force the system to rebuild the media database. I remember reading this a few years ago when I had the same issue and this solved it. If there is anyway for you to make a nandroid or something, I would advise it in case it causes Android to stop finding your media all together.