Adding a song from Google music to storage?? - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

I would like to create a ringtone however any song I purchased on Google music is not available on my storage. Any way I can access it so I can create one?
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Look through your files with a file managing app and move it to a mother music folder. I don't know if you'll even find it because I haven't tried. But I'd like to know a 100 percent legit option too
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No luck with that bud
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you need to be rooted and need a file browser that can access root folders
got to data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music
they don't have proper names or date accessed info so if you have lots of files like me... good luck
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You can download google music manager on your pc and download your library. Then copy and paste to your s4. If you look for the songs in root explorer they show up as numbers if I remember right.
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MoReNitO303 said:
I would like to create a ringtone however any song I purchased on Google music is not available on my storage. Any way I can access it so I can create one?
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Find the song in your music player and click the pin button beside it.
That saves it to your phone. Done.
If you want use an app to make it a ringtone make sure you have root and use root explorer or anything root capable file explorer and navigate to data -> data -> com.google.android.music -> files -> music -> (artist/album)
Copy that file to your default Music folder that doesn't require root and wella any ringtone app should be able to find it.
OR
do as someone else suggested and download it to to your computer from Google Play Music then manually copy it over

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[q] about the stock music player

Anyone know how to change settings so library only adds files from a certain folder? I have hawx installed which has 500 audio files and the music player has them all listed which is really annoying having to scroll through.
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theking52 said:
Anyone know how to change settings so library only adds files from a certain folder? I have hawx installed which has 500 audio files and the music player has them all listed which is really annoying having to scroll through.
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In any folder you do not want scanned by the media scanner for music and video, place a blank file named ".nomedia"
ah ok thanks. Blank file meaning even a document file or something specific?
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Glad this was asked. I was curious about the same thing. After installing some games, the music player includes some of the sfx in the playlists. Very annoying. I will try this fix as well.
Thanks for the post.
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In any folder you do not want scanned by the media scanner for music and video, place a blank file named ".nomedia"
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This works for all nested folders as well. And if you are rooted, you should also check out Rescan Media Root to rescan the sd card on demand. You can disable the startup rescan if you wish and use this as needed. I haven't yet disabled rescan on startup. It doesn't take too long. But if I add the .nomedia to a folder, it's faster to run this app, rather than connecting to a computer, mounting the sdcard and disconnecting to kick off the rescan.

[Q] ringtones

Does anyone know if there is a simple way of making .mp3 a ringtone? Or do I have to convert the .mp3 file into something else for it to work? Tried settings/sound/ringtone and I didn't see any of the songs I downloaded on my phone.
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Put them in the ringtones folder or use an app like Rings Extended.
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Does anyone know if there is a simple way of making .mp3 a ringtone? Or do I have to cthere t the .mp3 file into something else for it to work? Tried settings/sound/ringtone and I didn't see any of the songs I downloaded on my phone.
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Unless u have a app that dose it for u , u have to push them to system / media /audio folder there .ogg files . there may be other ways but that's what I do
Thank you very much kind people.
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i make a folders called "ringtones" and "notifications" and put all my custom mp3 sounds in those...all apps can see them along with the stock sounds

New to nexus android help

How do I change ringtone from a stock one to one of my music I've downloaded onto the nexus4. Tried everything is it something obvious.
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If you did a search you'd find the answer pretty quick but I'll play along..
Download pretty much any ringtone maker app. I use "Mp3 music ringtone - droidring"
Put the file in your ringtone folder.
I use es file explorer and when I use the player I can set it to whatever option.
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[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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How to keep non-standard ringtone?

I fancy a custom ringtone on my phone (see sig for details), but after every update I have to set it again, because otherwise it stays on 'unknown ringtone'; same goes for notifications.
I tried to use files on internal and on external sdcard, made me a flashable zipfile, too, that pushes the files to the correct folders in /system /media/audio/ - but no luck, the setting won't survive a system upgrade through OpenDelta
Any hints how to make it stick? I'd appreciate a lot
Do you have a "Ringtones" folder on your SD card? If you put it there it should be automatically indexed and stick after an OpenDelta update
I do, but it won't stick :-$
Put it on sd/media/audio/ringtones and it will stick.
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se1988 said:
Put it on sd/media/audio/ringtones and it will stick.
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Thanks for this, it worked however all the ringtones now show up in my music player. Adding a .nomedia file negated them showing up at all as ringtones.
Any way to have them visible to ringtones but hidden from music? Or can I not have it both ways?
Thanks in advance.
Rvezz28 said:
Thanks for this, it worked however all the ringtones now show up in my music player. Adding a .nomedia file negated them showing up at all as ringtones.
Any way to have them visible to ringtones but hidden from music? Or can I not have it both ways?
Thanks in advance.
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Use a music player with the ability to hide files/folders
How come apps like Facebook and any.Do have notifications in that folder that are not visible to my music player without the use of a .nomedia file?
Any way to mimic those?
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Rvezz28 said:
How come apps like Facebook and any.Do have notifications in that folder that are not visible to my music player without the use of a .nomedia file?
Any way to mimic those?
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Check their properties in a file explorer, you can hide them there (why didn't I think of this in my post above??)
se1988 said:
Check their properties in a file explorer, you can hide them there (why didn't I think of this in my post above??)
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I don't think I can change sd card content permissions, unless I'm missing something. I'm using es file manager.
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Rvezz28 said:
I don't think I can change sd card content permissions, unless I'm missing something. I'm using es file manager.
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Long press the file or folder you want to hide, select properties and enable hidden. On SD you have all permissions by default.
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