I believe I did this, with the Moment or whatever phone I had before the S3.
I now have an S4 (ATT).
I don't want to stream all the time and keep my music on the phone for when at the gym.
There used to be a guide on how to make the offline music in Google Play download to the SD Card and not internal, but I can't find it now for some reason.
Anyone know how to force the Google Music App to put offline music to the SD Card?
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I haven't been able to find a way to tell Google Music to use my SD card for downloading/ cacheing music.
Is there anything I can do to get Google Music to use my SD card for music storage?
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I haven't been able to find a way to tell Google Music to use my SD card for downloading/ cacheing music.
Is there anything I can do to get Google Music to use my SD card for music storage?
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You can use Rom Toolbox to create a shortcut of the directory you want music to be stored to in the /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/ folder. Make sure you rename the shortcut "music"
I have a 64gig micro SD card and placed music and movie files on there. For a day it worked fine..I was able to play music via samsungs music player and PlayerPro app. Now for whatever reason my phone does not see mp3 on my microSD card. I can still however play movies from my sdcard. Anyone have a similar experience?
I don't think the card is going bad as I can still play movies from it. I think it might be a setting issue.
Quick update. I can navigate to my SD card using My Files app and play the files but the stock music player or 3rd party music player cannot view the files.
Ended up reformatting and restoring sd card. Its a bit annoying since the phone was able to read the sd card still.. just the apps was not able to see whats on there.
I uploaded 457 songs to Google Music. I did not want to stream all the time so I checked off that everysong be downloaded physically to the device. It all went swell but I'd like to move the songs to my SD card and I can't find any folder where the music would be stored at all. The App size grew, so I know the songs are in there. Especially since I can play them without wifi or Mobile Data enabled. But I have NO idea where to look as media, music, etc folders are all empty.
Am I missing something? It is a stock rom S4 rooted with some stuff frozen but I don't believe anything frozen is related since Google Play operates perfectly short of the fact that I can not locate the physical files.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ge...es-android-store-google-play-music-files.html
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Thanks. Since I have the S4, I assume there is something SLIGHTLY different. I tried everything I could find and while all processes finished correctly, the end result wasn't he same. The music would not store anywhere different.
I also got Google music + v 1.1 and when I type the alternative save location, all the music that JUST worked, loses all artwork and say "storage full" when attempting to play on a COMPLETELY empty SD card. I only have 4 free GB and about 10GB of music and this is driving me crazy.
I'll just have to physically add music to the device and I assume GMusic will just play from it?
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Internal memory only. Hence why a 16gb S4 is too small a memory size.
Sorta going off topic a tad, but here's how to store Google Music tracks on your SD card: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYFw9bEAzM8
I'm not sure if it'll work on the S4, as I don't have one to try out just yet, but hopefully it does!
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I uploaded 457 songs to Google Music. I did not want to stream all the time so I checked off that everysong be downloaded physically to the device. It all went swell but I'd like to move the songs to my SD card and I can't find any folder where the music would be stored at all. The App size grew, so I know the songs are in there. Especially since I can play them without wifi or Mobile Data enabled. But I have NO idea where to look as media, music, etc folders are all empty.
Am I missing something? It is a stock rom S4 rooted with some stuff frozen but I don't believe anything frozen is related since Google Play operates perfectly short of the fact that I can not locate the physical files.
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My advice Google Music + S4 is a really mess we don't have enough storage space to install more than 3 large games let along our music collection when Google insist on internal storage only.
Your best and quickest option without rooting is to download your music via Google Music webapp then place the files on your SD card. Not ideal i know but a workaround till Google fixes the music app.
Google play music and nor any other app is recognising music if i transfer it frm internal to sd card! Therefore games are movvinf 100% correctly but if i transfer music to sd card ! No any music app is showing the transferred music. I havent transffer any pictures! Though same thing can be happened with pictures too. Any solution?
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Google play music and nor any other app is recognising music if i transfer it frm internal to sd card! Therefore games are movvinf 100% correctly but if i transfer music to sd card ! No any music app is showing the transferred music. I havent transffer any pictures! Though same thing can be happened with pictures too. Any solution?
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play music has its own setting to use the external sdcard. Have you tried that?
My music (not GPM) has always been in Sdcard/media/audio/music/ I use the same on every device, poweramp picks it up here a treat.
I've read a few threads here, but cannot find an answer.
Is there any way for Google Play on my S8 to play my music off my sd card? I have about 80gb stored on my sd card, and don't want to load it into the phone.
If not, is there any music player app that does? I've been reading so many blogs/threads with no joy! Thanks
Using Samsung Music for playing from SD card without issues.
as above or my personal favourite player is "PlayerPro" just make playlists from your SD card contents
Play music plays off the SD card on my device. I have it set to downloaded only.