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Google Music (beta) oddness

I'm a participant in Google Music (beta). I gotta say that I love it. Not having all that music on my devices is wonderful.
However, here's an oddity that I can't seem to fix or explain.
I ripped a CD to my collection on my PC on Friday. Saturday when I went to play that album on my Galaxy Tab it was there and played fine. Perfect.
Then, yesterday, I went to play this same album using Google Music (beta) on my Thunderbolt. It wasn't there. I couldn't find it in Artists, Albums or with search. Gone. I went back to look at my Tab and, yes, it's still on there.
So, the question is: Why doesn't my Thunderbolt have the new album? Is there a way to refresh Google Music?
Should I uninstall and reinstall Google Music?
Both the Tab and the Thunderbolt are running version v3.0.1.339

TabGuy said:
I'm a participant in Google Music (beta). I gotta say that I love it. Not having all that music on my devices is wonderful.
However, here's an oddity that I can't seem to fix or explain.
I ripped a CD to my collection on my PC on Friday. Saturday when I went to play that album on my Galaxy Tab it was there and played fine. Perfect.
Then, yesterday, I went to play this same album using Google Music (beta) on my Thunderbolt. It wasn't there. I couldn't find it in Artists, Albums or with search. Gone. I went back to look at my Tab and, yes, it's still on there.
So, the question is: Why doesn't my Thunderbolt have the new album? Is there a way to refresh Google Music?
Should I uninstall and reinstall Google Music?
Both the Tab and the Thunderbolt are running version v3.0.1.339
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I think it's there. Click on menu then library option. Select offline only, then again select all music. I know we have a refresh option on the tab version of the google music.
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I think it's there. Click on menu then library option. Select offline only, then again select all music. I know we have a refresh option on the tab version of the google music.
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Thanks for the tip. But, no change. Still can't find the artist.

This happened to me on my phone. I went to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All > Music > Clear Data
Be sure to select the Music icon with the headphones. My phone has a pre-installed app called Music as well.
When you open the app up it will refresh all settings & data.

Where to put mp3 files so they show up in Google Play Music App?

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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leebo said:
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.

Budius said:
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!

Music Manager

Does anyone know of a good music manager for android? Im having two problems, the first problem is half of my music albums dont have album art, and the second problem is i have more than one icon for a single album. For example i have Trey Songs album with two different icons. one folder have half of the songs and the other folder have the other half

Try musiXmatch app from play store or the stock touchwiz player. I find these two good.
Other option is n7 player and power amp player.
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If your music data itself is messed up, changing players wont necessarily fix your problems.
I highly recommend musicbrainz for cleaning up massive libraries. It fixes tags, renames files, and will structure your music on disk like itunes. From there you can push it back to your players for sheer pleasure.
Btw , this is a desktop app, not one from the android stores. And it's free.
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spycedtx said:
If your music data itself is messed up, changing players wont necessarily fix your problems.
I highly recommend musicbrainz for cleaning up massive libraries. It fixes tags, renames files, and will structure your music on disk like itunes. From there you can push it back to your players for sheer pleasure.
Btw , this is a desktop app, not one from the android stores. And it's free.
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that sounds like something i need

Sometimes it'll choke on tracks that should be common and easy to identify. Don't fret, just tell it to try again and it will generally fix itself. On really stubborn ones you may have to kickstart them by entering some of the missing data (artist, title) before it'll properly recognize them.
Good luck !
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Google my music widget not displaying artwork?

Hello guys I have a bit of an issue with the Google play music widget, it doesn't display album art from albums I've imported manually but does with music present installed on the phone. If i open one of the albums from the widget, the app displays the imported album artwork fine. What am I missing?
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Anyone?
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lenny81 said:
Anyone?
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Happens to me to, I guess its a bug of the nexus 4 or jellybean

MIne does this too. I displays some but not others. It's wierd.

I have the same problem on my Nexus 10. Seems like the My Library widget only displays the artwork for media stored in the Play cloud not on the device itself. Google should fix this.

@HankStorm Yeah I had just copied my albums to the PC, then uploaded to cloud, I can now see album artwork from the widget and download the albums from there to my phone if I so wish. Only took about an hour to do ha!
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It's a real shame Google won't let you upload straight from your device as I download a lot of mix tapes straight to my phone.
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Kill any other media players you have running. That worked for me. Widget was back in an instant.

bleys121 said:
Kill any other media players you have running. That worked for me. Widget was back in an instant.
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Thanks for the advice, the widget worked fine to start off with. It just didn't show artwork for albums imported manually and stored locally on the phone. It's sorted now though.
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Download apps like album art grabber which will get u all the art work .
after that just clear the cache and force close the play music app and reopen it all the albums will appear

berz said:
Download apps like album art grabber which will get u all the art work .
after that just clear the cache and force close the play music app and reopen it all the albums will appear
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As I said in original post. The albums already contain artwork. The app displays it just fine, the widget doesn't. It did fix by uploading the albums to cloud. But I will try the fc as you suggested next time and see what happens. Thanks
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Same boat. I thought about using the Play Music system with the cloud and all to see what happens... but man, what a bunch of extra stuff to do.
Call me old school but I've never used any kind of 'manager' I just copy and paste, how does it get more simple?

I'm having this issue and it's very annoying. album art grabber doesn't work it thinks most of my albums already have art and the ones that have zero it downloads something but it never appears even after clearing the app cache and force closing.

bblzd said:
I'm having this issue and it's very annoying. album art grabber doesn't work it thinks most of my albums already have art and the ones that have zero it downloads something but it never appears even after clearing the app cache and force closing.
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same problem here on nexus 5 ,play music app shows art work fine the widget doesn't, seems a bit long winded to have to upload it elsewhere and then back to phone ,surely the widget gets its info from the app?

piebobs said:
same problem here on nexus 5 ,play music app shows art work fine the widget doesn't, seems a bit long winded to have to upload it elsewhere and then back to phone ,surely the widget gets its info from the app?
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Seeing as it's only a problem with the widget I abandoned it. Not worth uploading everything and then having to distinguish between On Device or not, potentially streaming files that are available locally.

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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