kolidescope
Lurker
So I suppose I'm pretty particular about my music playing experience, but here goes --
I only recently got an Android phone (moto g), but for the past few years I've been uploading all my computer's music to Google Play through the Google Music Manager, so I could listen to my music on my computer at work and such. So it's got all my songs all organized, and all my playlists that I've put together over time.
Ideally, this is what I'd like to be able to do:
- Have access to my entire music library of a several thousand songs whenever I have wifi or am willing to use data.
- Have access to a selected portion of my library when I don't have wifi.
- Work with a single set of playlists that I can use whether I have internet or not.
- Be able to use my music with other apps that call for it, like Zombies, Run! and ringtones and such.
I suppose my main complaint comes from Google Play Music's means of storing it's "pinned" music on the phone - it goes into the deep dark recesses of its app data folders and scrambles the filenames so you can't actually get to it for anything other than Play Music.
I tried moving my music from my computer to my phone the old fashioned way, but Google Play was very weird about recognizing them in its library - sometimes they would appear to be replacing its counterpart in the cloud (this seems ideal), but other times it would make a duplicate track. Also, the copies from my device aren't recognized as being a part of any playlist, so if I start one of my playlists it will try and stream it over the internet instead of getting it locally. I don't want to delete anything in my existing library because, like I said, it's already nicely organized and I don't want to mess with it. Moving my on-device music to a new playlist results in a playlist that is empty if I check Google Play on my home/work computer.
Should I just be content to use Play Music's "pin" system to handle my music? Should I move to another player entirely for my phone? Or is there some way to get this thing to do what I want?
I only recently got an Android phone (moto g), but for the past few years I've been uploading all my computer's music to Google Play through the Google Music Manager, so I could listen to my music on my computer at work and such. So it's got all my songs all organized, and all my playlists that I've put together over time.
Ideally, this is what I'd like to be able to do:
- Have access to my entire music library of a several thousand songs whenever I have wifi or am willing to use data.
- Have access to a selected portion of my library when I don't have wifi.
- Work with a single set of playlists that I can use whether I have internet or not.
- Be able to use my music with other apps that call for it, like Zombies, Run! and ringtones and such.
I suppose my main complaint comes from Google Play Music's means of storing it's "pinned" music on the phone - it goes into the deep dark recesses of its app data folders and scrambles the filenames so you can't actually get to it for anything other than Play Music.
I tried moving my music from my computer to my phone the old fashioned way, but Google Play was very weird about recognizing them in its library - sometimes they would appear to be replacing its counterpart in the cloud (this seems ideal), but other times it would make a duplicate track. Also, the copies from my device aren't recognized as being a part of any playlist, so if I start one of my playlists it will try and stream it over the internet instead of getting it locally. I don't want to delete anything in my existing library because, like I said, it's already nicely organized and I don't want to mess with it. Moving my on-device music to a new playlist results in a playlist that is empty if I check Google Play on my home/work computer.
Should I just be content to use Play Music's "pin" system to handle my music? Should I move to another player entirely for my phone? Or is there some way to get this thing to do what I want?
