• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Google Music...

T

tonytouch311

Well-Known Member
I uploaded my music from the pc to the Google player cloud. Now I synced some of it back to my phone (wireless transfer from cloud to phone) so that I wont have to use data and stream it all the time. Where does the music save to? I cant find it when i hook the phone up to the pc, but its definetly on there when i choose a track to play.
 
I believe that the music is stored in the system folders, not in a place that the casual user can find it. I pinned all my music and, like you, couldn't find any of it. But it was all in the app.

Frankly, I never figured out precisely where it's stored. I know that when I wiped the phone's system partition to flash a new ROM, it downloaded all my songs again... resulting in 19GB of data in one month :eek:

Good thing I have unlimited data! (I have since unpinned my 900 songs)
 
The music files are saved within the application's folder/files in a way that are not accessible to you as MP3 files (or what have you). You can still listen to the music, you just can't copy it around. Much like an iPod stores music to its memory. I think it's a way to prevent you from distributing music you purchase to all your friends.
 
How do you save from google music to your phone. Because I have 32GB to blow and I don't want to rely on data/wifi
 
on ICS, music used to be stored in Android-->data-->com.google.android.music-->cache

On JB, try /data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music/ (assuming you are rooted of course)
The music files should be there in MP3 format, but the file names are non-descriptive (numbers)

Not sure why they implemented this - sharing my music purchases with friends is easy by just downloading to my PC (using google music manager) and sending it out that way. And for rooted users, they can easily pull the music files from the aforementioned folder and send it that way.
 
To quote myself...

Tim K said:
Its the way google music stores songs. It assigns each file a unique numerical filename as opposed to just storing the whole file as is. So if you upload Aerosmith -Walk This Way.mp3 Google stores it as 8972998.mp3 and transfers it to your phone as such. Also, it is stored in a cache file. If you want to find your music, grab a file manager and go to sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache and you'll see all your mp3's listed there as a bunch of files like 1539.mp3

UNFORTUNATELY, this prevents you from using any 3rd party music players as none of the track information is visible. This is a big complaint from people.

Personally, I just use the google music app. Its fine for me and the convenience is worth it. I store all my music online with google and just select the 20-30 songs I am in the mood for this week to be "available offline". Then I set the player to show offline music only.
Click to expand...
 
DROZ said:
How do you save from google music to your phone. Because I have 32GB to blow and I don't want to rely on data/wifi
Click to expand...

I store all my music on my phone. I did this by creating 4 playlist called Artists A-G, Artists H-N, Artists O-U, and Artists U-Z. Then through the web browser and go to songs and sort by artist and mass select all the artists whose name begins with letters and move them to the playlist. Then go to your android device and select the 4 playlists and pin them offline....done. Just remember to add any new artists/songs to your playlist after the fact. I forget to do that a lot. -Ryan
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom