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Root IMPORTANT - Google Music Users Please Read

MizzouBrent

MizzouBrent

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If you're a user of Google Music, you know by now that each time you flash a custom rom and reinstall google music, it counts as a new authorization towards your google music account and once you hit 10 authorizations, you have to go in and clear out past authorizations to make way for new ones. No big deal right?

Google just changed their policy (and I'm talking about like a day or two ago) that will limit you to only 4 deauthorizations PER YEAR. Right now I am sitting at 7 "authorized devices" even though I only have this tied to my PC at home and my Evo. I can't delete any of my authorizations at this point because I've already used up the 4 that I am allowed. There is a thread in the XDA Galaxy Nexus forums on XDA about this and here is an article from Engadget

[WARNING] Google Music and Root - xda-developers

PSA: Google Music allows four device de-authorizations per year, rooters beware -- Engadget

Please post any music alternatives or thread updates here.
 
Sooo basically keep a working nandroid of one of your Google music authorized accounts till this mess gets sorted out.


Also don't install goolgle music till you know that rom is going to be your daily for the foreseeable future.
 
I would hope that there would be a fairly easy way for Google to redirect the app to look at something phone-specific to identify it as a new device. It's ridiculous the way it's set up now. I think they will get barraged in upcoming weeks about this. Hopefully they have no other choice but to do the right thing here. Otherwise I guess I'll just start using Amazon MP3 as my cloud service. Also, I have been using Spotify a lot lately. It's not free (after the 30 day trial) but IMHO it's worth it.

Does anyone know for sure whether restoring a copy from TB counts as a new authorization? Since I only have 3 more for the rest of the year, I'm not about to try it out on my own.
 
Rooted users are androids most loyal followers. Theres gonna be a huge outcry about this, and googles not about to piss off their most loyal userbase for very long.
 
I was able to talk to someone about my account. I just went to

http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/request.py?hl=en&policy=music&contact_type=contact_policy

and logged my info. Got a call with about 2 seconds and they are escalating the issue to get my account cleared of authorizations. They said they would email a followup in 1-2 business days. The guy I talked to on the phone was extremely helpful and said that he thinks that they're looking at changing the method of how they authenticate a device. So hopefully he's not just telling me what I want to hear. We'll see.
 
MizzouBrent said:
I would hope that there would be a fairly easy way for Google to redirect the app to look at something phone-specific to identify it as a new device. It's ridiculous the way it's set up now. I think they will get barraged in upcoming weeks about this. Hopefully they have no other choice but to do the right thing here. Otherwise I guess I'll just start using Amazon MP3 as my cloud service. Also, I have been using Spotify a lot lately. It's not free (after the 30 day trial) but IMHO it's worth it.

Does anyone know for sure whether restoring a copy from TB counts as a new authorization? Since I only have 3 more for the rest of the year, I'm not about to try it out on my own.
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How can you check how many authorizations you have left? I have it installed on my EVO and 2 tablets.
 
go to music.google.com and go to your settings. You'll need to be on the desktop website to access your authorizations.

I forgot to mention above that you get unlimited play through the mobile web browser. So if you're really in a pinch, it's a decent alternative. Mobile web browser access does NOT count as an authorization, just a PC with music manager installed and a device accessing through the Play Music app.
 
Thanks Mizzou. My second gmail account has zero authorizations. My primary account has 9 but some of those just say "Android device" so I wonder if those were the times I flashed a new rom. It's from 2011 so I don't know. It gives a choice to deauthorize but I don't want to risk that.
 
Titanium backup may prevent it. I know i've flashed way more than 10 ROMS since the last time I had to go in there and clear out my prior authorizations
 
I've been thinking about this for some time, as I obviously flash more than the average bear, and have to deauth frequently. I have a thought about an app that can keep your auth string and place it back, but it's not even close to ready, commandline only and doesn't quite work fully yet. So I guess I will have to look at it again, unless they change that policy. I would eat through those in very short order.
 
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