I haven't gotten to play with one of these before. Just curious about this very important detail.
Streaming is bad, mmkay?
i guess only streaming unfortunately
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Correct forum is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android-auto/android-auto-general
Local should work, but I've never tried it.
A few other music players are AA compatible and can do local or streaming.
The units will only store the downloaded media to the 'flash' drive. So you will be limited to 1gb or less of storage. I have tried to switch it to the SD card or a usb stick and I have not found a way to get it to work. My Samsung S5 has the ability to choose the storage location. However I can't get this function to show on the head unit. Or transfer the app to the SD card or USB stick to store the files there.
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Like the title says.
Is there any way to have the music I have bought on the play store to be on my internal storage to be readable by other apps and devices?
I always played my music I downloaded from other places through my Xbox by just plugging my phone into it. But I uploaded my music to Google play so that it would be synced to my tablet. Now I can't do that at all without dlna (which I can't play while playing a game). There has GOT to be a workaround or something, I can't be the only one with this sort of problem......
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You should be able to grab mp3s from the play store. You should also be able to strip the DRM tags with e.g. eye3d. This requires that you own the music and you'd still have to transfer it to your (emulated) sdcard.
Besides that I can recommend subsonic + dsub. It's an awesome tool to stream / play music and it can stream e.g. to a chromecast. It might be possible to use it in jukebox mode, which means you'd need a raspberry pi or alike and you could play your lib with it. But I have not yet tried that (I have a chromecast ).
Basically: If you don't know how you are going to play your music in 5 years don't buy from crippled stores. And noone known how to play songs in 5 years from now.
treffer said:
You should be able to grab mp3s from the play store. You should also be able to strip the DRM tags with e.g. eye3d. This requires that you own the music and you'd still have to transfer it to your (emulated) sdcard.
Besides that I can recommend subsonic + dsub. It's an awesome tool to stream / play music and it can stream e.g. to a chromecast. It might be possible to use it in jukebox mode, which means you'd need a raspberry pi or alike and you could play your lib with it. But I have not yet tried that (I have a chromecast ).
Basically: If you don't know how you are going to play your music in 5 years don't buy from crippled stores. And noone known how to play songs in 5 years from now.
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Thanks for trying to help. I used the play music downloader in PC and put my library on my storage. A few songs are showing up twice in my play music app, but not all. I can live with this I guess. Hopefully Google makes this easier in the future.
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Google play music is crappie. I stopped using them a couple years ago. And again thank you for this app
Here's the situation...
My wife wants to listen to music at work without using the data plan. She would like to have all of her music on the phone at all times. When she rips CDs (yes she still buys CDs) or buys new music on Amazon she'd like it to just show up on her phone. The CD rips and Amazon purchases go to a folder on a PC which automatically gets uploaded to Google. She has 9500 songs and a 128gb card so there's no space issue. I have tried two plans but am not happy with either one. If you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.
Plan 1:
Use Google Play Music. The only way I could figure out how to get all of her music to her phone was to create a playlist that had every song in it and then click on the download icon. That works but it's static. Any new songs aren't downloaded and she must manually go in and download any new songs. That doesn't make her happy. (Happy wife, happy life.)
Plan 2:
Use any other MP3 music player. Lots of good choices out there. However, maintaining the music is a pain in the buttocks. To get the files there initially I just put the 128g chip in my computer and drag all of the files to the chip. That works. But I can't find out a way to get new songs onto the chip without manual intervention. I thought I could use a folder sync application but none of them have the authority to write to the external SD card (thank you Google) and new files won't get to the SD card without a lot of manual hand holding. That's a no go. I guess I could root and then use a folder sync application but this is her phone, not mine, and I'm not going there.
So, if any of you have any brainiac solutions, I'd love to hear them.
Here's the situation...
My wife wants to listen to music at work without using the data plan. She would like to have all of her music on the phone at all times. When she rips CDs (yes she still buys CDs) or buys new music on Amazon she'd like it to just show up on her phone. The CD rips and Amazon purchases go to a folder on a PC which automatically gets uploaded to Google. She has 9500 songs and a 128gb card so there's no space issue. I have tried two plans but am not happy with either one. If you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.
Plan 1:
Use Google Play Music. The only way I could figure out how to get all of her music to her phone was to create a playlist that had every song in it and then click on the download icon. That works but it's static. Any new songs aren't downloaded and she must manually go in and download any new songs. That doesn't make her happy. (Happy wife, happy life.)
Plan 2:
Use any other MP3 music player. Lots of good choices out there. However, maintaining the music is a pain in the buttocks. To get the files there initially I just put the 128g chip in my computer and drag all of the files to the chip. That works. But I can't find out a way to get new songs onto the chip without manual intervention. I thought I could use a folder sync application but none of them have the authority to write to the external SD card (thank you Google) and new files won't get to the SD card without a lot of manual hand holding. That's a no go. I guess I could root and then use a folder sync application but this is her phone, not mine, and I'm not going there.
So, if any of you have any brainiac solutions, I'd love to hear them.
Have you played with Samsung link yet? It will allow you to link your (her) phone to your computer (provided it's turned on and connected to the internet) so any new music loaded on to the computer will be available to the phone.
TabGuy said:
Here's the situation...
My wife wants to listen to music at work without using the data plan. She would like to have all of her music on the phone at all times. When she rips CDs (yes she still buys CDs) or buys new music on Amazon she'd like it to just show up on her phone. The CD rips and Amazon purchases go to a folder on a PC which automatically gets uploaded to Google. She has 9500 songs and a 128gb card so there's no space issue. I have tried two plans but am not happy with either one. If you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.
Plan 1:
Use Google Play Music. The only way I could figure out how to get all of her music to her phone was to create a playlist that had every song in it and then click on the download icon. That works but it's static. Any new songs aren't downloaded and she must manually go in and download any new songs. That doesn't make her happy. (Happy wife, happy life.)
Plan 2:
Use any other MP3 music player. Lots of good choices out there. However, maintaining the music is a pain in the buttocks. To get the files there initially I just put the 128g chip in my computer and drag all of the files to the chip. That works. But I can't find out a way to get new songs onto the chip without manual intervention. I thought I could use a folder sync application but none of them have the authority to write to the external SD card (thank you Google) and new files won't get to the SD card without a lot of manual hand holding. That's a no go. I guess I could root and then use a folder sync application but this is her phone, not mine, and I'm not going there.
So, if any of you have any brainiac solutions, I'd love to hear them.
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I use iTunes and isyncr. Haven't tried it with an external SD but does what you want. Syncs just new tracks. Only had iTunes cause I came from iPhone but to me is the best for managing playlists.
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I use iTunes and isyncr. Haven't tried it with an external SD but does what you want. Syncs just new tracks. Only had iTunes cause I came from iPhone but to me is the best for managing playlists.
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I went with plan 1. Turns out that to download music a playlist can only have 1,000 songs. I created 10 playlist to get all of the filed to her phone. Sending new music is relatively easy as there's a "recently added" playlist to use to download new music.
Plan 2 doesn't work well as KitKat and external SD cards are not user friendly.
I use SyncMe Wireless to transfer all files to my phone anymore. You can set a schedule to automatically sync any file from a shared folder on your PC to any directory on your device (not sure about an external sd card, i just use the internal storage). It's worked seamlessly for me. I just drop files in my "Send to Android" folder I made on my computer and in the middle of every night it will check to see if files need to be sent over. It can work in reverse too and send files from your phone to your PC.
Here's the link to the app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bv.wifisync&hl=en
It's nothing too flashy but it works very well. :good:
Is the USB Micro port capable of being used to copy music to and from the device?
Bluetooth is so Battery hungry and slow... I was hoping to just plug her in and copy the music over.
adb
Just use adb to push your music to /sdcard.
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Is the USB Micro port capable of being used to copy music to and from the device?
Bluetooth is so Battery hungry and slow... I was hoping to just plug her in and copy the music over.
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I was able to "adb push" some 100 mp3s in a couple of minutes to the SWR50 by turning on USB debugging and using the default Android ADB interface driver, however I only have one playable song (that I sent over BT via Walkman app as a test) in the music player. I tried pushing mp3 files to both "/sdcard" and "/sdcard/Music" directories but could not make a pushed song visible by the music player.
Anyone had any luck with this?
Anyone had any results/success with the above?
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Anyone had any results/success with the above?
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No.
It seems you have to either use the walkman app or register via the google play music store (with a credit card!!*) to be able to play the music.
This is a really poor implementation either way - having to send music to the cloud and then all the way back again to see it on your phone.
I guess someone will come up with a workaround app sometime soon. Or at least I hope so!
*apparently you can register for the google music download manager then remove your credit card info from google wallet and it will still work (but it means your details are still there, somewhere).
You could try installing Play Music or some other music app via adb
This works for me. However, the app I use to listen to music is wear media player. You can find it in the android wear forum or on the play store. If you can't, I can link to it.
Someone also broke the forum rules to promote another paid app that does the same.
Where is the Walkman and Google play storing their music?
Does anyone know where I can push music to be able to play it though google play or walkman?
I tried wear media but I can't get it to play song in the right order.
What is the order you want? Are you trying to play a playlist? I do not think Google play recognizes sideload music.
Also, if you are dead set on a drag and drop without adb solution, twrp (for 5.1.1 supports mounting the scared as a flash drive).
For those of you who use Google's Play Music with your px5 (mine is a Dasaita Octa 4/32 Oreo), can you confirm that offline/downloaded libraries work on your unit?
Mine will download fine but regardless of whether they are stored on the internal memory or on an external SD, the next day, they're all gone. It won't even see the library names until I'm connected to Google again and requires a download again at that point. Google's CS is baffled, they've had me reload the app numerous times, scrub, change settings...nada. It applies to playlists, stations and purchased music. All gone each day. Streaming works fine...IF live connected to the net. There are no problems with other google family apps and their downloads offline, including maps and YT Music.
I'd like to know if others with similar factory software and hardware are using that service successfully or if they are encountering conflicts as well.
Thanks.
I have same issue, though i did a fresh download on Internal (NOT sd card, NOT usb) and it has been working no issues. If i use the other 2 the library disappears or says its there when connected to internet (even if i have downloaded only)
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I have same issue, though i did a fresh download on Internal (NOT sd card, NOT usb) and it has been working no issues. If i use the other 2 the library disappears or says its there when connected to internet (even if i have downloaded only)
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When you say that you did a fresh download to the internal, are you talking about the app? (I always load apps to the internal) Or your libraries? I've loaded the libraries internal, to the SD, at high rate, at low rate, 1 list, 5 lists, set to wi-fi only, unset for wi-fi only, streaming rates changed, memory scrubs...Google is baffled, I'm baffled.
I had them occasionally disappear on my pixel 2 when it was still on oreo, but not at this rate or this entirety. I assumed that it was Google's always-move-it-to-the-cloud at work, when storage was getting tight, but I've got 40 gbs sitting open between internal and SD on this.
i'm talking about the music itself. Sorry for late reply but didn't get notification of update in thread.