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Using Google Play Music - HOW STUPID CAN IT BE !
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I never used Google Play music on my phone to purchase before. So I bought a track today...
First problem - the track didnt download. Instead it was playable ober the web - crap i thought.
So I followed instructions to save to the phone - It pined the track and a download type notification appeared.
I then went to Play the track in my phones music player Power Amp instead of the Play app - nothing.
The song was supposed to be on the phone but wasn't.
I looked around the complex and ridiculous file system to find where the mp3 was - couldn't.
I then found out you have to go onto your PC and physically download the song via play online - then re-copy to the phones Music folder......
I cant believe you cant physically download the file to your phone easily ! :mad:
itunes anyone??? ! - what a complete farce ! It took half an hour to figure all that out. Classic Android
First problem - the track didnt download. Instead it was playable ober the web - crap i thought.
So I followed instructions to save to the phone - It pined the track and a download type notification appeared.
I then went to Play the track in my phones music player Power Amp instead of the Play app - nothing.
The song was supposed to be on the phone but wasn't.
I looked around the complex and ridiculous file system to find where the mp3 was - couldn't.
I then found out you have to go onto your PC and physically download the song via play online - then re-copy to the phones Music folder......
I cant believe you cant physically download the file to your phone easily ! :mad:
itunes anyone??? ! - what a complete farce ! It took half an hour to figure all that out. Classic Android
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http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-tablet-2012/201950-cant-find-google-music-songs.html
Exactly ! Stupid.
It saved in a obscure area and I couldn't find it. It doesn't save to the music folder which means your phones native music player or music player app like power amp can't see it to add to library!
Totally daft.
Really don't know why they over complicate simple things on Android.
You're confusing the process of buying and playing music in general with the way one particular music app works. Play Music is just one streaming/cloud music service with also offers the ability to cache the content locally. If you are expecting it to operate like itunes or Amazon Music etc then you'll be disappointed.
The only thing it says about Android is that there are lots of services to choose from.
To be honnest as a Android user this is beginning to bug me. I have Amazon, 7 Digital and Play Music....
each app downloads to its own folder burried away in the system
each app when you have bought music actually doesn't physically give you the file
each app has no way to sync across platform so when you turn on the PC your song is there.
Its too complicated and farcical is android sometimes. Its fragmented nature and "choice" actually inhibits.
Each of these app stores has its own method of caching/securing this content. Still anything you do shove onto local media folders from a PC should still be playable. Bit of a pain if you want to compile a collection to take with you on a trip with little or no access to the internet, but if you pin everything you want accessible offline before hand and are willing to let it decide where it keeps it, it does work fairly well.
This. In the Google Music model, you don't download onto your computer/phone/tablet at all. Its there, ready to play, from any browser, on pretty much any device.
Now, yes, its sometimes overly reliant on having an internet connection, and to add your Google Music purchases to Amazon Cloud Player, or vice versa, is a little bit of a faff (or even iTunes Match if you had to) but then you're done.
why not just pin it?
I know that's not Google's business model, but I still think the majority of people would expect to just have the songs on the phone.
I agree + Songs ALL in the same Music folder for any music store app downlaods.
Because at the moment its all fragmented across the stupid file system - burried and hidden.
Apple are vastly superior in this area and the Google model is horrid. .... ALSO you can only download the song 2 times ! ! ! ! ! !
Because I wanted to use it in other players.
Works pretty well for me...
Even then you won't be able to play it as I believe it will be in some weird format (like how ipods save the file i think...)
To get the .mp3 you will need to go to the website and download the file, and then copy it to the sdcard section of your drive.
Basically, pin anything in Google Music, you can only play it on Google Music.
To get your mp3's easily:
Install the Google Play Music Manager from this page on your pc/mac/linux etc
When you run it you'll be prompted to sign in to your Google account.
Click on the "Download" tab, then press the "Download My Library" button. It will download all your music, to wherever you want, as plain old mp3's that you can copy/move to as many of your different devices as you want :cool:
You can download tracks as many times as you like.
This is how it works, it's a STREAMING service. I personally love Google Music, I buy stuff on my phone all the time and play it online or pin it to the device if I'm away from a network connection. I then remove it afterwards.
Er, when I buy a song from Google Music on my phone, it's also playable on my PC when I turn it ion
It's the same with Apple on the iPhone. You download everything through iTunes and Apple want you to use it all through the Music app. There are very few alternative music players/downloaders available for the iPhone/iPod purely because Apple won't allow them.