What is "Google Play Music" ?

[PeteCress]

I'm thinking some kind of marketing BS that's been pushed down to my device.

Never even knew I had it until I started seeing "Unfortunately Google Play Music has stopped working" dialogs coincident with screen freezups.

Found I could not uninstall it, so I opened Application Manager and clicked "Force Stop". Coincident with that, the notifications seemed to increase.

Probably serves me right for messing with Mother Nature...

But it still begs the question: "WTF is it?".... besides one more reason to root this thing.... -)

 

[Rxpert83]

I love Google music. Its googles music app, simple as that.


If its force closing, try clearing its data or cache

 

[chanchan05]

Clear its data. Its just the Google Music app.

 

[Screech]

Recent update to support the new unlimited music subscription is causing a lot of problems, it started crashing on my Samsung GT-[I9100|P3113|I9500].... clearing the app data fixed it on all of them.

 

[PeteCress]

Clear its data. Its just the Google Music app.

Thanks.

Any idea why it's even running? I've never used it... ever.

Or might it be called by other apps like DoggCatcher (podcasts)?

 

[Slug]

Any idea why it's even running? I've never used it... ever.

Go to Settings/Accounts/Google, select your account and uncheck Sync Google Play Music.

 

[PeteCress]

Go to Settings/Accounts/Google, select your account and uncheck Sync Google Play Music.

Did it, but I keep getting those "Unfortunately....Music.. stopped dialogs."

 

[nickdalzell]

For me it's better than iTunes. open, click any song you want, and it's available on all your devices. the subscription is nice, too. it sure beats paying $1.29 per song and hogging up internal storage. no downloading is nice too. i believe Google Play Music, much like its brothers Play Books, Play Movies is Android's attempt at competing with Apple iTunes, iBooks, etc. and in my view, Play's version is ten times better.

 

[MichelleP12]

I too have been having problems downloading music from Google Play (GS3). The error I have been getting of late is that my "device" is not set uo for billing to my carrier. Verizon says it's okay for me to do so...Google Play says they're not the problem...(i have my own post about this here).

Anyway my theory is that it was the update to Google Play. At least with your post I have confirmation that it was problematic. Wonder if it could have caused my issue...at least their tech support folks could have SAID somethng, but they punted back to Verizon as the cause. I followed your steps. While it didn't fix my problem, I'm still tremendously grateful for your post.