Google Music Beta

[goat-head]

I was having the same issue, then it just started working?

 

[denisbkk]

Can somebody tell me where the cached music from the Android Music app is stored? I cannot find it on the SD Card..or does it store offline songs on internal memory?! But there I can also not find it.

 

[KenG10]

Can somebody tell me where the cached music from the Android Music app is stored? I cannot find it on the SD Card..or does it store offline songs on internal memory?! But there I can also not find it.

its in the Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache

ive noticed that it likes to download entire albums at once (even in the background) when cache music is on.

 

[SeekerOfTheWay]

Subscribed for info.

 

[OstrichSaK]

So far the only issues I'm having are:

1) I have playlists and one of them is called NEW. I have it pinned on my Evo and it seemed to cache all the songs fine on my device once the playlist was created on a PC. Total songs is about 20 or so. Last week I added two new songs and they show up fine on the PC in the NEW playlist. It's been a week now and those two songs STILL don't show up on my Evo. Thoughts?

2) Soundtracks will split each track up into separate 'albums' rather than put them all in the same album. It appears to group by album then artist so all the albums are side by side but each track with a separate artist resides alone as a separate album. Google needs to fix it so that if tracks all have the same album name they are in the same album when you view your albums.

3) Lastly is a bunch of features that I'm sure will be added eventually. The ability to edit/delete my tracks and playlists from the device. Better choices for widgets (Love the 2x1 from Mixzing that shows album art) and ability to specify time frame for 'Newly added' items since most new users will have thousands of songs in their 'newly added' items even though there may only be a few that are actually newly added within the last few days and eventually months.

Other than that I love the app. Google just needs to make haste with the fixes and updates.

 

[substring]

Then buy them. Google Music isn't a music store. As they say, beggars can't be choosers. The free tracks are just gravy. If you don't like the free tracks then delete them.

That is beside the point. During the set up of Google Music Beta, I have uploaded some Linkin Park songs from my laptop to the cloud as Linkin Park is my favorite band. Now, if the programmers at Google are as smart as I think they should be, they should be able to tell what kind of music do I like. That is what Google is famous for....to analyze the user's data such that they can customize the experience for their target audience. So in my case, it is a total failure on Google's part.

The point is that it is not about free music. It is all about data analytics which is the key to success of Facebook, Google, and all Web 2.0 initiatives.

Hope this clarifies.

 

[Agroman]

Having a bit of an annoying problem. I uploaded all my music from itunes, and that worked fine. I went through Music beta from a browser and deleted a few hundred songs that I just dont really listen to anymore. I want to keep those in my itunes however. The problem is, when I delete them, the Music Manager program sees that, and re-uploads them. Obviously I can just close out of that program, but I like to keep it open so when I do add new songs to itunes, they get uploaded.

Anyone know a workaround for this?

I had the exact opposite problem, I deleted from the cloud because of bad metadata but the Music Manager hasn't reuploded the fixed ones yet (it's totally idle right now).

 

[Agroman]

OK, 2 questions.

1) Anyone else have issues with Google Music not using the genre info that is in the actual song? I use WMP to keep my music organized and sometimes I change the genre of an album to match the others of its kind. Google Music is showing songs in genres that don't exist on my PC. It's really annoying.

2) I have like 900 songs that say "Error uploading file". Doesn't really tell me much and I have no idea why it would have an error. Will the program try again or can I tell it to try again or anything to see why these songs aren't uploading?

As I read somewhere your issues seem to be related to bad tags. In the first case you probably have conflicting info in diferent tags ID3, APE, etc.

The second can probably be fixed sorting out the metadata too.

I'm using mediamonkey and it find music with unsyncronized tags. I guess it would fix you problem.

 

[Agroman]

So far the only issues I'm having are:

2) Soundtracks will split each track up into separate 'albums' rather than put them all in the same album. It appears to group by album then artist so all the albums are side by side but each track with a separate artist resides alone as a separate album. Google needs to fix it so that if tracks all have the same album name they are in the same album when you view your albums.

You have tracks with different "Album Artists", they need to be the same, or I would guess you could empty them all and tag as "part of a compilation".

 

[28064212]

That is beside the point. During the set up of Google Music Beta, I have uploaded some Linkin Park songs from my laptop to the cloud as Linkin Park is my favorite band. Now, if the programmers at Google are as smart as I think they should be, they should be able to tell what kind of music do I like. That is what Google is famous for....to analyze the user's data such that they can customize the experience for their target audience. So in my case, it is a total failure on Google's part.

The point is that it is not about free music. It is all about data analytics which is the key to success of Facebook, Google, and all Web 2.0 initiatives.

Hope this clarifies.

You seem to have totally missed the point of the free music. Google bought the rights to distribute some music for free. If you want, you can add it. It would be impossible for Google to look at your music and suggest free stuff you might like, they wouldn't have the rights to it

 

[Raaden]

Got my invite a few days ago but just now getting a chance to do some uploading. Ran into the Error Uploading issue. deleted and seems to be working great!

 

[orangebackpack]

I'm loving the Beta Google Music service online and on my droid. I know that online, Google Music allows you to listen to your "thumbs up" playlist, which plays your favorites, but I'm not seeing a way to listen to my favorites on my android (running Music app on Gingerbread). I see no option to create an auto playlist (smart playlist, in iTunes language).

Anyone have any luck with this?

 

[goat-head]

I keep having the issue where I have it set to "random all", and it just repeats the first song? At least until I manually skip to next track! And some songs just end before they're over, and it doesn't want to go to next track?
Any ideas or others having similar probs?
Oh well, it's bound to have some quirks for such a FREE kickass app!!

 

[R3vel]

Maybe you should suggest that to Google, then you can have your Lady Gaga...Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah!, Roma-roma-mamaa! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!

I prefer to listen to Wagner or Beethoven myself or even Sing Chinese Songs - Learn to sing famous Chinese songs

Im from the UK so have to wait for it to become available over here. In the mean time, I wanted to learn a famous chinese song, but the link is dead. Please renew

 

[mikedt]

Im from the UK so have to wait for it to become available over here. In the mean time, I wanted to learn a famous chinese song, but the link is dead. Please renew

Are you sure Sing Chinese Songs doesn't work in the UK? I'm sure some of my friends in Bristol and London are using it to sing Chinese songs.

Sing Chinese Songs - Learn to sing famous Chinese songs

I think it's actually an American website, not Chinese.

 

[Tyler Perez]

Well, I just got my Invite to Google Music today, and I don't know if anyone else is using it. I would like to know what everyone thinks about it? My first impression is that it's cool, conveinient and most likely a huge battery hog. The Google Music Manager is still uploading my 20,000+ songs so it may take me a few days till it's done and to get the full experience.

What are you thoughts, Impressions?

Also, does anyone know if it's possible to sync more than one phone with Google Music, and if so, how?

If you havn't heard of it, here it is:

Request an Invitiation Here: http://music.google.com

Get the App Here: Google Music

 

[strat1227]

Well, I just got my Invite to Google Music today, and I don't know if anyone else is using it. I would like to know what everyone thinks about it? My first impression is that it's cool, conveinient and most likely a huge battery hog. The Google Music Manager is still uploading my 20,000+ songs so it may take me a few days till it's done and to get the full experience.

What are you thoughts, Impressions?

Also, does anyone know if it's possible to sync more than one phone with Google Music, and if so, how?

If you havn't heard of it, here it is:

Request an Invitiation Here: http://music.google.com

Get the App Here: Google Music

I have it, uploaded 15000 songs, took over a week

Pretty cool, the google music player sucks bigtime though

I think you can sync any amount of devices on it, that's pretty much the point, but only if the whole device is synced to your google account

 

[Tyler Perez]

I have it, uploaded 15000 songs, took over a week

Pretty cool, the google music player sucks bigtime though

I think you can sync any amount of devices on it, that's pretty much the point, but only if the whole device is synced to your google account

O man, a week...

Why does the player suck?

Oh thats what it is... Well I wanted to set my dad up with all my music while he's always on the road traveling... but I would rather him not get notified when I get new emails, or even check my mail on his phone... I guess I can try to sync my phone with his and turn off all syncing for my email account?

 

[marctronixx]

google music is tied to your email account. if you log out of your email account you log out of google.

i have had it for a month or so. its a bandwidth hog for sure. i think there is a setting to use less bandwidth however that may be on the desktop client side rather than the handset side.

and i dont think you can load up more than 20K songs.. there is a limit, however i forget.

the music player is just fine for me. i rather enjoy it. it looks great on the xooms big screen.

maybe you can look at amazon cloud. they have a music storage service... ive still got two invites to google music... wish i could give one to your dad so he can have his own...

 

[strat1227]

Limit is 25000 songs

player isn't very good imo because when you have that many songs it takes forever to scroll through them and there's no option to scroll by letter for some reason

Also when you're looking by artist, if you hit the name you have to select an album, and like 70% of my music is "unknown album", and when I click that it it shows EVERYTHING within that album, so it's literally impossible to view only the songs by that artist

Overall it has very few features which is disappointing for google

 

[llescaflownell]

It's pretty glitchy on my phone. Keeps playing when I have another player playing (like pandora or jango). Skips songs all the time, just a mess. I had to uninstall it twice now. Not gonna download it again until it comes out of beta.

For computers and Xoom, it plays nicely though.

 

[Complex757]

It's pretty glitchy on my phone. Keeps playing when I have another player playing (like pandora or jango). Skips songs all the time, just a mess. I had to uninstall it twice now. Not gonna download it again until it comes out of beta.

For computers and Xoom, it plays nicely though.

GMail was in Beta for years, so I'm not sure you want to wait that long. Might want to do it according to updates.

 

[Agroman]

Im from the UK so have to wait for it to become available over here. In the mean time, I wanted to learn a famous chinese song, but the link is dead. Please renew

You don't need to wait 'til it opens. You can request your invite using a proxy. I'm not in the US either and it took me less than a week to get my invite.

 

[jerofld]

Gmusic player is a lot like the stock Android player (surprise?). It is very featureless. However, you can reduce the bandwidth required by making it so it won't cache the song files on your SD card. It's in the settings menu.

And no, your main Android account (the Google account you sign in with when you activate the phone) does not have to be the account in which you use Gmusic. I have 2 gmail accounts logged into my phone. A new handle and the secondary handle that I'm trying to phase out of. Both have invites to Gmusic beta, and both can be used from my 3vo. The google accounts just need to be listed in the account section of your phone.

 

[falconey]

My impressions:
Player - Nothing to brag about. I do like the background 'blow up' of the album art which gives matching colors to the actual album art.

I also like the landscape view of albums and the 'recent' albums view where it's almost like you are flipping through actual albums.

I've selected skip/random and it will in turn repeat songs after they are finished(annoying).

It skips songs when I don't want it to.

Offers no equalizer.

As already mentioned, the player sometimes doesn't know when to stop playing.

To compete with Audiogalaxy the player has a long way to go. A lock screen widget is the first step they need to take.

Streaming - Most of the time streaming is seamless and I do like the cloud which makes it where you can upload the music and not have to keep a laptop or server on to reach the music.

Sometimes I can't connect in areas where audiogalaxy and subsonic will connect so I'm thinking those are google server issues.

Uploading - This has to be the most painful process, but you are able to listen the already uploaded music while your collection finalizes.

Set up - Set up is very simple.

All in all if you get accepted in the beta it's a worthwhile app to have.