I am running JB CNA on my Verizon GNex. I have probably one GB of music that I have made "available offline" via Google Play. I have looked and looked to try to find where the files live on the phone. Other threads have said that I should be able to find it in Android\data\com.google.android.music\cache. Negative. I've also tried sorting and checking the folders on my phone by size, figuring it should be one of the larger folders on the device. Still no luck. If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd be much appreciative. Thanks.
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Sorry I cant help and point you directly to where they are. I did read about this recently on here. All I know is they are not named like you would think. When you bring the music to your phone, they are actually given a unique number. So the actual file name is not the song name or whatever.
Somone else should be able to give you the folder.
Somone else should be able to give you the folder.
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If you're just wanting to know for the sake of knowing, I can't help ya there. If you're trying to download a music file and manipulate it (make a ringtone or something) then do the following:
-With Chrome (or your favorite browser on your phone) in Request Desktop Site mode, go to the Google Music web site (http://www.google.com/music) and log in.
-Find the song you want and click the little tab to just to the right of the song title and click download. This will download the song into your downloads folder.
-Use a file explorer (ES File Explorer for me) and navigate to the Downloads folder and find the file. Change the file extension to .mp3 by using the rename function.
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on ICS, music used to be stored in Android-->data-->com.google.android.music-->cache
On JB, try /data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music/ (assuming you are rooted of course)
The music files should be there in MP3 format, but the file names are non-descriptive (numbers)
On JB, try /data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music/ (assuming you are rooted of course)
The music files should be there in MP3 format, but the file names are non-descriptive (numbers)
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In JB its actually:
sdcard > Android > data > com.google.android.music > cache > music
As mentioned, google stores everything with a numerical filename (1234.mp3 - yes, I literally have a file 1234.mp3) and these files have NO ID3 tags so no other media players will be able to identify which song is which. Android stores a local database on the phone that the music player cross-references to provide track info and album art. I'm guessing this is because of some sort of stupid licensing agreement with the labels that Google has that allows them to run their cloud service.
sdcard > Android > data > com.google.android.music > cache > music
As mentioned, google stores everything with a numerical filename (1234.mp3 - yes, I literally have a file 1234.mp3) and these files have NO ID3 tags so no other media players will be able to identify which song is which. Android stores a local database on the phone that the music player cross-references to provide track info and album art. I'm guessing this is because of some sort of stupid licensing agreement with the labels that Google has that allows them to run their cloud service.
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Download them to your computer then drag and drop, they will have an annoying 00 in front of the track name though.
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I kept poking around the phone and thought I'd share what I found. Most file explorers open to the root of the SD card, which I had mistaken as the root of the phone. I kept mashing up a directory until I got to ACTUAL root. I looked around there and this is where I finally found the music:
/data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
As promised, it's in a dumb numerical format, but I can live with that now that I know what's going on. As a reference I'm running JBSourcery 2.3 now.
Thanks all for the advice.
/data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
As promised, it's in a dumb numerical format, but I can live with that now that I know what's going on. As a reference I'm running JBSourcery 2.3 now.
Thanks all for the advice.
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