Can't Find Google Music Songs

Eduardo06sp

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Alright, my problem is that I can't find where Google Music stored all my downloaded music.

I searched SD/Android/com.Google.music/cache; it's empty.

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I've downloaded several items, and still don't see anything in that folder, and Poweramp isn't able to see anything but ringtones. What am I missing?

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Well I was going to suggest searching the artist from inside of whatever file manager you use.......BUT....I figured I'd try and my tbolt found couldn't find the cd I was searching for. The funny thing is that I know its on here because all my music apps find it and play it, but I have no idea where its stored???

And now this will bug me until I can find the directory......LOL.

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I can only see Play Music downloaded items in Play Music. App info shows a cache of ~104 MB, which is about the right size for the album I downloaded. I just can't see the damned files!

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I just did a full system search with es file explore for every MP3 file and it pulled all of them but know where I'n there was the song I downloaded. I would think they would be in android/data but I don't see them.

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I did the same thing from the root directory and it found nothing. Is Play Music changing permissions on the files such that only the app itself can see them?

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Data/data/com.Google.android.music/cache/music

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OK.....mine was here but not data/data.......it was in sd/data/.com.Google.android.music/cache/music. No artist attached to the file. File name is just a bunch of numbers for each track, but it does appear and play (with album art) properly.

Edit: sd/data/ANDROID/.com.google.android.music/cache/music. This was the directory.
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Edit!! sd/android/data..........I had them backwords.
 
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OK.....mine was here but not data/data.......it was in sd/data/.com.Google.android.music/cache/music. No artist attached to the file. File name is just a bunch of numbers for each track, but it does appear and play (with album art) properly.

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Difference is u have a SD card us nexus users don't. They have to be on there somewhere as they do play while in airplane mode

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From everything I read online they should be stored in that empty cache folder. Maybe a jelllybean issue ?

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Nope... just checked the same thing on my SGS III... can't find 'em there either. It must be Play Music and/or ICS/JB.

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