Help! Google Play forces music to 'keep on device!'

[All I Wanted Was a Pepsi]

Can anyone tell me why the Google Play music app downloads random songs (just one from an album here and there) to 'keep on my device' even when I don't ask it to? It's just weird, and I have to go through and manually delete the ones I don't want which is time-consuming.

I listen to my stored music from a PC, too. The songs I listen to seem to be more prevalent in what gets 'kept,' but not all of them, and not only them.

Is there a better app for mp3 playback that will fix this?

Thanks!

 

[mathelm]

Sorry, no anwser, just a bump. But your tag made me hungry....

 

[B. Diddy]

Under the Settings for Play Music, is "Automatically Cache" checked? Try unchecking it.

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[anon(847090)]

Can anyone tell me why the Google Play music app downloads random songs (just one from an album here and there) to 'keep on my device' even when I don't ask it to? It's just weird, and I have to go through and manually delete the ones I don't want which is time-consuming.

I listen to my stored music from a PC, too. The songs I listen to seem to be more prevalent in what gets 'kept,' but not all of them, and not only them.

Is there a better app for mp3 playback that will fix this?

Thanks!

how do you know that its downloading songs to your device? only albums can be pinned/downloaded. so wondering how you knew it.

 

[All I Wanted Was a Pepsi]

Thanks! I will try as soon as I get home.

 

[All I Wanted Was a Pepsi]

how do you know that its downloading songs to your device? only albums can be pinned/downloaded. so wondering how you knew it.

Because 100's of songs (not whole albums) appear that I haven't pinned.