Google Music general questions and issues.

[T3mporaryGold]

I'm just going to name a bunch of issues that keep me from using it. I'd like to use it though since it has more settings and a lock screen controller.

When I'm playing a song, and the song is on-screen, when I turn the screen to change viewing positions the cover art will go away and the timer will go to "--:--" and the only way to make it go back to normal is to either press thumbs up or down. Or, go to the next song. There is also like 3 other ways this can happen.

General problems with album art. Not showing, not showing correctly, disappearing (see above) etc.

The EQ animation in the song/album list will continue to play even when the music is paused.

I think a understated the first problem since I apparently can't think of any more. I don't know if I'm the only one who has this problem but I basically can't use the app because of this. Even without going that far, there isn't enough pros to use it over the stock player.

Does anyone else have this issue? I'm on the latest version and it happened on a much older version as well, before I updated.

 

[B. Diddy]

Those are strange problems which I haven't encountered yet when I use Google Music on my Razr Maxx, Nexus 7, or Asus Transformer TF300. What device do you have? I wonder if this might be a device-specific problem.

Album art can always be a pain, especially if the art wasn't properly attached to the music file. For the most part, editing album art on my desktop using Windows Media Player or iTunes typically leads to problem-free album art viewing on my Android devices, whether the music files are stored on device or streamed from the cloud. You might want to try Album Art Grabber, which can help you find album art and attach it to the proper music files.

In regard to the other problems, you might consider clearing the cache and/or data for Google Music by going to Settings/Apps/All, and selecting Google Play Music. Keep in mind that if you clear the data, you will need to sign in again and re-sync all of your music from the cloud.

 

[my21heartbeats]

I was having that same album art problem before I cleared the cache of the app and then it got fixed. The EQ thing still playing when a song is paused is weird but its not really a deal breaker. I use Google Music because that's basically where all my music is - on Google's servers - but there are better looking and better functioning apps out there. Try Now Playing which I believe has a thread on here.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

 

[T3mporaryGold]

Thanks but clearing the data and cache didn't fix anything.

 

[T3mporaryGold]

Really? Awe, man it didn't fix mine.

 

[milleph]

Try this as an alternative

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...store/apps/details?id=com.mono&token=YhWW-1za