i found something strange today which reminded me of a post about storage problems with play music.
Yesterday i streamed a few tracks whilst testing an FM transmitter for my nexus 5.
everything worked perfectly but today i went out and about and as another test i turned off WiFi and mobile data and then went into play music and all those tracks i streamed yesterday played !!!! .
i checked the tracks and none of them were down as being stored for offline access on my nexus 5.
i checked my music folder .....nothing there
then i checked my apps and found that play music was taking up nearly a Gigabyte in data storage.
i cleared all the app data and cache went back into play music and had to reestablish my google account and found that now none of the tracks were playable until i switched wifi back on.
this shouldnt be happening... unless i select the download link in a track to keep it on my phone the music should just stream.
anyone know exactly whats going on with play music?
as it stands i can see if i had a real session of streaming the app will hog great amounts of memory ,i'm not bothered as such as i have lots of memory but someone with just small amounts left could find themselves running out without realising why.
any comments appreciated cos i think this needs some discussion
cheers!!!!
PS i have turned off all caching when playing music and everytime i select a track not played before clearing data now adds 7MB (average mp3 size) to the apps memory
Yesterday i streamed a few tracks whilst testing an FM transmitter for my nexus 5.
everything worked perfectly but today i went out and about and as another test i turned off WiFi and mobile data and then went into play music and all those tracks i streamed yesterday played !!!! .
i checked the tracks and none of them were down as being stored for offline access on my nexus 5.
i checked my music folder .....nothing there
then i checked my apps and found that play music was taking up nearly a Gigabyte in data storage.
i cleared all the app data and cache went back into play music and had to reestablish my google account and found that now none of the tracks were playable until i switched wifi back on.
this shouldnt be happening... unless i select the download link in a track to keep it on my phone the music should just stream.
anyone know exactly whats going on with play music?
as it stands i can see if i had a real session of streaming the app will hog great amounts of memory ,i'm not bothered as such as i have lots of memory but someone with just small amounts left could find themselves running out without realising why.
any comments appreciated cos i think this needs some discussion
cheers!!!!
PS i have turned off all caching when playing music and everytime i select a track not played before clearing data now adds 7MB (average mp3 size) to the apps memory