Can music saved offline from Google Play be played with WinAmp?

[jimbarr]

I flagged four albums from my Google Music account to be stored offline. I turn off WiFi, so my Nexus 7 is definitely offline. I can play the songs flawlessly using the Play Music app.

Can these be played in Winamp?
I read somewhere that they might be hidden and/or encrypted, rendering them unplayable outside the Play Music app, but I'm not sure.

I checked /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache which is where some say they are stored, but there's nothing there.

My Nexus 7 is not rooted.

 

[SquareWide]

I found this:

/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music

If you can get at them it sounds like the files are numbered No named so may not be any use to you.

If you uploaded them to google in the first place don't you have the originals?
I personally like to have everything on my sdcard.

 

[dparrothead1]

Easy way to find out. D/L the free Winamp and see if it works.

 

[Rob Dejournett]

Basically what you need to do is this.
1. Get the Google Play Music app from google store.
2. Find your album, long click, and select 'Keep on device'. This should actually download the MP3s.
3. Connect your andriod phone to your PC w/ the USB cable, and attach as a disk. Go to your drive and /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music
4. Here's the thing, the MP3s are not really labeled at all. And the MP3 tags are not present. So if you download multiple albums you will have to look at the timestamp of the download. Select the entire album, right click, and edit properties. Type the album name and artist. You can go to each song and add the title. Again this is completely manual.
5. Then copy it to /Music.
6. On your device, go to running apps. Stop the Music service. Reboot the device. This forces a refresh of the music folder. Finally you can see the album and play it, but unless you typed in the name of the song you won't have that.

 

[wunderbar]

tl;dr: it can technically be done, but really just use the music app.

 

[bigtroutz]

Free Winamp is a pig --- with ads and I have used winamp on my PCs since it was 1st released....

You would do well do find a more lean alternative...on all devices

Best Free Android Apps - Page 4

 

[Gjiin]

I flagged four albums from my Google Music account to be stored offline. I turn off WiFi, so my Nexus 7 is definitely offline. I can play the songs flawlessly using the Play Music app.

Can these be played in Winamp?
I read somewhere that they might be hidden and/or encrypted, rendering them unplayable outside the Play Music app, but I'm not sure.

I checked /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache which is where some say they are stored, but there's nothing there.

My Nexus 7 is not rooted.

 

[Gjiin]

I wanted to put movies on extSd. I did this:
1 MOVE the movies to extSD. From folder given above
2 not real important but rename to mp4 (lets more players/file managers find)
3 start google movies? start play the movie..IT WILL NOT FIND IT. BUT THATS OK!!
4 switch to a smart player? most decent players can figure out the movie type from the file header info
5 what I think I found is that as long as google movie is in background it satifies the DRM!!!

When I moved the files I renamed the names to a more friendly name..like the movie title
I'd like to convert the subtitles

Still haven't figured out how to play google when rooted