Google play song to ringtone. Its downloaded on my phone

[Gemma Craddock]

I'm having the same problem with my new sony Xperia M2 any ideas

 

[shantcarr]

I found this work around that works for me on my Galaxy s4 active running version 5.0.1. You don't have to jailbreak or root.

First....i stored my downloaded music to my SD card. (make sure you have actually downloaded the songs to your phone....you have to press the pushpin icon and wait for it to download to your phone) You can do this by going to Play app...settings...storage location and choosing "external". It took a min or 2 but my music was moved over to my SD card.

After that....I went to the icon "My Files". Click on SD.....Android....data.... then com.google.android.music folder......files....music

All my music files were numbered. I knew the main songs that I wanted to set as ringtones were the last that I purchased. So I went to the bottom. Click on it to preview the file to see what song it is. (if you press and hold you can choose to rename the file to the song name if you want) press and hold and then choose Copy.

After this....the options are SD or Device. I chose Device.....Ringtones....then hit the "paste here" that's at the top.

After that, the song appears in your ringtones. if you renamed it, it will appear under the song name.

 

[Mischifseeker]

I fought with my s4 for an hour trying to solve the case of the disappearing paid for download, got fed up, and used my phone's browser to google the ringtone I wanted. Quick download, it was in my notifications, in my download app, added it to my ringtones. Done deal, total elapsed time maybe 2 minutes. AND got the ringtone I already paid 99 cents for from the play store but couldn't access for that first hour.

 

[Joyce Demming]

Not sure what root access means, but how can I add these songs to a ringtone and have them saved on my phone?

Thanks for the help

 

[C T 79]

I found this work around that works for me on my Galaxy s4 active running version 5.0.1. You don't have to jailbreak or root.

First....i stored my downloaded music to my SD card. (make sure you have actually downloaded the songs to your phone....you have to press the pushpin icon and wait for it to download to your phone) You can do this by going to Play app...settings...storage location and choosing "external". It took a min or 2 but my music was moved over to my SD card.

After that....I went to the icon "My Files". Click on SD.....Android....data.... then com.google.android.music folder......files....music

All my music files were numbered. I knew the main songs that I wanted to set as ringtones were the last that I purchased. So I went to the bottom. Click on it to preview the file to see what song it is. (if you press and hold you can choose to rename the file to the song name if you want) press and hold and then choose Copy.

After this....the options are SD or Device. I chose Device.....Ringtones....then hit the "paste here" that's at the top.

After that, the song appears in your ringtones. if you renamed it, it will appear under the song name.

This worked so well that I felt I had join the forum to say thank you. You are an absolute legend my friend and I salute you

 

[dawnieangel76]

THANK YOU...and I love you for this!

All the blessings/good wishes/ positive karma/etc. be upon you for the rest of your life for this!