Play Music Manager...Grrrr....

bssharpie

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Greetings folks,

So its been a while since I've used the google music manager. I moved here (australia) in July, and at the time play music wasn't available here. Luckily my play music service still worked somehow so I just kind of ignored the music manager desktop app.

When Play Music went live here I figured I'd get back to using the play music store and the music manager, so I installed it on my new laptop (zdamsung series 7 17", with Windows 7 Signature). Being a bit OCD, the first thing I did was go to download my library, since my current library is only alive on a USB drive. Several hours and a couple thousand songs later its done, with no errors reported. Wonderful.

However, I noticed that the option to "download only new items only" is no longer present. Did they change this from previous versions? If so, how do I keep track of if my local library is properly synced with my cloud library? Hoping it would force it to appear, i purchased a new song only to see the options of "Download My Library" or "Download free and purchased" just increase their count by 1. If i choose either it just creates duplicates without any proper syncing actually going on.

Am I missing something or is this option no longer available? If not how do I get it back? Or are there other options I'm not aware of?

Thanks,
 
Greetings folks,

So its been a while since I've used the google music manager. I moved here (australia) in July, and at the time play music wasn't available here. Luckily my play music service still worked somehow so I just kind of ignored the music manager desktop app.

When Play Music went live here I figured I'd get back to using the play music store and the music manager, so I installed it on my new laptop (zdamsung series 7 17", with Windows 7 Signature). Being a bit OCD, the first thing I did was go to download my library, since my current library is only alive on a USB drive. Several hours and a couple thousand songs later its done, with no errors reported. Wonderful.

However, I noticed that the option to "download only new items only" is no longer present. Did they change this from previous versions? If so, how do I keep track of if my local library is properly synced with my cloud library? Hoping it would force it to appear, i purchased a new song only to see the options of "Download My Library" or "Download free and purchased" just increase their count by 1. If i choose either it just creates duplicates without any proper syncing actually going on.

Am I missing something or is this option no longer available? If not how do I get it back? Or are there other options I'm not aware of?

Thanks,

Welcome to the forums!

I think the only way to potentially solve this problem is to uninstall Music Manager, and re-download, and reinstall.
 
Should I wipe my downloaded music first? Or just remove/reinstall the music manager? Will it pick up my downloaded library as is?
 
Should I wipe my downloaded music first? Or just remove/reinstall the music manager? Will it pick up my downloaded library as is?

I would leave your music alone. Just uninstall, redownload and reinstall.

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