where is google play music stored?

[JDB10101]

TrooperBoob76 sounds like bull**** to me. I bought the right to listen to the music. The vendor crippling my right to listen is IMO (not legalez) a form of fraud upon the public. But fyckUS corporate-welfare companies write the laws, so maybe this theft of my money is perfectly legal. Buy something and get nothing or far less is fraud / bull****.

 

[philosopherisdog]

I just pay for the subscription to Google Play Music and I am happy. $8 a month and it has enough variety and depth to the catalog that I haven't become frustrated with it.

Just upload your purchased/owned tracks to the Google cloud and it integrates nicely with Google Play Music.

I've found that this way of paying for music is much preferable to the alternatives for someone like myself. I used to buy a lot of vinyl, and probably spent $500 or more a year on records. Sure, I "owned" them, but they take up a lot of space and are not portable.

Now I can spend about $100 a year and not worry about it. Even though the artists are not paid a large sum from this streaming stuff, at least I am not pirating music.

 

[awriternot]

You may go to play.google.com/music and there is an option there to download all your music that you own.

If you do this, does it still download as numbers?

Also, does anyone know if there is a free music software that you have the option of not downloading songs already on your computer?

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[Brian Michaluk]

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e....com/music/listen?u=0#/manager&token=refEL6Dp

just download the music manager and then use it to download your music library.

 

[Gerryinbc]

I am confused by Play Music. I'm in Canada and am just now able to buy music through Google Play.

So I bought an album. But I have been using Rocket Player to listen to music because it supports more file types than the Google Player, and am unable to play the new album with that player.

Is there any way to play music that I have bought through the Play Store using Rocket Player?

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[Tom Mort]

Something has changed somewhere. As recently as about two weeks ago I could download an album purchased from the Google Play store to my computer and move the files where I want them on the phone, mp3 player, etc.

I purchased an album yesterday. If I select download the album I get the animated down arrow and it says downloaded 0 of 18 in the bottom left of my screen, but, nothing ever actually gets downloaded.

I thought I'd try downloading them straight to my Android phone. I found I needed to install the Google Play app and install it on my phone. I had to uninstall some apps to make room for it. It looks like it did download the files, but, from the above comments there are hidden away pretty good.

I switched to using Google Play to download music because I have a Linux computer and I can only buy and download music one file at a time.

I guess for now I'll go retrieve the hidden files. Anyone have any ideas why I can't download to my computer with the Google Play Manager?

I have Mint 16 on my computer

 

[Jay Bohman]

I agree so much. I am in the exact same boat as you. I loved zune, but windows phone 7.8 was just getting old. so now i use google play music and i miss zune software so much. hopefully google play music will make the file management a little better.

 

[LissFirefly]

Actually you do NOT need a rooted phone to do this. Just plug it into your computer and navigate via Windows Explorer.

 

[LissFirefly]

\Android\data\com.google.android.music\files\music

If you copy and paste your music via windows explorer and don't use Google Play (which I hate), you can use your android's "music" app instead. And they're named what you name them if you copy and paste in this fashion

 

[madankrishna]

go to your sdcard and search for the folder android data and goto music

 

[Mike Johnson25]

On my Galaxy S5 as of this writing: go to My Files : Local Storage /(Either device or SD card)/Android/data/com.google.android.music/files/music/
You will see a number but select and get details: the date of the download and the size should give you a clue or share them to your Drive and listen.

 

[anon(9699711)]

Hello, all!

This is my first time posting to the android forum, although I have used it to gather quite a bit of info regarding my phone in the past three years!
I've been having the same problems with finding this folder and have literally been trying to find it for MONTHS! I just created my account specifically so that I could respond to this post, so...
Google play stores its downloaded song files in:

/device/data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music

The main folder you should be looking for is:

/device/data/data/com.google.android.music

In here, you will find all things concerning play music.
NOTE: I have a Galaxy SIII which I've recently rooted using kingo root. I have always used ES file explorer and found this file with the ES "root explorer" turned on. A lot of the folders inside of the /device/data/data/com.google.android.music directory contain .nomedia files. I did use my computer to delete two .nomedia files from my phone. I THINK they were from /device/android/data and /device/android/obb. Don't quote me, though. I don't know, but I don't think it's possible to access the mp3's without a rooted phone.

Hope this helps!

 

[anon(9699711)]

Oops! Ignore this one. I accidentally posted twice and can't delete.

 

[Aghast Venus]

I figured it out! Download to rooted phone,transfer files to sd card, put sd card in aecondary device (tablet) use media converter to convert files, fight to figure out what files are what songs.

 

[Aghast Venus]

This is why people pirate music is because of google. I just bought the new Shinedown album and here is how the file names added up with the track numbers: 11=1, 8=2, 3=3, 4=4, 10=5, 7=6, 6=7, 9=8, 5=9, 2=10, 1=11. And these are the people that are supposed to be giving us self driving cars?

 

[Stuart Halliday]

Open play.google.com/ in Chrome/Firefox on Windows 10.

Log in and click on on 'free and purchased' on the left side panel.

Find your song listed and hover your mouse over the song line (it'll turn light grey). To the right of the name, but to the left of the time length you should see a more options (3 vertical dots) appear. click on this and a menu will appear and in it will be the download option. When you click on it, you'll be offered a MP3 file to download to your PC. It'll be a 320kbps encoded song.

Easy when you know how....

 

[Raznhell52]

Muahahaha

 

[SmashinPumpkin]

They have to do this so that we can't take music we don't own and move it elsewhere. Without the system they wouldn't be able to offer all the music they offer. Its antipiracy tactics put into play by the labels. No streaming service will have unprotected music stored on your device. Notta one.
If your so anti-Google might I ask why you use android?

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I bought the song and I want the song. Simple. Android is cool, but Google can be sucky sometimes.