Gadgetory

not too long ago Google came out with Google music this was something that not only lets you buy music and play it on your connected devices but it also lets you upload your current music collection into the cloud so you could stream and listen to it also on your connected devices what happens when your device isn't connected isn't there an easy way that you can get your music from the cloud onto a storage device so you can have it with you when you want it well yes and no easy no is there a way yes let me show you how so here's my Galaxy Nexus it's running Android version 4.1.1 and this is the stock version of jelly bean I've got Google Play Music open right here and you know what I want to be able to save some of this stuff to my to my device so how do I do that well let's say I like AFI and look December underground that sounds good Prelude 12 21 thumbs up for that song awesome how do I save this onto my device so that I can play it back whenever I don't have a network connection what version of Google music is this oh no it's hard because they change it all the time so first thing we do we gotta come in here and go to our menu and we need to say that we want to choose what on device music we want to have so okay now we're in choosing mode once you're in choosing mode hey look I've got this little pin right here I can push a pin on that and it will start downloading that to my local device you know what that's just a lot of cumbersome stuff why can't I just say hey you know what I want to save that and come on Google let's make this a little bit less difficult okay but even still once I get this downloaded onto my device if I have to wipe it's gone meaning I have to download it again because you know this is my song that I uploaded to the Google music service I can download it as iliyan times as many times as I want I can stream do whatever right so no problem there but what if I really want to take this and save it onto my SD card well okay Galaxy Nexus no SD card which by the way Google hello serious come on give me a frickin SD card anyway that's a rant for a different video I suppose but for the purpose of this video we're going to pretend like there's an SD card in here that we can save our music on to that when we do a wipe or we upgrade to another device we just have to pull that card pop it in the new one we're done and hey all of our musics there already we don't have to resync it wouldn't that be novel anyway back from the rant so let's say I want to to do just that let's go ahead and play this Prelude 12 21 if you're not from there wow what a completely amazing song now the downside to doing this is you do have to wait for it to download all the way to your device so essentially you've got to listen to it you don't have to listen to it but that's the best way to know if you've already got it on there so this is a short song I'm not going to have you listen to all of it you know we don't want to get copyright stuff involved that's why I'm talking over most of it so I'm gonna go ahead and pause listen to this do a little bit of jamming out on my own and when we come back I'll tell you how to get this song on your SD card great I just got done jamming out to that wonderful song and now you notice I'm done listening to it and I can move on to step number two now you do have to have root access which I do have on this Noah is not unlocked but I showed you how to get root access on your very own Galaxy Nexus without unlocking it in a previous video I'll have a link to that video at the end of this video how about that so what we need to do is we need to fire up a file explorer no not Astro no not Lynda no it's got to be something that supports root level access so hey how about root explorer it's available in the market costs about 4 bucks go ahead and open that up and once this is open you can see it's been granted Super User permissions because I'm rooted thumbs up for rooted and now I can go into all kinds of stuff let's drive first into the data folder and inside that there's another data folder I don't know why there's data inside data don't ask me and the next thing that we want to go to is come Google Android music so we're going to scroll down here umm you Google Android blah blah blah music I'm going to open that up from there we're going to go into the cache that's where it saves everything inside that now we have a whole bunch of other stuff and music that's where we want to go now you can look at your dates here this I believe is it nope Shakespeare's sister sorry guys so let's go ahead and back out of that let's find another October 11th is it this one nope that's not it either is it this one not yet is it this one no so it's really kind of a you know just pick and choose where did it go that one's from August so that's obviously not it maybe it's this last one and it is I don't know what rhyme or reason they have to organizing it the way that they do the file names are chronological but the dates are not so good luck but this is very obviously the song that I want of course it's named 3463 mp3 I knew that no I didn't so that's the one that we want all we have to do now is select this guy rename it move it wherever we're good to go so I'm going to copy that and we're going to come back up here and go wherever I want now because this is rude I can go anywhere so let's come down here to my SD card which isn't a real SD card but you know we like to pretend and I'm going to put this in my downloads folder okay so right here we'll paste that there we go see if we can rename it and I'm just going to name this AF I Prelude I can't even spell today guys Prelude one two two one and I know there's a dash in there but good enough now I've got that file it's an mp3 file and I can go ahead open it up and play it wherever I want now is this easy No is this something you're going to do to copy your entire music collection down from your Google account to your device no for that there's a desktop manager that you can put on your desktop PC download all of your music to your new computer you know whatever you want to do from there this is just a way that you can say hey I really like that song I wish I had it on my local device and I wish I could put it over on my SD card so I could take it with me when I get a new device or when I wipe this one and start fresh again so not a very fast way to do it but an absolute foolproof way to do it until they change something and make it not foolproof anymore but there you go what do you think let us know your thoughts and comments down below over at pocketnow.com of course and I'll let us know was all this worth while learning do you like knowing where it's storing all of your your music and do you like the fact that you've got to have a root File Explorer and a rooted phone to be able to get at it seems like an awful lot to me and Google could just make things real simple by letting us long press and you know save this to my external sd card that's just me and Who am I for PocketNow showing off some roundabout hacky tricks I'm Joe Levi