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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0011967 | MMA | General | public | 2014-03-20 14:32 | 2020-04-24 11:42 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | major | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 1.0.4 | ||||
| Target Version | 2.1.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0011967: Tracks & Album Art don't show for Albums purchased via Google Play | ||||
| Description | If the users purchases Album Art via Google Play, it doesn't show up in MMA. Note sure if this is because of: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=168 OR, due to a failure to rescan in response to new tracks. | ||||
| Additional Information | http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=75884#p386347 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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This doesn't work because Google Play intentionally obfuscates filenames/metadata of downloaded tracks. To fix this would require implementing a feature such as http://nexus5.wonderhowto.com/how-to/download-songs-from-google-play-music-for-offline-use-any-app-your-nexus-5-0156234/ which requires root access, and may possibly not be made available via the Google App store. Pushing, and documenting in the KB. |
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I looked into this again due to a user complaint and it seems that their are a couple of reasons why MMA can't access content from the current version of Google Music: 1) the current version of the app saves music to an app-specific directory that a) requires root access b) even with root access, MMA doesn't allow users to Add folders from the /Android/Data... path (should we change this for root users?) c) even with root access, filenames are meaningless (1.mp3, 2.mp3, 210.mp3, etc.) 2) An alternate solution to this that could work universally could be to implement something similar to what Music Mate ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sapien.android.musicmate )does. i.e. to get permission to access/manage the Google Play library. Note: this might be worthwhile anyhow since it could provide a good means of ensuring consistency between the MM library and the Google Music Library. Note: Google article about these limitations is at: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1250232?hl=en-CA KB article about these limitations is at: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/staff/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/Edit/249 |
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Martin, could you have a look at what would 2) mean technically. |
