Comments on: Cloud Music Sniper Grabs Your “Offline” Google Music Collection and Makes It Available to Other Music Apps

By: camillt

camillt — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:40:00 +0000

Justin, DoubleTwist will use cached or pinned Goggle Music files directly from their download location.

By: usnmustanger

usnmustanger — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:22:00 +0000

I never said anything about not using File Explorer for file management. I said nobody wants to manage their *music library* with File Explorer.
And 5-15 files? I have 8,882 songs in my Google Music library, and since they obviously won’t all fit in the offline cache, I have a dynamic playlist that I sync for offline use. This playlist contains over 200 songs, and since I change it based on what I’m in the mood for, the contents change. So managing this with a file manager would simply be ridiculous.

By: Ken Kyger

Ken Kyger — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:15:00 +0000

the id3 doesnt remain. pull it off your sd and try to play it on your desktop.

By: Ken Kyger

Ken Kyger — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:13:00 +0000

very much doubt that. unless you move the ####.mp3 files to the sdcard, your music player wont even see them, much less get id3 info from a stripped file.

By: Uberblade

Uberblade — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:27:00 +0000

All the musics were suppose to be gmusics stupid auto correct.

By: Uberblade

Uberblade — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:24:00 +0000

You can download your music to PC and transfer it back to your phone as a straight up mp3. I’ve been listening to my entire music library with power amp since Christmas.

By: GazaIan

GazaIan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:22:00 +0000

That’s weird then, the music data from the ID3 is shown in MIUI’s music player o.O

By: usnmustanger

usnmustanger — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:01:00 +0000

Irrelevant. We’re not talking about any other music services. Only Google’s. That’s what this app is for.

By: usnmustanger

usnmustanger — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

No, I’m not confused. Go ahead and try it–make some of your Google music available offline and try to play it in another media player. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Not so nice, is it? Unless you like looking at a bunch of mp3′s labeled ####.mp3 by Unknown Artist on Unknown Album. But hey, maybe you’re into that sort of thing. A bit too masochistic for me.
And again, you completely missed the mark with your comment stating “if you can’t stream, you can’t get it out of your cache.” I’m not even sure what you’re actually trying to say. You don’t have to have connectivity to access your sdcard. Even in airplane mode, with zero connectivity, I can pull songs out of the cache, which is stored locally on the sdcard, all day long.
Look guys, if you don’t want to use it, don’t buy it. It’s that simple. But this app does serve a useful purpose, and it does it well. Just ask the guys over at RootzWiki who have reviewed this app quite favorably TWICE now.

By: Justin Ellenbecker

Justin Ellenbecker — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:33:00 +0000

No you are confused you can get the music so the only time this makes sense is if you buy a new song on your device and want it in poweramp instantly once it’s cached. But that still seems like a waste of 2 dollars to me. There is no song that important that i need to have paid extra to do this. Plus if you can’t stream guess what you can’t get it out of your cache. I am not a huge fan of listening to music on my cellphone or any device except in my car so maybe I am missing something but The google app on the PC lets you download MP3s I think that is what you are missing there is more functionality to google music than jsut offline use on the device.

By: wade

wade — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:26:00 +0000

and now ill actually have a decent widget to use! thanks r2

By: xiafei999

xiafei999 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:06:00 +0000

http://goo.gl/HG8va

By: Ken Kyger

Ken Kyger — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:58:00 +0000

no. the id3 tag doesnt remain. there is no embedded id3 information. google stores all of that on their servers and uses the track id to fetch the rest of the info

By: jdrch

jdrch — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:18:00 +0000

“the service has not been opened up so that other music players can take advantage of it”
- What cloud music service has?

By: usnmustanger

usnmustanger — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:35:00 +0000

Right. Because that’s what we want showing up in our PowerAmp library–a bunch of audio files with 3-number names, and no artist/album/artwork information in one big folder labeled “Unknown”. Makes perfect sense. I just tried it, and that’s what it looks like. I couldn’t even get Winamp to see the media buried in that folder.
It’s proprietary in the sense that Google has gone through considerable lengths to prevent other media players from having full access to the offline music and its associated info. Besides, who in the hell uses File Explorer to manage their music library? WTF? Lazy? No, not lazy–normal.

Even if what you said was true for everyone (which it’s not), heaven forbid someone charge for–GASP!–convenience! Ever eat fast food? Ever buy quick meals at the grocery store? Ever use a microwave? Do you grow, harvest, roast, and grind your own coffee? Jeez, I could go on and on, but mercifully, I won’t. You act like it’s a big deal to pay a paltry sum for a little convenience, yet, unless you’re Amish, I’m pretty certain you do this every single day, many times a day. Stop being so elitist. It only makes you look foolish.