Comments on: Tip: How to Fix Poorly Matched Songs in Google Music, Explicit Ones Included

By: duke69111

duke69111 — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:49:00 +0000

I noticed this problem as well. I uploaded Kendrick Lamar’s Swimming Pools Explicit and it plays the edited version.

By: drmcgills

drmcgills — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:42:00 +0000

if you truly deleted your entire library, and had purchased music on it.. you may have lost that for good. i did the same thing (for a different reason) and just got off the phone with google tech support. I can undelete any of my personal uploads but the purchased music is gone for good according to them. Seems ass-backwards to me.. fortunately I backed it all up, and am in the process of cracking the DRM in order for it to allow me to re-upload the music that I purchased from google. Music manager gives me “Song was purchased with another Google Play account”… I have only one google play account.

By: Kellen

Kellen — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:07:00 +0000

Test

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By: Zach B.

Zach B. — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:18:00 +0000

This fix worked for me. “Critical Acclaim” by Avenged Sevenfold was censored and I emailed Google and that’s what they told me to do and it worked.

By: steveliv

steveliv — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:17:00 +0000

i’m thinking the local application scans the file and creates a unique hash and compares it to the google master db. tags are often incorrect and wouldn’t be the best way to match songs.

By: steveliv

steveliv — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:17:00 +0000

yup.

By: steveliv

steveliv — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:14:00 +0000

matching of previously uploaded music has not happened yet. anything you upload now will be matched. google has said existing collections will be matched in the future.

By: steveliv

steveliv — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:13:00 +0000

i don’t think google music works that way, unless you got them from the google music store. if you didn’t then you need to copy them to the folder on your pc where google music is looking.

By: kane

kane — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:53:00 +0000

Itss called the family=friendly….err I mean lame new Google. I’d expect something like this from the fruity company not big G

By: grim7r

grim7r — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:58:00 +0000

What about DRM protected tracks? I have some iTunes tracks that are DRM protected and are explicit. It probably won’t download it if I try to fix it if they gave me the clean version would it? The reason I ask is because I’m out of town and haven’t been able to reupload my library.

By: Kiril

Kiril — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:39:00 +0000

I had the same question, so I looked it up. Google will match existing songs once the feature fully rolls out. From Google:

“If you’re a longtime Google Play Music user, you don’t need to re-upload your files to have them matched. In the next few months, we’ll automatically match what we can of your existing library.”

http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2920799&topic=2450455&ctx=topic

By: Kiril

Kiril — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:35:00 +0000

Google has an algorithm that converts audio to a “fingerprint” of the song. They use this to detect use of copyright material in YouTube videos (it works even if there is talking over the song, or the song is playing on the TV in the background)… they talked about it a while ago for YouTube. I think they use this algorithm to match the songs, as well as on the listening widget and Google Now on Android. Like you said, it is too easy to cheat an ID3 tag identification system.

By: Mike Strollo

Mike Strollo — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:16:00 +0000

Anyone know why I can’t get songs I downloaded on my tablet to sync to my phone.

By: danofiveo

danofiveo — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:59:00 +0000

I was wanting to try it out, but haven’t had the time to look through my CD collection to find some that I haven’t already uploaded. My favorites and any new ones have already been uploaded.

By: itsgonnalast

itsgonnalast — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:51:00 +0000

Does Google notify you when your collection has been scanned?

I’m still scratching my head wondering if anything has been updated.