Backup music to cloud: Android

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Hi All,

My wife manages her whole music library from her Galaxy Note, from downloading new music, managing playlists, to playing it over bluetooth speakers. It is really convenient.

But with if something happens, and all that hard work and organising of playlists is lost?

I want to use a cloud service.

Obviously, Google Music would have been just perfect, but it's not available in South Africa.

What would y'all suggest?
 
Use a proxy service to spoof being in the US, and sign up for Google Music. (I signed up while in the US, and it works fine in SA - but I can't imagine any problems with simply pretending to be in the US instead.)
 
FreeStanler said:
Hi All,

My wife manages her whole music library from her Galaxy Note, from downloading new music, managing playlists, to playing it over bluetooth speakers. It is really convenient.

But with if something happens, and all that hard work and organising of playlists is lost?

I want to use a cloud service.

Obviously, Google Music would have been just perfect, but it's not available in South Africa.

What would y'all suggest?
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Tunnelbear.

It's free and you only need to use it when registering your Google Music account for the first time, after that it works every time.
 
As said above, use Tor or some equivalent to spoof a US address, sign up once and you're golden, note that it doesnt backup up current playlists, you can create playlists with it only. You might be out of luck if you created the playlists with Samsung music player or others. Last I checked it was not possible to backup playlists from those apps, they are not saved as an accessible file. You need wpl or m3u playlist files in that case which can be backed up.
 
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I hope she's using Poweramp, or managing all her music on her phone must be painful.

Might I suggest she try Simfy? It's cheap, has a massive selection, requires no backing up, is accessible on any device, is legal, and can download anything you want for offline listening.
 
So does one only need to set up Google Music through a proxy once, and then you don't need to use a proxy ahain, no matter from which device you are accessing Google Music? Can I register her using her current Google account details?
 
FreeStanler said:
So does one only need to set up Google Music through a proxy once, and then you don't need to use a proxy ahain, no matter from which device you are accessing Google Music? Can I register her using her current Google account details?
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Just tried it now. Works with existing google account.
 
FreeStanler said:
So does one only need to set up Google Music through a proxy once, and then you don't need to use a proxy ahain, no matter from which device you are accessing Google Music? Can I register her using her current Google account details?
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Yup, you only need the proxy for the initial signup, Google music is designed to allow you to access your music anywhere in the world, forcing you to use a proxy would be counter productive
 
Hi all

I am successful up to a point, but Google Music now requires a credit card no with cvv and date, and the credit card no generators I find on the net don't give you those as well...

Any ideas?
 
Figured it out. You need to change your credit card address in Google Wallet to a valid American address
 
Does anyone know how to backup your music to Google Music using the app, after you have successfully signed up? And yet keep your playlists that you developed using another music app? The 'dropbox' pc trickery method shouldn't transfer your playlists...
 
FreeStanler said:
Does anyone know how to backup your music to Google Music using the app, after you have successfully signed up? And yet keep your playlists that you developed using another music app? The 'dropbox' pc trickery method shouldn't transfer your playlists...
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The app doesn't backup music stored on your phone, you can install the music manager on your PC which will upload selected music files to the play music server which you can then access from your phone (stream or download). AFAIK moving playlists created in other music apps is not possible, I know I couldn't do it from the Samsung music player or others that I tried, the playlists aren't stored as simple text files and there is no interoperability between the different music apps playlists. What you need to do is create text based playlists on your PC (WPL or M3U) and copy those to your phone, make sure the music location in the playlists are correct, IE a playlist pointing to music on your C drive won't work. You might have to edit the playlists to point to the folders where your music is stored. For my playlists all my music is in one folder and the playlists are in the same folder so they only need to point to the MP3 files in that folder.
 
So to the Google Music users: are you able to access the same playlist across multiple devices, and stream the relevant songs across each?
 
Maverick Jester said:
So to the Google Music users: are you able to access the same playlist across multiple devices, and stream the relevant songs across each?
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Doesn't look like it, you can create playlists on the web portal but i don't see them appearing on my phone
 
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