In addition to this, I've never apologised for my love for all things Google, in particular the fact that they allow me to store all of my 18,000 or so songs in the Google Play Music cloud, and access them from anywhere at any time. I went one step further and joined the Beta Testing for Play Music All Access, and I've never looked back. I can sample any of the millions of tracks on offer as often as I like, and can even add them to My Library for future enjoyment. I can download them to my phone to be enjoyed whilst on the road or when internet connectivity is limited.
This brings me neatly onto my latest predicament. I am currently in London, the City of London, the capital of the United Kingdom. This is the one place I would expect to always have a mobile phone signal, or an available WiFi Hotspot. This time, however I am staying in a hotel with atrocious Three signal, and the "free" WiFi on offer is of no use to man or beast.
As a result of this, I decided it was a good idea to download some music from Google Play Music to my phone whilst at my training course. The WiFi isn't great here, but it's enough to download some tracks whilst I'm learning. I subsequently left the course on Monday afternoon feeling satisfied that I could make the 15 minute walk to my hotel listening to some "Laid-Back Soul".
Half way through Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On", a rather topical and relevant track, the music started to skip, and eventually stopped all together. I checked the screen of my phone to be met with a message stating "Music temporarily unavailable."
This appears to be a common issue which people have run into, and after a little time searching Google I found quite a few forum posts relating to this problem. I didn't find any Blogs which related, and I know there are a lot of people, myself included, who tend to give more credence to Blogs rather than endless forum posts, and so that is why I am sharing this with you today.
1. Within Google Play Music, open the Menu by swiping in from the left-hand side of the screen.
2. Once this is open, slide to the bottom and look for "Settings".
3. Slide through the Settings menu and look for "Cache music" (illustrated below)
4. Untick the "Cache music" option so that your settings look like those below
5. Close the Google Play Music App ( I elected also to swipe it away from within the App Switcher too).
6. Relaunch Google Play Music, and you should be streaming again without any issues.
Changes these settings also had the additional upside of limiting the amount of data that Google Play Music was using from my Mobile Network Provider, and also limiting the amount of internal storage space that was being taken up cached music.
I hope this has helped some other people out their in the big bad world.
1 comment:
I've had this problem in a slightly different circumstance, when I'm in the car and want to listen to Google Play Music (GPM) over the car system. I more frequently listen at home over the home system on WiFi. Consequently, I've set GPM to stream only over WiFi. In the car, if I forget to set "Downloaded only" to On, I see the message "Music Temporarily Unavailable", exactly what I want when at home. To change this tap the three horizontal bars (upper left) and scroll down to "Downloaded only" and move the slider to "on"
It's easy to download "radio" selections and other music such as your uploaded albums to your phone by clicking the three vertical dots (upper right) and selecting download. You can now play your music without burning mobile data. Your only limit is storage space on your device.
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