[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
1.8 is what I got. I for sure saw the music on my ext sdcard, but did not try to play them back. Tell you what, I will do a quick test and shut off cell data (Get that option in Advanced Power Menu module. Awesome module, gives you nice things to add to the power press menu as well as several ways to reboot, in nice colors if you want.) and then try to play the song with no data connection for you. 'ang on a minute, mate!

Alright, I am now playing "Aqualung", 11 songs, and "pinned" it to save to Ext SDCard. while playing I will go to the save location in ES File explorer and see if the songs are showing up. Yep, playing song #1, Aqualung, pin in notification bar shows song download progress. 3 songs so far. Should be good enough, let's kill it and try it out.

Song stopped, still downloading the songs. Power menu, mobile data disabled. Notification bar verifies that "Can't download music right now..." Jump back to file explorer, 3 songs still present but with numerical names. Back to Play Music to see what happens with no data connection. Yeah, song #1 still playing where it left off. What happens if we now jump to song #2, "Cross Eyed Mary", NOT played yet on Play Music. "Couldn't play the stream you requested". Hmmm.

I know I got 3 songs, could have done all 11 but want this done quick, let me try all 11 to see what, if any, are available for play. First 3 songs in black, remaining songs all greyed out. So the player "knows they are there", but insists on streaming. Time to check settings in Play Music. Nothing there. These three songs should play but it could be because the entire 11 song download queue did not complete. I have to repeat this and allow all songs to download in the queue or find an artist with only a few songs in the album to make this quicker. I unpinned Aqualung but the 3 songs are still on the card.

Let me try Avril Levigne, I only have one of her songs, "Complicated". Repeat experiment with Avril Levigne. Took the pin off Jethro Tull and pinned Avril Levigne. Only one song, only one song on SD card. This "should" work. Disabled mobile data, completely exited Play Music, go back and try Avril now.

Oh, there is a button on the orange bar that says "Listen now", "All music" or "On device". Picked on device. Found Avril, no art, no nothing! So how do we play music "On device" if we cannot find it? The only "On device" stuff it can find are my ringtones. Odd, and, apparently useless.

There are a LOT of settings for save locations in Music2SD so one might have to play with several locations to see if any of them work. They do not seem to allow you to pick any location you want, they just give a list of weird places, take it or leave it.

It is 7:30 and I did not eat dinner. This requires further investigation. You try some too and I will get back to it. Report back here. Have to find something to eat. Ciao my friend! :confused:

NOTE:

Since Play Music DID find all of my ringtones and has added them to my "Music Collection" (Could you play "Facebook Pop"? Oh I just *love* that song!), it is possible that the device has a "crawler that indexes the cards for audio files. Perhaps it just did not get around to finding my download yet. I will pick one album, play and pin it, allow the entire album pinned and exit Play Music. The download continues even after you exit until the entire download queue has completed. Then leave the thing alone for a day or so and see if it finds it. I can still "use" play music but will not put such high expectations on Play Music finding new "on device" music so quickly. All I can think of right now.

More info here:

Make Google Play Music save music

Music2SD

...strange, the modules page says "You do not need this app if you do not have external storage or if you are on KitKat or above." ...so how the hell are we supposed to make it work? Interesting. WE WILL figure this out!

Update:

I picked Led Zeppelin I, made that album my playlist. Pinned it, started saving songs until it was finished and showed in the notification bar. Play Music has two modes up operation. On Device and All Music. I choose On Device. I checked my Ext SD Card with ES File Explorer where the songs should be. All of them were. Could not tell which was which, so I taped one. Chose ES Music Player. Dazed and Confuzed, for sure on the album. Another one, I Can't Quit You Baby, another one for sure on the Album. ALL of the songs in the Ext download folder were the songs from Led Zeppelin I. Yet, in Play Music, I go to music on device, shows Led Zeppelin 1, pinned with full circle around it, meaning all songs present, but text says "songs on device 0". WTF? Somehow this module and Play Music "are not on the same page". The author is willing to help, gave an email button in his app to ask for help, lists forums for help, it has great reviews, but no one, no where, explains exactly how this Music2SD works.

It will take a while but I think I will write the author and see if I can make any sense out of the forums where they say how great this is. Bear with me or offer to help out. I am weary of this now, must rest. Will get back on it as soon as I get some time free.

UPDATE 2:

I really do not have an exact clue how this works, ...yet. But I did pick an album where I have only one track for it, Avril Lavigne "Complicated". It is shown as pinned. I can play it with mobile data shut off. It is playing from the device and I for one did not put it there, I played the "Alubm", one song, pinned it, and it saved the song. 6 hours later, I can play the song with no data connection. So apparently Music2SD works. How it works, how to use it, what to expect, and all that are a total mystery to me right now but, it does work. Just takes time for Play Music to find it. I like and use Play Music all the time and although I could care less about music on device, that might change when the new 64Gb SD Card gets here. It does work, just not sure of the details. It will take some tracking down on the site links in this post and maybe an email to the author, he includes an email button in Music2SD and welcomes questions and suggestions.

Tired, 'night all!

UPDATE 3:

Found this on the Google Play Help Site:

Some Android devices support external SD card memory. If your Android device is running Android 4.4 (KitKat), here's how to save music to your SD card.

Open the Google Play Music Icon Google Play Music app.

Touch the Google Play Music Icon Google Play Music icon > Settings.

Under "Downloading", touch Storage location > External.

You can save music to your SD card, but you can’t transfer music from your SD card to another device.

(Experimental SD card support is available for some older devices)

This must be for the $8/Mo. pay version, not the free version. I am using FREE and in my Settings menu, there is no such option and there should be. Google wants "in on the whole iTunes thing" so they are going to do what they can to get "a piece of the action". So many big computer based companies are SO jealous of the entire iTunes thing and are super pissed off that they missed the boat. Well, in this case, we get what we pay for. The Xposed Module cannot "fix this", you have to pay to play if you want this save music to SD Card or choose your save location. Personally I think it is not worth it because if it names all your music with random numbers, you get locked in to Google Play Music. *Nobody* is ever going to "play nice" again, at least no one in the streaming or download music businesses. I think this pretty much wraps up this thread for good.