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[Fascinate Android Development] DiGi91:
Getting Google "CLOUD" Music Sync working on the Fascinate (Froyo, not tested on 2.1)

Figured out how to get google music sync working on the fascinate and decided to share it with everyone!

Tested and working on DarkREVENGE v1 (and I assume v2) and Super Clean 2.8 however I suspect this will work on many roms and devices! doubt this will work on any 2.1 devices seeing as the APK is 2.2+ sorry for those of you running 2.1..

Now tested on MiUi Fascinate 1.2.25 and confirmed working!!

IMPORTANT: Your music must be set up like this sd/media/music if it is not located there it will not be uploaded to the cloud!

Known issue(s) You cannot manage your "cloud" just yet there is no web interface yet and i'm assuming this is still in the "testing" phase.

Now lets get to the fun! ;)

Install this apk (adb push or install as a normal APK) make sure that Music.apk is deleted already if not go ahead and do that right now.

http://db.tt/tXHSuYH

Alternative Mirror

http://www.multiupload.com/PAYDTSPCYQ

You should see "Music & "Jumpertest" after installing.

go to account settings and to your google account you should now see "Sync Music" PRESS IT! and let it sync.

When that is done go into your app drawer and open up "Jumpertest" click on the "Controls" tab

Don't forget to click the "Accounts" tab and check off your gmail account it should ask for permissions (you will see an upside-down triangle with a !) in the status bar.

Next click on "Start Peer" it should work IF you do get an FC try reinstalling the apk or maybe rebooting IF you get a "authtoken error" go back into account settings and click on "Sync Music" again and try again!

(if all went well you should see "Peer started")

Next go ahead and click on "Import Local Media"

(once again if all went well you should see "Import complete")

Now that is all setup and time to access your music on the "CLOUD"

Go ahead and open up the Music app

Press the "Menu" softkey on your Fascinate to bring up the menu popup and select "Library Options" and after that select "Streaming Only"

(If you are not a complete newb or illiterate) you should now see your music that is on the cloud! Yay for clouds :D

If it did not work this means you are likely incapable of following directions that a five year old probably could and you should not have a rooted device! :rolleyes:

However if it does not work and you are 9000% sure you did everything correct please list what rom you are on and method of installing the apk.

Hope you all enjoy and give me thanks if you found this helpful :D

If you can't take the harsh sarcasm (not really) in this post then please get off XDA and do not attack me on this thread.. do you guys not have anything better to do? if you have nothing good to say don't say anything at all! :rolleyes: Thanks.

~DiGi
[Fascinate Android Development] cabagekiller:
This is what you were doing in IRC. I thought it needed 2.3?
[Fascinate Android Development] thefunkbot:
What are the perks to doing this and how long does it normally take to sync the music? I would think that would take a really long time....
[Fascinate Android Development] DiGi91:
Was pretty fast for me and the perks are being able to access your music from the cloud and bigger storage space than an SD card if you don't mind moving your music collection in "waves" to your SD card as I said this is not final but it's working and working well until we get something more "official" :cool:
[Fascinate Android Development] DiGi91:
Nope works on 2.2 as stated in the post idk about 2.1 if anyone is running it (idk why you would be) give it a shot? ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] bwheelies:
Not only are you a douche in IRC but the attitude flows into the forums as well...

Try getting rid of the juvenile attitude.
[Fascinate Android Development] hijackerjack:
How do I get my music in the actual cloud?
[Fascinate Android Development] Sorosy:
uh, Digi isn't a douche...sorry, he is a pretty good kid and he's been doing a great job with stuff that he has been learning/doing. If you can't respect that, then don't even post under here. It's pretty simple. Also, I see nowhere that he has given any attitude..sucks for you bwheelies
[Fascinate Android Development] Mr.Obvious:
Everything's looking good, keep up the work dude.

Many THANKS ---> All Caps :D
[Fascinate Android Development] DiGi91:
after hitting "Import Local Media" providing your music is in the correct file structure /sd/media/music it should start syncing it also if anyone is having "slow" syncing try over wifi please.
[Fascinate Android Development] hijackerjack:
Thanks. Didn't realize my folder was out of place. Is there any way to get music from my computer onto the cloud as well?
[Fascinate Android Development] lucas.scott:
really?? DiGi is one of my favorite guys in IRC . Hes always down for anything .

Thanks for this man . About to give this a whirl once i get this damn DarkEdge rom booting haha .
[Fascinate Android Development] Mr.Obvious:
Hey "bro" why don't you lay off your high horse. DiGi is learning and progressing, not seeing anything come from you, but yet you want to sit here and say he has an attitude??

1. If you felt the need to look at this post (not being a mod) then this interest you, so shut it and if you dont like it, then move along.

2. IRC is a place for chat and learning hint the abbreviation "Internet Relay Chat". It doesn't say "yes were going to be nice to you and hold you hand", once again get off your high horse.

3. Quit being a **** on the forums, yeah you're cool. How about this, quit dishing hate on others work, unless you take time out to work on something your self, and then have tons of questions asked to you, and see how frustrating it becomes. I highly doubt he was being a "****" or "juvenile" about anything, it's just the way you seemed to take it. ;)
[Fascinate Android Development] micdawg12:
At this time, there is not a way to get it from your desktop to the cloud. Seeing as how you are not even supposed to do this yet..... that feature has not been implemented :P lol

BTW, anyone calling digi bad names is a complete douche, I <3 digi, he has never acted like an ass or anything that I have EVER seen..

Oh, and thank you Digi :)
[Fascinate Android Development] Holliday:
You would have to plug your phone into your PC, transfer the music to the proper folder you have setup for this app and then synch. All music in that folder will be uploaded to Google's servers so you can access it at anytime from the APP.
[Fascinate Android Development] DiGi91:
At this time no seeing as it's still not "official" we will just have to wait and see what google has up their sleeves :p cant wait!
[Fascinate Android Development] NoHolidaysForAHooker:
just to make sure i don't screw anything up

i'm on the stock/deodexed EB01 that doesn't have music.apk, but samsung's musicplayer.apk am i okay to install this and follow the OP's steps because from looking around on other threads the apk is the stock music player from 3.0 honeycomb
[Fascinate Android Development] Mr.Obvious:
Google usually has plenty of goodies up their sleeves!!
[Fascinate Android Development] DiGi91:
Should be fine to install I got this installed along MusicPlayer.apk from the i9000 just try it out if you are going to mess with any apk's make backups in case anything goes wrong
[Fascinate Android Development] NoHolidaysForAHooker:
cool, thanks. i don't think i need to do anything to apk's so i'll just install and see what happens. will report back with results when i get out of class
[Fascinate Android Development] bobloblaw1:
FC'd for me a few times at the "Strat Peer" step. Figured it that permissions for the app weren't "sticking". Gave it permissions a few times through and it worked after that.

Thanks for this post. It's pretty cool.
[Fascinate Android Development] DiGi91:
Glad you got it working and all figured out!
[Fascinate Android Development] kamileon:
This looks awesome...great work.

My only question is how sure are we that our music synced to the "cloud" wont be deleted from the google server while they perfect the system and make changes. Im sure google has plenty of space on their server that we need not worry.
[Fascinate Android Development] skafan2:
This is looking awesome... I'm sick of having to resync all of my music every time I want new songs from my 100 GB collection. It looks like its working so far, so we'll how this work over the next few days.

Btw, just out of curiosity, what launcher/ROM is that? The app drawer looks sick.
[Fascinate Android Development] DiGi91:
Unknown at this time unfortunately so we just use it and see what happens lol :D
[Fascinate Android Development] DiGi91:
Xperia ARC launcher if you go the DarkREVENGE rom thread the 3rd post down you will see it I posted it there.

edit: Linky

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11842407&postcount=3
[Fascinate Android Development] euklid:
Is there a limit how much music I can upload? I got like 20gb of mp3s.
[Fascinate Android Development] Tkun:
Very cool stuff, thanks for sharing! I think I'll use this to put the albums I've been wanting to add, but didn't because of space. Not gonna use it for my main music, since I want to be able to access that stuff whether or not I'm connected to the Internet and use PowerAMP instead. Nonetheless this will definitely be helpful for accessing the music that I want to, so thanks!
[Fascinate Android Development] kamileon:
So this all worked for me...my only issue is has been syncing for about three hours now...I'm running sc2.8nv
[Fascinate Android Development] iofthestorm:
Yeah, mine has been syncing for about 3 hours and I only have like 2GB of music, although I've been doing other internet heavy stuff in the meantime (cloning jt1134's git repo and such).

Slightly annoying as I was going to flash AOSP tonight (got sick of the clock lag on EB01 and don't want to install a clock syncing app because that's another background service to worry about).
[Fascinate Android Development] neyenlives:
I don't have those account sync options on SC2.8 , like picassa and music.....my Google account sync page in accounts looks nothing like yours.

** nevermind I found it....
[Fascinate Android Development] benpwarner:
I'm having an issue playing the files. The music imported fine but whenever I try to play a song it says that it can't play this file type. I am using son of skywalkers newest blackhole rom
[Fascinate Android Development] dang025:
If anyone was interested if you had to uninstall the stock music player in order to get the honeycomb one working, You do not, my pure laziness goes rewarded.
[Fascinate Android Development] Zacisblack:
I put 5 songs in the media folder and it's been syncing for 45 minutes. FC when i start peer every time. Deleted music.apk app then installed this. Still doesn't seem to work after uninstalling/reinstalling.
[Fascinate Android Development] JayPhill89:
The jumpstart app disappears when I hit start peer.

Samsung Captivate - 2.3.3 - CyanogenMOD 7
[Fascinate Android Development] martian21:
This is really cool and I'm looking forward to seeing what Google does with it. For those who want a little more functionality right now be sure to check out Subsonic or AudioGalaxy. Both have Android apps that allow you to access your music on your PC over the 'Net.

Subsonic is by far my most used app.
[Fascinate Android Development] NoHolidaysForAHooker:
it was a no go

i went through the steps a couple of times to try and get it to work and each time i didn't have any problems or force closes but when i unmounted the sd card to check if it synced there was nothing there. oh well, not like we're even supposed to be able to use it yet anyway
[Fascinate Android Development] Zacisblack:
Hmmmm...got it to work though not 100% sure it's actually streaming from the cloud. I put 5 songs in the media folder and hit "only streamed music" in settings but all of my songs showed up even after I did that. Either it doesn't work or music doesn't have to be in the media folder on the SD card. I turned off wifi, started a 30 seconds to mars song then loaded various web pages and every time I loaded a page the music would stutter a bit. This is good evidence that it is being streamed. I get horrible reception here so if it is really streaming I'm impressed because even while loading pages it's not terrible.
[Fascinate Android Development] iwasaperson:
Doesn't work on Kaosinate v5, works on MIUI v3.
[Fascinate Android Development] Zacisblack:
Eh, just kidding. Put my phone in airplane mode and music still plays.
[Fascinate Android Development] Hilbe:
Moved all my music to the folder mentioned in red. I removed the Music.apk and installed the new one. I let it sync for 12 hours and it never finished. Rebooted, disabled/enabled sync, and still not working. Not sure what I need to do to force it along. Mine is SC 2.8.
[Fascinate Android Development] uslacson1:
Works on darkrevenge v2, froze music apk on TB and installed mod thru droid explorer.

Thank you.
[Fascinate Android Development] NKT:
After syncing and deleting a song on the SD card I get "Sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file". Doesn't work with .m4a or .mp3. Running stock EB01.

Any ideas?
[Fascinate Android Development] shorto85:
I'm in the same boat as you. Moved about 500mb into the music folder to be uploaded... started syncing about 3PM yesterday.... its now 8am and still going...
[Fascinate Android Development] Hilbe:
Are yours in folders? Mine were synced over via DoubleTwist. Wondering if having them not in Artist/Album folders makes a difference.
[Fascinate Android Development] piiman:
hmm He's fine in IRC and seems fine here also. Whats your problem? Perhaps you need to douche. :eek:
[Fascinate Android Development] GoogleAndroid:
I get this message too. I'm running DarkRevenge.
[Fascinate Android Development] kamileon:
So I have been playing around with this and when I play a song from the cloud it starts by buffering then playing the song. On the notification pull down I noticed it doesnt actually list the song but instead the web address it is playing it from. To confirm it was steaming I disabled wifi, data and put it in airplane mode and the song continued to play. It even allowed me to skip through a few different songs. Still starting with the buffering then playing, all without a data connection.

However if I remove the music folder from my sdcard, then nothing is listed in the music app, even after I synced my music and selected steam only in yhe option folder. So wonder if this actually working or creating some cache folder and playing music from that, still doesnt explain the buffering though, unless that is it buffering from cache or something.
[Fascinate Android Development] bdemartino:
So out of all of the people who have posted that this "works" how many of you have actually tried playing the files after removing them from your SD card?

Obviously I'm on a different phone (mesmerize), and I'm only posting here because we don't have a topic started in our forum at all.

I got mine to complete syncing (after a few hours and a few different tries, I ended up using wi-fi) After that I went in and imported through jump test, then I went and played a file - it played just fine (showed buffering). After that I went in and deleted all of my music from the SD card, and went back to play the same file that worked before. All of the music still showed up, but when I went to play it I got the "Sorry the player does not support this type of audio file"

I'm not asking for anyone to tell me how to fix it, since it's obviously not supposed to work yet anyway, but I'm curious if the people who have said it works have actually tested this part of it - so I know whether I need to play around with it more to get it to work.

Thanks in advance!
[Fascinate Android Development] shorto85:
Hmmm never thought of that. I'll try taking them out of the Artist/Album folders
[Fascinate Android Development] nakedninja42:
I had the same problem as you, I'm running a different phone (no post yet in Captivate forum) and after getting past the FC I got everyhting syncing. I got the same message stating that player does not support this type of audio file and went to the forums. I originally found the apk in the EVO 4G forum and jblazea50 posted this.

1. Delete the original music.apk from system/app/

2. Delete the com.google.music folder in data/data/

3. Reboot

4. Pushed the honeycomb music apk in system/app/ by using adb

a. adb devices

b. adb remount

c. adb push music.apk /system/app/

d. adb reboot

5. After reboot, I kept getting FC with the music app

6. Went into system/app/ and installed the honeycomb music app that was pushed there

I didn't do the adb commands, just used Root Explorer to get the file into /system/app.

Works like a champ now :)
[Fascinate Android Development] neyenlives:
Its junk for me. I use mine as an mp3 player all day, few observations.

1. Syncing music takes forever, been syncing over wifi since yesterday....unless the sync icon is stuck which I don't think so.

2. Sound playback is horrible, pops, crackles, stutters every time the phone has to do anything, anything, has nothing to do with streaming, its every time the phone has to turn screen or do anything..

3. I can't verify streaming works. Seems to stream from some web address but it also seems to stream without any data connection. Not convinced.

4. I tell it to do the Party Shuffle and after a song or two it stops playing. Wake up screen and App has completely disappeared, not even in status bar...just gone. It starts back up fine, but its like it FC'ed without the message showing up. Oh, it has force closed a couple times while moving around in the menus.

5. Have gotten the file unsupported message others are getting.

I'm going back to Samsung or AOSP player......
[Fascinate Android Development] dragonrazorz:
im runnin Ginger Tazz V11 on my eris and i got it to work
[Fascinate Android Development] ashjas:
@DiGi91

I love the fonts in these screenshots...

can i have them on my device...

pls tell me how to get these fonts... its just lovley...

pls.

Thanks.
[Fascinate Android Development] neyenlives:
Ashjas,

Please don't quote a post a mile long to type three lines. You could simply send the member a PM in that situation to request the fonts.
[Fascinate Android Development] ashjas:
oh yes and sorry.. i have edited my post.
[Fascinate Android Development] neyenlives:
Welcome to the forums, enjoy your stay.
[EVO 4G General] wvjw:
I am looking for a feature comparison of ROMS, kinda like when you compare TV's. Has anyone compiled such a list? I have just started using MIUI and really love some of the features in it, but I have been getting horrendous battery life. So I thought I would try a CM build. I realize that they are going to be different, but it would be nice if you could see if there are similarities between the 2 or if it would be a new learning curve again.

I looked at the WIKI page for the ROMS but that is more of a general overview than what I was looking for.

I realize I am what I am looking for is most likely a pipe dream but it can't hurt to ask and see if it exists. Oh and sorry in advance if this exists and I just missed it!

Thanks for the help and replies
[EVO 4G General] Greenfieldan:
This will PROBABLY go in the General section, but I could see why you posted it here :)

To my knowledge no such list exists beyond word of mouth. You would have to compile such a list ;)
[EVO 4G General] housry23:
Basically you are going to have to read the threads of each Rom to see the differences. Someone here did create a website comparing Roms just like you are wanting. They also did the same thing with kernels. I am not sure if he is still updating the website, but the link to it is somewhere here. I believe it is in the Q&A section. If I find the link I will come back and post it here. This should have been posted in Q&A or general, but no big deal. Some people will think it's a big deal, but really it is an honest mistake.

I found this. It is a few video reviews of some of the more popular Roms here. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=841416

OK. Here is the link to the thread that will link you to skydeaner's website with reviews of Rom's, Kernel's and apps. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=790559
[EVO 4G General] fmedina2:
Well MIUI (iPhone wanna be) is completely different than anything out there. All other ROM's would be pretty similar, besides CM that doesn't use Sense and one of the best Sense ROM's out there, Warm. Just try each one and see how you like it.
[EVO 4G General] dirtyharrywk:
OMG that explains why I dislike MUIU.
[EVO 4G General] scirio:
Ignorant statement is ignorant.

EDIT:

And it's MIUI, not MUIU.
[EVO 4G General] alnova1:
Agreed..Just installed MIUI a few hours ago and love it so far...
[EVO 4G General] AbsolutZeroGI:
Opinion is opinion, respect it like you'd want others to respect your opinion.

I'm a big fan of sense, so it's either MikFroYo or Konikub's Elite Series II for me
[EVO 4G General] wvjw:
Thanks for this, this is very helpful, especially the second link, its a nice consolidation of everything, plus the star ratings help to.

As for putting this in the wrong spot, thanks for not being to tough on me, I couldn't decide since it was a ROM question but not a ROM specific question I figured it could go into multiple places.

For the preference I do like sense but I also like the non-sense roms, I wish i had the technical know how to build one that would be perfect for me, but alas I may be a geek I am not a code-writing/understanding geek. MIUI seems to have really gone a unique direction, that's why i think I am drawn to it but I did try CM last night and it has some nice features as well. And Koni's ROM is outstanding. I need to hit the lottery, then I will just buy enough EVO's to have a different ROM on each one. Damn all these good ROMS.

Thanks for the help again, i do appreciate it!! :)
[EVO 4G General] Greenfieldan:
In fairness, the statement "Well MIUI (iPhone wanna be) is completely different than anything out there. All other ROM's would be pretty similar, besides CM that doesn't use Sense and one of the best Sense ROM's out there, Warm. Just try each one and see how you like it." is just as ignorant if not MORE lol

ROMs are VERY different. Screenshots of the homescreen don't tell the whole story ;)
[EVO 4G General] aman1127:
Tis true. I haven't even tried then all yet, though I try :)

Cooler than your EVO
[EVO 4G General] KLLSWITCH:
here is the best i could find

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Supersonic/ROMs
[EVO 4G General] DROID_BOOST_75:
it also depends on your device and how you have it set up on how good your battery life is. each rom run's different on each phone and so does each kernel.Because if one kernel is great for you it might be a bad one for me or someone else.Just like a rom if one is great for you it might be bad for me or someone else.
[EVO 4G General] vbetts:
With a lot of them as far as Sense roms go, it's mainly a difference in looks. CM is asop based, I assume muiu is asop based somewhere maybe, but totally revamped UI. I like CM7 the most personally, Sense looks okay but to me it became annoying after awhile.
[EVO 4G General] cloak.n.dagger:
Why do people seem to be so sensitive in this forum? Can't someone post a comment about how they feel about something, like say a ROM or a Kernel, without 20 people jumping down his/her throat. Relax people, it's just an opinion. They aren't talking smack about your mom or your family, so chill out a bit and let people express their thoughts without getting all up in arms. Jeez...
[EVO 4G General] LyndenP:
No. does this suprise you? This is the intetnet, flaming is what its all about now...

Im actually surprised and wondering where the "wrong section" folks are. Im pretty sure this has nothing to do with specific developement, so it should be in the general...

I agree people seem extra sensitive latley. Maybe its the economy....