{"id":894,"date":"2013-05-30T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdorturd.com\/webdevelopments\/nerdorturd\/?p=894"},"modified":"2017-02-17T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:06:27","slug":"google-play-music-music-wont-uploadcrashes-on-upload-or-pauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdorturd.com\/webdevelopments\/nerdorturd\/google-play-music-music-wont-uploadcrashes-on-upload-or-pauses\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play Music: Music Won&#8217;t Upload,Crashes On Upload Or Pauses."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nerdorturd.com\/webdevelopments\/nerdorturd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/158228-google-music-beta-icon.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-895\" alt=\"158228-google-music-beta-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nerdorturd.com\/webdevelopments\/nerdorturd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/158228-google-music-beta-icon.png?resize=256%2C256&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SOLVED: Looks like a bug. \u00a0This happened to me when I tried adding individual folders (albums) to upload. \u00a0If I have a single folder then Music Manager uploads everything fine.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The way I got around it&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1) Create a folder for google music manager. \u00a0Example: &#8220;C:\\GoogleMusicFolder&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2a) Either copy the music you want to upload into the folder<\/div>\n<div>or<\/div>\n<div>2b) Create links to the music you want uploaded. \u00a0(information on how to do this later)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3) You can write down the list you had already configured to upload. \u00a0My list was big so I decided to do this. \u00a0You can copy it from the registry. \u00a0The registry key is:<\/div>\n<div>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\<wbr \/>Google\\MusicManager\\<wbr \/>SharedMusicFolders<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4) Configure Google Music Manager&#8230; On the advanced tab, set the &#8220;Location of my music collection&#8221; to point to your folder.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5) I also selected the folder in the upload tab.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here is how I created links mentioned in 2b. \u00a0Start by opening a command prompt with administrator privileges. \u00a0(you can google it)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the command prompt, I executed these commands:<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: courier new,monospace;\">C:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: courier new,monospace;\">cd\u00a0C:\\GoogleMusicFolder<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: courier new,monospace;\">mklink \/D &#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; &#8220;c:\\Shared Music\\The Prodigy&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>That creates a link called &#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; to the directory &#8220;c:\\Shared Music\\The Prodigy&#8221;. \u00a0Google Music Manager will then see &#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; as a directory and proceed to upload all the music in it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope this helps, it was taken from here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google Play Music Wont Upload\" href=\"http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/apps\/2Y7YpAV4uMA\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/apps\/2Y7YpAV4uMA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S. It did not solve my issue but may have played a part in solving it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>SOLVED: Looks like a bug. \u00a0This happened to me when I tried adding individual folders (albums) to upload. \u00a0If I have a single folder then Music Manager uploads everything fine.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The way I got around it&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1) Create a folder for google music manager. \u00a0Example: &#8220;C:\\GoogleMusicFolder&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2a) Either copy the music you want to upload into the folder<\/div>\n<div>or<\/div>\n<div>2b) Create links to the music you want uploaded. \u00a0(information on how to do this later)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3) You can write down the list you had already configured to upload. \u00a0My list was big so I decided to do this. \u00a0You can copy it from the registry. \u00a0The registry key is:<\/div>\n<div>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\<wbr \/>Google\\MusicManager\\<wbr \/>SharedMusicFolders<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4) Configure Google Music Manager&#8230; On the advanced tab, set the &#8220;Location of my music collection&#8221; to point to your folder.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5) I also selected the folder in the upload tab.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here is how I created links mentioned in 2b. \u00a0Start by opening a command prompt with administrator privileges. \u00a0(you can google it)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the command prompt, I executed these commands:<\/div>\n<div>C:<\/div>\n<div>cd\u00a0C:\\GoogleMusicFolder<\/div>\n<div>mklink \/D &#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; &#8220;c:\\Shared Music\\The Prodigy&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>That creates a link called &#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; to the directory &#8220;c:\\Shared Music\\The Prodigy&#8221;. \u00a0Google Music Manager will then see &#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; as a directory and proceed to upload all the music in it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope this helps, it was taken from here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google Play Music Wont Upload\" href=\"http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/apps\/2Y7YpAV4uMA\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/apps\/2Y7YpAV4uMA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[578,579,580,581,582,583,584,585,586,587,588,589],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fibreoptics","tag-copy","tag-crashes","tag-directory","tag-fails","tag-folders","tag-gmusic","tag-google","tag-google-music-manager","tag-jams","tag-music-2","tag-upload","tag-wont-upload"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":888,"url":"https:\/\/nerdorturd.com\/webdevelopments\/nerdorturd\/how-to-extract-hundreds-or-thousands-of-mp3s-from-hundreds-of-album-folders\/","url_meta":{"origin":894,"position":0},"title":"How to extract hundreds or thousands of MP3&#8217;s from hundreds of album folders","author":"Nerd","date":"30th May 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Well I wanted to extract all my MP3's to one single folder rather than have them all automatically sorted and sorted into album folders. 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