Pinned Music after Flashing

[The0Code]

Just wondering if there's any workaround to this but obviously, whenever flashing a fresh new rom and fully wiping the phone, all music pinned to Google Play Music becomes unpinned and have to be repinned again which can be annoying if you're a rom junkie. I used to move around on roms more frequently but my library is just too big now and switching roms becomes this huge task.

I was just wondering if there was anyway at all to keep pinned music on Google Play Music on the phone after clean flashing a new rom? (Other than moving the music manually to the phone via USB ofc, I still want to use the cloud).

Thanks in advance.

 

[danarama]

Are you not restoring a titanium backup??

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[The0Code]

Are you not restoring a titanium backup??

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Restoring through TB doesn't restore the pinned tracks I don't think. I haven't tried that in a while but the short amount of time it takes to back up Google Play Music alone shows it doesn't work I think. Also, the back up size is much too small so I'm pretty sure that doesn't work :/

 

[danarama]

Oh does pinned mean "available offline"?

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[The0Code]

Oh does pinned mean "available offline"?

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Yeah that's what I mean. Making the music I have uploaded on my account available offline by pinning them and keeping that from rom to rom.

 

[danarama]

Where does it store it?

Maybe titaniums "backup external data" covers it?

If Not, I could probably write you a couple of bash shell scripts to run that would move it to and from /sdcard but may aswell manually the data.

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[The0Code]

Where does it store it?

Maybe titaniums "backup external data" covers it?

If Not, I could probably write you a couple of bash shell scripts to run that would move it to and from /sdcard but may aswell manually the data.

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I just tried the external data preference and the backups are still only 7MB total which is farrrr to small consideirng i've pinned 10GB+ of music. Anyhow, the problem is the pinned music does not show up in plain sight on the internal storage so moving them manually isn't really an option. Google Play Music hides/encrpyts it somehow I guess. I would hate to make you go through that, I'm sure someone has found a solution to this already hahahah

 

[danarama]

I just tried the external data preference and the backups are still only 7MB total which is farrrr to small consideirng i've pinned 10GB+ of music. Anyhow, the problem is the pinned music does not show up in plain sight on the internal storage so moving them manually isn't really an option. Google Play Music hides/encrpyts it somehow I guess. I would hate to make you go through that, I'm sure someone has found a solution to this already hahahah

Meh, it's easier than you think

I just pinned some music.

The files are not encrypted By the way.

They're stored /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music

Also the fact they're pinned is stored in a data base table data/data/com.google.android.music/databases/music.db in the "keepon" table

Im not sure if titanium backs up the databases but a simple set of scripts would be

Backup

mv /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music/* /sdcard/playbackup/music
mv /data/data/com.google.android.music/databases/* /sdcard/playbackup/databases

Restore

mv /sdcard/playbackup/music/* /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music
mv /sdcard/playbackup/databases/* /data/data/com.google.android.music/databases


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[The0Code]

Meh, it's easier than you think

I just pinned some music.

The files are not encrypted By the way.

They're stored /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music

Also the fact they're pinned is stored in a data base table data/data/com.google.android.music/databases/music.db in the "keepon" table

Im not sure if titanium backs up the databases but a simple set of scripts would be

Backup

mv /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music/* /sdcard/playbackup/music
mv /data/data/com.google.android.music/databases/* /sdcard/playbackup/databases

Restore

mv /sdcard/playbackup/music/* /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music
mv /sdcard/playbackup/databases/* /data/data/com.google.android.music/databases


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Well I'm sort of a noob when it comes to the deeper parts of android like writing scripts lol How would you suggest I go about this? Looking at music.db, it's 7MB which is the same size as the TB backup that was made so maybe TB IS the answer? hahah not even sure at this point...

 

[danarama]

You need the files too though. Not just the database

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[The0Code]

You need the files too though. Not just the database

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So this is basically impossible I guess? Sorry for all the questions! lol

 

[danarama]

So this is basically impossible I guess? Sorry for all the questions! lol

No, it's possible like I said. You just move the database and the files to the sdcard, flash a ROM then move it back

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[The0Code]

No, it's possible like I said. You just move the database and the files to the sdcard, flash a ROM then move it back

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Not quite able to copy it, not getting the option.

 

[danarama]

Not quite able to copy it, not getting the option.

Thats just your choice of file manager. I've moved the files out and back using root explorer. I've played them from the sdcard too. I've proved the concept. You just need to test for yourself and see what works best for you

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---------- Post added at 10:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:05 PM ----------

Here are some scripts. Really basic

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgbok8hlze0w2zq/ScriptManager.zip

Unzip them wherever and run them with script manager. You'll need give the scripts root permissions within script manager. It's free on play

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[Silentbob999]

Thats just your choice of file manager. I've moved the files out and back using root explorer. I've played them from the sdcard too. I've proved the concept. You just need to test for yourself and see what works best for you

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---------- Post added at 10:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:05 PM ----------

Here are some scripts. Really basic

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mgbok8hlze0w2zq/ScriptManager.zip

Unzip them wherever and run them with script manager. You'll need give the scripts root permissions within script manager. It's free on play

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I am not using online Google music at all but what you did there is really good ?

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