This has prompted me to finally pull the trigger on gmail and get rid of evry last trace of Google in my life.Hello Linux Geeksters. you can only upload and download at the same time. oh guess what? you cant stop uploading in favor of downloading. Maybe if i right click and choose 'options'. I try to 'open music player' again, again it goes to the web page. dont know what that means, but i dont want to upload anything. It's the same web page I was at before.įor the last 10 minutes I have been "preparing to upload". I try right clicking on the new icon in my doc, and try 'go to music player', it takes me to a web page. As this blog post notes it silently fails to open a window. I am afraid I have 'used up' one of my two web downloads, so i better try the manager program. So I download them from the web, once, and it decides to download the whole album - but it dies at 1.5 gigabytes (13 podcasts, 11 hours of audio, why?) You know how I download songs on google play? I buy them, then I visit a web page, Then I click three gray butons that drop downa menu, then I click download, then it warns me that I can only download songs twice from the web, but that i should get the gogle play manager program if i want to download them more often. Then I can put them on my mp3 player and listen to them. You know how I download songs on 7digital? I buy them, then I click 'donwload'. When you see this or similar errors in Fedora, you can use a command similar to yum provides '*/libQtWebKit.so.4' and see what packages provide the missing file, and know what to install from there. On Fedora, it told me "error while loading shared libraries: libQtWebKit.so.4", and I just had to yum install qtwebkit to fix it (the MusicManager RPM didn't correctly list this dependency). Uninstalling and reinstalling the app is unnecessary, simply deleting the config folder does the same job.Īlso, if you can't get the Music Manager to start at all in the first place, try running it from a terminal window with the google-musicmanager command and see what it says. I eventually found this solution both times from a thread on the Ubuntu forums. Hopefully Google will fix the Music Manager soon, but it's been broken for ~6 months already so in the mean time this is the work-around. This is why I recommend to clear out your Music folder in step 3.įor some reason, choosing to upload rather than download during the initial setup fixes the problem of the Options window not appearing from then on. Also, if you already have music in your Music folder, the Music Manager will upload them anyway, and it sucks at detecting duplicates so you'll end up with a ton of duplicates on your Play Account in the cloud. Ignore any warnings about "less than 10 songs in the folder" etc.Don't use the default "Music Folder" option, but explicitly browse to your Music folder and add it manually.Open the Music Manager again from your applications menu.Optional step: the Music Manager is horrible at detecting duplicates, so I recommend you completely clear out your ~/Music folder (if you already downloaded songs from Google, move them to some other place).Delete the folder ~/.config/google-musicmanager.Stop the Music Manager by right-clicking the tray icon and clicking "Quit.".I had to Google it both times to find a solution (which wasn't easy to find), so here's the solution that ended up working for me each time. I ran into this problem a couple different times on different machines running Fedora over the span of about the last 6 months. The tray icon is there, and it can be right-clicked on to bring up a menu, but clicking "Options" in the menu does nothing, and double-clicking the icon (which should bring up the Options window) also doesn't do anything. There seems to be a problem with the Google Play Music Manager on Linux, where once you set up the Music Manager for the first time, it's impossible to get its main window to appear after that.
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