Hi Bill, You're exactly right - by default, when you buy a song from Google Play, it isn't stored on your device but downloaded when you want to play it. You can download music you have bought by doing the following: To make music available offline from the Google Play Music app (I found this on https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1250232?hl=en ): 1. Visit *My Library* or *Playlists* to see your collection of albums, artists, songs, or playlists, 2. Select and view the music that you’d like to save to your device. 3. Tap the [image: Google Play Pin] grey, angled pin icon to add music to your download queue. I haven't tried so not sure what the pin is called by Talkback, but do let us know how you get on. From memory it's similar in Play Books as well - they are not downloaded by default unless you ask them to be. Regards Quentin. On 11 November 2013 08:33, william deatherage <wrd828@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I wasn't sure what to put in the subject line. The other day I must have > turned off my wi fi by mistake. anyway, when I whent into play music to > listen to some albums I had downloaded they were not their. what was their > was albums that I had coppied from my computer. I realized what might be > going on so I checked my wi fí and found it was turned off. when I turned > it back on the albums I had bought from the play store was their again. So > I was wondering if you buy an album from the play store is it downloaded to > your android device or does it stay on the server and you have access to > it? If it stays on the server then why should a person buy a 32 gíg device > instead of a 16 gig? > Thanks in advance. > Bill Deatherage > > To post to the list, simply send email to vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. > > To unsubscribe from the list send an email to > vi-android-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > (new users, use 'subscribe' to subscribe) > > To receive the list as a digest, send an email to > vi-android-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'set vi-android digest' in the > subject (to go back to receiving every message use 'unset vi-android > digest' in the subject). >