Why does Google Music Manager refuse to open in 12.04?

Question

I like to upload my music to my Google account and I use Google Music Manager to do this.

When I downloaded the music manager the first time, I wanted to actually download all the music I purchased from Google onto my Ubuntu 12.04 Dell Latitude E6400 32-bit. It worked fine and all the music downloaded.

Now I have ripped some of my old cds and want to upload that content to Google. When I chose Google Music Manager from my applications, it pops up in my tray as running but nothing actually happens. When I click on it and chose options which used to open up the interface to chose which folders you wanted to upload and so forth, nothing happens.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times and it still does the same thing. I ran it from command line and I see I am getting the errors below.

I intend on asking this same question in a Google forum but I wanted to ask here since I usually get better answers from the Ubuntu community.

t:~$ google-musicmanager

log4cxx: No appender could be found for logger (root).

log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.

Solution

1. Quit google-musicmanager.
2. Delete the directory ~/.config/google-musicmanager.
3. Start google-musicmanager again. You'll get an initial setup wizard again - this time, choose an empty directory to upload music. Then the bug will not be there anymore.

I found this workaround on ubuntuforums.org.

Comments

[ricab]

OK, I chose "uploading" with an empty music folder and then I could get to the options and choose download from there

[daniels]

Great, this helped solve the problem!