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To all that has a TP2 and listens to music with it

hey guys. im seriously considering getting one of these phones. but i gotta know - does the music playback skip, lag or breakup of sound every 5 minutes or so? this was a horrendus problem that still exists to this day on my touch diamond and no matter what i did i couldn't fix it. i noticed it on my Xperia as well but it is much less pronounced and i'm actually ok with it. would like to hear from anyone who listens to music on their TP2, especially from owners who have / had a touch diamond and/or Xperia for comparisons sake.

Ive tested many applications for listening to music and on none of them i had any trouble with lagging or breaking up.. I now use coreplayer and playback is awesome. So i think you should go for it

Um... I know this might sound stupid, but ...... have you tried another pair of headphones ?
I have never had even a single brake up, lagg or w/e while listening to music on my Xperia and never had any issues with the TP2 either. I have used the Touch Pro 2 for 2 full days so far (it is not mine) and a lot of on and off use, but I was listening to a lot of music both of those days and never had any problems. As thecompany said, playback is awesome .
What player are you using? Try:
Mort Player
Pocket Music
Pocket Player
S2P Player

thanks guys, that's is pretty much what i wanted to hear.
@ orelsi
lol it's not my earphones. i have 4 or 5 pairs of em here and its the same with all of them, i should have been a bit more specific in my OP: this problem with music stuttering / lagging was really BAD on my touch diamond, not so much the Xperia. nothing fixed it including trying diffrent players, different roms both stock and cooked. different earphones (lol), moving music from internal storage to phone's memory, disabling touchflo3d, i could go on and on with what i tried but none of them worked. do a search here on diamond mp3 lag and you'll know what im talking about. The only thing i did not try was with my bluetooth headphones. but I am not in love with the idea of that, A2DP degrades audio quality and bluetooth is just another hit on the devices battery life.
After trying it again tonight i can hardly notice it at all on my Xperia, to a point it doesnt bother me at all unlike the diamond. I use Coreplayer v1.30 on both phones since HTC's Audio Manager sucks and refuses to play music downloaded from iTunes (DRM Free at that) and the same story with the Media Panel on the Xperia.
I think im still gonna go for the Rhodium anyways. droool @ that nice big screen.

no lags at all .. tested BT headsets from Anycom and Sony
but I got question realted the music .. where should I store the the music or playsist so that I got them at hend when using Winamp or the HTC deliverd soft?
I am tired of maunally chosing again and again and again from storage ...
thx

hamz22 said:
thanks guys, that's is pretty much what i wanted to hear.
@ orelsi
lol it's not my earphones. i have 4 or 5 pairs of em here and its the same with all of them, i should have been a bit more specific in my OP: this problem with music stuttering / lagging was really BAD on my touch diamond, not so much the Xperia. nothing fixed it including trying diffrent players, different roms both stock and cooked. different earphones (lol), moving music from internal storage to phone's memory, disabling touchflo3d, i could go on and on with what i tried but none of them worked. do a search here on diamond mp3 lag and you'll know what im talking about. The only thing i did not try was with my bluetooth headphones. but I am not in love with the idea of that, A2DP degrades audio quality and bluetooth is just another hit on the devices battery life.
After trying it again tonight i can hardly notice it at all on my Xperia, to a point it doesnt bother me at all unlike the diamond. I use Coreplayer v1.30 on both phones since HTC's Audio Manager sucks and refuses to play music downloaded from iTunes (DRM Free at that) and the same story with the Media Panel on the Xperia.
I think im still gonna go for the Rhodium anyways. droool @ that nice big screen.
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Don't know if it was ever mentioned on the Diamond forum, but did you ever tweak the storage settings to see if changing timings and cache settings improved things?
Were they high bitrate files?
Cheers,
Beasty

[Q] Issues with skipping/pausing/starting .m4a

So I've been using Pocket Casts as a podcast player for a while now, and I've never had any issues until switching to the LG G3 (T-Mobile variant).
When I try to play any podcast with .m4a, the podcast will play normally, but the moment I try to use any seeking commands (forward, rewind, pause) the seeker will jump around.
For example, if I pause at 14:53, and then try to restart again, it could randomly jump to 1:10. The same thing happens when I try to forward or rewind.
Curiously, I've noticed that with rewinding and forwarding, they seem to prefer certain time spots. Like if I spam the rewind button, it will constantly go to a certain time period.
If you want to test this yourself, you can try downloading "The Rooster Teeth Podcast" or "The Patch Podcast" on any podcast player, as I know those two use the .m4a format.
To make sure it wasn't the player, I tried downloading podcast addict, which gave the same issue. I also downloaded an earlier episode of the Rooster Teeth Podcast which was an mp3 file, and it played with no issues.
Has anybody else encountered this issue, and does anybody have a fix?

I'd like to bump this seeing as I'm not the only one with this issue. I too tried using other podcast players to play the RT Podcast/Patch, all of them would skip ahead several minutes. They would also refuse to seek past the 45 minute mark or something around there.

bartcrusades said:
I'd like to bump this seeing as I'm not the only one with this issue. I too tried using other podcast players to play the RT Podcast/Patch, all of them would skip ahead several minutes. They would also refuse to seek past the 45 minute mark or something around there.
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Got the same problem with podcast addict. The developer wrote me, that the app is using the internal player. After testing the internal player with m4a files, i can confirm that the issue persist.
I also wrote the LG support about this issue and the answer was: LG does not official support m4a! WTF?
Alternative 1: Use 3. party player. But I didn't find a good one. Only VLC was playing the file but stops audio files if the screen is off.
Alternative 2: Use mp3 feed instead of m4a.

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Got the same problem with podcast addict. The developer wrote me, that the app is using the internal player. After testing the internal player with m4a files, i can confirm that the issue persist.
I also wrote the LG support about this issue and the answer was: LG does not official support m4a! WTF?
Alternative 1: Use 3. party player. But I didn't find a good one. Only VLC was playing the file but stops audio files if the screen is off.
Alternative 2: Use mp3 feed instead of m4a.
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Pretty bummed out about this.

Just thought I'd poke my head in and let you know you aren't the only one. Iv'e got the same problem too on Beyond Pod, and so do others with the G3.
http://www.beyondpod.com/forum/show...hes-When-Using-Episode-Scan-Bar-Verizon-LG-G3

LG G4 Audio Balance Problem With Headphones

Audio problems while video playback
When I listen to a video, for example breaking bad, the music in the begining is played mostly (75%)played through my right ear. I tried both sw and hw, I also tried dld a new custom codec but nothing "centered" the music. What's wrong?

Same Here, did you ever find a solution to this?

MP3 VBR and ABR playback problems

Hi there,
I noticed problems with some of my podcasts. They would restart from the beginning when I tried to skip within the track or the player would crash and skip to the next track. I discovered that this only happens with MP3s that are encoded with either VBR (variable bitrate) or ABR (average bitrate) settings, and it is happening with every player (play music, music, pocketcasts) I tried. I converted some of those podcasts using constant bitrate (CBR) and everything worked fine then. I found an old thread (https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8154) describing pretty much exactly my problem.
I tried the same MP3 on my old S4, and that seems to be able to deal with the variable bitrate just fine.
Can anyone try to verify this? There is an ABR MP3 here which gives me those problems. If you skip towards the end it will start playing from the beginning ("Hey everybody this is Sam")
Cheers.

I just played your mp3 straight from the default Files app on my (stock) OP3 and tested two players: the default Music player and Google Play Music. Both were able to skip around just fine. Are you playing the file from a music player or from a podcast app? (Edit: I see where you said which players you tested. Hmm.)

The problem seems to happen after skipping to somewhere past the halfway mark of the file. I just tested it on a colleague's OP3 (3.2.4, all stock) and it happens there as well.
Funnily enough, I just listened to a podcast today when the host mentioned that one of the listeners wrote in with this exact same problem. A quick look into their backcatalog revealed them switching from CBR to VBR a couple of episodes ago.

I don't know what I was doing the first time when I tested, but yeah, now that I'm looking for it, I definitely see the issue. The very first time I played it this time, it auto skipped to the end and would have played the next track in the queue if one existed. From that point on, skipping around did a variety of things. Sometimes it worked; sometimes it played the audio from the very beginning ("Hey everybody, this is Sam") but the slider indicated I was still like 66% of the way through - not at the beginning. Very strange. I'm on the latest 3.2.6, btw.
When you're encoding to VBR, are you using any switches / arguments (e.g. --alt-preset standard)? If so, maybe try something else?

I haven't done any encoding myself (but for back converting some VBR tracks to CBR), I only noticed it in a couple of podcasts I was following, and the thing they had in common was NOT using CBR. I don't know if a certain switch in the VBR/ABR encoding settings might be the problem, but what I find more worrying is that my former sony xperia z5c running marshmallow as well as my s4 active running lollipop do not have this problem. It would be interesting if someone with CM or another ROM but stock could try this to see if it is a ROM specific problem.

A podcast I listen to (The Bayesian Conspiracy) has some episodes as CBR and some as VBR. All of the VBR episodes have issues trying to seek past half-way. This happens on ALL methods of playback that I've tried (streaming, Pocket Cast, Google built-in player, Podcast Addict) on my OnePlus 3.
Found an article ("The First and last word on CBR vs VBR questions" - sorry can't create links yet) talks about why VBR is bad, in general and why podcasts shouldn't use it anymore, but it sure does suck that OxygenOS doesn't handle this properly (because not every podcast is encoded with CBR).

I have contacted the podcasts which I discovered used VBR and ABR and so far I was lucky in that they switched back to CBR, but that can't be the solution.

I have this problem with my config: DailyTechNewsShow with either BeyondPod or PodcastAddict, same problem when reaching 2/3 of the time.
Using OnePlus3 stock with rom 3.2.8.

2 years later, i have the same issue on a Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite. i guess it won't be fixed any time soon...
does anyone know a place where we could report this bug to Xiaomi?
AFAIU, the bug is in their playback code, not in Android. i listen to podcasts a lot, some of them use VBR, and it's annoying me to no end...

live streaming with no audio

Hi everyone,
I am having a strange issue. I am trying to watch a live stream, using Web video caster. I have a reasonable understanding of audio and video codecs and things of that nature. However, this particular stream will have audio sometimes and not others. I've checked all the settings on the player and nothing seems to help. I am definitely no expert but it seems to me that if it was a codec problem it would consistently not play audio.
Also, if I'm playing the Stream and the audio is coming through, it will remain consistent. It is not until I stopped the Stream for whatever reason and go to play it again later that I have the audio issue.
I'm not sure what to do, and any information would be greatly appreciated. Also I would like to apologize in advance if I posted in the wrong section as I seem to have a problem with that