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[Q] Google Music app issues

I really couldn't stand the default music app on this phone, so I decided to pull the Google app from the market. Here's what the problem is.
If I start my random shuffle after plugging in my headphone cable, it will play the first song. Then, it stops. If I hit the power button or unplug the cable, the next song starts playing. I have to do this for every song.
Has anyone else tried that music player and experienced this?
(and for some reason I can never, ever put these things in the right forum. *facepalm*)

I have a similar problem with this app on my sgs2 too! But on my sgs2 i stream at work everynite with the google music app on my vibrant it streamed flawless with no gapps of dead air BUT with my sgs2 it buffers between every song! i know its not the building because my vibrant played perfectly in there. but between every song i wait anywhere between 30 sec to a few min until the next song plays on random, i never waited anytime on my vibrant!!!
THIS IS MY ONLY COMPLAINT ABOTU MY SGS2, I LOVE THIS PHONE, SO THIS COMPLAINT IS SMALL COMPARED TO MOST PEOPLE

This is one of two problems I have. The other, and very much more serious issue, is that the alarm clock function fails 20% of the time to ever go off. I'm trying a replacement app to see if the behavior is app or rom related.

My google music app won't reliably play offline music while offline. When I play a song, it will skip crazy fast through songs, stop on one and play it, then repeat. It's very annoying. This will happen with songs that are on my sd card as well, so it's not completely the app's fault.
I think samsung may have setup something weird to force you to use their music player. I was having similar weird issues with ubermusic, which NEVER gave me any issues. quite the coincidence...

devitek said:
The other, and very much more serious issue, is that the alarm clock function fails 20% of the time to ever go off. I'm trying a replacement app to see if the behavior is app or rom related.
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Thats something u need to either reflash rom, or take phone back!!! i would would say odin back to stock but we dont have that yet. I use my alarm on my phone 6 days a week and it has never failed on me.
My google music app plays fine just not flawless like the vibrant which it should be the other way around, when i say flawless i mean no dead gaps of airtime, buffering etc

movieaddict said:
Thats something u need to either reflash rom, or take phone back!!! i would would say odin back to stock but we dont have that yet. I use my alarm on my phone 6 days a week and it has never failed on me.
My google music app plays fine just not flawless like the vibrant which it should be the other way around, when i say flawless i mean no dead gaps of airtime, buffering etc
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I've been thinking about flashing, but was really hoping to wait until something cleaner, say, CM7, was available. Flashing tweaked stock roms feels kind of pointless, but with the issues I'm having I'm starting to get concerned...

devitek said:
I really couldn't stand the default music app on this phone, so I decided to pull the Google app from the market. Here's what the problem is.
If I start my random shuffle after plugging in my headphone cable, it will play the first song. Then, it stops. If I hit the power button or unplug the cable, the next song starts playing. I have to do this for every song.
Has anyone else tried that music player and experienced this?
(and for some reason I can never, ever put these things in the right forum. *facepalm*)
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Have you tried the ICS Music App?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315375

PorchSong said:
Have you tried the ICS Music App?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315375
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I've experienced similar issues with the ICS google music app.

Google Play Music freezes phone?!!

Anyone else have problems streaming Google Play Music? After streaming 3-4 songs, the phones freezes and i get a FC popup..so i say close and the phone freezes. I have to hold down the power button and do a reboot in order to get hte phone working again. I had this problem before and after the tmo updated.
im running right now stock rom (t999uvlh2) but rooted.
oh yeah before doing the update i kept getting FC notices for "musicfx" so i updated and did better but now the program is back with new tmo update...do i need musicfx or is there something better out there??
thanks 4 your help guys!

ssp81777 said:
Anyone else have problems streaming Google Play Music? After streaming 3-4 songs, the phones freezes and i get a FC popup..so i say close and the phone freezes. I have to hold down the power button and do a reboot in order to get hte phone working again. I had this problem before and after the tmo updated.
im running right now stock rom (t999uvlh2) but rooted.
oh yeah before doing the update i kept getting FC notices for "musicfx" so i updated and did better but now the program is back with new tmo update...do i need musicfx or is there something better out there??
thanks 4 your help guys!
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I also have this problem. I want to uninstall this bullcrap but can't. Well I know I can but I don't want to go that route yet.
Also, have you experienced your songs missing from your playlists when using the other music player? I was soooo mad. It takes soo much time just to go thru and organize it. IDK WTH happened to it. The playlists are still there but no songs!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

yellaChocolate said:
I also have this problem. I want to uninstall this bullcrap but can't. Well I know I can but I don't want to go that route yet.
Also, have you experienced your songs missing from your playlists when using the other music player? I was soooo mad. It takes soo much time just to go thru and organize it. IDK WTH happened to it. The playlists are still there but no songs!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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yeah now that you mentioned it, songs are missing on the playlist as well...not sure if its an issue with google music or the phone. i hope someone else can respond with a solution!

This happens to me every time. I am about to go back to 4.0.4 if they do not fix this quick.
It only started with the Jelly Bean update.

[Q] google music player stops playing/freezes after couple of songs

So I use google music player instead of the native s3 music player from samsung because I have all my music uploaded to the google cloud. I just got the s3 a month ago and continually have this issue. I'm listening to music then all of a sudden it stops, it looks like its still playing but can't hear anything and then when I try and back out of it its frozen.
Any ideas? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
thx in advance

androidcactus said:
So I use google music player instead of the native s3 music player from samsung because I have all my music uploaded to the google cloud. I just got the s3 a month ago and continually have this issue. I'm listening to music then all of a sudden it stops, it looks like its still playing but can't hear anything and then when I try and back out of it its frozen.
Any ideas? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
thx in advance
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This was something I experienced while on frosty jb rom. Thought I was crazy the only way I fixed it was to force stop the app when it happened. Quite annoying I know
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I think its a problem with touchwiz, so far have not had any issues with toasted .marshmallows. a solution I found is to go to application manager and clear data under Google play. Its not efficient and you have to wait a few minutes for it to sync again.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

Are you rooted? I had that same issue on jellybean stock w/ root. Better Battery Stats showed I kept getting a LPAplayer wakelock and when I changed the build.prop following this post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25475691&postcount=4732) it seemed to help. Dunno what the cause is or why that would fix it, but try it out if you have root.

thank you for all the responses.
So I am not rooted, just on the out of the box sg3 system.
I will try some of the suggestions..disappointed that there is the issue. And it does the same thing whether streaming from the cloud or the songs I have pined for offline listening which sits on the cache. :crying:

I'm having the exact same issue. I'm on stock JB, not rooted. It'll play a song or two then just freeze. I have to back completely out and try again and get the same results. Frustrating, because I don't store any music at all on my device.

The_MamaBee said:
I'm having the exact same issue. I'm on stock JB, not rooted. It'll play a song or two then just freeze. I have to back completely out and try again and get the same results. Frustrating, because I don't store any music at all on my device.
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and like me do you experience same results whether its streaming or playing a pined/cached song?
I wonder if there is someone to report this? I imagine it must be a know issue though?

md1008 said:
I think its a problem with touchwiz, so far have not had any issues with toasted .marshmallows. a solution I found is to go to application manager and clear data under Google play. Its not efficient and you have to wait a few minutes for it to sync again.
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Shouldn't be a touchwiz issue, as I have the same problem even though I'm running Nova Prime. I just replaced the google player widget with the samsung one and have been happy ever since. I don't really miss the cloud sync cause my library rarely changes much.

I am having the same issue. I thought it might be the romantic I was running, but now it has happened on two different roms. I wonder if it is a Jellybean issue?
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I see this every so often when I am listening to music in the cloud. I never had this issue with my Vibrant. I am betting it is the Google music player needing a fix
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Play music has been buggy for the past few releases. Bout the only solution is to roll back to a previous version. Down side is you lose themeing
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I'm still having this issue. I don't have music pinned on my device, it's all in the cloud. Never, ever had this issue on my Vibrant. I actually went to Google's help today and the rep who called said they know it's happening with this phone. He advised me to uninstall the updates and then reinstall from the market. I did that, and it actually feels worse. Now it's "frozen" on one song and won't let me select another. The only buttons I have available are back, pause and forward, but it isn't playing anything.
Interestingly, I just uninstalled updates again, taking my Play Music app back to v4.3.606.400990 and it seems to be working fine. I've even had music interrupted a few times by phone calls and it picks up again and plays with no help from me.

Used to happen to me as well on stock, but since rooted and now running 4.2.1 problem has disappeared

same problem with vzw gs3
I have this same problem with my phone. The following steps detail what reproduces the issue for me.
Play Music starts playing, gets through about two songs, then stops.
When waking the phone Play Music is frozen. The pause, previous and next track buttons, but nothing on the screen responds to touch.
Hold down home button and use the built in task manager to end Play Music, accepting the warning.
Restart Play Music and continue playing. It will play normally after that.
However, from then on the LPAPlayer will keep the phone from sleeping.
If I leave it alone, it will show wakelocks into the 10-15 hour range.
A reboot of the phone will fix the wakelock, until I use Play Music again.
I am on stock rooted JB for VZW (VRBLK3). I don't think it's ROM or even phone specific though.Iit seems to affect a wide spectrum of ROMs and a few different phones on different carriers.
I am currently trying out the recommendation on this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34586729&postcount=10
I am about six songs in now, will report back if it fails.

Babble0n said:
I have this same problem with my phone. The following steps detail what reproduces the issue for me.
Play Music starts playing, gets through about two songs, then stops.
When waking the phone Play Music is frozen. The pause, previous and next track buttons, but nothing on the screen responds to touch.
Hold down home button and use the built in task manager to end Play Music, accepting the warning.
Restart Play Music and continue playing. It will play normally after that.
However, from then on the LPAPlayer will keep the phone from sleeping.
If I leave it alone, it will show wakelocks into the 10-15 hour range.
A reboot of the phone will fix the wakelock, until I use Play Music again.
I am on stock rooted JB for VZW (VRBLK3). I don't think it's ROM or even phone specific though.Iit seems to affect a wide spectrum of ROMs and a few different phones on different carriers.
I am currently trying out the recommendation on this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34586729&postcount=10
I am about six songs in now, will report back if it fails.
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Did this work for you? I see that you have not posted again so I am guessing yes? This started happening to me when I went to JB Rom.

sstenhjem said:
Did this work for you? I see that you have not posted again so I am guessing yes? This started happening to me when I went to JB Rom.
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I can confirm this works it got rid of freezing and wake locks for me
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Guys Google put an update out that fixes Google music for galaxy s III !!!!!! woohoo!
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Issue with stock Music Player using available RAM!

Hey Folks,
I have an issue with the built-in stock Music player constantly taking all of the available RAM, which causes Android to start killing other processes like the launcher (Apex Pro), Tasker, nearby devices service (force closes occasionally), etc. It is very odd. I have tried several attempts to remedy the situation. I have, so far, cleared the Media Storage data, cleared the Cache partition from the boot recovery menu, have music on built-in storage and un-mounting my MicroSD card, to which none of these efforts helped. It seems like the Music Player app has a memory leak, which I am wondering if this was introduced in 4.3. I did not see it listed yet in the 4.3 issue threads, and not really sure if 4.3 is the culprit. I upgraded to the S4 from an S2 recently and a week later the official 4.3 upgrade was available. Thus, I do not know if this issue was happening in 4.2.2.
The interesting thing is that this leak or loop is occurring whether or not I have music on the device. So, to be clear, the issue specifically is when I launch the Music Player and then go to Task Manager to see the used RAM, the RAM will just continue to get used up until it reaches about 1.70GB or so out of 1.78GB available and then Android will start killing other processes to accommodate for more memory. This is when Apex and /or Tasker and other services start getting the ax. What's more, if I kill the Music Player (either right away or later), the memory continues to be consumed until it reaches about 1.5GB - 1.6GB and then finally releases and drops to 700MB - 900MB.
I am on a stock ROM, non-rooted and I have also confirmed this issue with my wife's S4 as well. We can use Google Play Music with no issues, but prefer the stock player if there is a solution to this "memory leak" or other situation that is causing the issue. If anyone has some insights as to what this issue is and a fix, please let me know. Also, if anyone can launch the Music Player and watch the RAM in Task Manager to confirm that this is or is not occurring on other S4s out there as perhaps it is an issue that some may not have noticed. In fact, my wife has been using her device in the car for a couple of weeks and streaming with Bluetooth and not noticed this was occurring. However, if she were to have music and use Maps/Navigation at the same time with this issue, Maps will get killed along with other multitasking tasks. I happened to noticed this behavior when I moved my music on the device and was playing around with the player, when I saw that Tasker restarted itself and then shortly after the nearby devices service forced closed and the music app got real sluggish. I then started observing the RAM usage with the launch of the player and realized why apps were closing. The funny part is that the music plays fine and never dies, it just kills everything else in its wake.
Any insight to this will be greatly appreciated. Also, I have been scouring the forums and Google in general to see if this has been mentioned and have not found this exact situation. However, if I did overlook a thread/post that has this as a known issue, please let me know what that link is. Thanks.

First off, damn. You might want to take a refresher course on how to say what you mean without all the extra words. You wrote a book man. 90% of what you typed is unnecessary. Nobody wants to read all of that and must won't even entertain a response. Just a friendly heads up.
Now, are you sure that the RAM is being taken up by the music app and not a combination of apps/processes? The stock task manager isn't very good for situations like this so you'll need to download a system monitor. There are quite a few out there, take your pick.
Could be that when you open the music player the media scanner is eating up RAM along with other processes. Those together are killing your memory. If that's the case you need to create a .nomedia file to place in the folders on your internal/external memory. Also, do you have any other music or media apps installed?
Figure out those then post back. You might try uninstalling all your apps then reinstall them one by one ( backup first). Yes, it can take a while if you have a lot but once you install the culprit - you'll know it. Hope that helps.

SOLVED!!
Ah, thanks for the heads up! Sorry about the long-winded post, I just wanted to convey the issue and what I have done so far. In future posts, I will be much more concise and to the point.
On a good note, I have solved my issue and found that if you disable/freeze/uninstall apps but still want to use the built-in music player, there is a conflict if you disable S Voice. I was going through the settings in the music player and noticed the voice control feature (which was unchecked), but clearly the player still wants to talk with or "see" S Voice out there. I took a shot in the dark and once I re-enabled S Voice, the gobbling of RAM from the music player launching stopped. Yay!!

Not solved!
Well that victory was short lived. That seemed to have only worked for about 10 minutes and it is back to the same memory gobbling issue when the player is launched. I reactivated Google Play Music and am using that with no issues, so it seems that will have to do.

Well that was all I had. I don't use the stock music player since I stream with Google Music.
You might look in the app store for an app to replace the stock one. Then uninstall the stock app so you don't have the issue anymore.
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Google play music fast forward/rewind in a track

Hi there,
I have just noticed this issue where you cannot skip inside a track in Google music. I can see the progress bar, I can move it to the center but it comes right away back at the beginning and tune starts again. I have no other music app installed, this device is pretty stock aside from being unlocked and rooted.
The same app works fine in my HTC One, there I can advance in the track.
Any ideas?
Sent from my 1+3

millicent said:
Hi there,
I have just noticed this issue where you cannot skip inside a track in Google music. I can see the progress bar, I can move it to the center but it comes right away back at the beginning and tune starts again. I have no other music app installed, this device is pretty stock aside from being unlocked and rooted.
The same app works fine in my HTC One, there I can advance in the track.
Any ideas?
Sent from my 1+3
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Same issue. I'm rooted, but stock. I noticed that if you skip the track then skip back to it, it will sometimes work at that point. Not really the most efficient way to do it, but it works for me. I have to do it a lot, especially when I'm listening to a podcast, which can be hours long.

Anyone else cares to confirm or contradict the above experiment on stock rom? Are you able to move the Google music cursor on the progress bar?
I am also wondering whether related to the other Google music issue where, quite often, it'd suddenly start playing music by itself. Although didn't do that today..
Sent from my 1+3

I have same or similar problems, though I've only tried podcasts.. Advancing the track skips it back to the beginning. Using the +30sec button on the widget(s) skips to the beginning. Using the -10sec on the widget skips to the beginning. This happens with the app open, in a widget on the home screen, in a widget on the shelf, and in the notifications pane. It happened on the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3t (recently returned 3 for 3+), both new and running stock marshmallow OxygenOS.

Yeah, this is far beyond annoying. By restarting/clearing cache, sometimes this problem goes away for a while but not for long. Interesting that the only manufacturer affected seems to be oneplus, according to my research. Still have this problem after 3.2.8 update
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How is this still an issue? I have the oneplus 5 and it's happening to me. Over a year and no fix and only happens to oneplus phones.