Spotify and One X - buggy - HTC One X

I was wondering how well the Spotify app's been behaving for people.
Specifically, whether you've had any jittery playback, or skipping. I have, on all of the ROMs I've used, and I've been using downloaded/"offline" music with a cleared cache etc. each time.
I've also had the app go into offline mode for no apparent reasons sometimes, again, under different ROMs.
Right now I can't even open Spotify for more than a few seconds (I've restarted the device, tried with/without Wi-Fi etc.). I synced about 500 tracks for offline access this morning though, which is funny. It just doesn't work.
EDIT:
I haven't used it for very long, but an older version of Spotify (4.11) seems to work better. It's been fine for me so far.
The only issue is that slider tab for the play screen is misaligned, in that the icon is to the left of the tab background itself.
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aameerp said:
I was wondering how well the Spotify app's been behaving for people.
Specifically, whether you've had any jittery playback, or skipping. I have, on all of the ROMs I've used, and I've been using downloaded/"offline" music with a cleared cache etc. each time.
I've also had the app go into offline mode for no apparent reasons sometimes, again, under different ROMs.
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Working fine for me as long as beats audio is disabled. I get stutter if it on. Aside from that, no other issues.
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Stutters for me--I'll turn of bleats and try it.

Also get stutters. Will turn off beats and report back
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Stutters a bit if beats turned on.
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Hi,
I can confirm the stutters with beats enabled. Do Not know if its a beats Problem or if the spotify app just needs an update.
Also sometimes the app stays in offline Mode, only thing i can do to fix that is log of from spotify and log in again.
Syncing my playlists for offline Playback causes a interruption in my Internet connection on the phone. This can only be fixed by disabling an enabling wifi. Although This might be a wifi issue Not just spotify specific.
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Spotify + beats on = stutters
Spotify + beats off = fine
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its spotify, the app hasnt been updated since november last year!!! ive cancelled my premium subscription. trying deezer which works great at the moement.
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Mob...t-update-was-november-2011/td-p/16175/page/13
theres probaly more pages now.

Installed it yesterday, at first it wouldn't logon, and now its acting very strange!

Spotify doesn't officially support ICS (or even Android 3) yet, so while the app may work, at least for a while, you could well experience issues.
Based on my own usage on both the Nexus S and OneX, plus tons of reports on the Spotify forums, the app seems to work to start with, allowing you to sync tracks etc, but then after a while (possibly after making changes to playlists on a PC) the app will crash back to the homescreen immediately on launch. You can continue to use it if you force it into offline mode (airplane mode or use the Offline Mode option in the Spotify menus), but obviously the DRM license only lasts 30 days, after which you need to wipe it and start again.

I'm having no issues with Spotify and I have the beats profile on.

Well I don't experience stutters that much while the Beats is On, haven't tested with Beats Off. However, I have discovered that if I star a song, my app crashes. As all the starred songs are offline synced.

Stutters on mine when i play it through my car bluetooth. The app is at fault for sure as other tracks play ok on my stock media player.
Also goes offline when it chooses to.

licenced said:
Spotify doesn't officially support ICS (or even Android 3) yet, so while the app may work, at least for a while, you could well experience issues.
Based on my own usage on both the Nexus S and OneX, plus tons of reports on the Spotify forums, the app seems to work to start with, allowing you to sync tracks etc, but then after a while (possibly after making changes to playlists on a PC) the app will crash back to the homescreen immediately on launch. You can continue to use it if you force it into offline mode (airplane mode or use the Offline Mode option in the Spotify menus), but obviously the DRM license only lasts 30 days, after which you need to wipe it and start again.
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Mine seems to be playing back as expected when on the loudspeaker (so that will be without beats); not had chance to try it with the beats yet but will give that a go in the morning and report back. I hope it's okay and I do use Spotify quite a lot.

Just to let you know that you can download the new beta from the spotify website. It's an apk file not yet out officially in the market but it fixes the buggy app and has a new interface.
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Spotify for HOX
Spotify with beats on is working fine for me.

salmander said:
Well I don't experience stutters that much while the Beats is On, haven't tested with Beats Off. However, I have discovered that if I star a song, my app crashes. As all the starred songs are offline synced.
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i've noticed that - but only if you're playing a song, and you star that song whilst it is playing. if it's not playing it doesnt crash (for me at least)
and the beats stutter problem i thought was fixed in 1.28, that wasn't spotify at least.

aameerp said:
I was wondering how well the Spotify app's been behaving for people.
Specifically, whether you've had any jittery playback, or skipping. I have, on all of the ROMs I've used, and I've been using downloaded/"offline" music with a cleared cache etc. each time.
I've also had the app go into offline mode for no apparent reasons sometimes, again, under different ROMs.
Right now I can't even open Spotify for more than a few seconds (I've restarted the device, tried with/without Wi-Fi etc.). I synced about 500 tracks for offline access this morning though, which is funny. It just doesn't work.
EDIT:
I haven't used it for very long, but an older version of Spotify (4.11) seems to work better. It's been fine for me so far.
The only issue is that slider tab for the play screen is misaligned, in that the icon is to the left of the tab background itself.
Get it here.
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As suggested, you need to run the beta.
I've been using it for over a month, no issues.
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Is anyone else stil experiencing this with the latest version, with and without beats on?
I'm using BT earphones, so I'm wondering if it's related to that.

OliverHaslam said:
Is anyone else stil experiencing this with the latest version, with and without beats on?
I'm using BT earphones, so I'm wondering if it's related to that.
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Using the latest version, with Beats on, and a pair of Plantronics Backbeat 903+.
Only very occasional stutter, but it was much worse when I first paired them with the phone
or if there's a long break (e.g. few weeks). Much better now (and after I realised you need to keep
the connected device on the left side of your body *facepalm*.)
Same thing happened with my Desire when I first got the 'phones so I'm inclined to think they're at fault.
Using with an iPad there's no issue so could be an Android / Spotify / Plantronics thing.

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issue with mp3 playback

I think I have found an issue with my Desire when playing MP3s. My phone is a British O2 HTC Desire (contract).
Yesterday evening when on a train, I was simply playing with the phone and I decided to try the music player to listen to the stock free tracks that came with the device. I have only had the phone a few days and havent got round to loading music yet.
The issue I found was when the phone lost signal the tracks went into fast forward and continuously skipped forward until signal was established again. When skipping forward, if the end of the track was reached, the next track was selected and then proceeded to skip forward. All tracks would skip and then start from the beginning of the list. The phone also seemed to slowdown, and scrolling became less fluid.
I have searched the HTC website but there is no mention of a fix. This happened three times.
Can anyone else reproduce this problem?
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Can anyone else reproduce this problem?
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I use mine (UK Orange) on the train most days and I lose signal in a tunnel but certainly have not had your issue! Looks like a one off or something in the O2 ROM.
Thats what I was thinking. May be someone with an O2 desire will find this and comment. I must have been one of the first to get an O2 desire as I had to call the next day as they had not received any stock. I called the next day, and one was sent which arrived the morning after.. I digress.
Thanks for sharing that info. I'll see if I can reproduce the problem again tonight on the way home.
Weird. Have you tried a different music player app? I love Mort's apps and was deliriously happy when I found that he was working on Android versions of the WinMo apps I loved so much. There are two versions.
One optimised for Audiobooks:
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The other optimised for Music:
(The main difference is the way the apps handle bookmarks.)
And a separate widget app:
I havent tried any other music players. I think my desire has two as standard. I will try the other one and see if it makes any difference.
I had this happen again this morning, I now don't think it's network reception that causes it but may be the proximity sensor or touch screen. I found that if I tap the power button to lock everything and turn off the screen, and then put the phone in my pocket the music skips either forward or back continuously. If I just lock the screen and hold the underneath of the phone, then this doesnt happen. Its very anoying though!
I had some sort of player problems last weekend, too.
I have three different players installed (the default one, Meridian, and Cubed). I plugged the phone into a set of portable loudspeakers but realized that sometimes (when I was using either Meridian or Cubed) the default player suddenly became active (with no external input such as touching either of the devices) and started playing another song on the top of the song that was already playing. I tried closing the default player ("Apps"/"Running"/"close) but the problem kept on coming back - and we had to switch to my friend's iPhone to be able to listen to music with no embarrasing interruptions. Of course, the same problem persisted when I plugged in headphones.
Well, to avoid such annoying cacophony problems when traveling by train, I then switched to the default player. However, when the headphone jack moved, the player skipped to the next song on the playlist. The player kept on skipping songs as long as I was walking or standing (the phone was in my bag).
In addition, sometimes the phone screen remained sensitive to touch though switched off. Thus, I was able to skip to next/previous song by "gesturing" even though I have carefully deactivated such functions from all three players.
Any ideas?
I guess I'll try a different set of headphones, at least...
I have just tried another test. When I twist my headphones, the player skips.
BTW, there were some "solutions" on another forum:
(androidforums.com/htc-desire/57558-skipping-problem-music-player.html)
The tips included covering a part of the headphone jack with tape and/or testing different headphones until the one, which can be twisted without the player skipping, is found.
Nghtngl said:
BTW, there were some "solutions" on another forum:
(androidforums.com/htc-desire/57558-skipping-problem-music-player.html)
The tips included covering a part of the headphone jack with tape and/or testing different headphones until the one, which can be twisted without the player skipping, is found.
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I have just read through that link. Thanks for sharing. That is the exact issue I am having. Whats more, when I plug in a 3.5mm jack and it detects it incorrectly as a headset / mic combo, the phone will really act up and sometimes redial the last person I called.
Hopefully this is just a software problem that can be fixed. Can't listen to music
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Whats more, when I plug in a 3.5mm jack and it detects it incorrectly as a headset / mic combo, the phone will really act up and sometimes redial the last person I called.
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Now that you mentioned it... the same happened to me, too.
Fortunately, I have "Call confirm" installed so - when the application asked if I really wanted to call the friend I had just called - I just cancelled the call function without even realizing that it might have something to do with the music player. But that's darn annoying a bug!
Ah, that problem. I wouldn't bother trying to use a tip/2 rings headphone set in this tip/3 rings socket. I've just bought 3 of these adapters; just waiting for them to arrive.
These threads should be in the interest of those with the music skipping issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6369106
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667240
The more I use my headphones, the less I am having this problem. When I first posted, and found that it was then caused by the headphone socket I could reproduce the issue every time.
I then found another 3.5mm jack and connected / disconnected it from the phone repeatedly 4 or 5 times, whilst twisting, as this is what seemed to cause the detection problem.
Now, when I use my sennheiser headphones I travelled all the way home without any single problems. I was actually suprised, I even twisted and wiggled the cable / jack and this didnt cause any problems. The phone detected it as headphones and not a headset as it has been doing.
On the way to work this morning, the phone did have some problems when changing trains. I simply paused the track, disconnected, and then reconnected and on the 15 minute walk to work afterwards there was no skipping at all.
I does seem delicate, but It also appears the "playing" I did yesterday has helped it somewhat.

Bluetooth AD2P Connection Music Autoplay Issue

I googled around for this but could not find any real solution to the problem, only contrived, bootleg fixes. I also seem to find that this is the general consensus that for most people android automatically starts playing music on bluetooth connection.
let me start off by saying I do NOT want to disable my AD2P connection in bluetooth settings. This is not an acceptable solution, since I WANT to use AD2P I just don't want music to instantly play everytime I connect.
Has anyone found a real solution to this? Beyond using tasker, or whatever other contrived solution? I can't believe that this setting was excluded in the system. I really hope there is a setting I am just missing, somewhere. If not, I suggest we escalate this to the development forum.
Thanks!
I've found this happens to me to. It is incredibly annoying if you want to use a program such as pandora for music, as when it connects to my car it starts playing through the music application on top of pandora.
Even aside from disabling the autoplay (which I think might not be auto-play, it might actually be the car/other device requesting an audio stream which defaults to playing from the music app), maybe there is just a way to disable the stock music app in some manner?
mk8882 said:
I've found this happens to me to. It is incredibly annoying if you want to use a program such as pandora for music, as when it connects to my car it starts playing through the music application on top of pandora.
Even aside from disabling the autoplay (which I think might not be auto-play, it might actually be the car/other device requesting an audio stream which defaults to playing from the music app), maybe there is just a way to disable the stock music app in some manner?
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I don't think it is the fault of the stock music app, because sometimes it's the stock app, and other times it's Meridian Player for me. I'm also starting to think that you're right - it might be the car / device pressing play as soon as it is connected. If the car / paired device is the culprit pressing play, it seems like the only solution would be to have our Evo automatically press stop. But if possible I'd really prefer not to have background tasks running at all times, taxing the battery / cpu.
Very annoying, in every BT device and paired device, it seems as though not much effort was put into coding the stacks. I'm sure they're only hurting themselves though, since inevitably something will replace BT. Unfortunately now we have to figure out how to deal with the inadequacies.
I fixed this issue by using the autostarts app from the market, then disabling the music app autostart under after startup. It has not done this to me at all since then.
g12345 said:
I fixed this issue by using the autostarts app from the market, then disabling the music app autostart under after startup. It has not done this to me at all since then.
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Really? interesting. I am running Cyanogenmod 6 and there is no Music App, nor Meridian, nor anything else showing in the list. Also wouldn't that mean that this trick wouldn't work if you had opened the music app after starting your phone?
But a question - does it have to remain running in the background at all times in order to catch the bluetooth audio connected event?
nice! got autostarts, I'll try it as I go to lunch.
I think the setting we're looking for is: "Media Button Pressed"
It had both Music and Pandora listed under mine and I just disabled Music. Maybe it will start pandora for me automatically too now, that would be awesome.
mk8882 said:
nice! got autostarts, I'll try it as I go to lunch.
I think the setting we're looking for is: "Media Button Pressed"
It had both Music and Pandora listed under mine and I just disabled Music. Maybe it will start pandora for me automatically too now, that would be awesome.
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Lemme know how it goes... even though I'm pretty begrudging about running a whole app in the background just to prevent something that should be a standard setting =/
Thinking about it now, I think tasker may be worth it anyways. It can replace the Gentle Alarm process I have running in the background anyways! as well as Keepscreen, could be a net savings actually.
So if anyone has specific information on how to get Tasker to suppress instant play on BT audio connect, instructions would be appreciated
g12345 said:
I fixed this issue by using the autostarts app from the market, then disabling the music app autostart under after startup. It has not done this to me at all since then.
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When I first ran autostarts, the entry under "after startup" was already disabled... Have not used my car yet so will get back with whether it works as I want or not by disabling Music under "Media Button Pressed".
It appears that autostarts does not keep running in the background, but I could be wrong here. Autostarts mentions it can't kill things if they're already started themselves or if they change the settings again, then autostarts cannot check them and disable them again automatically.
Never had this happen, and I use A2DP every day. Sounds to me like a problem with your headset, or better yet, are you using the call/play button on your headset to initiate the connection? Because that'll probably cause this.
mk8882 said:
When I first ran autostarts, the entry under "after startup" was already disabled... Have not used my car yet so will get back with whether it works as I want or not by disabling Music under "Media Button Pressed".
It appears that autostarts does not keep running in the background, but I could be wrong here. Autostarts mentions it can't kill things if they're already started themselves or if they change the settings again, then autostarts cannot check them and disable them again automatically.
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Pretty sure it does keep running because it has a feature to "keep suppressed" seems just like a task manager would do. :-(
drmacinyasha said:
Never had this happen, and I use A2DP every day. Sounds to me like a problem with your headset, or better yet, are you using the call/play button on your headset to initiate the connection? Because that'll probably cause this.
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Yeah as above, probably is the device's fault not android. I do not press any play button on the car - I just connect but perhaps it is pressing play by itself. Stupid Ford
Just curious what bluetooth device do you use?
berardi said:
Pretty sure it does keep running because it has a feature to "keep suppressed" seems just like a task manager would do. :-(
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I have no idea where you see this "feature" listed. Maybe you have a different program installed. I have "Autostarts" by Michael Elsdorfer installed from the market.
It says:
"How does it work? Android allows applications to register for a variety of events supported by the system, to be started whenever such an event triggers.... [And in another section] I've disabled a component, but it sems to have it self enabled again after a while? Yes, applications may enable or disable their own components... Unfortunately, there is no workaround for this."
update on my testing:
1) I have a 2010Ford Fusion Hybrid (w/ nav). I found a setting to autoplay or not when the a2dp device connects (and when the BT device media function is selected). Therefore, I could have disabled the setting right there.
2) Using autostarts to disable the "Music" program from under "Media button pressed" stopped the media player from starting when I don't want it to. (I actually turned autoplay on my car back to enabled)
3) Pandora's listed under "Media button pressed", but it will only start playing if it's open already . Oh well, still more useful than before
4) There is still a fairly annoying/serious issue with BT pairing/A2DP, with Pandora at least, as sometimes after connecting and playing once and the car turning off/on -- It will not work again until I either enable/disable bluetooth manually or reboot the phone.
mk8882 said:
I have no idea where you see this "feature" listed. Maybe you have a different program installed. I have "Autostarts" by Michael Elsdorfer installed from the market.
It says:
"How does it work? Android allows applications to register for a variety of events supported by the system, to be started whenever such an event triggers.... [And in another section] I've disabled a component, but it sems to have it self enabled again after a while? Yes, applications may enable or disable their own components... Unfortunately, there is no workaround for this."
update on my testing:
1) I have a 2010Ford Fusion Hybrid (w/ nav). I found a setting to autoplay or not when the a2dp device connects (and when the BT device media function is selected). Therefore, I could have disabled the setting right there.
2) Using autostarts to disable the "Music" program from under "Media button pressed" stopped the media player from starting when I don't want it to. (I actually turned autoplay on my car back to enabled)
3) Pandora's listed under "Media button pressed", but it will only start playing if it's open already . Oh well, still more useful than before
4) There is still a fairly annoying/serious issue with BT pairing/A2DP, with Pandora at least, as sometimes after connecting and playing once and the car turning off/on -- It will not work again until I either enable/disable bluetooth manually or reboot the phone.
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I have a 2010 Ford Fusion too but I don't have the Navi/Hybrid on mine, I went cheap lol. You have an option for autoplay on your car?? How do you access that?
I only kept the app for a few hours but it was definitely the same app you are talking about. My memory isnt too clear on it but I was pretty sure for each item you could choose to either stop it at startup or keep it stopped - sorry I don't really remember the exact words they used.
Also, by disabling "media button pressed", that solves the problem of BT autostarting music, but what about if you actually want to use the controls, do they work then?
I believe I tested with the startup disabled and the play/stop as well as track forward worked. I'll reconfirm that and post it back here for you later.
The settings for me for autostart in the Sync system were in media->BT device->something like "settings"->autostart (from the LCD). I do not know where you can find a tree for your sync commands. You may be able to change the same setting.
Also, about the autostarts program, here is what I see which makes me think it does not keep a background process running:
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(showed text "Disable" where "Enable" is)
(help page1)
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Overall I think autostarts looks like it could be a very useful program, although I haven't found other uses for it yet
mk8882, Thanks a million for posting that!!! and now that you described where in the menu to go, I will give that a try. So if you disable autostart on the Car, you probably wouldn't even have to do anything on the phone, right?
I must be losing my mind, the program I used before was Startup Auditor, not Autostarts! I will check out Autostarts now that I know it's not what I used before, silly me. lol
I emailed the developer of Autostarts and he confirmed that it does NOT run in the background. It doesn't even run at startup - it directly disables the registrations for those events you choose. That is great... definitely going to keep this program.
berardi said:
Yeah as above, probably is the device's fault not android. I do not press any play button on the car - I just connect but perhaps it is pressing play by itself. Stupid Ford
Just curious what bluetooth device do you use?
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Rockfish RF-MAB2 headphones. Found 'em on NewEggMall for about $36.
Hi, I've been having the same annoyance with a Ford Mondeo with Sony DAB headunit. I haven't managed to find an option to disable the autostart on this, does anyone else know if it is possible on this unit ?

[Q] Google music (v4.0.9) stutters when phone asleep

Hey guys,
Have searched a while, but found no solutions for this, so here goes.
Have stock Galaxy Nexus with ICS 4.0.1, build ITL41F, installed Google Music v4.0.9 (with online sync).
Music is synced with google's online music service (even though I'm in UK, worked-around US-only restriction), and plays nicely when the screen is on. Once I switch the screen off (press power button), one of two things happen:
- if sampling rate of a song is below 48,000 Hz -- everything continues as normal.
- if sampling rate is 48,000Hz and up -- every one/couple of seconds music stutters, and jerks. Feels like I'm listening to dusty ol' record!
The 48kHz part is my theory, compared a few mp3s that stutter and some that don't. This seems to happen irrespective of bps rate and other parameters (albeit haven't checked all).
Few people on the forum with similar symptoms (on other phones) suggested it has something to do with cpu throttle during sleep, and that by forcing it to higher frequencies during sleep this could be solved.
Installed setCPU (which required rooting) and forced phone to 1,200MHz in sleep as a trial, and the songs still were stuttering.
Anyone with a similar experience?
Prime suspect would be google_music.apk which is in beta i believe, and... well, i guess then I'm out. What do you guys think? Any idea what might be causing this?
This is my first android phone, so I'm not sure even how I'd go about submitting a bug, if that's indeed the beta version of music at fault here. Any pointers?
Ta,
Dan
omgrtm said:
Hey guys,
Have searched a while, but found no solutions for this, so here goes.
Have stock Galaxy Nexus with ICS 4.0.1, build ITL41F, installed Google Music v4.0.9 (with online sync).
Music is synced with google's online music service (even though I'm in UK, worked-around US-only restriction), and plays nicely when the screen is on. Once I switch the screen off (press power button), one of two things happen:
- if sampling rate of a song is below 48,000 Hz -- everything continues as normal.
- if sampling rate is 48,000Hz and up -- every one/couple of seconds music stutters, and jerks. Feels like I'm listening to dusty ol' record!
The 48kHz part is my theory, compared a few mp3s that stutter and some that don't. This seems to happen irrespective of bps rate and other parameters (albeit haven't checked all).
Few people on the forum with similar symptoms (on other phones) suggested it has something to do with cpu throttle during sleep, and that by forcing it to higher frequencies during sleep this could be solved.
Installed setCPU (which required rooting) and forced phone to 1,200MHz in sleep as a trial, and the songs still were stuttering.
Anyone with a similar experience?
Prime suspect would be google_music.apk which is in beta i believe, and... well, i guess then I'm out. What do you guys think? Any idea what might be causing this?
This is my first android phone, so I'm not sure even how I'd go about submitting a bug, if that's indeed the beta version of music at fault here. Any pointers?
Ta,
Dan
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That, is weird - because I am facing this with Winamp so I've switched to Google Music to play my music.
Does anyone else face something similar?
Can you do me a favor and play something you know that stutters, and then try it over a bluetooth connection.
I'm curious if this is also related to the static I get when the screen is off and output is analog outputs - digital (bluetooth) works fine.
same here with poweramp... switched to googlemusic... now i have only stutters over the phone speaker..
Same thing happen to me with google music and pandora. Thought it was the connection.
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I get the same using the Music app (have WinAmp but doesn't seem to integrate with the lockscreen so don't use it) as soon as the screen goes off (either timeout or manual) you can hear the music slow down and start to stutter, tap the power button, screen comes on and music goes back to normal.
Have noticed it's not all songs, but have't looked into the differences between those that do and those that don't.
Are these locally stored songs that this is happening on? So far so good here but I have been streaming from the Google Music cloud.. I wonder if the CPU is struggling during the underclocked sleep condition with local files that are high bitrate...
Mine are local files, not tried from another source.
I've used both, streaming from Google cloud, and when songs are available offline in the music app -- still stuttering. Haven't tried any other method though.
As for trying to stream over Bluetooth, haven't got any speakers/earphones that could receive the stream at home. Going to try my luck with a local pcworld, if they let me.
I haven't had any problems with Google Music stuttering while the screen is off, but I have had it crash frequently while listening to music and multitasking. I experienced a similar problem with Rhapsody as well.
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Pyrotechnic said:
I get the same using the Music app (have WinAmp but doesn't seem to integrate with the lockscreen so don't use it) as soon as the screen goes off (either timeout or manual) you can hear the music slow down and start to stutter, tap the power button, screen comes on and music goes back to normal.
Have noticed it's not all songs, but have't looked into the differences between those that do and those that don't.
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totally true! thought my phone was a lemon at first.luckily i didnt return it.
yep having the same exact issue. on speaker its just fine. when i plug in headphones or aux to car stereo and screen goes off it stutters / skips or whatever you want to call it.
Turn the screen on and its fine. However doesnt happen to all music. This was streaming from google music for me.
I'm pretty positive you guys have same exact problem as many other people. So far no one has take my suggestion of playing those same songs that stutter, and play them over bluetooth. I bet you don't get any more stutters. I think it has to do with analog outputs vs digital. To output analog, the phone has to use the DAC (digital to analog converter). When it outputs over bluetooth, there is no conversion, and the music is in digital form and transmitted in digital form
If someone can try this I would appreciate it. And you'd be helping everyone find a common denominator in this problem.
Also be sure to star this bug on google code http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22444#c6
Can someone post an mp3 this is happening to them with? I have a ton of them and I have not seen this problem yet.
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Can someone post an mp3 this is happening to them with? I have a ton of them and I have not seen this problem yet.
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Didn't I PM you a link the other day? I thought it was to you. I didn't click the box to save it to my sent box so I can't just look it up :[
Circling back. I recreated the problem with luxferro's 48KHz mp3. Seems whatever happens on this phone to play mp3 with the screen off cannot handle that sample rate. Any 44.1KHz mp3 works fine.
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There was another thread like this. The current workaround is to enable the Equalizer for Google Music. You don't have to actually use it (leave it on default) but this solves the problem.
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I guess with the eq on its forcing the CPU to get involved even when in low power mode. Unfortunately I believe that was causing other issues with crashing. Since I don't use 48KHz mp3 I'll leave it off.
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For poweramp try settings... Audio engine.. Advanced tweets and change the audio buffer size.
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Having the EQ turned on seems to work, just set it to flat and turned the 3d effect down. Guess it'll use less extra battery than using a 'keep awake' app like I was doing.

Bluetooth streaming issue/ suttering

When I connect Bluetooth to my car and try to stream music it start stuttering/ skipping like crazy, every second or so. I've tried it with multiple apps, Spotify, play music and YouTube same effect. Seems like Bluetooth can't handle the bandwidth. Never had this problem with my Nexus 5.
Anyone else have this issue?
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When I connect Bluetooth to my car and try to stream music it start stuttering/ skipping like crazy, every second or so. I've tried it with multiple apps, Spotify, play music and YouTube same effect. Seems like Bluetooth can't handle the bandwidth. Never had this problem with my Nexus 5.
Anyone else have this issue?
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It's been working great for me. Tried it with my VW Passat, Bose Soundlink Mini, and another Bluetooth speaker. No skipping or audio delays noticed. Usually playing Play Music, YouTube, or iHeartRadio.
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It hasn't been as bad a you describe but I have noticed some stuttering. Not enough to ruin my experience, though.
I got phone on 10-21. I stream Pandora all day in my work truck to a jbl change 2+ and have my bt ear piece for calls connected all day. I have not had one issue
Mine did it the first time I ever used it in my car, and it was unbearable. After day one though, the issue self resolved and I had no problems. I actually noticed it first using navigation over bt
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Yep. I got this several times. Turning off/on Bluetooth was the only way to fix. Not ideal when doing 70 on the motorway.
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Same problem here, it makes bluetooth unbearable in my car. ONLY my car, as I don't have any stuttering on other bluetooth devices. Never had a problem on my Nexus 5, only the 5X.
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For clarity, I am full stock, not rooted or unlocked
I'm having the same issues. It seems the worst when I have Waze running while beyondpod is playing. I don't have guidance enabled, so Waze shouldn't be playing audio.
After streaming for a few days, I don't have this problem anymore. Weird, but I'm glad it's working now. Try what someone posted earlier, just turn off and turn on Bluetooth.
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After streaming for a few days, I don't have this problem anymore. Weird, but I'm glad it's working now. Try what someone posted earlier, just turn off and turn on Bluetooth.
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That didn't solve my issue. Rebooting the phone did, however. There must be a memory leak.
There is a issue opened on the Google code page. I'm not skilled enough with adb to capture the logcat. I am not allowed to post links so just add
p/android/issues/detail?id=193085
To the end of the google code url
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There is a issue opened on the Google code page. I'm not skilled enough with adb to capture the logcat. I am not allowed to post links so just add
p/android/issues/detail?id=193085
To the end of the google code url
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I experienced some stuttering over bluetooth in my toyota camry. Will test it further.
I could not reproduce the stuttering issues again until today when I was streaming music it decided to stutter as I read an email. Rebooted phone and it was fine.
Up the thread.
I just bought bluetooth earphones, I thought they were defective, so I replace them, but i got always the same problem, the sound is stuttering. And after some seconds, it simply goes blank, no sound at all. :/
I tested them on other smartphones and tablet, and they are working great.
I also noticed that if i put the nexus 5x really closed to the earphones (1 cm), it's working nice.
I contact Google, but they kept saying i have to contact the earphones manufacturer (Aukey). But it's clearly a bug with the phone.
There is just one thing I didn't try yet. It's to wipe the phone and flash the last android image (i read somewhere some guys fixed their problem doing this, where ota updates didn't).
Anybody got information or solution?
Thanks

Music randomly skips songs

While listening to music on my op3, it randomly skips ahead songs, even in the middle. Usually it skips about 1-3 songs. This happening to anybody else?
I mostly use rocket player and sometimes google play music, happens in both.
Now that you mention it I think I have the same issue. I thought I had just a few bad downloaded mp3s. I will have to keep an eye now. FWIW...I am using rooted 3.2.2 stock and have viper4android installed.
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I have that happen every once in a while in Google Play Music when I'm streaming music, I've chalked it up to the app/service vs. the phone since it's happened across various ROMs I've flashed. Not familiar with Rocket, so I can't weigh in on that.
Probably unrelated to your situation, but when I had this happen recently it was because I had the forward/back gestures turned on in the settings, and I was unknowningly drawing the gestures ( < and > )on the display when the screen was off, causing the skipping.
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Probably unrelated to your situation, but when I had this happen recently it was because I had the forward/back gestures turned on in the settings, and I was unknowningly drawing the gestures ( < and > )on the display when the screen was off, causing the skipping.
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Yea I had that on for a day and took it off because of that issue. Just double checked and it was still off.
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Song skipping
I have the same problem with song skipping and am currently using Pi music player but songs still skip using Google play music player. I have a one plus 3t which I purchased last month and am wondering what is the best fix for this problem? I have heard that it may be something to do with the Kernel so am wondering when will one plus release a fix for this?
Are you using an adblocker?
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No I'm not using an add blocker
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No I'm not using an add blocker
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It happens when I use adblocker (for me).

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