Ive been messing around with my brothers EVO and have noticed that when playing audio in the default music player or even music players from the market they will not resume from where they are left off after being paused. They start from the beginning.
Has anyone else encountered this, or any ideas?
I've noticed this as well, but it happens with the Sense music widget, not the actual music player. There is a difference.
For example, if you downloaded an audio track from a website, and once the DL completes you tap on the notification bar, it opens the music widget instead of the full app.
Hope this helps. I don't experience this issue when using the music app.
EVO 2.2 w/3.29
Yup, thats it, hmmm what a mild inconvenience
Problem is with 3.29. I also noticed some stuttering in certain music apps.
Since i listen to a bunch of podcasts and because of some other problems i noticed, I've gone back to 3.26-with netarchy's kernels it works just as well (if not better).
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
I don't think it's a 3.29 issue. I've tried different roms.
Currently I'm using refined 1.04 and the music player resumes just as it should. I tried Azrael X and the music player will start from the beginning instead of resuming where it was paused.
I assume the music player needs to sore it's bookmark somewhere. Anyone have an idea where that might be? And, what's different between these 2 roms that accounts for the difference in unpausing?
Hey,
i currently own 2 DHDs.
However when i listen to music and i fast-forward or rewind a song, theres a strange noise. Happens at all songs.
So it seems like that's happening on every DHD.
How can you fix that?
Tested with stock player and winamp,
stock rom + Leedroid,
stock sd cards + stock tracks
So I finally got round to trying out the navigation whilst playing music on my One X, which worked fantastically on the old Desire.
1) I connect to my car radio via an FM transmitter which works really well however the beat audio distorts the base horrifically. I tried on really low volumes on the One X as well.
2) Both the nagivation and music appears to be playing at different volumes and I couldn't find anywhere to set these.
3) The most annoying was that the navigation cuts off the music about 5 seconds before it starts talking. It then says the usual "In x number of meters", then pauses for another 5 seconds before completing the sentance. It actually cuts straight back to the music, but the whole process end to end can take up to 30 seconds. My old GARMIN SatNav used to pause the music whilst it navigated so you never lost any of the song, whereas the One X keeps on playing in the background.
Anyone got any fixes or work arounds for any of these please, as this functionality is really useful
Thanks
I noticed that while using the default player for music the time indexing in the song gets screwed up if I lock my phone and then go back in. It appears to lose count of where I am in the song and when I go back to look at it is is always behind where it actually is. It will end with anywhere from 20 to 50 seconds remaining in the song according to it (for example I start a song, lock the screen and wait a minute, then go back and it says the song has only been playing for 20 seconds), it then proceeds to skip that remaining time and go to the next song so it doesn't effect the playback of music at all but is more of a nuisance. I have checked with other music apps (like Google Play Music) and this problem does not occur and am posting this because I have had trouble finding people with the same issue, any help would be greatly appreciated. (In regards to software, it is all stock)
I have experienced this too, even on a stock system. Sorry to say, but you may be stuck waiting for HTC to fix that bug.
Sorry to say, but it is quite foolish to buy hima M9 and then to use so called stock player..
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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...