I'm starting to experiment with 3rd party apps for music. With the stock apps when you load up a new one it knows to shut off the audio stream, but will play on the home screen and during nav. When I use poweramp though I can get the radio playing and the mp3 from power amp running at the same time. Is there a way to tell it to stop an audio stream when specific apps start?
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Not sure the best place to ask this...when you've got your epic connected to a AVRCP-capable device (like a bluetooth headset with a play/pause button), the play button is capable of having the epic launch an app in order to play something is nothing is open.
My question is, what, in the Epic's software, determines the priority of which app gets launched, out of all the various playback apps you might have?
Some background: I mostly use my BT headphones for podcast listening on the go. I set up Tasker to launch Google Listen on phone startup (and then immediately go back to desktop) so that the app is in recent apps list. Then, if I put the play button on my headphones, Listen will launch and my podcast will start playing. If I want to switch over to pandora, I manually close Listen (using the back button) and launch pandora. Now my headphones control the play/pause on Pandora without trying to launch listen instead, which is what they might do if I had both apps open.
The problem comes in that I installed the Google Music beta app (this is different from the Music app that comes with the Epic, for clarity) so that I could access my music from the cloud. This app seems to take priority over all others. If I launch it, even once, it will always bypass Listen from then on, even if I manually close, it, kill the service, and dump the phone's ram. The only way I can switch the phone back to Listen app mode is to manually freeze Music with Titanium backup.
This is really annoying.
So, yeah, my question is, what on the phone makes it determine that launching the Music app is preferable to resuming the Listen app?
I find this extremely annoying too (because I have to pull over to fix it) so I only have miui player installed, not quite the answer but this sounds interesting would like t know as well
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Hi there. First off I'm wondering if anyone else sees this as a problem. I have Bluetooth stereo headphones with A2DP (pause/play, next, previous buttons). When I leave my house I tend to grab my headphones, throw them around my head and switch them on. Unless a music player (like the stock Google one) is already running in the background, pressing play on the headphones doesn't do anything until I actually open a music player app. This is rather frustrating especially if I've got gloves on already or if I've thrown my Note II into my pack.
Is there anything I can do to basically make sure that a music player is already running or will start up on and A2DP connection and/or A2DP button press? I've searched for music player apps that simply stay backgrounded but haven't found anything that actually works. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Hi there. First off I'm wondering if anyone else sees this as a problem. I have Bluetooth stereo headphones with A2DP (pause/play, next, previous buttons). When I leave my house I tend to grab my headphones, throw them around my head and switch them on. Unless a music player (like the stock Google one) is already running in the background, pressing play on the headphones doesn't do anything until I actually open a music player app. This is rather frustrating especially if I've got gloves on already or if I've thrown my Note II into my pack.
Is there anything I can do to basically make sure that a music player is already running or will start up on and A2DP connection and/or A2DP button press? I've searched for music player apps that simply stay backgrounded but haven't found anything that actually works. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Have you tried poweramp music app? Its always work for me when I push play button on my lg bluetooth headset. I don't use stock music app.
Hi,
So I stumbled across a way of consistently getting the "sound enhancement" working in third party apps, thought I'd share.
This will give you access to the normalization for greater volume, and the clearsound, equaliser etc.
1 )Leave headphones unplugged
2) Open the App you wish to listen to music from.
3) Turn screen off
4) Insert headphones
5) Turn screen back on
Works for me with Google music, spent some time experimenting and it works for me.
I have the smartconnect tool set to launch google music on inserting headphones, I don't know if this is having any effect or not. Share your results
Doesn't work for me
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First off, yes I've seen the other posts about this but have yet to find a solution.
This seems to only happen on certain songs (though it MAY have been that it has but there's at least one second of silence at the end of the mp3).
This only happens when the phone is locked. When the phone is on and the screen is in the music player it plays fully. I have readded files via directly from the computer so it is not corrupted.
This is very frustrating as I would like to hear the end of these songs that don't have at least one second of silence and I cannot leave my phone on, as the battery of the new phone drains quickly even in sleep mode with all applications/notifications off. I have only bought this phone in either october or november of 2014 and it is only march of 2015.
Most problems are fixed with a simple google search except for this one, and this one is particularly frustrating as music is what I use the phone for most.
-Thank you for your time,
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Stock music app has a somewhat built in fade crossfade and gapless audio tuning. You'll need to find a 3rd party Music app that modifies these values. Personally, I use Apollo, which is CM11's music player. Both TW and AOSP doesn't have problems but it doesn't have the above I mentioned.
Winamp, vlc player, poweramp are really good players and has the tunings available ( trial vers. and free limited )
Does anyone know if there is a way (running Malaysk ROM) to make starting music programs (e.g. I use Spotify, MS Groove, podcast players) to switch the MCU mixer to music?
For example - Currently when I am listening to radio and I want to listen to Spotify, Groove or a podcast player next I click the corresponding icon in the launcher but the radio remains on so I have to open the launcher a second time and click Music to turn off the radio/switch android feed to stereo. I would like clicking the Spotify, Groove, etc. icons to do that automatically.
I'd be interested in this as well. I thought that I could do this with Tasker, basically kill the radio app when spotify starts but I don't know what app to kill to make the radio stop.
Killing apps won't help with anything. We need something to switch the MCU audio.
I was operating under the impression that the radio audio stream was coming from an app. However the radio being a hardwired audio input seperate from the Android audio stream would explain why when I reboot the HU the radio keeps playing while it reboots.
I found my solution. I upgraded to a Dasaita MDCD PX5 (OctaCore) with Android 6 and it switches automatically - i.e. Hitting the play button on Spotify turns off the radio, pressing the radio button while Spotify is playing pauses Spotify and so on