Does anyone else notice completely random songs appearing in their Now Playing history?
I definitely haven't been within earshot of any of the ones in mine!!
The way the songs are detected can lead to false hits. It listens to background sounds and looks for the audio signature of a set of songs. I believe when the Pixel 2 came out with this feature it had ~100,000 songs in a database stored on device. It basically creates a "fingerprint" of an audio segment (or segments) for a song and if the phone hears something and it matches that fingerprint, it will show that on your screen. Sometimes it gets things wrong because sounds in every day life sound like songs. There are videos of people using electric toothbrushes, printers, scanners, etc that making whirring or screeching sounds come up as techno songs, for example.
Cover songs and songs that sample older songs can lead to false hits too.
I was in church and there was a guy chanting.
Google popped up with Madonna
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This problem just started today but it's annoying. I'm playing the Usher, Trey Songz, Keith Sweat stations and it plays rock music every other song. Rock has nothing to do with the genre R&B. I have nothing against rock but today is a smooth day for me and Pandora is ruining the mood.
It's trying to tell you to listen to better music
Yeah well Coldplay shouldn't be playing in the Usher station. I listen to Rock but I'm not feeling it today. It's just annoying that every other song is a rock song.
listen to some real music
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Ahh everyone already beat me to it.
I find Pandora's algorithms dubious at best. I use it mostly for electronic music and it does a horrible job. Gives me trance or even happy hardcore when the station is a minimal techno DJ, other stuff like that. Since they claim that the algorithms actually compare the quantifiable metrics that define a music style, I find it surprising that it does such a poor job at comparing music that is typically so easy to compartmentalize into subgenres.
Also a random thought but I would love to be able to use SubSonic (which streams your own music collection from your desktop) along with a Pandora-like algorithm shuffle to play my own music, shuffled, of a certain style. Sounds dumb but I literally have more music than I could listen to in my lifetime (ok, maybe not literally) and I would love to be able to "discover" some of that music without the crappy Pandora bitrate or the ads.
Why don't you folks try using the thumb up / thumb down buttons to tune the station song choices?
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what can we do its free right
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Every few weeks, Pandora seems to inject the database with a huge stack of new music. (New as in, they didn't have it before, not new as in recently recorded.)
Rock may not be R&B, but maybe the backing sound of the track is why someone added tags that caused the engine to play that particular song.
I've been a Pandora user for years and my channel list has been maxed at 100 for as long as I can remember. I use the thumbs up/down buttons a lot and I've got the system trained pretty well for my use. But every so often some track will sneak in where I ask "..the hell did that one come from?"
I always hit thumbs down but the same song plays the next day. I took me over 20 skips yesterday to actually hear a song from Usher. I was wanting to listen to "DJ got us falling in love" and it never played. I ended up DL'ing it through Music Junk.
Pandora isn't a playlist application in that it usually can't be targeted to play a specific track. Because if you ask for a certain track, it will just consider it a seed and build a new station around it.
Setting a track to thumbs down should make it so you never hear it again. Odd that you would. Unless the free version is acting strangely.
Along with thumbs down, you can also choose the "don't play this track again for a month" in the song menu. Then you definitely won't hear it again, at least for a few weeks.
Sounds like you'd be better off with Slacker or Finetune so you can build a specific playlist.
I have created and sync'd some play lists onto my phone using mediamonkey and the other day I noticed that if I look at the list of tracks that three of them have an ! in front of the track and not a note like the others. When being played these ! tracks are skipped like they are not valid or something.
I've looked at the properties of the MP3 and can see nothing different from other tracks. The failed tracks are all 128 bitrate encoded and I thought that this might be the problem but there are other tracks that it will play that are also 128.
Anyone else had this problem..?
Greetings. Im hoping someone might be able to help me with a very annoying problem im having.
I have somewhere around 2000 music tracks, all of which are uploaded to Google Music. Ive had GMusic since they first announced the beta and i love the fact that my entire library is everywhere I go. I also love that i can download the tracks directly on my phone, from my phone.
However using the app to play music is horrible. In the past i used poweramp, which is a wonderful player. My main problem with Google Music is it audibly cuts the power from the headphone jack in between tracks, so when i have it hooked up to my car stereo i hear a pop when the track changes... which annoys me to utter hell. On top of that it behaves weirdly some times, for example i had it set to shuffle all the other day, and it would stop on every song, and i would have to hit play manually to go to the next song.
What i would like to do is go back to using PowerAmp, but be able to manage my music as easily as i do with GMusic. Problem is that, PowerAmp doesnt see the music i download from the GMusic app and the one time it did, all the meta-data wasnt there. So all poweramp said was "Unknown track 1".
The other side of the problem is managing it on my computer. Since i bought music from Itunes and Google Music, keeping everything organized has become a nightmare(i have a number of compilations, and when you download the music from google music, it organizes it by artist not by the album). Which is why i dont want to have to manually move files to my phone. Ive tried WinAmp and Double Twist, and both have their annoyances. I was wondering what other people do, maybe someone can make my life easier.
subsonic, streams from your PC, no need to upload it to the cloud and it the UI is not bad either. it can also cache your streams for offline play
Hello all,
I love the audio quality on CM, however ever since using it on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus, the audio on Spotify has constantly popped and stuttered and sputtered and whatever other word you want to use when playing through the headphone jack.
I feel like I've tried everything outside of switching ROMs. Tiny Kernel, Franco Kernel, CPU Governors, etc etc etc, doesn't matter.
I've also done search after search after search, and I feel like I'm completely alone in having this issue. I can't find anyone asking about this anymore, now that Spotify claims to have fixed it in an app release months ago (which makes me think it isn't necessarily Spotify's fault, but who knows).
I should mention that this does not happen with Pandora or Songza, for instance. Only Spotify and TuneIn.
Of course, it doesn't seem to be a coincidence that both Pandora and Songza process the audio in some different way from Spotify and TuneIn, since normal use of CM's DSP Manager has no effect on those apps but does work on Spotify.
So, is there anyone else out there who has this issue with CM (or other ROMs)?? At this point I'm just hoping there are others out there who have had this problem just so it isn't an "only my phone" issue -- because those ones have no hope of being fixed.
I have the same problem, running stock 4.2.2 on my Galaxy Nexus. I think it's a device problem, not an app/background process problem.
I don't use TuneIn so I can't speak to the quality of its streams, but I have used Rdio, Slacker, Pandora and Google Play Music and they all play flawlessly.
ONLY Spotify plays audios with occasional snaps, crackles and pops, like a bowl of Rice Krispies. Some songs will play without a blip, some with a few, some with many. The songs are not interrupted...just marred by this defect. And it's never the same way twice with the same song.
It happens whether the song is streaming, or playing locally.
My guess is that the Nexus has difficulty playing Ogg Vorbis files, which is the format for Spotify streams and downloads. As far as I know, the other services I mentioned stream in AAC or MP3. While the Nexus supports Ogg Vorbis, it appears it does not support it very well. I'm going to test this theory by transcoding one of my Apple Lossless audio files to Ogg and then uploading it to the Nexus. My hunch is that it will demonstrate the same issues.
I guess we should consider ourselves lucky; before Jelly Bean the Nexus suffered from more dramatic playback problems. Do a Google search on "Music Stutters when playing long files and screen off: Galaxy Nexus" and read through it. There are a couple of posts that deal specifically with Ogg playback.
I've decided to live with it. I've been hopping from music service to music service trying to find the right one, and I always come back to Spotify. As long as the issue doesn't become more severe, I think I can re-program my brain to tolerate it.
Skyh said:
Hello all,
I love the audio quality on CM, however ever since using it on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus, the audio on Spotify has constantly popped and stuttered and sputtered and whatever other word you want to use when playing through the headphone jack.
I feel like I've tried everything outside of switching ROMs. Tiny Kernel, Franco Kernel, CPU Governors, etc etc etc, doesn't matter.
I've also done search after search after search, and I feel like I'm completely alone in having this issue. I can't find anyone asking about this anymore, now that Spotify claims to have fixed it in an app release months ago (which makes me think it isn't necessarily Spotify's fault, but who knows).
I should mention that this does not happen with Pandora or Songza, for instance. Only Spotify and TuneIn.
Of course, it doesn't seem to be a coincidence that both Pandora and Songza process the audio in some different way from Spotify and TuneIn, since normal use of CM's DSP Manager has no effect on those apps but does work on Spotify.
So, is there anyone else out there who has this issue with CM (or other ROMs)?? At this point I'm just hoping there are others out there who have had this problem just so it isn't an "only my phone" issue -- because those ones have no hope of being fixed.
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My theory was incorrect. I used XLD to transcode Boston's "Hitch A Ride" from Apple Lossless to Ogg Vorbis (VBR, quality 4.0), then put the file on my phone. I used Winamp to play the file and it played beautifully.
So I'm thinking there's something specific with Spotify's encoding that the Nexus doesn't like.
What's odd is that I have run Spotify on other mobile devices and have never had an issue. That's why I have trouble putting the blame on them.
OP, after checking many Google leads, posts, etc. I believe--for Spotify anyway--I have found a way to stop (or at least greatly reduce) the Rice Krispies.
If you have Google Play Music on your phone, make sure it's fully updated and then launch it.
Within Play Music, go to Settings, then select Equalizer.
Turn the equalizer on, select the Normal preset, and move the Bass Boost and 3D Effect sliders all the way to the left to turn them off...unless you like them on.
Back out of Google Play Music to the home screen, then launch Spotify.
Go to Settings within Spotify, choose Audio Effects and verify the Equalizer is OFF in that app.
Using this combination of settings/conditions, I have heard just a couple of pops over a string of a half-dozen songs. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it lasts.
I'm guessing that having the Google Play Music equalizer on, some additional processing is taking place that alleviates whatever is causing the popping to occur.
Good luck!
Anyone had an issue where the speakers have some popping, for me specifically when I'm watching videos that predominantly have just spoken dialogue. One example being the world of Warcraft Q n A from today on twitch. Another a video my company put out telling the company about upcoming events.
Speakers are 100% fine though with music and other videos and YouTube stuff though.
It also seems like this happens in mainly videos playing in chrome through the site instead of the app.
i have same issue on some vids and apps.... when this happens reduce your volume and popping will stop
Sometimes it's the source material/bitrate causing this.
The way it was recorded does not mesh with what's being used to play it back.
Find a high quality MP3 of voice and see if you're still popping.
CZ Eddie said:
Sometimes it's the source material/bitrate causing this.
The way it was recorded does not mesh with what's being used to play it back.
Find a high quality MP3 of voice and see if you're still popping.
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And even the amount of gain that the sound files are encoded with.
Gain, I think that's actually what I was trying to think of as the primary suspect.