Hi guys. I'm using a stock unrooted One X. It has been running jelly bean since december but a bug came up since a few weeks ago. When I play a song on the stock music player, it would play for less than 10 seconds then it would fast forward or skip to the next song and the bug would happen all over again. This has gotten to the point where its impossible for me to listen to music without feeling very annoyed. This problem doesn't seem to occur when I play the music through the speaker so I'm guessing Beats Audio is causing this. Just a guess though. Anyway I've tried a bunch of things to solve the problem but nothing seems to work. Any help would be appreciated.
MaxdyTeo said:
Hi guys. I'm using a stock unrooted One X. It has been running jelly bean since december but a bug came up since a few weeks ago. When I play a song on the stock music player, it would play for less than 10 seconds then it would fast forward or skip to the next song and the bug would happen all over again. This has gotten to the point where its impossible for me to listen to music without feeling very annoyed. This problem doesn't seem to occur when I play the music through the speaker so I'm guessing Beats Audio is causing this. Just a guess though. Anyway I've tried a bunch of things to solve the problem but nothing seems to work. Any help would be appreciated.
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Have you tried to clear data of music app ?
Yes I did. I also installed Poweramp and the problem happens there too.
The weird thing about this bug is that it doesn't happen every time. I was listening to music for about 2 hours today and everything was fine. But I'm sure it will happen again.
MaxdyTeo said:
Yes I did. I also installed Poweramp and the problem happens there too.
The weird thing about this bug is that it doesn't happen every time. I was listening to music for about 2 hours today and everything was fine. But I'm sure it will happen again.
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Well, the only thing that's getting in my mind is to make factory reset.
did you try listening to music with beats audio turned off? that may help narrow down the problem...
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...
So my pixel 2 xl will randomly stop playing things such as YouTube videos, Facebook videos and even music on apps such as Pandora and Spotify. It's like I'm pausing the videos/music.. I can click the play button again and it will start playing fine for a minute or so before it does the pause thingy again..
Does anyone have any idea on what could be causing this?
Same issue
I have the same issue, it just started a few days ago. I called Google support but they were unable to figure it out.
I have the same problem after the Feb Update. Did a clean install so Idk.
On Poweramp, it's very less noticeable bc of it's grand processing power but on every other media platform like YT, Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud it's very irritating like an RF disturbance. Ruins the listening experience. If you're not able to notice it in songs then play any non-music YT video while the enhancer is turned on, you'll immediately and apparently notice. Please tell me a solution to this.
Same. It's definitely a software issue as I been listening to a podcast in Podcast Addict on headphones without any crackling and then it gets triggered when I go to check an email or something similar on the phone. Other times it seems to be there from the start of a listening session. Does it stop for you if you turn off the enhancer? I'll have to check to see if mine is on. I get it across speaker and headphones.
I face that problem what is the solution for that plse tell me..any solution there plse tell me
kegokul said:
I face that problem what is the solution for that plse tell me..any solution there plse tell me
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After the MIUI 12 update, the problem vanished away for me at least..
th1nd said:
After the MIUI 12 update, the problem vanished away for me at least..
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Bro iam using redmi note 10 pro..in that miui 12 only still facing that crackling sound is there any solution for that
th1nd said:
After the MIUI 12 update, the problem vanished away for me at least..
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Bro iam using redmi note 10 pro..in that miui 12 only...still iam facing that crackling sound..is there any solution for that
This is happening to me after updating Xiaomi Mi 9 SE to Android 10 two days ago. Whenever i use stock music player, Google Music or Black Player the tracks are omitting the first second and plays like that while being in a que. It's really annoing and i hope that you have a solution for that :laugh: