WMP Issue - Palm Treo Pro

Hi folks,
I'm with 2 annoying problems in my WMP:
1st. sometimes it just freeze (a little freeze) in the middle of the music (ok, I know, screensaver) and other it just slow down.... (in different interval from the 'mini-freezing', even when the screensaver is off
2nd. ok, I'm listening my musics, a music ends and no other starts... when I look in WMP, the player is 'normal', except by the play/pause button that is a little gray and doesnt work, I can change the music manually to the next and it plays normally, and when the musics ends, I have to change again... even if it's on random or repeat-all. But when I use a bluetooth phone it simply doesn't happen. S2P works just fine, but I like homescreen shortcut (I'm in a 6.5 ROM)
I've tried a lot of 6.5 ROMs from different builds and it happens in all of then... even in my stock 6.1!
(in both cases I still have at least 30mb free in cel memory, 100mb free in Expansion Card and 50% RAM Free)
well that's it!
I appreciate any help.

I have both exact problems.
I found turning off the screen saver fixes #1. Rebooting the device fixes #2. For a bit. Then it randomly starts doing it again.
Please, anyone know a fix!

in the 1st case, some musics still have a slowdown even without screensaver...
I'm trying to sync with WMP (in my notebook) to test
(normally I use Windows Explorer)

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Sound skipping with mp3s

I get this random skip while listening to music on my mogul. Many happens when im in a building or library. Quite annoying and almost a show stopper for me. I like to listen to music when i study but the skipping distracts me too much.
Are you using Audio Manager or WMP? Do you have any other programs running in the background? Is it just with MP3's? How about WMA's?
Nope, no other progs running. I use a task manager to check as well. WMP and HTC Audio manager do the same thing. Ist not software specific.
I have found that if i use the task manager application and shut down the 3 running phone tasks it works fine or if i play music after a soft reset.
Why does the phone process/ or task keep running after you are done using your phone? its not present until the phone is used after a soft reset...
That is odd. I have SKTools on my device that keeps everything optimized... plus the true-close x apps. I have TaskManager on my device but I RARELY use it. How many MB's of memory are free while WMP/AudioManager is playing?
It is strange cause I will stream Audio utlizing either players and still play Freecell or surf online without incident. Have you edited your audio/registry settings that would affect either of the Audio Players?
I would guess that when you are in a building or the library, you are losing signal. The phone is attempting re-acquire service when this happens and is taking enough of the CPU to cause the skipping. What version of the radio are you using? I have found 1.40 to be the best choice. (for me) In addition, what bitrate are the mp3's? Does it happen with lower bitrate MP3's?
A couple things to try:
When in a building or the library take note of your signal status.
Also, when in a situation where your music would normally skip, try turning off the radio and then try playing your MP3's.
My signal strength is low. Your right on that. Other things i have noticed, it doesn't do it when i do a soft restart and prior to any calls made. After i make any calls, it starts to skip when playing music.
I opened up my task manager program just to see what was running and there are like 2 or 3 phone processes running. If i terminate them, it plays just fine for some reason.
You used to see this sort of issue back in the day when MP3's had just come out and a regular Pentium was cutting edge. Basically there isn't enough processor and/or memory to go around and this happens.
If you don't already have one, load up a task manager that truly closes programs when you hit X and I think you'll be fine. I've been happy with the HTC Task Manager, alot of people like QuickMenu for this sort of thing as well.
Im using quick menu and its not showing. only with task manger.

Music stops every now and then for less than a second

Hello,
I have noticed that every now and then the music stops for a few ms and then starts again..this happens both with wired headphones and bluetooth ones.
it seems to me that this could depend to the stand by mode...this means that if I start music and leave the telephone on it is fine but if I turn it to stand by mode (switch off screen) it starts doing it.
I have also tried pocketplayer, pocket music and the integrated player and they all act in the same way.
anyone else can confirm this? and if so any solution?
cheers
same issue here!
does this to me too
i just ignore it
Other Players than the HTC one completely stop in Standy.
Test mortplayer or media player if u want.
So do it as u always did on older devices: Turn of Screen instead of tunring device in standby.
Thyraz said:
So do it as u always did on older devices: Turn of Screen instead of tunring device in standby.
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I would if I knew how......advice most welcome
bind a key to display switch, or some Players like Mort or Media Player can assign Turn on/off to a button only as long as theay are running.
I use GSPlayer, no such issues here.
I just turn off screen while listening to shoutcasts or local music.
I use GSPlayer too, but I do have the same issue as eroG
Me too
Have the same problem with mine - a UK T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus, purchased 5 days ago.
Does it with HTC audio manager, media player, and pocket player 3.5.1. Definitely not the MP3s as if you re-wind the file the skip isn't there. Tends to happen about once every 3 to 5 minutes and lasts about 100ms. Slightly less annoying than a skipping CD player, but my 2year old Orange SPV C600 and 4year old SPV C500 don't do it so don't see why this should.
Seems to also affect the Tilt - there's a thread on here about it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...=346407&page=8
Only thing that seems to fix it is a ROM upgrade with a new radio version. Come on T-mobile, sort it out!
Also get stuttering when I push the power button to ender standby, but imagine that's genuine CPU-usage.
00se7en said:
Have the same problem with mine - a UK T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus, purchased 5 days ago.
Does it with HTC audio manager, media player, and pocket player 3.5.1. Definitely not the MP3s as if you re-wind the file the skip isn't there. Tends to happen about once every 3 to 5 minutes and lasts about 100ms. Slightly less annoying than a skipping CD player, but my 2year old Orange SPV C600 and 4year old SPV C500 don't do it so don't see why this should.
Seems to also affect the Tilt - there's a thread on here about it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...=346407&page=8
Only thing that seems to fix it is a ROM upgrade with a new radio version. Come on T-mobile, sort it out!
Also get stuttering when I push the power button to ender standby, but imagine that's genuine CPU-usage.
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thanks for the information. anyway after seeing all the replies mentioning the same issue I started thinking that it had something to do with the phone and
not just me (read bluetooth + phone). anyway I hope that this Radio update becomes available also for us...
or perhaps Tom' rom with wm6.1 does not have this problem...I ll let you know when I update my phone with his rom..unfortunately I ll have to wait until next wednesday as I am abroad for work.
cu
I swapped from the HTC music player to Windows Media Player because of this. It got so bad that my HTC player would stop playing a song right in the middle and I had to restart the song! After switching to Windows Media Player this hasn't been a problem for me.
However, my connection to my BT headset is lost after every phone call which is a real pain.
With Tom's Rom this problem is gone (for me).
I know this thread is quite old already, but didn't want to make a new one. I also experience mp3 glitch on my niki (orange) but the way it happens to me seems to be more in a precise moment of the song rather than once every several minutes. Furthermore it seems not exactly a short pause, but rather a very short fragment of another song from my list playing for less than a second. Interesting thing though: when I copied some of the glitched songs back to my computer, they continued to glitch in the exact same moment. Looks like the phone (or the card maybe?) damaged the files.. It might be a completely different bug, I was wondering what you guys think about it..
After several hours I've figured it. It turned out to be something completely different. Language of the device and windows were different causing difficulties with folder names containing certain symbols. You can ignore this post now.

HTC music player/tab doesnt really work

I tried Coreplayer but it seems that it doesnt work in background on HD2 + the volume rocker are locked, so i cant skip tracks like on Touch HD. The HTC music player is not that bad so I decided to use it with the standard earphones.
It works in background, but after ca 80 seconds it stops playing. I found out that it depend on track how long it plays, but never longer than 100 seconds. Even if the phone and the music tab is on the song stops after a while.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
PS.: It seems like a more major bug, cause Windows Mobile doesnt respond after the first stop. HTC Sense is workin but the Windows key and even taskbar isn workin. All tools are still workin and also the soft keys.
I've tested a lil bit and iit seems that the taskbar problem is caused by tsowens taskbar.
Did anyone know what the loading circle in HTC Music in the top left corner mean? It's loading the whole time even with one song in playlist.

Music playing problem, all Players

Hello,
I have read some posts about that, but I cannot find them right now...
I have problems sometime when playing music (with headset). As long as the screen is on, no problem. When the phone is in sleep mode (screen off), I have some short break... Or the player just stop. It seems the issues is just like if I remove the headset cable.
I have tried Soft and Hard Reset, I have tried two different Headset, I have tried with TouchFlo player Tab, Windows Media Player and Core Player... Some time it works for one hour with no problem, sometime it just play ugly one song and just stop.
Did any one has the same issue? Find a way to suppress this? Maybe just a registry tweak to disable the "Pause on cable off" ?
I have same issue and make ticket to HTC - but they answer is to perform Soft Reset. They can't reproduce this problem.
I'm having the same problem; short random breaks in the music. Did eith er of you install SRSwow by any chance? I may try uninstalling that and see if the issue continues.
Having exactly the same problem, short breaks in the music, and if i lock the screen, the music stops at the end of the song and doesnt go onto the next track
ClownShoes said:
I'm having the same problem; short random breaks in the music. Did eith er of you install SRSwow by any chance? I may try uninstalling that and see if the issue continues.
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I don't installed SRSwow. My last try was a Hard-Reset, and just after first start, I played music... And get the problem. My next try will be to use the #### headset I got with my Leo. But I have to go back home for this.
I had the problem using the Leo headset
All of you have a lock screen with "password"? (I have one due to my exchange policies). I tested a trick yesterday: I manually lock the phone before putting it into sleepmode... and no problem (two times).
My problem hasn't re-occurred since i did a soft reset
Maybe the short breaks have something to do with the update function of the music player? Once in a while, don't know when, but definitely when you use the music player the first couple of times, the player does some heavy working in the background. (indicated by the little merry-go-round in the left upper corner).
Anyway the player isn't any good when you have 100+ albums. Browsing through that many albums is a disaster (no scroll bar, no search function). Also the artist are grouped by "performing artist" and not by "album artist", a tear-breaker when you have many compilation albums. Also, and every player for the WM platform (in contrast to the ipod players) have this weird functionality, albums are sorted by album tiltle and not by artist. Who in heavens name knows all his/her album titles by heart? When a album pops in mind you want to play, you think in terms of .... (that wonderfull) album by Fleetwood Mac for example and /not/ in terms of that album, called "Rumours", by ...... (that crazy rockgroup... what's its name).
But that's "appelflap" talking.
I believe this is a very old problem witch occurs on allot of HTC phones.
I've had this problem on one of my 3 previous HTC phones, cant remember witch one, because I bought a decent mp3 player a long time ago
It's a damn shame really that HTC can't fix this thing.
I have this problem too, but also with the audio cable running to my car stereo. As long as the screen is on, there is no problem. If I turn it off, the music starts breaking up once in a while.
use Nitrogen people! been using that on my HD2 and have had zero music playing pauses / breaks / etc, even with screen off, regardless of whether headset is on or not.
Have a similar problem with another winmo phone. The problem was with listening music on microsdhc (i.e. larger than 2gb microsd card) card.
It seems the device just shut down card reader on standby (Screen Off), so when your buffer is empty (end of the song, as a rule) there is no music to play and it just stops.
And no, I dunno the reason for such behavior. And there was no problem with 2gb or less microsd cards.
P.S. I'll test my leo with 16gb card tonight (just bout it), to see, if there a similar problem.
I have the problem problem with my 8Gb card. I could try with the 2Gb too. This should be the reason for the "stop playing at the end of the track".
But for the playing "short break", I have another thinking: Nitrogen don't have the problem. The most important differences between Nitrogen and WMP/TF3D player is the rule that make the music to pause when removing the headset. And this really "sounds" like a problem of headset, as if the phone "loose" the headset connection. Try to remove and quickly re-plug your phone; you'll se the same issue.
Back to my first question: is there a way to disable the pause on unplug head-set? Maybe in the registry?
I still don't have HD2, but I have these problems on X1.
Nitrogen did not help, in fact it can't play some MP3 at all. It either skips it or crashes completely. But otherwise it is the best player I know.
What does work however, is to use Core player and set 'higher priority during music playback'. Also I tried to change priority to higher using task manager for Nitrogen and it seemed to help, but I did not test it that much to be sure.
I sent this to nitrogen bug tracker (suggestion that it should allow higher priority) but after month there is no reaction.
I fixed my issues by just cleaning up my music and making sure I didn't have more than 30 songs per folder(had ~1000 in one and it made the music player lag like crazy).
i've the problem, but only when receiving or doing a call. after that the lags start ... this is annoying -.-
Having issues as well with HTC music player, it stutters, there are sound artifacts where the song skips, and sometimes a song will stop playing after 2 seconds.
This is so annoying im prepared to send it back. I reformated my 8gb class 6 card, but it´s still the same.
Using another player is fine, no issues. This is classical HTC issues, they need to get the crap together and fix issues like this before the release. Had the same issues with my diamond until they fixed it.
hi everybody! I had the same problem but not in the sleep mode. My htc music will have little break when my Opera loading something.
It is had any way to fix it? thank you
In the settings for the display light there is also an option for "turn off my device if inactive in:" - I disabled that option and my music player (Pocket Player) is now running without problems.

lock phone without stopping music

This may sound stupid, but I want to lock the phone so I don't pump the keys in my pocket, doesn't matter which player I use (core, tcpmp, wmp, htc sense) whenever I lock the phone (press hangup so the screen goes black) the music stops cause the media player shuts down
is there anyway to make a program immune from being shut down by the lock function, because it's really annoying... sorry if this is answered somewhere else, I searched and couldn't find what I was looking for.
SOmething I've also noticed is that whilst it is locked I can still adjust the volume (energy rom mar11 2010 cookie monster)
and pressing the hang up key whilst its locked shuts off the music also...
I have a $20 sansa mp3 player that kicks the hd2's arse for music play back... which is really disappointing, I mean I know its not really a dedicated mp3 player,
but its kind of sad that my $1000 smart phone can't play a few mp3's without shuddering to a hault
The very same microsdhc 16gb class 2 card shifted from my hd2 to my sansa c250v2 running rockbox so its the exact same mp3 and wma files that play perfectly on the sansa that are buggering up on the hd2
I have disabled power management on my sd card as a suggestion from another thread as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5892633&postcount=9
With normal setup this cant be. At least the player in sense tab plays continuosly even when u turn of the screen.
If you cannot find a solution i could know a workaround. Just use the Nitrogen Player. It has a special button for turning the screen off while the music keeps playing.
But i just tried it in my hd2. The music also keeps playing with my windows media player.
So it is a bit strange it stops in every player on your device
And to compare your low budget mp3 player with the hd2 is kinda weird.
The sound quality through the headset is great and full of bass AND fully customizable.
Maybe you tweaked your device way too much as there seems to be more than one prob in there (changing volume while locked, ...)
kilrah said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5892633&postcount=9
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this looked very promising, installed, soft reset, 3 times, no luck, song still stops, although I did note that it stopped and started a few times and then just gave up, then when I went back into the player after unlocking, there was no sound still but the time for the song was still ticking along.
this happens on 2 other hd2's at my work, and my old hd2 before I returned it for other warranty issues, both with the stock telstra rom and with other cooked roms, exact same problem of the music disappearing when locked..
update S2U2 and S2P work AWESOME and dont wipe out the sound... its kinda uggo and I lose a lot of functionality of the old unlock slider, but now I have flawless music playback, so.... thats good... a shame I can't have both
of course.... just to make a liar out of me.... coreplayer now runs while the phone is locked....um so... something I did either the reg tweak or installing and then removing s2u2 or installing s2p has fixed this issue... coreplayer now plays, whilst the phone is locked with the regular htc sense lock screen after pressing hang up....
so YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
I hit the windows key and then the lock link at the bottom. Takes a minute for the screen to turn off that way, but better than leaving it on the whole time.
If you press the hangup button to lock it, the phone goes into standby and all apps are suspended.
You really have a problem with your ROM, some program you use or whatever. Normally the Sense music player, WMP, S2P, PocketPlayer, Kinoma,... all continue to play when hitting the power key. Coreplayer and TCPCM don't, and that gets fixed by the cab I linked above.
I can do that with the FM radio , coreplayer and windows media player .
I just lock the phone , but the music keeps playing , even for more than 10 hours ( When I sleep , I keep the headsets on and the music on , and lock the phone put in the case and in the drawer and still can listen to music. )
Edit : Also the sense music works
kilrah said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5892633&postcount=9
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doesn't this also disable "cpu sleep" everytime youpress power button making the device drain a lot of battery even during standby? I may be wrong, but that's how I understand the registry setting in that cab
What the ...!
I can lock my screen by the hang up button? And no, my music does not stop. On stock WWE -Rom. But, I had this issue on my Blackstone
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doesn't this also disable "cpu sleep" everytime youpress power button making the device drain a lot of battery even during standby? I may be wrong, but that's how I understand the registry setting in that cab
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You've read my threads enough to know it's the first thing I checked, and I'd have complained instead of saying thanks if I had seen an issue with that
From what I understand it will prevent standby as long as the WAV1 interface is in use (i.e sound is playing).
I always lock my device using the Hang Up button .. does this effect anything ?
Nope, it's normal. But with Coreplayer if you do that without the hack above it stops playing music.
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You've read my threads enough to know it's the first thing I checked, and I'd have complained instead of saying thanks if I had seen an issue with that
From what I understand it will prevent standby as long as the WAV1 interface is in use (i.e sound is playing).
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d'oh, it could be useful whenever I want to lock on mortplayer, if I press power button it will also stop playback. Let's try that.
EDIT: So far so good, testing mA suction while playing on standby and while on "normal" standby.
EDIT2: So far NOT so good, locking with power button on mortplaying in playback, once stopped playback, and just now locked the whole phone on the lock screen. Uninstalling
yeah so that cab didn't help core player on my hd2 using the mar11 energy rom and 2.08 radio
but just playing musik with the s2p player, when you hit the hangup key it doesnt actually lock the phone traditionally, it kind of over rides the hangup keys function and just does a screen blank out controlled within s2p, which isn't too bad because the music keeps playing, but yeah, I definitely can't get coreplayer to stay playing with or without this cab installed.
Just a shame s2p doesnt have an equaliser or bass control or any advanced audio functions.
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way to go, moron, your little registry crack somehow made all the speakerphone sounds (ringtones, music, notifications) come out of my EARPIECE!
check your crap .cabs before you post them,, thinking you kno what you're doing.
and if this wasn't your creation, pass the massage on to the maker, sorry. =] but seriously guys, be smart. check your registry edits a few times over before telling other people to do it, as a result to someone's stupidity, i now have to reflash the rom, because i have no clue what registry that little POS .cab file edited. D:
god, some people, i swear.
i had the same issue and posted in the energy rom thread. A great guy there advised to disable the cookie lock screen and revert to the normal one. That resolved my issue so i am sure it will do likewise for you.

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