Not 100% sure if this should be in Q&A or apps, but I'll take a shot...
I like using Music instead of NemoPlayer for some reason. I think it sounds better, however silly that may be. However, in shuffle mode (haven't tried it off shuffle), if the screen is off, when a song ends, it can take anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple minutes before the next song starts playing. As soon as I unlock the screen, the next song will start.
So I have a couple questions...
1. Obviously, is anyone else experiecing the same thing? and...
2. Is there an even better app for music listening? I tried Doubletwist, and while it does have a nice interface and I like the idea of the PC app and its sync feature, it (the PC app) kept crashing on my 120gb, 24,000 song iTunes library, so I uninstalled it.
I would like to start in shuffle mode too. If it's in Music, I haven't found it. I have to start playing a song, then I can turn shuffle on.
HC 3.1
Acer_A500_4.010.13_COM_GEN2
The delay switching songs sounds like the cpu was throttled down to the point it had issues. When the screen is on, the cpu doesnt throttle down so much.
Sorry to get a bit off topic, but what is battery life like listening to music on this tablet? By listening to music, I mean exclusively listening to it, not listening, browsing, and gaming all at the same time
You can go literally days only listening to music. I last charged it Wednesday night, and still have over 70%. I did a little surfing yesterday afternoon.
Oh, and I found shuffle... at the top of the song list.
The odd thing about the pause is that it doesn't do it if I'm listening to music using NemoPlayer.
Here is a similar issue. Infortunately without solution : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15759232#post15759232
Hope this helps.
Siso
So, I followed suit with alot of you and got my 50gb of storage from box.com....which is freaking awesome because I use box to share study guides and old tests with my pharmacy school colleagues anyway...
And now I'm trying to make the best use of it. The 100mb limit or whatever basically limits me to music, which is FINE. When I'm driving or studying THAT'S when I want to stream my techno/trance/electronic music, BUT
1) the stupid xperia car dock. everytime I plug in my phone to my car charger it thinks its in a dock, which is probably the most annoying thing on the planet. Especially because its so obnoxious it stays LOCKED like that forever afterwards
2) ok BESIDES the car dock issue, the 3G streaming for box: HOW do you keep the music playing/buffering/loading AFTER your screen turns off? I know this is an elusive question from doing alot of googling but does anyone have a fix?
its so weird because the FIRST time I stream off the box: I load up song, it begins, I put phone down, screen turns off 30 sec later, song keeps playing
but after that first time, everything goes to crap: I load up song, it begins, as soon as screen turns off it plays whatever few seconds it had buffered then STOPS. if i turn screen back on it BACKS out of the music player and back to ES media player (is this what you guys are using to stream off the box?)
so is the only real solution to the crappy functionality of box.com media streaming to FORCE the screen to STAY on and then I guess plug in charger so your phone doesn't hemorrhage itself to death?
I'm working on getting a Tversity media server all set up and that will be nice, but even for the times my computer isn't set up with my router and such, it'd be nice to have a solid 50GB in the cloud to stream some music for those long car rides...
Is it just me or anyone running Spotify notice that there seem to be some bugs recently...
I noticed that the Spotify notifications disappear every once and awhile while music is playing. I'm wondering if this is something that was introduced into 6.0 or what. Anyone have any ideas? I can open spotify check back an hour later and it's still playing but I have to switch back to the app and the notification comes back. This is pretty frustrating when trying to stop the music from running. It can also happen after 20 minutes it seems...
Another issue is that I receive a phone call but the music starts playing in earpiece or bluetooth while the phone is occurring. Combine this with issue 1 and you have a difficult situation here...
I have had the notification disappear once or twice, but more commonly I am using the phone and swipe Spotify out of my recents (I do it A LOT on accident because I my recent apps clean) and it will continue to play. I have to then open Spotify and wait for it to show what is playing at the bottom, then swipe it out again and it stops.
Last night was the first time I've had it mess up with a phone call. I was in my car and it was dark and raining, I was driving downtown and not really wanting to talk on the phone anyway, but I hit answer on the handsfree in my car. The music started playing through the phone audio in my car. My car only has bluetooth for phone calls so I use a bluetooth A2DP dongle to feed the 3.5mm line in port on the stereo. The music was clearly playing over the phone because it was of much poorer quality than the A2DP device. I only let it play for a second or two before I hung up on the person because it was probably BLASTING on their end.
I don't get a ton of phone calls, let alone when music is playing, but that's the first time I've had that particular issue.
I also get this strange thing where sometimes when playing bluetooth and disconnect it will start playing out of my stereo which can be embarrassing if you're at work! All the issues seem random so hopefully they go away or get patched.
Ditto, I am having a ton of issues with Spotify on my N6P. Music just stops playing, I have to open the app, hit pause and then hit resume for it to start playing sound again.
I am also having the same issue with music playback suddenly stopping. I have to pause it and hit play again. But it then stops playing again every 30 seconds. I am using an aux cord in my car but frankly I am quite annoyed.
I’m having the issue with the lock screen widget/notification disappearing sometimes, it's especially annoying when in my car and I want to skip/repeat a track and the widget disappears. My guess it's a marshmallow issue and should be fixed with an update to the app.
similar issues for me here now. guess we just need to wait for an app update.
smeiff said:
Is it just me or anyone running Spotify notice that there seem to be some bugs recently...
I noticed that the Spotify notifications disappear every once and awhile while music is playing. I'm wondering if this is something that was introduced into 6.0 or what. Anyone have any ideas? I can open spotify check back an hour later and it's still playing but I have to switch back to the app and the notification comes back. This is pretty frustrating when trying to stop the music from running. It can also happen after 20 minutes it seems...
Another issue is that I receive a phone call but the music starts playing in earpiece or bluetooth while the phone is occurring. Combine this with issue 1 and you have a difficult situation here...
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My Spidey senses tell me is has something to do with doze, my N6P stops Spotify every time it's put into my pocket, recent Spotify update hasn't fixed anything???
Radar900 said:
My Spidey senses tell me is has something to do with doze, my N6P stops Spotify every time it's put into my pocket, recent Spotify update hasn't fixed anything???
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Doze won't activate if your phone is in your pocket. It only triggers when the device is sitting completely still for some time. I have had Spotify repeatedly pause itself when my battery was very low (<10%) before, though. I would press play and as soon as the screen shut off, it would pause again. I didn't turn off battery optimization for Spotify explicitly yet, but mine doesn't seem to be acting up as much as it was before.
It just occasionally removes the ongoing notification but launching and exiting the app again restores it every time.
Issue with all music playback on any app
awatson88 said:
Ditto, I am having a ton of issues with Spotify on my N6P. Music just stops playing, I have to open the app, hit pause and then hit resume for it to start playing sound again.
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I have the 6p and now music will randomly stop playing with any music app if connected via 3.5mm.
Same issue here with music still on phone calls.
Use Pioneer BT head unit in the car and stream Music and Calls over it. Use Spotify premium with all music offline.
I have posted on the Spotify forums but so far have not seen any replies that will fix the issue.
One person recommended uninstalling and reinstalling the application, however I don't really want to have to download 6GB of music again...
I am also experiencing these issues. Waiting on updates to Marshmallow and/or Spotify to fix them... It is quite frustrating though.
i've now experience some similar issues. just waiting on an update like everyone else.
I've had the disappearing notification, as well as audio dropouts while listening via wired headset and Bluetooth (though that one might be caused by Viper4Android - not sure)
My Spotify + Nexus 6P issue is when I'm listening to music and then I press the app drawer. I momentarily lose sounds for a very short period of time, not even a second, split second maybe. Though it is intermittent, it kinda bugs me out.
While listing to music from the stock music player with eq the phone does not go into deep sleep is this normal? I had been listening to 1-2hrs music today and yesterday and both times the same pattern was seen. I have tried restarting it and even tried to restore it but still no deep sleep when music is playing from stock music player
Is this normal ?
Why would the phone enter deep sleep state when you're listening to music, regardless of your music source???
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Why would the phone enter deep sleep state when you're listening to music, regardless of your music source???
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Because my 3 year old HTC M8 goes to deep sleep while playing songs using the stock player. I think it use's Low power audio to achieve this so either the S8 lacks it or I have done something wrong in the settings.
I'm looking for a music player app that will successfully restart playback from (approximately) the position where it was when I switch off the car.
In the past, on my old Android 2.1 unit, I used Music Folder Player, and it did pretty good. But on the SWM8802 I'm fiddling with, it only seems to save once per track, not each time the unit is turned off. This would probably be OK if I only had 3-4 minute music tracks, but some files I have are over an hour long, and my driving trips are normally 5-6 minutes each time.
I've also tried:
Pulsar, which doesn't seem to save the time at all, even after I've set it to do so on 3 minute or longer tracks.
Double Twist just crashes before it even shows anything.
Google Play Music takes ages to start up and always starts from 0:00
Any suggestions?
Edit: Never mind - it looks like the stock music app works well enough for what I want. Not sure how I missed that all this time