Hi all,
Anyone happen to know how to stop Spotify from stopping playback for a second when a notification comes in from another app with Android 4.2?
Cheers!
That's a feature but some apps lower the volume for a second then raise it again while others pause.
shotta35 said:
That's a feature but some apps lower the volume for a second then raise it again while others pause.
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So is there no way around it?
daveshorty said:
So is there no way around it?
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Probably an obvious solution, but you can always kill notification sounds and just have it vibrate as an alert. Spotify shouldn't pause.
I have also always been annoyed by this. The apps playing the notification sound are the ones that determine if the music is paused or not right? I know that Chomp SMS has an option to NOT play notifications when playing music. So apps know when music is playing and can avoid the interruption.
I haven't seen other apps with that option, at least not the others I commonly use. So what I do is I have notifications disabled for most of my apps, but I like to know when I get a Gmail message, and Gmail will always pause my music (unless I set the phone to vibrate) which I don't like.
The main problem is when I stream music to my little Belkin audio gateway at home. If I set it on vibrate/silent, I can't hear the phone ring because the ringtone does not play through the A2DP music profile. I don't always have the phone with me because my range is limited (can't wait for a miracast affordable streaming audio solution).
I would love the music volume to be lowered while the notification plays, and then restore volume when it's over. Is there a ROM that does this? I know I used some ROMs on my EVO that did it, but don't know if there's a Nexus 4 ROM that will do the same.
I did set up a task with Automateit to set the phone to vibrate when Spotify is open. I think it will only do that when music is playing and not if the app is running in the background, but when downloading a playlist, it will do the same. Tasker probably has a better trigger so that it does this when music is playing, but I didn't want to pay the $7 for it today.
Shush! is another option if you know how long you will be listening to music, you can tell Shush to turn your ringer back on after an hour, but it's still not perfect.
how come in google music and amazon player it doesn't stop (whatsapp) but in spotify it does?
ajpettit said:
how come in google music and amazon player it doesn't stop (whatsapp) but in spotify it does?
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Just the way the app was developed.
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zephiK said:
Just the way the app was developed.
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which spotify or whatsapp im wondering whos going to get my strongly worded email?
I know on some ROMs, like paranoid, you can revoke specific privileges and permissions for each app. Could we remove Spotify's ability to know the phones notification state?
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which spotify or whatsapp im wondering whos going to get my strongly worded email?
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I have about 6 gigs of music on the Micro SD card that came with the phone. It will randomly just stop playing. It will also stop when I get a text, email, unplug the phone, etc. Sometimes it'll stop when I turn the screen on by hitting the power button.
Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
Which Player?
Which player are you using? I use Player Pro and I have that issue when I open music manually using Astro file manager. The best way to open music is to do it from within the player.
wildwill2002 said:
Which player are you using? I use Player Pro and I have that issue when I open music manually using Astro file manager. The best way to open music is to do it from within the player.
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Stock music player with pure music widget.
How did 6gb of music come preloaded on your phone?
I think they meant the SD card that came with the phone. do you have any task killers running?
blazinazn said:
I have about 6 gigs of music on the Micro SD card that came with the phone. It will randomly just stop playing. It will also stop when I get a text, email, unplug the phone, etc. Sometimes it'll stop when I turn the screen on by hitting the power button.
Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
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It stops playing for a second with you get a text, email, and unplug the phone because the other ringtone thats set for that function is trying to play and it mutes your music. Disable SD Card notifications in Settings -> Sound and that'll stop it for unplugging of the phone, as for the text and email the only way to stop it from doing that is to set a silent ringtone or lower your volume to silent.
Muckrak3r said:
How did 6gb of music come preloaded on your phone?
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I think they meant the SD card that came with the phone. do you have any task killers running?
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Wildwill is correct. I mean the 16gb card that came with the phone. I added the music myself.
scriz said:
It stops playing for a second with you get a text, email, and unplug the phone because the other ringtone thats set for that function is trying to play and it mutes your music. Disable SD Card notifications in Settings -> Sound and that'll stop it for unplugging of the phone, as for the text and email the only way to stop it from doing that is to set a silent ringtone or lower your volume to silent.
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It doesn't stop for a second, it stop completely. IT not only stops whenever I get text/email, if I open up the browser or open up an app, the music stops playing as well. It's not just when I receive notifications.
If you have the drm or download manager set to always kill it will stop music from playing anytime you wake up your phone. I had this problem too and although I have the drm and download manager set to kill when the phone starts I had to turn it off the option to keep them always killed. Doesn't seem to affect tye battery to turn off that option and although the download manager seems to keep running the drm, which is the real battery drain, appears to stay killed. But this only applies if you have a task killer running.
Jutlst know also that the music apps all need data access so anything that changes the state of your data connection may affect your music stream even from the sd card.
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Hi all
Anyone here using Google Play Music?
Coming from a GN, I got used to the pure android stuff, Google Play Music being one of them.
I listen to music streaming from Google Music in my car on my phone (connected via 3.5 jack to my aux) almost every day, with the GN when I wanted to skip a song\pause\play I would've simply turn on the screen and use the lock-screen Google music thingie that popped there every time Google Play Music was running, but now it doesn't seem to be implemented into the s4, so I need to swipe down the status bar (considering I'm not using some kind of security lockscreen) and find the next\pause\play buttons among all the accidentally clickable stuff there... OR unlock the phone and use the Play Music app itself.
Now I'm not ranting about one more or less button to press here, really, it's just that while I'm driving every millionth of a second that my eyes are on the road counts, so I liked it the way it used to be, where I didn't even need to look at the screen..
Long story I know..
Anyway, any simple solution? or would I'll just have to get used to it?
p.s - not planning on moving to the stock music player as all of my music is in the Google Music cloud and I really like it that way.
Got the same issue. Sometimes it'll work fine, sometimes nothing on lock screen. Generally I find Google Play Music pretty damn annoying and horrible. Would love a solution as well.
Holy mother of all tits IT WORKS.. I just played a song and the damn thing is there in the lock screen looking at me..
Yep, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't... Would love to understand why.
Does anyone know a solution for this? Perhaps another recommended music player?
frrlod said:
Does anyone know a solution for this? Perhaps another recommended music player?
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Started working again for me after i uninstalled "Jay's headset control"
Wolf34d said:
Started working again for me after i uninstalled "Jay's headset control"
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Worked for me too!
Any ideas on how to stop notifications abd text message sounds while playing music?
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Only thing I can think of is turning down the notification volume. When you use the volume keys, push the gear icon and turn down notifications volume.
oscarthegrouch said:
Only thing I can think of is turning down the notification volume. When you use the volume keys, push the gear icon and turn down notifications volume.
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Thought there maybe another way. Thanks
Another annoying issue
Where can I put ringtones and notifications so they are not picked up by my music player? Didn't have this problem until the MF9 update. I dont see a way to delete the folder out of the music player settings.
shaun0207 said:
Where can I put ringtones and notifications so they are not picked up by my music player? Didn't have this problem until the MF9 update. I dont see a way to delete the folder out of the music player settings.
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I would like to know the same thing
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shaun0207 said:
Where can I put ringtones and notifications so they are not picked up by my music player? Didn't have this problem until the MF9 update. I dont see a way to delete the folder out of the music player settings.
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i keep all my music seperate from my media storage and this is not an issue ( using apollo ) and ive never had this. the stock music player however doesnt care as long as its in a playable format it is going to pick it up. my advice : seperate your music from your ringtones,noticication sounds, and get a music player thats decent. should fix your problem.
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i keep all my music seperate from my media storage and this is not an issue ( using apollo ) and ive never had this. the stock music player however doesnt care as long as its in a playable format it is going to pick it up. my advice : seperate your music from your ringtones,noticication sounds, and get a music player thats decent. should fix your problem.
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yeah the musics is stored separately from my ringtones and notifications, but maybe I do need a new media player
shaun0207 said:
yeah the musics is stored separately from my ringtones and notifications, but maybe I do need a new media player
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its worth a shot.....worst thing that could happen is it does the same thing and your right back where you started. but in my experience with apollo ive never had this issue.
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its worth a shot.....worst thing that could happen is it does the same thing and your right back where you started. but in my experience with apollo ive never had this issue.
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I can't remember if it works for music files but, creating a file and naming it ".nomedia" is supposed to stop Android from indexing that folder.
As for no notifications during music playback, just put your phone in airplane mode... Unless you are streaming music then it won't work.
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I also want to know how to do this. it's very annoying when you listening to music, especially in the car and then a notification comes in and the notification sound take over the music. If only there was a setting or an app for it. Having to remember to turn down notification vol during music playback and then turning back up after you are done playing music can be a hassle.
One of my favorite features of 4.1 Jellybean was that notifications (SMS, etc.) did not pause music, but rather were gently overlaid on top of a temporarily lowered volume.
Perhaps this is a Samsung disruption of a thoughtful Android enhancement, as while streaming music from rdio on my shiny new N3, I was dismayed to have had my music brutally interrupted for a text message notification.
Obnoxious. Annoying. Any way to fix this?
You can't fix it. Because it doesn't any error.
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lordbathos said:
One of my favorite features of 4.1 Jellybean was that notifications (SMS, etc.) did not pause music, but rather were gently overlaid on top of a temporarily lowered volume.
Perhaps this is a Samsung disruption of a thoughtful Android enhancement, as while streaming music from rdio on my shiny new N3, I was dismayed to have had my music brutally interrupted for a text message notification.
Obnoxious. Annoying. Any way to fix this?
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i think, it depends on the application, because when im using whatsapp it doesnt interrupt, but a gmail notification will interrupt the music playback... its kinda annoying...
I dream mp3's from my device to my car via Bluetooth.
It's horrid that notifications aren't silenced duringI music playback.
therefore turn off notifications volume when listening to music in the car.
This also bothers me. Coming from an iPhone the notifications would be overlaid and the music or current activity would lower in volume for the duration of the notification.
With the Note 3 if I am listening to a radio/music app I get an email/MSG it cuts the stream completely and then restarts it.
Daniel
Mute your phones.
Or enable the option to force the phone into silent mode while music is playing (custom ROMs). Perhaps some 3rd party music players support this option, too.
I am annoyed by this too. I use Trigger to automatically mute my phone when it connects to my car's bluetooth (and then start Waze, open Spotify and hit Play).
No custom ROM I've used has a way to change this behavior. I know that the apps are the ones that listen for this, Beyond Pod for example has a setting to ignore these pause signals and the notifications get overlayed. Spotify doesn't have this option, so muting sounds is my only solution. It works great in the car. You can add a Trigger action to mute when connected to Bluetooth, or when a headset is inserted to make it more automatic.
Tasker is of course another option, but I find Trigger much simpler and eye pleasing.
Doesn't happen for me with N7player and Whatsapp... It just keeps playing and puts the notification on top of the audio.
Hey there, I've updated to official 5.0.2 lollipop on my device here in Panama (TPA) and I noticed that if I'm listening to music or videos wether through my headphones or speakers, whenever a notification arrives, it interrumps the music audio and it kinda sucks. And when viewing videos, I have to rewatch the part due to notification ringtone overcomes video's audio... Any ideas/help??? :'(
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hectorm24 said:
Hey there, I've updated to official 5.0.2 lollipop on my device here in Panama (TPA) and I noticed that if I'm listening to music or videos wether through my headphones or speakers, whenever a notification arrives, it interrumps the music audio and it kinda sucks. And when viewing videos, I have to rewatch the part due to notification ringtone overcomes video's audio... Any ideas/help??? :'(
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i like to go into the settings for the app and turn off notifications under the uninstall option. wont solve all the problems though. maybe a notification manager app would help.
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i like to go into the settings for the app and turn off notifications under the uninstall option. wont solve all the problems though. maybe a notification manager app would help.
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I'm having this problem mainly with whatsapp and gmail... I dont think turning whatsapp's notifs off would be a smart move. Any other ideas?
hectorm24 said:
I'm having this problem mainly with whatsapp and gmail... I dont think turning whatsapp's notifs off would be a smart move. Any other ideas?
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i like the new inbox for gmail. theres a lot less notifications. i cant think of a way of keeping whatsapp quiet.
silentgumm said:
i like the new inbox for gmail. theres a lot less notifications. i cant think of a way of keeping whatsapp quiet.
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I'm thinking more of a way to make the music and any notification sound to sound equally, like without the music getting paused for a second. Just the two sounds to play at the same time and hear both the music and the notification sound like in other devices I've had (S3 Neo) but no clues on how to do so.