Database Develop

music Interruption

I use the adapter that came with my ATT fuze to play music in my car. I'm happy that this has no noticable effect on my battery life . (I've only really used the HTC music app that's standard on the device). One issue i'm having though, is that the music undergoes (at what seems to be at random times) pauses. The music picks back up after about 10-15 seconds. I assume this is a software issue? Has anyone else had this happen or know of a fix?
Oh, its not a phone call, text or any other notification. I know the music interrupts for these.

rhoff412 said:
I use the adapter that came with my ATT fuze to play music in my car. I'm happy that this has no noticable effect on my battery life . (I've only really used the HTC music app that's standard on the device). One issue i'm having though, is that the music undergoes (at what seems to be at random times) pauses. The music picks back up after about 10-15 seconds. I assume this is a software issue? Has anyone else had this happen or know of a fix?
Oh, its not a phone call, text or any other notification. I know the music interrupts for these.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Mine does the exact same thing. Ive used the TF3D player as well as WMP. On both, skips occur.
My music is WMA 192Kbps. I was planning on using this as my primary music player, but i guess ill use my Zune for music (sounds better anyways, but the TP has excellent audio quality, suprisingly). This alone kills its music capability for me.
I would try disabling TF3D and use WMP to play music for a day and see if it continues. Since its the only thing running on my device, it is either that or the device itself.

rom?
Are you using the stock rom? I would like to know if it is likely the rom is the culprit, because I should be flashing a new one soon thanks to all the help I got here. Anyway, I wonder if there are any out there with the Raphael that do not rock the stock rom that could let me know if they experience the same issue. hmm... for once I hope my carrier sucks and its their problem not HTC.

rhoff412 said:
Are you using the stock rom? I would like to know if it is likely the rom is the culprit, because I should be flashing a new one soon thanks to all the help I got here. Anyway, I wonder if there are any out there with the Raphael that do not rock the stock rom that could let me know if they experience the same issue. hmm... for once I hope my carrier sucks and its their problem not HTC.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That might be a possibility. Im on JDs rom. Ive used other roms but never tested audio playback with the other roms. As for me, theres skipping with JDs rom. Ive heard of this before with the diamond.
Other oppinions would be great. Even a quick test for those who dont use their phones for music would be greatly appreciated.

try turning off wifi while listening

Ive switched to a new rom (eRice) which is a completely empty ROM built on 20931.
The music still skips using the built in HTC player.
I also tried it out using Pocket Player, setting the buffer to the highest setting and the skips still occur.
WiFi is off. I also had bluetooth off and the skips still occur.
I tried with both players soft resetting into standard home with no TF3D and the skips still occured with both players.
I also attempted to use it while in airplane mode and it still skipped.

r3ferrei said:
Ive switched to a new rom (eRice) which is a completely empty ROM built on 20931.
The music still skips using the built in HTC player.
I also tried it out using Pocket Player, setting the buffer to the highest setting and the skips still occur.
WiFi is off. I also had bluetooth off and the skips still occur.
I tried with both players soft resetting into standard home with no TF3D and the skips still occured with both players.
I also attempted to use it while in airplane mode and it still skipped.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
HAve you tried moving the music to your phone storage then playing? Have you tried swapping SD memory for something a little quicker?

revalation
I was just thinking. Though I am using the stock rom, I still have kaiser tweaks on it and that has a registry change that affects power: turn of sd when not in use. Its possible that this is it. I'll let everyone know my findings once I test it a few times. studying for finals so I have alot of time sitting around in boderline quiet to hear these things.

findings
First and foremost. Can anyone reading this that has noticed any other links addressing this issue post them please?
I'll start:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=412065&page=22
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=426585&page=6
neither of these solve any solutions, but if you feel you're alone you'll see you're not. But please anyone seeing anything about these issues please post. EVEN IF it is a thread to a Raphael Rom that someone asked and noone reported this issue after testing.
Anyway, my findings:
My phone skips what seems to be every 5 minutes.
HTC MUSIC TAB
Without being plugged on charger:
skips for about one second ONLY 5 minutes after pushing the power button to put it into low power mode.
This happens each time I touch the phone (to change a song)
Plugged on charger:
I tested both in low power mode and keeping the screen illuminated the whole time. It skips all the same. exact same results as before
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER
whether plugged in or not, I did not experience any skip whatsoever.
(only tested music .mp3 files on all tests. sorry that's all i dl)
I was quick to say it's HTC's music tab, but Diamond (TD) users are reporting issues with all types of audio including the turn by turn gps nav voice. I am in finals week and sadly can't mess with installing the garmin software and maps I recieved yesterday, so can anyone confirm that it is all audio interrupted or just music, or best case scenario just the HTC music tab?

maybe this helps,
HKLM\System\Storagemanager\Fatfs\Cachesize=16834 (default = 0)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Taskmanager\MemoryThreshold = 67108864 (default= ???)
HKLM\Software\HTC\Audiomanager_Eng\Config\Request_memory = 8388608 (default= 2097152).
it uses more memory but better performance for music Playing!

??
rohithathie said:
maybe this helps,
HKLM\System\Storagemanager\Fatfs\Cachesize=16834 (default = 0)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Taskmanager\MemoryThreshold = 67108864 (default= ???)
HKLM\Software\HTC\Audiomanager_Eng\Config\Request_memory = 8388608 (default= 2097152).
it uses more memory but better performance for music Playing!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you have this issue that it skips only after 5 minutes (once per time I input a song change or anything else into the phone) with your TP before making these registry changes? or did you have the lag that others are experiencing?

I am getting a skip, but it's just a few miliseconds "hiccup". Happens every 5-10 minutes, gets annoying after a while. Happens in Coreplayer and TCPMP for me, others have reported Pocketplayer and other players do it as well. I am on a stock Sprint ROM.
I have tried a bunch of stuff to get rid of it, but no go. Tried microdrive mode, disabling TF3D, turning off data connection ... a few other things I can't think of right now. No change at all.
I think in a bit I'll try moving a few songs into internal storage and try that. EDIT: No change, still glitches trying a couple songs on internal memory.
Here is the thread I started on PPCGeeks about this, monitor that too: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=47521

rohithathie said:
maybe this helps,
HKLM\System\Storagemanager\Fatfs\Cachesize=16834 (default = 0)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Taskmanager\MemoryThreshold = 67108864 (default= ???)
HKLM\Software\HTC\Audiomanager_Eng\Config\Request_memory = 8388608 (default= 2097152).
it uses more memory but better performance for music Playing!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the information. Unfortunately, it did not stop the random skips that would occur. Ive tried even increasing some of those values, but that didnt help either.
Moving my music to internal storage didnt help either. Neither did decreasing the overall file size by using a lower bit rate. The skips arnt long (maybe half a second or less) but they are there, and its enough to refrain me from even using the Pro's music capability.
Even listening to streaming music using Pocket Player caused skips (which is tolerable due to the delivery method). It almost seems any kind of continuous sound causes skipping. But i guess i bought a business tool, not a multimedia or game player. Thanks HTC.

I think that's a general issue. I have it, you have it, we all have it.
Too bad that touch pro/diamond has many fallbacks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=422823
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=412065

correlation
I believe I found a correlation. After an input into the phone (of any type), using htc music tab or windows media player, then let it "sleep", it will skip once (only once) at exactly 5 min. BUT if I leave windows media player up and running (as in not viewing the home screen or any other app), even when the phone is "sleeping", it will NOT skip. So wadafxup? Any ideas? Can we limit this to a software issue? Perhaps? I hope.

I'm not sure exactly what you are saying there ... what is the correlation?

wmp
basically, windows media player keeps it from skipping once in five minutes. I wanted to see, though, if there is any interruption when using turn by turn gps or any other apps that have audio.

[Q] Audio playback clips

I am running vibranturk's port of ics 4.0.3 AOKP Build 23, and am having issues with paying music. First, the fact that the music apk fc's every time is a non issue as I am using winamp. Where the issue is is playing with the screen locked makes the music clip after about 30 seconds. I have disabled any dsp manager effects and it still does it. I have had success with turning off winamp's equalizer, but would really rather not (so sue me, I like good audio). For the moment I will live with the flat music, but would LOVE a solution to this which let's me use the equalizer.
My 2 cents: it seems like it is a memory issue as the clipping gets progressively worse and the bpm goes down as time goes on. This does not happen when the screen is on, making me think that the system is putting winamp on a lower priority memory class and is having its memory dumped sooner.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App

prettycity said:
I am running vibranturk's port of ics 4.0.3 AOKP Build 23, and am having issues with paying music. First, the fact that the music apk fc's every time is a non issue as I am using winamp. Where the issue is is playing with the screen locked makes the music clip after about 30 seconds. I have disabled any dsp manager effects and it still does it. I have had success with turning off winamp's equalizer, but would really rather not (so sue me, I like good audio). For the moment I will live with the flat music, but would LOVE a solution to this which let's me use the equalizer.
My 2 cents: it seems like it is a memory issue as the clipping gets progressively worse and the bpm goes down as time goes on. This does not happen when the screen is on, making me think that the system is putting winamp on a lower priority memory class and is having its memory dumped sooner.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I believe you're on the right track. If I remember correctly, a lot (if not all) of the ICS roms drop the phone's processor to a low speed when the screen is off.
You may want to give the Icy Glitch kernel a spin - I use that one, and music playback hasn't been an issue when I've had the screen off.

Thanks for the tip! I was thinking of trying the icy glitch anyways, now it seems I have a good reason to .
I'll report back on my results.

WOO!
It worked!
Thanks!

[Q] Choppy Audio Playback

Hello, I've searched the forum and read general tips on choppy audio playback, and tried some of those suggestions (turning off notifications, limiting background processes under the dev options), and am still having really bad choppyness on audioplayback. I've tried on a number of apps (google music, rocket player, walkman, ), all with the same problems.
The audios are all vbr, non DRM. MP3 and M4a. I do have the files on a separate card I guess. That is something I haven't tried changing... But goodness, the phone only has 16GB onboard. Even my ancient iphone was more than that. The card is class 10 so not slow.
EDIT: I've also tried with the onboard memory - Same deal. I just did a restore via the phone - same deal. I'm on FW434. I'm going to try reflashing the FW tonight (just via the sony update service).
I've got it so that even with next to nothing running other than system stuff, I'm getting random choppy playback. It is driving me nuts. If I can't fix it I'll have to go back to my old iphone.
I mean there is plenty of RAM, and the CPU is understressed.
Any ideas? Anyone else get this?

Oddly enough, I get this ONLY when using the headset. When I use a 3.5 to 3.5mm lead to play music in my car, it all plays without a hitch.

robogo1982 said:
Oddly enough, I get this ONLY when using the headset. When I use a 3.5 to 3.5mm lead to play music in my car, it all plays without a hitch.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, so I'm not alone.
On 3.5mm you mean via the usb connection?
I tried another rebuild last night. Same deal. It still does it.
FFS, this is on stuff I've had for years. I'm trying to listen to the Portishead self titled album. Had it for years, listened to it about ten times, no issues on my iphone and ipods. I can't take it. This phone has broken me and I have to go back to an iphone just to preserve my sanity.

No problems here even when using headphones. You should take it back and get it fixed/replaced.

shadowboy23 said:
No problems here even when using headphones. You should take it back and get it fixed/replaced.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, I think it must be. Was suggested elsewhere I've asked about it. I'm taking it back today.

That's good. Make sure you let them hear it (music being choppy) and be FIRM that it is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE when you are paying money for it.

They took my word for it, but I left the album on the main memory I was testing with.
It was so random though. After I prepped it to return (sim out, SD out) I tried again and it didn't do it for 12 minutes, so I put the SD in and tried again, and got it happening, then took the SD out, played from main memory, and it did it within 30 seconds then.
It is more like audio drop out than a pause. Eg, not affecting rhythm, just no sound momentarily. And headphones and loudspeaker. Like something amiss in the audio circuitry.
I hope it comes back fixed. It was within the Optus 30 days replacement time, but they weren't a "merited Yes Optus store" so couldn't replace on the spot.
I sure hope it comes back fixed. I was just starting to get used to the thing, even with the annoying-ness of needing three audio players instead of one... (music, aax audiobooks, and m4b audiobooks)... But the whole iphone to android exp[erience has been such a shock. The only thing I'm real happy with (other than the physical size and design) is the discovery of dolphin. What a great mobile browser

Mobe1969 said:
Yeah, so I'm not alone.
On 3.5mm you mean via the usb connection?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm not quite in the same boat with you. My audio occassionally stutters, doesn't drop out. When I said 3.5mm lead, I meant a lead which has a 3.5mm jack on one side and a 3.5mm jack on the other side. One end goes into my phone, the other into the AUX plug of my car stereo.

Ah right. Yes that sounds different to what I'm experiencing. That sounds more like a headphone type issue. Must admit the actual socket doesn't seem particularly robust.

Ah well, I'm still waiting on my phone to come back. Two damn weeks now. I keep hoping, and then hoping that they will have fixed it I've found it slow and small going back to my iphone for a while now...

Argh, over three weeks since I put it in for repair. I just called and it left Sydney Friday, so should have it tomorrow or Wednesday. I just hope the audio is fixed.

Got it back.
Still the same damn issue. They didn't even bother taking it apart or testing it. Just "updated sw to latest", which it already bloody was.
And I got a new fault now. My SD card crashes the phone. And Ive tried everything, to formatting it (low level) to exfat to make the experia prompt to reformat via the notifications, and it would crash midway through formatting.
I'm so sick of this. I can't take it. I just want to be able to have a phone with more than 16gb memort, and listen to music without dropouts

Music volume changing while listening to spotify

Hey guys,
Love my new S6, because of memory limitations, I'm using spotify more than the music player. I noticed that when I listen to music, the volume keeps changing by itself (but remains at the same "number" that I set), I believe it's an EQ problem due to the voice/instrument equalizer function that keeps adjusting one VS the other. I was able to downgrade the amazon appstore still has version 2.6.0.813 and it's better (but not perfect yet, I hope they fix this bug in the next spotify update, just wanted to share in case you though you were going crazy (as I did).
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/volume-changing-playing-music-t3089066

Solution
Just found the solution, please close topic
https://community.spotify.com/t5/He...-Distorted-playback-sound-levels/td-p/1028205

Disabling Nuplayer does not work
solution from the previous post does not work, I and others tested it and spotify volume is still messed up with Nuplayer disabled, downgrading seems to be the only solution as of now, sorry for the confusion

Remix22 said:
Hey guys,
Love my new S6, because of memory limitations, I'm using spotify more than the music player. I noticed that when I listen to music, the volume keeps changing by itself (but remains at the same "number" that I set), I believe it's an EQ problem due to the voice/instrument equalizer function that keeps adjusting one VS the other. I was able to downgrade the amazon appstore still has version 2.6.0.813 and it's better (but not perfect yet, I hope they fix this bug in the next spotify update, just wanted to share in case you though you were going crazy (as I did).
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/volume-changing-playing-music-t3089066
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
actually, I've noticed this problem with Google Play music as well.. I'm not using the equalizer.. for no apparent reason, at some points in certain songs, the volume will inexplicably lower, never quite recovering.. weird

same here. thought i was going deaf bc i had the volume up to 80%

Is it happening with your stock music player? I disabled Nuplayer and spotify is still misbehaving but the Samsung player works fine. I didn't find a Samsung user forum to report the problem but will look more into it.

old version works
Using S6 Edge, had this problem myself with spotify - can confirm using the previous version of spotify fixes the problem.
Agree there's points where it stoll changes volume ever so slightly but definatley a big improvement.
Can't post link to download due to new user restrictions.
Thanks to OP for posting his findings. Big help.
Peace.

I have been going back and forth with Spotify support for weeks on this issue, and it's been escalated to a Tier 2 person who I've been working with for almost a week now. Specifically, my problem is that the sound on any given song will vary throughout the song...it will start at whatever volume I have it set at, then suddenly get about 25% quieter for about 10-20 seconds, then go back up to original volume. This happens in almost a cyclical fashion my entire time listening to Spotify on my phone...whether it be through headphones, phone speak, or a bluetooth speaker. Spotify support even gave me another test account to try, which this issue also happen in on my phone....and they logged into my account on their end and done extensive listening tests, but are not able to replicate on their end. They had me try everything...clearing cache, trying with volume normalization ON, then trying with it OFF, WiFi only, data only, listening to cached music with no data turned on, re-installing, rebooting, updating, deleting all Spotify files/folders from the file manager, listening with corded headphones, bluetooth headphones, phone speaker, bluetooth speaker, etc. They really feel at this point that it's the Samsung Galaxy S6 that doesnt play nicely with Spotify, but they cannot figure out why. I'm still troubleshooting with them but so far no solution, only a ton of things ruled out as culprits. =(

This is a few days old but do you have sound alive enabled?
Sent from my SM-G920T using Tapatalk

Galaxy Note 5- Audio Spikes When Playing VBR Audio Files

Audio spikes when playing VBR audio files
Heya, first time poster here.
I've noticed that my Note 5 can't properly play audio files with a variable bitrate (So far I've only tested mp3 v0). It's totally random, but anywhere between a second to a few minutes, you can hear these really annoying popping or skipping sounds, like you were playing it off a scratched up CD. Again, I'm only seeing the issue with mp3 v0 files. Any audio files with CBR don't seem to have this issue. I can tell it's definitely some kind of software issue because of that fact, not to mention it happens with both the built-in speaker and through the headphone jack.
I've tried multiple audio files, as well as multiple audio playback apps. I've tried restarting the phone, and even a factory reset. I have a feeling that this won't be alleviated by simply exchanging the phone for a new one, but if I can't find a solution by the time my two weeks are up, I'll probably end up just turning it in anyway.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, I've also tested those same audio files on a Galaxy S3 and S5. Neither phones had any apparent issue with playback.
If anyone out there is willing to test it out on their Note 5, I'd really appreciate it.

So I just exchanged my phone for a new one, and I'm still experiencing the same issue. Surely SOMEBODY out there has noticed this problem by now?

You're not alone I'm experiencing the same issue. I'll be testing the same files on my girls phone since she has the same one to see if its a universal issue with the device. Hope there's a solution found soon.

EDJE14 said:
I've noticed that my Note 5 can't properly play audio files with a variable bitrate (So far I've only tested mp3 v0). It's totally random, but anywhere between a second to a few minutes, you can hear these really annoying popping or skipping sounds, like you were playing it off a scratched up CD.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
First of all, thanks heaps for your post. I have the same issue.
I noticed the popping this morning and spent the day dreading having to send the phone back. Your post reassures me the problem is not just my unit.
I'll do some more investigation later as to exactly what works and what doesn't. For now, I have an MP3 that reliably 'pops' at the same place every time and a FLAC version of the same song does not pop. I'm assuming a software update will fix ...

Confirming chirps/clicks/pops/cracks audio issues during VBR files playback using either the pre-supplied Google Music or Google Player download - BlackPlayer on Samsung Galaxy Note5 SM-N920C.
Build version: LMY47X.N920CXXI1AOH6
Kernel version:
3.10.61-5412468
[email protected] #1
Thu Aug 20 21:37:09 KST 2015​
Also confirming no issues using Poweramp (Trial) v2.0.10-build-581-play.

Same issue here. Has anyone found a way around this?

I2eaper said:
Same issue here. Has anyone found a way around this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Read 1 post above yours. Last line.

Shame that the only workaround seems to be using Poweramp. I download/stream files off Subsonic and prefer to use that player for convenience as it downloads one track ahead of where I'm at, rather than needing to pre-load or download it all and then play to poweramp.
Guessing there's no fix for this yet aside from Poweramp?

I have the Note 5 from Verizon and mine does the same exact thing. I'm so annoyed I'm almost thinking of swapping it for a dreaded iPhone. I don't feel like re-ripping my 500+ cd catalog because my phone can handle VBR. C'mon Samsung... with all the useless features you cram into the phone you can't handle VBR MP3s?

goldenmonkey1 said:
...
Guessing there's no fix for this yet aside from Poweramp?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Use the free app VLC. Works fine for all VBR etc.

i have same issue even youtube and spotify or samsung music. this is so boring. does anybody have a solution ?