I recently just rooted my phone, and my friend told me to come to this forum if i had issues. Well, on scanner radio/scanner radio pro there is an issue with the media players. I can select a streaming method, either Android Media Player or Custom player. If i select Android Media player, it takes like 2-3 minutes to connect or never does connect, but when it is connected it stays connected and normally doesn't buffer (which is good). If i select the Custom media player, it connects right away, but constantly keeps buffering after 1-2 minutes of streaming. I would like to use the Android Media player, but i would also like it to connect promptly. When i was running a stock/unrooted phone, the Android Media player would connect right away, and be just fine.
When I emailed the developer for the app to see if it was because there was an issue with the application, all he said was "I don't why the Android player would be taking that long to connect and I don't have any control over its behavior. When you select a scanner from the directory my app tells Android's media player (behind-the-scenes) what URL to connect to to stream audio and then lets the player do its thing, after that point my app only tells the player when to stop or pause the audio."
Does anyone have any ideas or has encountered this problem? Thanks for any help.
Maybe you could try a different ROM? If i remember right, they just released a "stable" stock gingerbread rom for the OG Droid
Where can i find that?
They have the process and the files here:
droid-life
.com
/2011/05/16/download-stock-rooted-gingerbread-for-the-og-droid-gpa15/
You'll have to cut/copy/paste the pieces together, I'm not allowed to post to outside forums yet
also, it might be the root causing the problem with the scanner radio application. You could try this with a stock .sbf
droid-life.com/2011/05/18/app-of-the-day-sbfportable/
I usually use my music player under a constant use prior to NY avid obsession with last.FM. as of lately I've found myself in some situations, via Removing the battery which I don't have to do often, but my issue this time was me keeping my music player running for a few hours. After I viewed something off the net I came back to cancel out my song selection and the player was still 'active' in the notification bar. I had tried to open it from my Simi Folder and it would just go to a plain black screen and ask 'Force Close or Wait?' I'd gone with force closing it 2 times to reset it and see if it would load again, sadly it was reoccurring in the same issue. What the heck should I do? I'm lost. [ROOTED]
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An update,
I've not reset the phone or anything.
The music player is still setting in the notification tab
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Im not sure if I understand fully , but when I pause it and go to the notification bar , I then have the ability to close the music palyer off.
No, it was when I had kept the player on for about 2h Max it had began to act up when I went into the Music Player itself.
The stand alone player had Force Closed itself but if the Notification Bar were to be pulled down it'd show the Music Player Navigation still open, but you couldn't use it, via Fast Toward, Rewind & so forth.
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Hey guys, I just got my HTC One today and I'm having some weird issues with it. I was hoping someone here could help me out.
Before switching to the HTC One, I put all my music on Dropbox so I could make sure to add it once my phone was up and running.
So, I go to Dropbox and download a song, and when I try to play it, it says "Music playback error: Couldn't play the track you requested."
It does this to some my videos too.
The music files are mp3, which my Note II had no issues playing.
I would really like to get this fixed. Thanks everyone!
(Side note, if I upload all my songs to the Google Music and do the "Upload 20,000 of your own collection free" option, can I play them from my HTC One while offline? I really don't want it constantly connected and destroying my already short battery life.)
I would highly suggest Google music, you can "pin" songs, albums, artists or playlists, for offline use. Hope this helps!
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For those that have it, what do you think about it? Is it a nice way to stream music?
It's great since my 'good' speakers are attached to my TV. Works fast and easily.
It's OK. The on screen display is lacking and even though I've synced all my music to Google, some of my albums are side loaded and will not play through chromecast. I love all access for streaming on my phone, but I don't think it's there quite yet for chromecast.
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its fantastic. I keep no music on my phone and rely on streaming it. This is great for chromecast and I even talked my girlfriends parents into doing some upgrades to their sound system in their house since it goes through the whole house and outside which makes chromecast great for no longer having to go inside to change the music.
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its fantastic. I keep no music on my phone and rely on streaming it. This is great for chromecast and I even talked my girlfriends parents into doing some upgrades to their sound system in their house since it goes through the whole house and outside which makes chromecast great for no longer having to go inside to change the music.
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I'm having problems streaming to it with my Nexus 4.
I can connect and stream the first song with no problems, but when the screen sleeps it doesn't always stream to the next song.
50% of the time it'll automatically stream to the next song in the playlist if I manually turn the Nexus 4 screen back on.
30% of the time after I turn the screen back on, I'll get an error message that says "this track could not be played, and I'll have to manually select the next song"
20% of the time chromecast will be disconnected and I'll have to manually play the next song, and reconnect to chromecast.
Being a native Google App I had hoped that Google Music would work flawlessly, but it's been poor thus far. Hopefully an update will fix the issue.
I'm having issues too. I'm not sure why, but I keep getting "Playback error, Unable to play the song. Can't play a sideloaded song remotely."
So any music that is in the Google Music cloud AND on my device are not playable? I am not sure. I haven't been able to get Google Music to play from my phone - and if you use a PC, then the only way it seems is using the tab casting, which needs some polish.
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I'm having issues too. I'm not sure why, but I keep getting "Playback error, Unable to play the song. Can't play a sideloaded song remotely."
So any music that is in the Google Music cloud AND on my device are not playable? I am not sure. I haven't been able to get Google Music to play from my phone - and if you use a PC, then the only way it seems is using the tab casting, which needs some polish.
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The case of having the same song locally and on the music cloud not playing through ChromeCast seems to be a universal problem right now.
When I cast a tab and a video is being played inside the tab, I can't seem to get any sound to output through ChromeCast.
Another thing I tried was to drag and drop a local video file into Chrome and cast that tab. I just played a movie file that was .mp4 (.avi's don't won't), the video played (although a little slow on the framerate) but there was no sound at all.
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I'm having issues too. I'm not sure why, but I keep getting "Playback error, Unable to play the song. Can't play a sideloaded song remotely."
So any music that is in the Google Music cloud AND on my device are not playable? I am not sure. I haven't been able to get Google Music to play from my phone - and if you use a PC, then the only way it seems is using the tab casting, which needs some polish.
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Same issue here. This is a design flaw that I'm hoping Google will rectify with either a Google Music update or a Chromecast update.
EvoXOhio said:
Same issue here. This is a design flaw that I'm hoping Google will rectify with either a Google Music update or a Chromecast update.
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I found that playing music from the Google Music "cloud", as in NOT my music - works great. If it's in my library, does not play. I just signed up for the 30 day trial of Google Music All Access or whatever it is called, and I can now stream music to the ChromeCast.
Strange behavior for sure.
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I found that playing music from the Google Music "cloud", as in NOT my music - works great. If it's in my library, does not play. I just signed up for the 30 day trial of Google Music All Access or whatever it is called, and I can now stream music to the ChromeCast.
Strange behavior for sure.
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It will stream anything as long as there isn't a copy of it on your phone.
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It will stream anything as long as there isn't a copy of it on your phone.
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I have a few thousand songs pinned to my phone and they all cast fine.
Echodawg/arrghh,
I have had this issue. It depends on how you have it setup.
If you have everything uploaded to Google Music cloud and then if you copy the files over to your phone as well and try to play those songs, it will not play and give you a 'Cannot play sideloaded songs' message.
For this to work, you should NOT copy any songs from your computer to the phone directly, you can and should ONLY 'pin' it....
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I have a few thousand songs pinned to my phone and they all cast fine.
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I'm talking about songs that you've manually loaded onto your phone. Not cached/pinned copies of googles music.
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I'm talking about songs that you've manually loaded onto your phone. Not cached/pinned copies of googles music.
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Ah. I see.
Why not just upload and pin?
I have mine pinned to my SD card, 40 gigs or so.
Works great!
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Ah. I see.
Why not just upload and pin?
I have mine pinned to my SD card, 40 gigs or so.
Works great!
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Unless something has changed recently, pinned songs get deleted from the phone every time you flash a new ROM. I go back and forth between cm and pa and stock. I don't want to have to download 5gb of music every time.
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Unless something has changed recently, pinned songs get deleted from the phone every time you flash a new ROM. I go back and forth between cm and pa and stock. I don't want to have to download 5gb of music every time.
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I pin to extSD + Titanium Backup.
And upload once and done, you can side load your music on the phone, but you could then access it in Gmusic too.
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I pin to extSD + Titanium Backup.
And upload once and done, you can side load your music on the phone, but you could then access it in Gmusic too.
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I've tried that. The issue I have is that when I load a new ROM, the first time it boots up and Google music runs in the background it wipes the pinned songs. Titanium backup doesn't actually backup the pinned songs so not sure what you mean there.
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The case of having the same song locally and on the music cloud not playing through ChromeCast seems to be a universal problem right now.
When I cast a tab and a video is being played inside the tab, I can't seem to get any sound to output through ChromeCast.
Another thing I tried was to drag and drop a local video file into Chrome and cast that tab. I just played a movie file that was .mp4 (.avi's don't won't), the video played (although a little slow on the framerate) but there was no sound at all.
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Yeah I can vouch for this issue too. I sync a list of podcasts to my phone through iSyncr, and the same podcasts also get synced to the cloud via iTunes/Google Play. On my phone, any synced podcast won't cast because it's sideloaded, even though the same podcast is already in the cloud. On my tablet, which I don't store local music on, I can launch the same podcast and it does cast to Chromecast.
As for All Access - there was an overlap of a few days between my free trial and getting Chromecast, and it did work nicely. However I was under the mistaken impression that signing up for the free trial of All Access before June 30 would give me a lifetime discount. I did not realize I'd have to maintain a continuous subscription. So I cancelled at the end of the free trial and no more discount for me. I will probably not sign up again as I anticipate other music apps becoming Chromecast-compatible soon.
I see an update to Google Play Music available.
v.5.1.1107k
*Chromecast improvements
Hopefully it fixed the problems we've been having
I see the update in Play Store but no update button. Tried uninstalling updates and then updating, but I still have the previous build. Guess it hasn't "rolled out" to my accounts yet.
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