[Q] Sony Xperia Z intermittent Walkmann - Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys, Ive searched through the forums and havent seen anyone with this problem.
Whenever i use the walkman app it continually pauses itself, rarely reaching the end of a single song. It seems to be worse when playing thourgh headphones/aux normally only lasting 5 seconds max before pausing again. Ive downloaded other music players and they all had the same problem. Music is unplayable through it. Note this is different to the 'lagging' some people have experienced.
I have an orange contract with their 'swapables' and so have a subscription through that with Deezer. Deezer has none of the above issue for downloaded, streamed or local files however the app is awfully designed as you cant organise a library via artist/album. I therfore only have a few playlists and about 20 albums at a time on the phone. The reason i can't just use Deezer instead is, a few artists i listen to a lot (e.g. AC-DC) aren't available on it...
I have factory resetted the phone and upgraded firmware etc and no improvement
Any help would be appreciated
Ben

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That sounds very strange... When you say mixing, do you mean music from other songs is being inserted to a song while it's playing?
Have you tried looking at the music player app while it's playing, and looked for any strange behaviour? Eg jumping around to a new track? Maybe it's something to do with the headphone, like if there's a hardware next button it's faulty and randomly makes you skip ahead to the next track.
By mixing I mean it does not change the song, it just adds a little part of another song and then it gets back to the current song.. Lets say its playing Song A, then on the half of A it starts playing another random song (not starting a new song, but it just adds a part of another song), and then it gets back to the original song.
I dont think its a hardware problem because it does not change the song, the player keeps showing the song, but it just randomly mixes it with another song; although it displays its playing the current song.
Any other suggestion, i guess ill install power amp.
thanks for the reply
Did you manage to solve the problem? Can't really think of anything that might cause this strange behaviour... Are the mixed songs permanently there? Ie if you replay the song, the same thing plays again. If so, maybe the song file itself got corrupted somehow...

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Just found the solution, please close topic
https://community.spotify.com/t5/He...-Distorted-playback-sound-levels/td-p/1028205
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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
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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%
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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.
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I have regular problems with completely garbled music output on my 9T Pro: Instead of playing a song normally, the sound output it very high pitched and completely garbled, so even recognizing the song is impossible. Also, very unpleasant to listen to.
It doesn't happen mid-song, but when a new song starts playing it has a chance to be broken like this. Restarting playback fixes it, but it might just happen again with the next song.
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