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Miui music problem

Has anyone else had this problem:
When I restart my phone in miui it 'loses' all the music on the phone so that it is no longer visible in the music or winamp apps. If I force an sd-card rescan however the music will once again become visible.
Is there a fix for this as it is becoming quite the pain in the ass, as it means that following a restart my phone requires about 10-15 mins before it able to play any music

Did you try the internal to ext sd mod in the android development section?
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colonelsanders99 said:
Has anyone else had this problem:
When I restart my phone in miui it 'loses' all the music on the phone so that it is no longer visible in the music or winamp apps. If I force an sd-card rescan however the music will once again become visible.
Is there a fix for this as it is becoming quite the pain in the ass, as it means that following a restart my phone requires about 10-15 mins before it able to play any music
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I know its silly, but do you happen to have .mkv files in your internal/external sd? try removing them and see for yourself, it will work(sound will not be gone), seems like, a lot have not noticed that the recent release of MIUI has this bug

Google music not showing music?

Is there any work around for this other than re installing google music? Ik if you uninstall and re install it works but that's sorta a time waster... i want something i don't have to mess with for it to work

bilibox said:
Is there any work around for this other than re installing google music? Ik if you uninstall and re install it works but that's sorta a time waster... i want something i don't have to mess with for it to work
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My google music works fine. And does it really take longer to uninstall/reinstall then it does to make a thread and wait for a reply? Or does this happen often and you have to uninstall/reinstall? Cause like I said, Google Music has no problems for me. However, I'm using a slightly older version (4.1.512) that's was modded to be transparent - don't know if the newest version might have issues?

I'm using 4.1.513 with no issues.

Mine works fine,but i added my own music and only play music at home on wifi normally.Never had any problems with it not showing.

homeslice976 said:
My google music works fine. And does it really take longer to uninstall/reinstall then it does to make a thread and wait for a reply? Or does this happen often and you have to uninstall/reinstall? Cause like I said, Google Music has no problems for me. However, I'm using a slightly older version (4.1.512) that's was modded to be transparent - don't know if the newest version might have issues?
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Yes i have to reinstall it every time my phone restarts ... Then it will work for that session and quit..
woodsytattooman said:
Mine works fine,but i added my own music and only play music at home on wifi normally.Never had any problems with it not showing.
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Should have stated that i'm talking about local music thats not showing up...

bilibox said:
Should have stated that i'm talking about local music thats not showing up...
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Oh i don't have any local music. That's why I switched to Google Music

bilibox said:
Yes i have to reinstall it every time my phone restarts ... Then it will work for that session and quit..
Should have stated that i'm talking about local music thats not showing up...
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I would try uploading my local music to google music.You can them make your google music available offline as well.

Do you have a custom ROM? Did this problem start with an upgrade such as ICS? I have ICS on a stock, unrooted Vivid. The Google Music app is 4.1.513. As soon as I started it, it found all my local music on the SD card as well as albums on my internal storage I had recently purchased and downloaded from Google. I don't mess with streaming music, so if that is what you're doing, maybe someone else can help you.

brucegil said:
Do you have a custom ROM? Did this problem start with an upgrade such as ICS? I have ICS on a stock, unrooted Vivid. The Google Music app is 4.1.513. As soon as I started it, it found all my local music on the SD card as well as albums on my internal storage I had recently purchased and downloaded from Google. I don't mess with streaming music, so if that is what you're doing, maybe someone else can help you.
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Running WCX attbuild ICS rom ... But i had the same problem on the inspire too... So not sure at what could be stopping it from seeing my music...
and no i had same problem on gingerbread as well as ICS

bilibox said:
Running WCX attbuild ICS rom ... But i had the same problem on the inspire too... So not sure at what could be stopping it from seeing my music...
and no i had same problem on gingerbread as well as ICS
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Same sd card? If so try reformatting it (backup important stuff, format card, replace important stuff)
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This happens to me, too. The easier workaround than uninstall/reinstall is to locate the Google Play Music app under Settings/Apps and clear data.
Then use the Google Music app and go through the usual stuff. Your local music files will be there when you're done.
I know it's not a fix, but it's a better workaround than reinstalling the app.

[Q] Music playback stopped when multitasking

I use Poweramp for my music playing needs, and it works great, but when I open Chrome or Facebook, the system automatically shuts off the music. I hate this, and I have tweaked every possible option in the Poweramp configuration to keep the service alive, but nothing works. I can understand that the device starts shutting down other software when running out of RAM, but I would expect it not to close the media player app.
Does anyone have a fix for this?

The same happens to me with Google play music too. But some times the music playback stops even when I'm not multitasking, meaning I play music and lock screen and listen thru my headsets.
Any thoughts?
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Same problem here. Happens with several music players including Poweramp and Shuttle so it's not necessarily a bug within the music players themselves.
This will happen to me even when there is 150-200MB of RAM free, so it seems strange that it feels the need to close these background apps.
I am now rooted with a custom ROM, but this happened even beforehand, I had hoped rooting would help matters, sadly not.
I assume all of your music is on an external SD card? Have you tried playing music from the internal storage?

I have my music in my internal storage only and yet it happened.
For the last two days play back is smooth after I updated to Play Music from Lollipop.☺☺
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Manolingam said:
I have my music in my internal storage only and yet it happened.
For the last two days play back is smooth after I updated to Play Music from Lollipop.☺☺
Sent from my XT1068
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Strange, I couldn't recreate the problem when playing off internal storage. I will have to try another SD card and see if the problem persists.

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I'm fairly sure its an issue with my external SD card. I moved a few albums onto my internal storage and could not recreate the problem despite keep as many high RAM usage apps open as possible.
I switched back to using music on the SD card this morning and it crashed within minutes. All of this has been tested using Poweramp.
I can think of a few things to try and will report back
Try Internal storage - Success! Unable to recreate the problem. However not a brilliant solution as I have only 5GB of usable internal storage.
Accessing over 20GB of music - Try a smaller subset of folders - Problem still occurs.
Using a 64GB SD card, reformatted to FAT32. Try smaller 32GB SD card. - will report back when I have tried this
axl409 said:
Try ram manager pro, it should solve your problem.
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartprojects.RAMOptimization
Edit: root only
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I will try the free version of that app anyway, just to be sure, thanks.

Pandora and Play Music also stops for me when I launch Clash or Clans but they both keep playing when I launch the Chrome browser and view some pages. All the apps I mentioned are installed on internal memory.
So, for me, any music-playing app (including streaming apps) stops when I launch certain apps but not when I launch other apps.

Also happens for me. A reboot will suppress the problem for quite some time
I am thinking it might really be memory manager problems.

bountygiver said:
Also happens for me. A reboot will suppress the problem for quite some time
I am thinking it might really be memory manager problems.
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I did experience one single crash while playing music off internal memory, but it happens 10x as often when playing off external SD card, so I guess that's not the only issue here.
If it was purely a memory manager problem, then why does altering the priority of poweramp make no difference to the crashing?

fathermocker said:
I use Poweramp for my music playing needs, and it works great, but when I open Chrome or Facebook, the system automatically shuts off the music. I hate this, and I have tweaked every possible option in the Poweramp configuration to keep the service alive, but nothing works. I can understand that the device starts shutting down other software when running out of RAM, but I would expect it not to close the media player app.
Does anyone have a fix for this?
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Guys,
This is a memory management problem in moto g.....There is a moto forum post regarding this.. Here is the link https://forums.motorola.com/posts/6168839e0e ..Please make some noise so that they fix it with an update.. This happens not only with music app but also with other background apps...Cant play music while surfing...

Same problem.
Any active music player crashes once I start web browsing. It is very annoying. Please has anyone found a solution. I've tried all possible solutions such as, clearing app cache, wiping dalvik cache from bootloader, reinstalling the music player. Nothing has helped as yet. Also can't really multi task with the phone right now. It seems that any process that is not in focus is stopped in sometime.
Off topic, even asphalt 8 does not run proprlerly, it too crashes in between races. Think it is related to the same issue.
Thanks.

91Y0 90LLY said:
Guys,
This is a memory management problem in moto g.....There is a moto forum post regarding this.. Here is the link https://forums.motorola.com/posts/6168839e0e ..Please make some noise so that they fix it with an update.. This happens not only with music app but also with other background apps...Cant play music while surfing...
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Well if it really is purely a memory manager problem it may be related to another issue I have:
Often, when locked, pressing the power button takes 5-10 for the phone to wake. when it does, I am usually greeted with the "com.android.systemui isn't responding" message.
Anybody else also experiencing this problem? (note: you won't see the message unless you have "Show all ANRs" ticked under Settings->Developer options)

solzhenitsyn said:
Well if it really is purely a memory manager problem it may be related to another issue I have:
Often, when locked, pressing the power button takes 5-10 for the phone to wake. when it does, I am usually greeted with the "com.android.systemui isn't responding" message.
Anybody else also experiencing this problem? (note: you won't see the message unless you have "Show all ANRs" ticked under Settings->Developer options)
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Yes, it happens to me as well. I hope Motorola fixes this.

I guess this might be a stupid question but has anyone tried using ART? I believe the memory management varies between ART and dalvik (although I don't understand the exact differences).
I'll probably try this over the next couple of days in any case to see if there's a noticeable difference.

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I'm on ART and haven't seen any differance.
So I tried freezing some Moto system apps (though it might be bad for the system) to free up some RAM. After that I've installed Auto Memory Manager and tweaked some minfree and OOM settings. So far so good. Tested out Spotify stream in background with Chrome tabs open and switching and taking pictures with the Camera app. Chrome Tabs still refresh when i switch in between but the music still runs in background.
How about you guys?

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I'm on ART and haven't seen any differance.
So I tried freezing some Moto system apps (though it might be bad for the system) to free up some RAM. After that I've installed Auto Memory Manager and tweaked some minfree and OOM settings. So far so good. Tested out Spotify stream in background with Chrome tabs open and switching and taking pictures with the Camera app. Chrome Tabs still refresh when i switch in between but the music still runs in background.
How about you guys?
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Hey thanks for the tip. I installed Auto Memory Manager and did some tweaks. I'm using rocker player, I also doubled its buffer and white listed it in auto memory manager. I'm running dalvik, its working better. It still quits but not untill i open more than 4 tabs on chrome and do multi tasking.
Also for any music player, if you swipe it out is recent tasks the music stops. Which never happened it the earlier versions of android.
So try a trick, swipe the music player out of recent tasks and start music from headset button of wedget, then see if the playback stops while browsing, for me it hasen't yet.
If possible please try out and confirm whether it works or not.

OK I tried patching my memory manager to make sure my players don't get killed. It worked, but now chrome gets really laggy when I am using it while playing music. It might be the system causing lots of memory leaks when accessing external SD. I noticed that ES remote manager also gets killed if on background when copying large files to external SD.

Chrome is ofc smooth with material design and stuff, but man it sure uses a heck loads of memory. I'm using Dolphin as default now

bountygiver said:
OK I tried patching my memory manager to make sure my players don't get killed. It worked, but now chrome gets really laggy when I am using it while playing music. It might be the system causing lots of memory leaks when accessing external SD. I noticed that ES remote manager also gets killed if on background when copying large files to external SD.
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This would make a lot of sense since there is a massive difference in the frequency of music player crashes when playing off internal vs external.
Anything we can do about it?

[Q] any solution of google play music crashing

hello i bought this phone on 24th november..the phone was working fine even the play music but on 25th morning when i accessed my library option in the play music the app crashed..i tried many times but the result was the same.. so i formatted the sd card through the phone as well as through a laptop..then cleared the cache and app data as well deleted the app and re installed it still the problem existed so i had it replaced..in the new device the same problem was showing and after changing many sd cards figured out that the problem was with the sd card...i was using a class 4 16gb..bought a new one a class 10 16gb and copied only the songs this time and nthng else but the same problem is showing..can anyone help me out?

KaziRahman said:
hello i bought this phone on 24th november..the phone was working fine even the play music but on 25th morning when i accessed my library option in the play music the app crashed..i tried many times but the result was the same.. so i formatted the sd card through the phone as well as through a laptop..then cleared the cache and app data as well deleted the app and re installed it still the problem existed so i had it replaced..in the new device the same problem was showing and after changing many sd cards figured out that the problem was with the sd card...i was using a class 4 16gb..bought a new one a class 10 16gb and copied only the songs this time and nthng else but the same problem is showing..can anyone help me out?
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This should go in the Q&A thread and I hope the respective moderator does shift it there.
Anyhow, I'm facing the same problem you're. Whenever I access the library part of the app, it crashes. It also happened with the old mobile I had. So I don't think it's device specific.

Try the new Google Play Music..from Nexus 6..with material interface.
It should work..i think

StariX37 said:
Try the new Google Play Music..from Nexus 6..with material interface.
It should work..i think
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i updated to the latest version of play music still the problem is persisting..i dont know what you are talking about..if possible provide me the download link please..

KaziRahman said:
hello i bought this phone on 24th november..the phone was working fine even the play music but on 25th morning when i accessed my library option in the play music the app crashed..i tried many times but the result was the same.. so i formatted the sd card through the phone as well as through a laptop..then cleared the cache and app data as well deleted the app and re installed it still the problem existed so i had it replaced..in the new device the same problem was showing and after changing many sd cards figured out that the problem was with the sd card...i was using a class 4 16gb..bought a new one a class 10 16gb and copied only the songs this time and nthng else but the same problem is showing..can anyone help me out?
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wipe data and cache of that app in settings->apps->all apps

pradeepmaddy said:
wipe data and cache of that app in settings->apps->all apps
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Did it many times still the problem is persisting..

pradeepmaddy said:
wipe data and cache of that app in settings->apps->all apps
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I have the same version in my xperia z2 but it is working smoothly..

u are rooted?

vikasb32 said:
u are rooted?
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No i did not root the phone..

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wipe data and cache of that app in settings->apps->all apps
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i just discovered that when the music files exceeds the limit i.e. 104 in my moto g 2nd gen the player crashes..otherwise when upto limit that is till 104 files the play music in my moto g 2nd gen is working fine

Google play music always FC to me if I dont have data ebnabled.Try another music player and see is the problem still present.

Tonal4Nagual said:
Google play music always FC to me if I dont have data ebnabled.Try another music player and see is the problem still present.
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No there is no problem present in other music players..i am using rocket player premium and facing no problem..but my friends are also using the same handset without the data enabled still they can play their music files through play music..is there a problem with my handset?

Lol no! You don't have any problems with your handset. It's just that probably the playstore is buggy. Don't worry about, just use another player for now. I recommend poweramp

mahendru1992 said:
Lol no! You don't have any problems with your handset. It's just that probably the playstore is buggy. Don't worry about, just use another player for now. I recommend poweramp
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OK so I'm not replacing my phone.. As this is the third handset having the same problem which i received..

mahendru1992 said:
Lol no! You don't have any problems with your handset. It's just that probably the playstore is buggy. Don't worry about, just use another player for now. I recommend poweramp
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Okay.. After so many tries i figured out that if i copy the music files one at a time it won't crash..

KaziRahman said:
Okay.. After so many tries i figured out that if i copy the music files one at a time it won't crash..
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So does it crash now?

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So does it crash now?
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Nope no crash at all.. Have 124 music files in the SD card play music running smoothly..

KaziRahman said:
Nope no crash at all.. Have 124 music files in the SD card play music running smoothly..
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Hmm this is very strange!

mahendru1992 said:
Hmm this is very strange!
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Yes this is very very strange..now i am copying the image files and other files to check whether it crashes or not..lets hope for the best

[Q] Throw issue using Walkman app

I have my new Z3 compact and can use the walkman app to throw music to a DLNA device, sound comes out, all good so far, but i can stop or pause the track. only way to stop it playing is to disconnect from the DLNA device.
I have downloaded an alternative app and that works fine, pause, stop etc.
any idea's please?
Cheers PHW39

PHW39 said:
I have my new Z3 compact and can use the walkman app to throw music to a DLNA device, sound comes out, all good so far, but i can stop or pause the track. only way to stop it playing is to disconnect from the DLNA device.
I have downloaded an alternative app and that works fine, pause, stop etc.
any idea's please?
Cheers PHW39
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Perhaps a reboot might do the trick for you.
You can also try wiping the app's data/cache(settings -> apps- > walkman -> clear data/clear cache.
Lastly, if you are rooted there might be a module/app that is causing this behavior.

Sydrox said:
Perhaps a reboot might do the trick for you.
You can also try wiping the app's data/cache(settings -> apps- > walkman -> clear data/clear cache.
Lastly, if you are rooted there might be a module/app that is causing this behavior.
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I had tried a re-boot, no change
I have now tried clearing data/cache, also deleting updates back to factory default, still no change
i have found now that if i hit the home button and then re-enter the app i can start a different tune but i still cannot pause or stop the current song from either the app or the mini GUI from the notifications screen.
it does appear to buffer as i start the song playing.
i'm not rooted
any more help please ?
Cheers Paul.

PHW39 said:
I had tried a re-boot, no change
I have now tried clearing data/cache, also deleting updates back to factory default, still no change
i have found now that if i hit the home button and then re-enter the app i can start a different tune but i still cannot pause or stop the current song from either the app or the mini GUI from the notifications screen.
it does appear to buffer as i start the song playing.
i'm not rooted
any more help please ?
Cheers Paul.
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Have you tried a different device? I'm starting to think this may be device related.
what device are you using btw?

Sydrox said:
Have you tried a different device? I'm starting to think this may be device related.
what device are you using btw?
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I've tried a different app and that works fine., so suspect it's not device but would really like to stick to the Walkman app if possible.
its a Sony xperia Z3 Compact