Hi xda'ers
I couldn't really find another place to ask this so I thought I would try here.
When streaming music from Google music to the chrome cast I find that when the song is very long (say a live dj set mp3) and i seek somewhere to the middle all audio cuts out. Both the chromecast and the android devices both think they have buffered the new area of the song and say they are playing but no audio comes out. Furthermore if after I start a long song I wait 3-4 mins (enough time for the full 100-200MB mp3 to have fully buffered on the chromecast) then seeking works fine.
Is anyone else noticing this behavior? I also noticed that the same thing happened when streaming to the nexusQ but i ignored it because that was an unreleased product.
I have had trouble with podcasts. If GPlay Music loses the connection there's no way to reestablish it without losing my place in the podcast. However the third party app Remotecast seems to work for seeking even after having resumed a lost connection.
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Is it possible to have audio play through headphones while the video is playing on the TV?
It sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? That's why this question has been asked and answered several times before. Unfortunately the answer is No, it wouldn't work because there would be no way to sync the independent audio and video streams.
DJames1 said:
It sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? That's why it has been asked and answered several times before: No, and it wouldn't work because there would be no way to sync the independent audio and video streams.
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I hope a future version of Cast for Audio would address this shortcoming. Video on a TV or a computer / mobile devices + Audio on Cast compatible speakers or A/V receiver.
I use an app by Stefan Pledl called Local Cast for Chromecast and can be found in the playstore for android devices. It does exactly what you are asking and routes audio to phone. You can sync easily with a + and - in 0.1 sec increments.
it is donation ware and is worth the investment of your choice from $3.99 to $10.
Edit: I just did a bluetooth test and it worked as well after setting phone or tablet audio to BT. I routed it to my bluetooth enabled speakers.
Hope this helps.
CHEERS
Interesting! Thanks for pointing that out. It wasn't in my older version of LocalCast from the Amazon app store, but it looks like LocalCast developer Stefan Pledl decided to give this a try in the latest version of his app from the Google Play store. The option to "play audio on phone" appears when you cast a video, along with +/- 0.1 sec. time offset adjustment controls.
I tested it briefly, but unfortunately it remains kind of impractical. In about 10 minutes of trying, I could not get the audio to sync properly. It starts off with a guess of 1 sec. audio delay, but from there it's very tedious trying to click it up and down in units of 0.1 second, then wait a second for it to resync, and then wait several seconds more for someone to speak visibly so you can check the lip sync. Also the app warns that sync will be lost every time you FF/RW/skip to time index, so you can't even skip a silent portion to get to a part where people are speaking - you just have to wait it out. As you might guess, the start of most movies with titles and music has nothing you can use to judge the audio-video sync until about 5 minutes in.
Perhaps it would be ok if you spend the time to get it right one time, and then it remains close to that on future casting from the same source using the same device on the same network. But I suspect that the time offset is different with different sources, and it probably drifts if the streaming is not perfect.
It would help if you could directly enter a time offset instead of tediously bumping it up and down by 0.1 seconds at a time.
An issue has risen in the last 3 weeks that has become quite annoying. I am connecting a Galaxy S6 (SM-G920T1) on a T-Mobile Network to an AVH-4100NEX in a 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis. I travel frequently with trips ranging from 2 to 4 hours. It would seem to happen randomly, but the audio (noticed on Audiobooks.com, Spotify, and BeyondPod) would slow down and skip [much like playing a video game that has dropped to very low FPS] and pressing pause will not fix the issue, as the button will say it's been paused but continue to play the messed up audio. The solution I've found was to unplug my device and plug it back in and rewinding the track to the position it began skipping when listening to audio books. It happens randomly between 15 - 30 minutes. On my last trip, I was exiting an interstate highway and, while the audio was skipping the same way on BeyondPod, my Google Maps gave me verbal directions that were clear and undisturbed. It's not just far away trips anymore, just this morning it happened while listening to an audio book and commuting to the office (15 minute drive). This has only been in the last 3 weeks that this issue was occurring.
If anyone has a solution, it would be greatly appreciated. Not only is this embarrassing when someone is riding with me, but it is dangerous for me to have to constantly reconnect during rush hour traffic.
By the by, this occurs both on streaming media and media played directly from my device, so network connectivity is not the issue. Additionally, I've tried several USB cables to ensure that it was not a faulty cord (from Pioneer, Samsung, and 3rd Party); each having the same issue.
daerik said:
An issue has risen in the last 3 weeks that has become quite annoying. I am connecting a Galaxy S6 (SM-G920T1) on a T-Mobile Network to an AVH-4100NEX in a 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis. I travel frequently with trips ranging from 2 to 4 hours. It would seem to happen randomly, but the audio (noticed on Audiobooks.com, Spotify, and BeyondPod) would slow down and skip [much like playing a video game that has dropped to very low FPS] and pressing pause will not fix the issue, as the button will say it's been paused but continue to play the messed up audio. The solution I've found was to unplug my device and plug it back in and rewinding the track to the position it began skipping when listening to audio books. It happens randomly between 15 - 30 minutes. On my last trip, I was exiting an interstate highway and, while the audio was skipping the same way on BeyondPod, my Google Maps gave me verbal directions that were clear and undisturbed. It's not just far away trips anymore, just this morning it happened while listening to an audio book and commuting to the office (15 minute drive). This has only been in the last 3 weeks that this issue was occurring.
If anyone has a solution, it would be greatly appreciated. Not only is this embarrassing when someone is riding with me, but it is dangerous for me to have to constantly reconnect during rush hour traffic.
By the by, this occurs both on streaming media and media played directly from my device, so network connectivity is not the issue. Additionally, I've tried several USB cables to ensure that it was not a faulty cord (from Pioneer, Samsung, and 3rd Party); each having the same issue.
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I have the exact same issue with my NEX4100 and my Nexus 6P. Latest firmware is installed on the NEX4100.
I have it happening during music playback in Google Play Music, and lately in the Audible app which I have been using a LOT. It happened twice during my 30 minute commute home on both of the last 2 trips home.
During a short trip at lunchtime today I listened to some music from a flash drive plugged into USB1 without issue.
I might just try Bluetooth audio for the Audible app, but I get random dropouts in the audio sometimes.
I found this thread but I was disappointed that no one had responded! I was hoping to find a solution.
Do you happen to use Android Wear also?
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I have the exact same issue with my NEX4100 and my Nexus 6P. Latest firmware is installed on the NEX4100.
I have it happening during music playback in Google Play Music, and lately in the Audible app which I have been using a LOT. It happened twice during my 30 minute commute home on both of the last 2 trips home.
During a short trip at lunchtime today I listened to some music from a flash drive plugged into USB1 without issue.
I might just try Bluetooth audio for the Audible app, but I get random dropouts in the audio sometimes.
I found this thread but I was disappointed that no one had responded! I was hoping to find a solution.
Do you happen to use Android Wear also?
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I never seem to be in luck with getting responses, but the issue eventually just stopped one day. Perhaps AA updated, but I didn't update any firmware neither on my device or radio. I am now using the Galaxy S7 Edge (SM-G935T) and have had no issues at all, albeit a few moments skip like a scratched CD via Spotify (playing on Hi-Def); but that could be entirely my data package. As for wearables, I use the Samsung Gear S2 Classic. I turned off the data package on it because the call forwarding was bugged. It works via bluetooth, but not worth $15 a month for a data package. The S Health is cool, too. Outside of the aesthetics of showing off that I'm a "techie", there is really no point to owning the watch (you can probably get a FitBit to do the same for much cheaper).
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I never seem to be in luck with getting responses, but the issue eventually just stopped one day. Perhaps AA updated, but I didn't update any firmware neither on my device or radio. I am now using the Galaxy S7 Edge (SM-G935T) and have had no issues at all, albeit a few moments skip like a scratched CD via Spotify (playing on Hi-Def); but that could be entirely my data package. As for wearables, I use the Samsung Gear S2 Classic. I turned off the data package on it because the call forwarding was bugged. It works via bluetooth, but not worth $15 a month for a data package. The S Health is cool, too. Outside of the aesthetics of showing off that I'm a "techie", there is really no point to owning the watch (you can probably get a FitBit to do the same for much cheaper).
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Hmmm. This sort of thing makes me wish I hadn't upgraded my head unit to to December 2015 firmware update (1.053 I think).
It happened again this morning, and I tried using just bluetooth for my audiobook for the rest of the drive and it worked fine. I disconnected my Android wear watch this morning too (I haven't been wearing it lately anyway), hoping that it may have been a contributing factor to the issues. Apparently it didn't help.
I'm just grasping at straws for a common denominator here. Do you use Tasker at all?
Thanks for the response!
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Hmmm. This sort of thing makes me wish I hadn't upgraded my head unit to to December 2015 firmware update (1.053 I think).
It happened again this morning, and I tried using just bluetooth for my audiobook for the rest of the drive and it worked fine. I disconnected my Android wear watch this morning too (I haven't been wearing it lately anyway), hoping that it may have been a contributing factor to the issues. Apparently it didn't help.
I'm just grasping at straws for a common denominator here. Do you use Tasker at all?
Thanks for the response!
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At the time the audio was messing up, I hadn't purchase a wearable yet, so you could probably eliminate that. Are you playing your Audiobook locally or are you streaming it? I played mine locally via BeyondPod. I think it may have had something to do with the compression of the files, although a few times it occurred listening to Spotify.
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At the time the audio was messing up, I hadn't purchase a wearable yet, so you could probably eliminate that. Are you playing your Audiobook locally or are you streaming it? I played mine locally via BeyondPod. I think it may have had something to do with the compression of the files, although a few times it occurred listening to Spotify.
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The Audible book is downloaded to the device - so not streaming.
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The Audible book is downloaded to the device - so not streaming.
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Is it like one big file or is it broken into "chapters"? I've found that the major issues I've had were from Audiobooks that were one huge file.
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Is it like one big file or is it broken into "chapters"? I've found that the major issues I've had were from Audiobooks that were one huge file.
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It is a long book - 500 plus pages. It is broken into many chapters, but I assume that it is one large file. Downloaded from the Audible store (actually accompanying the e-book via the Kindle app.
I installed a new head unit in my 2006 Toyota Avalon a JVC KWV230BT. The phone is a Nexus 6 running PureNexus 7.1.2-20170509-OFFICIAL. The problem happens with both Google Maps and Waze. When connected via Bluetooth to the head unit the voice from the map application has the first syllable of the first word cut off. This problem also happen using a stock Samsung S7. However the phone via bluetooth work fine no issues. I have done some searching and many folks report this issue however have yet to fine a good fix. I did try a couple of apps the let you redirect the audio to a different profile did not seem to help.
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Here is a much better explaination:
Background: A bluetooth device must detect a preset amount of A2DP audio stream to trigger open a gate allowing the stream to actually play through the device. For users, this means roughly 1 to 2 seconds of audio can be lost at the beginning of a stream. The gate closes a short period of time after the audio stream terminates. Audio content is lost each time the gate must be triggered open. According to Apple, the trigger threshold is controlled by the bluetooth device manufacturer.
The trigger delay can be a significant problem for navigation apps with text-to-speech (TTS) enabled.
An instruction spoken via the iP4's built-in speaker has no delay and sounds like, "In one mile at the T junction turn right onto First Street."
But the same instruction over bluetooth loses words and becomes, "…tion turn right on First Street."
If something holds the gate open -- for example streaming background audio by iPod or Pandora -- then when a navigation app interrupts with a TTS instruction none of it is lost.
New to the watch scene. I purchased the galaxy 5 pro golf edition watch. Quick question. Do I need my phone within bluetooth distance for the watch to give me gps distances? ie. is the watch actually giving me distances from my phone and not directly from the watch?
Yes the watch has a built in GPS and as long as you have a sport active which tracks your GPS position, it will give you the total distance. The GPS data processing algorithm on the watch is not that good tho. But since you would be playing golf in an open space, it would be probably quite good.