Streaming pauses with notifications - Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've been having this issue with my Note 5 for the past few days where whatever I'm streaming gets paused when a notification comes in. I'm not talking about an interruption in the stream. It completely pauses and doesn't restart after the notification. I would have to manually restart it.
This happens with Google Play Music, TuneIn Pro, YouTube and even MX Player playing a local audio file. In the case of TuneIn Pro, the incoming notification actually kills the app! I'd have to launch it again.
Not every notification pauses streams though. Hangouts, Skype, Telegram and FB messenger do but some others like Gmail or Yahoo Weather don't. I blocked Telegram's notifications and it still pauses streaming as if not blocked (i.e. pauses streams when it would have thrown a notification).
Lastly, and I'm not sure if this is related, the issue started happening after I used the Samsung headset that came with the device for a call.
Any thoughts?

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[Q] System sounds overrides (i.e. kills) other media sounds

(Sorry if this already has been posted somewhere else)
When I listen to music, an audio book or some other media, that media is muted while a notification sound (e-mail, etc) sounds. This is - of course - very annoying since the movie, audio book is interrupted (but not stopped).
On my HTC Desire the music kept playing also when a notification sound was playing.
Is there some way to make the notification sounds play at the same time as other audio streams?
Hi there,
I use PowerAMP, and this issue didn't appeared to me yet.
When I receive a message or something, I just hear the ringtone softly through my music.
joshoon said:
Hi there,
I use PowerAMP, and this issue didn't appeared to me yet.
When I receive a message or something, I just hear the ringtone softly through my music.
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Seems like the sound issue is based on how each app uses the notification sounds.
Some apps does use the same "audio-channel" as my music player, and that interrupts/pauses the music. Other apps uses some other audio-channel and notifications though those apps executes their softly through my music.
It doesn't mather what ROM etc you are using.
I just have to live with this.

Is there a way to prevent music from pausing during navigation?

I was surprised that rather than attenuating music playback the One pauses music when Waze or Google Navy is announcing an upcoming turn.
59er9er said:
I was surprised that rather than attenuating music playback the One pauses music when Waze or Google Navy is announcing an upcoming turn.
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Not sure on that one, it might be app specific. For instance, last time I was listening to Pandora and navigating, the phone simply turned down the volume on the music while the navigator was talking. In the HTC Music app, it muted the music but it kept playing(annoying, since I was listening to an audio book...) and in Google Play Music, it would pause it.
unremarked is correct. I use PowerAmp and theres an option to pause the music or play the notification along with the music and thats what i use. I prefer the way iOS handles it though. The music goes lower while the notification sound plays. But i haven't found a way to make it work that way.
Peterboi said:
unremarked is correct. I use PowerAmp and theres an option to pause the music or play the notification along with the music and thats what i use. I prefer the way iOS handles it though. The music goes lower while the notification sound plays. But i haven't found a way to make it work that way.
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So this morning I got into the car and continued to stream music to my device via Google Music. I needed to make an unplanned detour so I fired up Waze to calculate a quick route avoiding traffic. Much to my delight the music I was streaming attenuated when Waze spoke, just like it used to do on my iPhone. I was so jazzed and my kids were probably wondering why. So at the next light I switched to the HTC player and no dice. Same behavior as before, muting/pausing music whenever Waze spoke directions. Finally I decided to try Pandora (which I haven't been able to stream to my car in the week I've had the One) and not only did Pandora play through the car speakers, it too attenuated when Waze spoke. I haven't tried this with Google Nav.
So what's changed since yesterday? Well I booted into Safe Mode (per HTC rep's suggestion) to troubleshoot a bluetooth volume issue and that didn't do anything other than remove some of my folders on one of my home panels. That bluetooth volume issue is a separate issue and it was not resolved through Safe Booting the device. Also, it appears there was an update to Google Music so that may have resolved the music pausing issue. Either way, I'm not sure what I did or what happened to the device to fix this behavior but I'm very happy to experience this expected behavior between music (except for the HTC native player) and nav.

Tasker in the car, stop and start "music" from different "music" apps

Tasker in the car, stop and start "music" from different "music" apps
I know the topic might be strange, but I didn't know what to name this thread.
I got a car with bluetooth, and when my phone is connected I want a lot of stuff to happen.
First, I want it to start playing on Spotify (and maybe start some "car app/launcher"). I've been experimenting a lot, and basically have task that Launches Spotify, light the screen up (otherwise I'm having problem with Spotify not starts on play command), and with Media Control Simulates Play. I also have some well timed wait's.
I also have another task that runs when I got a message, that will read the message for me. Since Spotify not will let the TTS spoken message to be heard for some reason, when using the same "media channel" to play the TTS, I also here got some well timed wait's and lowering in volume, and later a pause of the music, before a temp max rise of the media volume and the message being read. After the TTS voice is finished reading the message on the highest volume the volume is set as I want and a Play with "Media Control Simulates Play" runs.
NOW for my questions.
Sometimes I stops my Spotify for listen to a audio book or some podcasts or something else. I would like my task that stops Spotify (or at least let me here the message) and read the message also to work if I at that moment listens to a podcast.
The stop function isn't a problem for me on some apps (they that silens by default when the TTS voice starts), but for apps that needs the sound to first be stopped are problem for me.
I would like some help to have Tasker stop and start the stream for that app that was playing when the message arrived.
If I'm listen to Spotify my task works, but if I listen to podcast, it stops when the TTS speaks, but after, it will start Spotify since my task runs "Media Control Simulates Play" for Spotify.
I would like that Media Control Play (and stop) to be for that app that at the moment was using the media stream channel on the phone.
Is that something that is possible?
/Söder

Sound coming from earpiece after using facebook messenger?

After having a video call on fb messenger when i go to listen to spotify or any other kind of music the sound comes from earpiece.. a full restart is required and sometimes force stopping messenger as well.. any ideas?

bluetooth audio problem

Hey guys, I received my new pixel 4xl and it has the same bluetooth problem I had with my pixel 2 wich is that when you are playing spotify, for example, and someone sends me a voice message and I play it, it doesn´t stop spotify and reproduce the messag, it just shuts all audio. Then when I play spotify both sounds would play... So I have to close spotify entirely, close whatsapp and then reopen whatsapp and play the voice message. It´s not a big deal, but it is bothering me while working...
It happens with any kind of sound source, youube, spotify, whatsapp, instagram, facebook, etc... It also happens with all my bluetooth devices, not just my main working headphones, but with two speakers as well.
Hmm. Did you try sorting it out with Tasker?

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