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[Q] Kirik settings: how it works?

Hi to all,
today I tried Kirik settings (http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=673dd6e6-29ac-463c-81d0-89b04a381a3c), an app that permits to access to fast settings (WiFi, cellular, airplane mode, new sms, ecc) by media player bar. When I press down or up volume button, the popup show me some choices as a "playlist" and by pressing the title, it opens the fast link page.
How do it works? How pressing on a "song" title, it show me a page?
Thanks to all and sorry my bad English.

arizz96 said:
Hi to all,
today I tried Kirik settings (http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=673dd6e6-29ac-463c-81d0-89b04a381a3c), an app that permits to access to fast settings (WiFi, cellular, airplane mode, new sms, ecc) by media player bar. When I press down or up volume button, the popup show me some choices as a "playlist" and by pressing the title, it opens the fast link page.
How do it works? How pressing on a "song" title, it show me a page?
Thanks to all and sorry my bad English.
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It's really rather simple:
The audioplayer API allows apps to register as the currently playing audio player. If you tap the song, the API will open said audio player.
What Kirik presumably does is to initiate a "fake" audio playback and register itself as the current player to the audio API. That way, tapping the song will open up kirik. This would also explain why you need to "re-initialise" the app after you listen to real audio.
Note that whatsapp used to do something similiar (and I think it still does on WP7.X) to keep a data connection to the whatsapp servers in the background to allow up/downloading images in the background.

[Q] Play Music draining my battery

The last few days I see that Play Music is draining my battery at an alarming rate. Does anyone know how to fix this?
It's been only one and a half hour and I am down to 80 percent already
I have attached the screenshots below
Regards
Sanjay

Maybe it's trying to cache offline. Check your play music settings

metaljr81 said:
Maybe it's trying to cache offline. Check your play music settings
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It doesn't look like it based on the amount of data received.
The best bet would be to force stop it and clear the cache though. Usually if there's a misbehaving app, that'll fix it.

Greenify it. Well, it's a system app, so you'd need to be rooted.
Or just disable it completely in settings/apps.... And use a music app from the play store.

Bluetooth autoplays sound files in car when trying to use google navigation.

Until about a week or so ago when I connected N6 to car system via bluetooth and used google maps, I got just the google nav voice. Now I start hearing media files, even ringtones and movie sound tracks. I have turned off settings for autoplay in Bluetooth settings, and try to turn off in PowerAmp. Problem is if I stop or pause the playing of the sound track in Poweramp then I lose the Nav voice as well. If I pause or stop the track playing in the car system I also lose the nav voice sound. I have flashed nothing at all between the acceptable nav-voice-only behavior and the onset of the automatic media file playing. Only thing that has happened was playstore updates including PowerAmp, and Google Maps. I did a search in this forum but found nothing about this. Driving me more nuts than usual.
Any help would be appreciated .
Seriously? Only 2 of us have this problem? Really need solution as Google navigation is basically useless until this is solved.

I've had the same problem. I haven't found a solution. I think using voice control has something to do with it.

wtherrell said:
Until about a week or so ago when I connected N6 to car system via bluetooth and used google maps, I got just the google nav voice. Now I start hearing media files, even ringtones and movie sound tracks. I have turned off settings for autoplay in Bluetooth settings, and try to turn off in PowerAmp. Problem is if I stop or pause the playing of the sound track in Poweramp then I lose the Nav voice as well. If I pause or stop the track playing in the car system I also lose the nav voice sound. I have flashed nothing at all between the acceptable nav-voice-only behavior and the onset of the automatic media file playing. Only thing that has happened was playstore updates including PowerAmp, and Google Maps. I did a search in this forum but found nothing about this. Driving me more nuts than usual.
Any help would be appreciated .
Seriously? Only 2 of us have this problem? Really need solution as Google navigation is basically useless until this is solved.
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Bump. Really need help, guys.

Do you ever use Google Music in your car?
I don't know if this will be the answer or not, but if you do have it, it's possible some of these files ended up in the queue. Open up Google Music and click the three dots in the upper right. There should be an option in there to 'Clear Queue' or something like that.
Since this seems to be more or less random media files and not actually songs, I don't know if this is the fix or not, but worth giving a shot.

hayzooos said:
Do you ever use Google Music in your car?
I don't know if this will be the answer or not, but if you do have it, it's possible some of these files ended up in the queue. Open up Google Music and click the three dots in the upper right. There should be an option in there to 'Clear Queue' or something like that.
Since this seems to be more or less random media files and not actually songs, I don't know if this is the fix or not, but worth giving a shot.
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I just started having this problem as well, and I have no audio player app (rely on built in player of ES File exporer). If you pause the song playing, then Navigation voice works. But whenever the voice says something, the audio file it randomly selected advances that amount of time as though it's playing too

hayzooos said:
Do you ever use Google Music in your car?
I don't know if this will be the answer or not, but if you do have it, it's possible some of these files ended up in the queue. Open up Google Music and click the three dots in the upper right. There should be an option in there to 'Clear Queue' or something like that.
Since this seems to be more or less random media files and not actually songs, I don't know if this is the fix or not, but worth giving a shot.
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Thanks for your response. No, don't even have Google music. I use poweramp but will see if I can clear queue or something. I haven't used it in the car but that's what is playing the sound files. I went into Poweramp while the sounds were playing and paused it and the sounds stopped. But Nav voice never came back.

wtherrell said:
Thanks for your response. No, don't even have Google music. I use poweramp but will see if I can clear queue or something. I haven't used it in the car but that's what is playing the sound files. I went into Poweramp while the sounds were playing and paused it and the sounds stopped. But Nav voice never came back.
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So strange. Have you tried using nav (walking maybe?) while not in the car? I'm wondering if you could point it to an app problem or possibly bluetooth problem. What about if you use the nav in the car without going through bluetooth?
I'd also try freezing PowerAmp while using Nav and seeing if that works.
Try to eliminate as many variables as possible and see if you can pinpoint exactly what's causing the issue, then maybe we can find out why.
Other ideas would be clearing data from PowerAmp, test, Maps, test, then Google's voice-to-text or whatever the 'voice' app is that produces the turn-by-turn, test and see if you can nail down exactly what app it is.

OKAstro said:
I just started having this problem as well, and I have no audio player app (rely on built in player of ES File exporer). If you pause the song playing, then Navigation voice works. But whenever the voice says something, the audio file it randomly selected advances that amount of time as though it's playing too
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Thanks. It plays songs as well as ring tones - - - any sound files it can find apparently. If I pause the player, nav voice stops too. Don't know why it suddenly started doing this. I have not had this happen before in my 11 1/2 months of Nexus 6. Same rom /kernel everything since mid August with no problems until last week. May have to go into Titanium and freeze Poweramp. What idiot dreamed up forcing bluetooth autoplay on us? At least Google maps has an option to play voice over bluetooth or not. Oh, well - - the joys of Nexus.

So I Went into Titanium and froze all music player apps. No more autoplay. Tomorrow I'll see if it sticks and whether nav voice plays over bluetooth. Pita to have to do it this way.

wtherrell said:
So I Went into Titanium and froze all music player apps. No more autoplay. Tomorrow I'll see if it sticks and whether nav voice plays over bluetooth. Pita to have to do it this way.
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Unfortunately I have nothing to freeze, so I still need a fix. Gonna play around with some of the Google apps and see if maybe one of them (or an update) is causing this. Will let you know
UPDATE: OK for me the issue comes up if I use OK GOOGLE to start things off. The audio time counter advances whenever Candace (name given by my wife to the Navigation voice) speaks. Counter then pauses until she speaks again, then pauses, etc.
If I start Navigation without using OK Google commands, audio time counter does nothing when Candace speaks.
So I think it's one of the google apps. I rolled back a number of them to their default version, but that didn't matter. Could be one I didn't try or even another app. Again I have no music players installed. I use the audio player of ES File Explorer as needed.

wtherrell said:
So I Went into Titanium and froze all music player apps. No more autoplay. Tomorrow I'll see if it sticks and whether nav voice plays over bluetooth. Pita to have to do it this way.
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Yup. Nav voice over bluetooth is fine. Next step is to unfreeze poweramp & see if autoplay comes back. I'll have wait until next week to try it tho.

wtherrell said:
Yup. Nav voice over bluetooth is fine. Next step is to unfreeze poweramp & see if autoplay comes back. I'll have wait until next week to try it tho.
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[App] Google Play Music -> launch and autoplay

Hi all,
I've made a simple app that decreases number of clicks required to play songs via Google Play Music (which is important for safety when you drive).
When you click this app's icon it launches Google Play Music and immediately starts playing. The behaviour is similar to FM radio behaviour on most head units.
You are welcome to download and use it (it's free): Music Start and Play (Google Play Store)

Nice! I haven't received my head unit yet but I'll definitely install this once I get it. Thank you!
Do you plan on doing this for any other music apps?

ahfunaki said:
Nice! I haven't received my head unit yet but I'll definitely install this once I get it. Thank you!
Do you plan on doing this for any other music apps?
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I've made a similar app for PowerAmp (it is not published in Play Store). But I don't know if anyone need it.

SpeedFire- said:
I've made a similar app for PowerAmp (it is not published in Play Store). But I don't know if anyone need it.
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This is precisely my requirement! I request you to share if possible.
Thanks.

glasseffects said:
This is precisely my requirement! I request you to share if possible.
Thanks.
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Actually this can be done via the PowerAmp app itself. Therefore I cancelled the app release.
Go to PowerAmp settings -> Audio -> Audio focus -> Resume on start.
Done

SpeedFire- said:
Actually this can be done via the PowerAmp app itself. Therefore I cancelled the app release.
Go to PowerAmp settings -> Audio -> Audio focus -> Resume on start.
Done
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Thanks a lot! I did not know it was right under the hood, though hidden in an unsuspecting manner.

Question Music autoplay when connecting Galaxy Buds

Every time I take out my Galaxy Buds Live and put them in, my S21 ultra automatically launches YouTube Music. Then i inadvertently tap the bud while I'm adjusting and it starts playing music. I don't want this and would prefer to disable the auto launch. I've checked in the settings for Galaxy Wearable and YouTube Music and don't see it. Anyone know how to stop this?

Youtube Music > settings > Allow external devices to start playback
disable that, should be good.

uicnren said:
Youtube Music > settings > Allow external devices to start playback
disable that, should be good.
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Thanks, that's what I thought as well, but even after unchecking that, it still auto launches

tripjnj said:
Thanks, that's what I thought as well, but even after unchecking that, it still auto launches
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For now I've uninstalled and reinstalled YT Music and it seems better so far. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

tripjnj said:
Thanks, that's what I thought as well, but even after unchecking that, it still auto launches
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Go into Wearables and check settings there*.
Maybe app permissions for Utube.
Lol, I keep that app disabled.
I use Poweramp which will do the same but it can be disabled in it's many settings.
Very annoying when you don't want it...
* if nothing else works you can disable the Buds touch controls in Wearables... the full nuke option