I'm using PowerAMP 1.0 and it's causing 100% CPU use and choppy playback on my HTC Evo when playing back MP3 files.
The first 30 seconds or so are fine but then CPU use jumps up to 100% and stays there, even after running a task killer. It only happens with this program running, is there anything I should do to try to fix this? I really like this audio player interface I just wish it wasn't so buggy!
No wonder my EVO has been acting up since i put that on there
PowerAMP shouldn't behave like this.
Please try to get some app which shows processes cpu consumption and find the process which high %.
Also, what is your ROM, any custom one?
No such issues here, I see 3-7% CPU utilization playing oggs and mp3's.
No issues with PowerAMP here, uses 2.3% of CPU while playing mp3's.
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Haven't had any CPU issues but my PowerAMP has been acting up! It'll be playing then all of a sudden it won't read any of my files. SAying too many failed files and it'll skip thru a few then just stops. It's wierd, I had uninstall and re-install.
I'm having a similar issue with an HTC Hero running Cyanogenmod 6.1. It'll play fine sometimes, but other times my phone locks up pretty good with choppy music, so much that I can't even see the loads for individual processes. This only happens when using PowerAMP.
Also, when it IS working, PowerAMP CPU usage varies between 20%-70%, with it typically 29%-39%. Key point is that this is playing WMA files. I haven't tried MP3s yet.
I do notice high cpu with PowerAmp as watchdog told me.
30%~50% cpu while playing eaac+(m4a)
sandandsea said:
I do notice high cpu with PowerAmp as watchdog told me.
30%~50% cpu while playing eaac+(m4a)
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Try mp3 and see if you see more like 5-10%? If so, it must be codec specific.
I dont know why, but poweramp for me was getting really choppy, causing the cpu to spike and audio would skip when going for a run with GPS apps in the background. I've switched back to doubletwist and its smooth again.
This is on a captivate 2.2.1 [email protected]
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If I use the stock player, which seems nice, as soon as I enable an EQ, I get this terrible effect that sounds like it's being over compressed. It happens with all the eq settings, and even custom.
I stated using Mixzing and it's a great player, the eq is awsome, but when I play songs it skips all the time.
That's odd. Mine doesn't seem to suffer from any compression with EQ use.
I don't actually use EQ but i have some poor experience playing music at times.
Sometimes when I'm listening to music through the headphone port and the phone does something (receive a text message or just use data or something) there are audible pops and clicks in the audio. Once the phone is done doing what it's doing they stop
I experience the same small pops and hesitations when playing music. Mine occur both from the speaker and the headset jacks. Sometimes I can play an entire song and have no noise, but most of the time it occurs a couple of times during a song. Very annoying.
Mine doesn't do that either. Good for me I guess, but odd.
I also have noticed the same issues. Especially when there is an incoming call. Granted, IM not stock, running cog 2.1.5
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Yeah, I get the crackling noises too, but haven't noticed whether it's only with mixzing or stock player.
same issue here with the stock player AND mixzing. others have said that apps running in the background cause this issue but I tested that by killing everything in the background first and the issue still occurs. I know that android will auto-start stuff it needs but if the stock apps kill the music quality, then they have more fixes to release.
Weird, when I get a notification my music stops completely just to play my tone... is this normal? Any way to disable this? Hell I didn't even know stock player had EQ adjustments, where do I find them?
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Bluetooth playback is when I notice the most distortion. I don't bother with any kind of EQ.
I get clicks and pops from all headphones, anything I connect the phone to, car, stereo, anything connected to the headphone jack.
I've tried and listened to music using all of these and get clicks and pops from all of them.
Stock player
MixZing
Cubed player
Tunewiki
Meridian
The player from Cyanogen mod
Pandora
Last.fm
Astro player
Every music player app I've tried clicks and pops, pauses and stutters. It does this no matter the encoding of the file, no matter the source, it clicks and pops and clicks and pops. It's worse than the cheapest mp3 player I've ever owned and frankly, I wish I could return this phone to AT&T but I'm past my 30 days. I really expected some updates, real updates for the GPS which is why I kept it past the 30 days. I thought the clicks and pops were a fluke, but to this day, GPS sucks and the music player clicks and pops. It's beyond annoying and if I could return it, I would.
Earlier today the GPS had me in Bakersfield, CA, over 2,000 miles from where I actually was. 2,000 miles!
And no, the explanation "it's a phone, not a gps or a media player" is not acceptable. These are features we pay for as customers. And a fix for these issues means I don't have to screw around with custom ROMs and settings and hacks and blah blah. It should just work, period.
Click click.. click click...
Yes, I get clicks and pops and stutters, yes I do...
...and yes, I've tried all the various buffer options in the MixZing app and am using the full PAID version, PAID version of the app. That would be the media player I bought because the stock one that comes with the phone can't read playlists created elsewhere. If you have even a moderate music collection it's absurd that the damn stock player can't read a standard playlist file and users would be expected to create all their playlists on their device. Ridiculous.
May I suggest you try two things and see if it helps:
1. Try a lag fix if you haven't already
2. Download SetCPU, lock the cpu at 1GHz and try music
I'd be very interested to see if either of these would help, have you tried factory resetting or a new ROM?
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My Charge and Poweramp do not get along for some reason. When I'm playing music, aside from it just generally not sounding as good as it should, I get portions of the songs where it skips, stutters, sounds like its having buffering problems. I've tried changing the buffer size to no avail.
Running stock ROM with PBNJ 8-7-11. Could it be the Twitter app again?
Mite be the charger causing the problem sound , like the same problem I have when I plug in my laptop charger while playing music usual it does this when the charger isn't all the way in or hanging out could be some sorta voltage problem wit you charger probably ?
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Have you tried any other players at all to see if you have this problem?
Try either winamp or ubermusic. Personally I think uber music is one of the best new music players out there. (Except it does not have the equalizer like poweramp.)
Hello, I know this seems to be a silly problem, but this starts to become really disturbing. I don't know why when I play some music with my headset plugged into my phone, the songs play as usual, the quality is satisfactory, but lots of time the songs stop and continue by itself (buffer if you like) and you can obviously notice the gap between them (it is really small (about 1/1000 seconds; but you can definitely notice it and it is very disturbing when you are really in the music). I have this issue in my GT-N7100, but also in my MB860 as well, so I do not think this is a problem for a specific device. I've tried different audio drivers and different headsets (I am currently using the Beats one). If it doesn't changed anything. This problem happens most often when I am on a bus trip or in a car, but less frequent when I am at home or in a library. Does anyone has the similar problem and knows how to solve it? Thanks.
First I thought, it might be a RAM problem but for such a strong device as the GT-N7100 it shouldn't be a problem. Do you use a certain music player or does it happen with different players?
EDIT: If you are using some kind of equalizer, try turning it off and see if it helps.
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First I thought, it might be a RAM problem but for such a strong device as the GT-N7100 it shouldn't be a problem. Do you use a certain music player or does it happen with different players?
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Thanks for your reply, I previous use Poweramp with the MB860, and now PlayerPro for the GT-N7100. They all have the same issue. And I do not think it is a RAM problem too, since even when I use my iPod touch (with only 1 core), it plays music like charm!
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First I thought, it might be a RAM problem but for such a strong device as the GT-N7100 it shouldn't be a problem. Do you use a certain music player or does it happen with different players?
EDIT: If you are using some kind of equalizer, try turning it off and see if it helps.
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I never use equalizer since it makes too much noise with some songs.
Ok, that was just a low CPU speed issue. I fixed it by setting it to at least 800MHz.
I noticed mp3 playback will skip (best way I can describe it, sort of similar to the old old cd players being bumped while playing) on custom ROMS. Happened on Miui.us v2.12.28 and Avatar 2-Feb-2013. So I rolled back to stock I727UCLF6_I727ATTLF6 and imagine my surprise that mp3s playback with no skips at all.
I'm totally lost, not even sure what to try next. I even looked at the debug monitor during playback but nothing seemed obviously unusual.
Anyone else run into this problem?
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I noticed mp3 playback will skip (best way I can describe it, sort of similar to the old old cd players being bumped while playing) on custom ROMS. Happened on Miui.us v2.12.28 and Avatar 2-Feb-2013. So I rolled back to stock I727UCLF6_I727ATTLF6 and imagine my surprise that mp3s playback with no skips at all.
I'm totally lost, not even sure what to try next. I even looked at the debug monitor during playback but nothing seemed obviously unusual.
Anyone else run into this problem?
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Did you flash any audio mods or anything like that when I ran miui for short period and avatar didn't have issue with mine... did you wipe dalvik and cache in music player then reboot
My audio skips in the Google Play Music 4.5.910I.560208 (latest).
But not like op's, it just like's to skip to next song when there's 30s-1:30m left of the track :S Not always but 3 out of 10 times.
No audio mods at all. Even noticed this after flashing avatar.
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I have noticed if I use a different CPU govenor the skips become less frequent. I went from power save to conservative.
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I've never got this but you could try poweramp and set the audio thread priority to ''Large +250ms'' under Audio>Advanced Tweak
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Okay so I have been using Nvidia shield tablet for almost 5 month now.
Ive never used a custom rom so I wanted to try something new
I have used tablet without any problem except poorly slow on aosp rom
then I installed bliss rom from here and boom guess what my device is way faster and better than ever b4
but it gave me some problem which is making weird noises when I play music via power amp, Mx player pro (those two were the only ones I gave try)
It doesnt seem to happen when Im on youtube and when I listen via headphon or bluetooth device.. just only happnes when its on this devices speaker.
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video 24 ~ 31 sec its the problem. on the video it just shows its just stopping, video recorder prolly didnt catch its weird sound but it has really weird sound on sounds like the speaker is being torn apart.. ? more like mechanical sound buzzing,,,
No symptoms shows on vlc but I can't use vlc to watch videos cuz of subtitle reasons..
+ vlc haa the same problem after playing video for an hour
I have the same issue, did you find a solution?
I had a similar issue on AICP rom: speakers where doing weird screeching noises in certain situations ( watching video on MXplayer, game load screens ).
It seemed to happen when the CPU reaches the low freq - they may not be enough to handle the workload.
I just used the built in KernelAuditor to set the min CPU freq to be 300.
No more screeching since then.