I have an unusual problem on my Triumph since installing the most recent CM7. I listen to audiobooks on the phone, and use MortPlayer for audiobooks. I had one audiobook of about 10 hours that I was listening to using Mortplayer with Froyo before the upgrade and it played fine. I installed CM7, loaded Mortplayer, and now the program thinks the track is only 7 minutes long-- it keeps playing after 7 minutes, but it won't save bookmarks past the 7 minute mark. I checked other programs, and all of them think the track is 7 minutes long, and a second similar audiobook is 11 minutes long.
Normally I would think the MP3 was corrupt or the tag wasn't written properly-- but I don't think this is it. It was working fine with Froyo, I checked it with a utility for errors, and it's not a VBR file (which are susceptible to duration problems). It seems to handle shorter MP3's fine, but CM7 seems to be having problems with very long duration files.
Has anyone else heard of this problem?
Thanks,
Gnat
Never mind... I'm not quite sure what is the difference between the MP3 libraries in Froyo vs. Gingerbread, but I ran a new set of diags against the MP3 files and they seem to be reading at the correct duration now under Gingerbread. It seems like the MP3s had wonky headers or something.
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i posted this over in the excalibur forum (i'm using an s620) but haven't gotten any response so i thought i'd post here as well as i'd really like to resolve this and i can't find any thread indicating similar problems.
i'm using an s620 smartphone (not pocket pc) and i get a stutter in my audio once every song (at a random point during playback). it's just a short stutter but it happens every song.
i've tried the latest htc rom and the lates rogers rom thinking it might have something to with that... but it's not as it happens with both roms.
i've also tried playing back from both the mem stick and the phone itself and it's the same either way.
i've also tried playing back with both wmp and tcpmp (or whatever that other one is called). same in either program.
i also tried loading some 128k files on there and get the same results. i was running 320k files before so thought maybe that was the problem. unfortunately not.
would really appreciate some help in this one.
thanks!
anyone? please?
On my samsung i600 the same thing happens when the display is set to timeout in Settings>Display>Homescreen>Timeout.
Set this to Never and try again
By not with every song.
I recently found the .cab file for the Pandora app. which was originally intended for devices using the Windows Mobile 6 OS. I used it on my Ozone knowing full well that there isn't a tailored Pandora app. for the WM 6.1 OS. Pandora doesn't give my device access to any downloads since the website doesn't support my phone. I had to download the Pandora program i currently have from a third party vendor ( a link from the forums here).
It works fine until about 3 minutes in to EVERY song it disconnects. The Pandora program never leaves the screen but the music ends and there is a prompt notifying me of Pandora reconnecting. Once reconnecting a new song starts and the whole thing repeats.
It probably isn't the network. I've tried turning off my data and just using Wi-Fi and still get the same result.
Anyone hear of anything like this? Any ideas? I'm a newb. This is my first smart phone. I have no idea what is going on right now.
bump.... same problem here
I am having the same issue with my Ozone.
Same problem here
You nailed it... about 3 minutes and then it reconnects. Streams AWESOME otherwise.
I figured the suggestion in a post I found about changing the tcp port would fix it, but I couldn't get Advanced Configuration to work on the ozone... Installed .net compact 3.5 framework and it still gave an error when starting it up (one that was much more complicated then just ".net compact 3.5 isn't installed). So, I never got to try changing the tcp port.
Anyone have any ideas about this?
Scratch that...
Ok, so I think I figured out that it has been coincidence that it reconnected the first several times after 3 minutes. The real culprit seems to be emails. I just listened to a full song (greater than 3 minutes) and had no problems. Now, listening to a new song, my phone picked up an email and then a matter of seconds later pandora started reconnecting.
Hello fellow posters,
I am having a very strange problem that shows its ugly head with Napster and Slacker Radio. The song will play for exactly 12 seconds and then stop. The song will then resume again several seconds later. The rest of the song plays fine from that point forward. I find it strange that it happens on both apps at the same exact time (12 seconds). MOG doesn't seem to have this issue.
I have a 4G signal with at least 3 bars when the issue happens. The problem doesn't occur is streaming from WIFI.
Is anybody else having problems with these apps with their G2X?
Thanks for your time,
Lance
I have the same problem. I was running the gingerbread leak thought it was that. So I'm back on stock same problem.
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Napster and Slacker Radio
Does anybody have ideas on how to resolve the issue (song stops playing after seconds almost every time. The song then starts playing again after several seconds).
Is it a phone issue since it happens on both Slacker Radio and Napster? Any setting changes that can be done?
Thanks,
Lance
I haven't tried napster, but for slacker, try version 2.1.191. I loaded it with titanium backup. The last couple versions suck, and apparently not just on our phones/roms. The market comments are BAD. lol...
Not sure how to locate it if you don't have a backup. I'll see about getting the apk somewhere.. It was free on the market, so I can't see how it would be "piracy"...
I have the same problem with Slacker, so it's unusable on my G2x. If this isn't fixed sometime soon, I'll be canceling my paid Slacker account.
slacker updated again today. so far so good streaming over 3g
I had to turn on High quality mode in the settings menu, then the song would cache all the way in 3g. If it's in normal quality, they song doesn't cache all the way and will occasionally skip. Wifi works normally.
I've also disabled the local stream manger in slacker as well. Not sure if that has done anything
I tried again with the latest version and disabling the "local media server" option. Already had high quality enabled.
It actually plays music now. Thanks for the tip. Now if we could get music apps not to stutter when the cpu gets used... Sigh. A dual core should NEVER stutter music when multitasking.
Yes it what the "local Media server" not "local stream manager" . Sorry about that; I didn't have my phone on me.
Glad you're working. Not even sure what that feature does.
i deleted slacker. the damn app wants to run for so many actions. check it out using an app like autostarts. it starts running for a ton of different actions,things that don't even make sense.
winamp is almost as bad,but tolerable.
ttabbal said:
I tried again with the latest version and disabling the "local media server" option. Already had high quality enabled.
It actually plays music now. Thanks for the tip. Now if we could get music apps not to stutter when the cpu gets used... Sigh. A dual core should NEVER stutter music when multitasking.
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I disabled Local Media Server too (never noticed that option before), and it seems to be working properly for me too. Thanks everyone!
I have Napster and I have the SAME EXACT problem. The only way I got around it was to download the playlists so it wouldn't skip. It's extremely annoying. I've already informed LG about the issue a month or so ago. Its only on Napster tho. Not Rhapsody or Pandora.
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andrewNY said:
I disabled Local Media Server too (never noticed that option before), and it seems to be working properly for me too. Thanks everyone!
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This apparently just showed up with the last update (yesterday or today) and fixed my streaming issues in slacker too (only had time for a quick test though)
I have a problem with my phone randomly pausing the music. This is while using Google's Music app, and I can't seem to find any correlation. At first I thought it was after a certain amount of time (seemed to typically be 45 minutes of music playing) but today while I was running it paused 5 times in 2 hours, at various intervals.
Has anybody experienced this before?
yes. most likely its your connection, when im out it will pause. if im somewhere connected to a router it works with no problem
I searched for Google music app in the market, is this an apk I need to download or something as I'm not in the USA ? Or when you guys are saying google music do you mean the vanilla Android player ?
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I searched for Google music app in the market, is this an apk I need to download or something as I'm not in the USA ? Or when you guys are saying google music do you mean the vanilla Android player ?
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nah its basically an newer polished version of it.
i also has a cloud music option that i use all the time. my only gripe is that it messed up all my album art for some reason that i had in itunes.
Otherwise it works like a charm on Edge, 3G, and 4G
as far as i can remember its still in beta and was only available in the us market. i'm sure you can find the apk. around here somewhere
I've just confirmed today that it also pauses while listening to the Google Listen app. This time it happened after 1 hour (almost exactly) of listening to podcasts. And of course this was MP3s that were already downloaded, so it couldn't have been a connection problem.
Is this a bug in the Sensation software? I imagine if it was other people would be having this come up.
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I've just confirmed today that it also pauses while listening to the Google Listen app. This time it happened after 1 hour (almost exactly) of listening to podcasts. And of course this was MP3s that were already downloaded, so it couldn't have been a connection problem.
Is this a bug in the Sensation software? I imagine if it was other people would be having this come up.
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This happens to me all the time on my Bionic. I use both Google Listen and Google Music (all downloaded content). It's so infuriating. I just want to listen to music/podcasts without it pausing randomly.
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This happens to me all the time on my Bionic. I use both Google Listen and Google Music (all downloaded content). It's so infuriating. I just want to listen to music/podcasts without it pausing randomly.
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Not that this helps, but I've noticed the same thing, with both Google Music and Listen, on both my Nexus One and Galaxy Tab 10.1. I don't get it; Bluetooth is turned off so there's no AVRCP or hardware pause button or anything like that...
My Droid Charge was randomly pausing music no matter what app I was listening to (Spotify, MOG, Music, etc). FINALLY when I loaded up Rdio a message popped up saying that they detected Google Listen in the background and that Listen has a known bug in which it opens randomly in the background and pausing any playing audio. I have since uninstalled Google Listen and now my music no longer randomly pauses.
BTW: If you want an alternative to Listen I suggest Doggcatcher, BeyondPod, or Sticher
Never had Google Listen installed and I get random pauses. Oh well.
I've been having this issue. From reading around, it sounds as though a lot of people experienced the issue because of Google Listen. However, like many others, I have experienced the issue without Listen installed at all. I'm looking into whether it could be down to any audio playing application that is set to refresh at a given time/interval. I have Pocket Casts installed, set to check for updates every hour. I have changed it to once a day at 6:00 am (I'm very unlikely to be listening to music then), to see if it makes a difference. I may also try and force it to sync while i listen to music to see if it pauses. I'll post my results when I have some.
I had problems when using several music players. What I did was adjust the amount of memory the phone uses and the problems disappeared.
FYI, for those who had Listen installed. Latest version of Listen fixes the problem:
What's in this version:
Fixes an issue in which Listen while in the background would improperly take audio focus from other apps.
I, too, had to uninstall it couple months ago, until they rolled out the latest update. Installed it few days ago, and never had a single issue since then.
FYI, Stopping pocket Casts didn't have any effect. Problem persists.