I've read everywhere about how cool the new Google music update is but I have what I think is a major problem.
I press shuffle and nothing happens. The songs play in regular order of the queue and don't even reshuffle.
Is it just me? Is there some new secret way to do it?
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
When you hit the shuffle button, it seems to get all the songs in the current playlist/album/artist/etc and shuffle them up in the queue (finally they implemented a queue system, i was waiting for this). If you untick shuffle after it has created the shuffled queue, it will play in order of the shuffled queue as it would've done anyway - enabling it again will reshuffle all the items in the queue. You can clear it so it plays normally by clearing the queue and playing a song you want to start listening to, and it'll act the same as it did before, but it'll all be in the queue rather than just the next song. They probably should have unshuffled the songs once you untick it though, it does seem a little confusing.
i dont understand
did you mean the shuffle button on the bottom left corner?
my google play music just shuffle it correctly
or maybe you cant try shuffling it after you choose song in "song"tab not artist or album..i always do that when i want to listen all of my music:laugh:
I have another problem. It doesn't play my music. It says "Music playback error". Everything is stock.
semprom said:
I have another problem. It doesn't play my music. It says "Music playback error". Everything is stock.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
time to download another music player? i recommend winamp
Maybe he/she streams their music? Have you tried clearing data or maybe reinstalling the app?
Yeah, only reason I stick to GMusic is the cloud...UI is pretty slick too.
About the shuffle button, seems waaaaay too complicated. Why can it just shuffle my current queue? Now whenever I go to app, I have to turn off shuffle, clear my queue, start a new queue/playlist and then press shuffle again for it to work. If I happen to play another album for instance, shuffle button in new queue pretty much dies till I clear it.
It's horrid.
Mine is giving me the playback error as well, but only when I'm on data and not wifi. Which is weird because I have it set to only stream via wifi. And it only does this when using another music application(ie Pandora, TuneIn)
Related
I have read on other forums where users report that their built-in default music player stops as soon as they switch away from the screen and others say the have no issue. So I guess this is a mysterious bug. It's driving me nuts. Any ideas in trouble shooting this?
no help here
Sorry mine won't turn off no matter what buttons I push. Matter of fact I can't figure out how to truly turn it off, all I get is pause. Without advanced task killer it just sits in the drop down menu, waiting.
I do have the other bug with it though, I can't sort by artist with a lot of music on there. 25gigs, hit artist and it crashes and says not enough memory. There is more than a gig free on both the internal and the external cards. Bummer.
As of today it now plays in the background. If I can figure out a rhyme or reason as to why it wouldn't before I'll report back.
jamespaulritter said:
As of today it now plays in the background. If I can figure out a rhyme or reason as to why it wouldn't before I'll report back.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Mine always played in the background. You must be confuse with stock video player which can't play in the background for obvious reasons.
foxbat121 said:
Mine always played in the background. You must be confuse with stock video player which can't play in the background for obvious reasons.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nope, no confusion. When the program "Music Player" is launched a task manager shows that it is running but if the companion program, (whos name I cant remember) is not also running then the music will not play in the background. The companion program is launched by Music Player when an audio file is started. It has a similar name to Music Player. I believe it is named Sound Player and it has the same icon as Music Player.
If you start a playlist or album or whatever in the stock player and hit the home key it will show the music player now playin in the notification bar (where you can pause or skip songs. If you go back into the program and use the back button all the way out the program closes.
jamespaulritter said:
Nope, no confusion. When the program "Music Player" is launched a task manager shows that it is running but if the companion program, (whos name I cant remember) is not also running then the music will not play in the background. The companion program is launched by Music Player when an audio file is started. It has a similar name to Music Player. I believe it is named Sound Player and it has the same icon as Music Player.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, now I know how you get confused. Sound Player and Music Player are two different apps. No, Music Player does not require Sound Player in memory. Sound Player can't play in background while Music Player can.
The only way to launch Sound Player is to use My Files File Explorer and open mp3 or other sound files directly. On the other hand, Music Player can only be launched from app launcher and it offers following additional features:
1. Support albums and playlists.
2. Support 5.1ch playback on headphones
3. Support playback on the background.
foxbat121 said:
Ok, now I know how you get confused. Sound Player and Music Player are two different apps. No, Music Player does not require Sound Player in memory. Sound Player can't play in background while Music Player can.
The only way to launch Sound Player is to use My Files File Explorer and open mp3 or other sound files directly. On the other hand, Music Player can only be launched from app launcher and it offers following additional features:
1. Support albums and playlists.
2. Support 5.1ch playback on headphones
3. Support playback on the background.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That was some odd notations I made while I had a task manager installed last week. I just tried what you said and you are 100% exactly right! Phweeeh thats a relief. I was worried it would go back to not working later. Thanks for the insight.
Mine skips a little bit when I use the stock camera app
waiting4gingerbread said:
Mine skips a little bit when I use the stock camera app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My music player shuts off when I launch the camera app. Gingerbread I think you found a legitimate bug.
Does anyone have a replacement for sound player (not music player) that can run in the background? I'm sick of having streaming podcasts end when I need to do something else with my phone.
BigJayDogg3 said:
Does anyone have a replacement for sound player (not music player) that can run in the background? I'm sick of having streaming podcasts end when I need to do something else with my phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I listen to podcasts with Doubletwist. Heard good things about something catcher as whell (dog catcher maybe?)
jamespaulritter said:
My music player shuts off when I launch the camera app. Gingerbread I think you found a legitimate bug.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think that people who have very large music collections will find that the player shuts off when they go into certain applications. My feeling is that this is Android's internal memory manager subroutine figuring that the audio player is eating up way too much memory, most likely due to the database being loaded the entire time the player is running, and deciding to close that one program rather than ten others to free up the same amount of space. How much memory does your player eat up while running?
The Sound Player is opening instead of the Music Player
On my Vibrant, a .mpga file used to open using the Music Player but now the Sound Player is opening instead. My phone is completely stock, never rooted and no aps downloaded, but I can tell which player is opening: after the player opens, I close it and then press and hold the home key to see which program just opened by noting the first program name in the list of the 6. (The two player's interfaces look almost identical so it is easy to think that the Music Player is opening when the Sound Player is the one actually opening.)
Some possible clues to the cause: I had just used the sound recorder for the first time. It creates .amr files. The .amr files showed up in the Music Player's playlist, but the file wouldn't play; so I browsed directly to the file using Files, clicked on the .amr file and the Sound Player opened the file. But now the Sound Player its opening .mpga files instead of the Music Player and my Music Player's playlist is now empty. (At least that is what I think the sequence of events were.)
I imagine that resetting the phone to factory default would fix it, but I'll have to learn how to backup my address book, web favorites, and goggle map starred items.)
I posted here because I believe I have detected accurately what is happening (maybe not the cause, but the fact that the wrong player is opening), and you experts might be able to suggest a workaround or get the bug fixed.
jamespaulritter said:
I have read on other forums where users report that their built-in default music player stops as soon as they switch away from the screen and others say the have no issue. So I guess this is a mysterious bug. It's driving me nuts. Any ideas in trouble shooting this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The mp3 must be in the music folder on the sdcard in order for music player to play in the background.
Not true. I've had music in other folders that got pulled into my music library.
Sent from my Samsung Captivate.
DnSl4 said:
On my Vibrant, a .mpga file used to open using the Music Player but now the Sound Player is opening instead. My phone is completely stock, never rooted and no aps downloaded, but I can tell which player is opening: after the player opens, I close it and then press and hold the home key to see which program just opened by noting the first program name in the list of the 6. (The two player's interfaces look almost identical so it is easy to think that the Music Player is opening when the Sound Player is the one actually opening.)
Some possible clues to the cause: I had just used the sound recorder for the first time. It creates .amr files. The .amr files showed up in the Music Player's playlist, but the file wouldn't play; so I browsed directly to the file using Files, clicked on the .amr file and the Sound Player opened the file. But now the Sound Player its opening .mpga files instead of the Music Player and my Music Player's playlist is now empty. (At least that is what I think the sequence of events were.)
I imagine that resetting the phone to factory default would fix it, but I'll have to learn how to backup my address book, web favorites, and goggle map starred items.)
I posted here because I believe I have detected accurately what is happening (maybe not the cause, but the fact that the wrong player is opening), and you experts might be able to suggest a workaround or get the bug fixed.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try force a media scan to see if it fixes your Music Player playlist problem.
Since Google doesn't seem to have any support forum anymore that would be related to Google Play music, I'm forced to post this message elsewhere. I did already contact Google support about the issue, however they've not answered me yet.
The problem that I have with Google Play Music is that playlists seem to have rather low maximum limits for number of songs. Currently I've mostly been listening to music by simply giving good tracks a thumbs up. After this I can simply shuffle the thumbs up playlist and It'll only play songs that I like and not only one genre like the radio stations. Recently, however I realized that the number of songs on the 'Thumbs up' playlist doesn't keep increasing but instead stays at approx 1150 songs or 95 ½ hours. For whatever reason my phone and other mobile devices show 1200 songs for the 'Thumbs up' playlist.
I tried to go around this problem by creating a new playlist and adding everything in thumbs up to it but apparently other lists only support 1000 tracks. :silly:
What this means is that the whole thumbs up system is almost entirely useless for me from now on; adding more songs will simply drop some earlier added ones from the playlist (I did verify by copy-pasting the whole playlist to Notepad++ that there are actually only 1146 songs in the list). It's also pretty much impossible for me to now keep up with which songs have been dropped from thumbs up and should actually be there.
Has anyone else ran into this issue? I couldn't really find anything similar to my issue by googling around. Surely I can't be the only one who has over 1200 tracks on their thumbs up list?
Edit:
After some further investigating I found out that on my every mobile device the amount of tracks on 'Thumbs up' is different. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Same Problem
I use a playlist to select the songs I want to sync to my Android phone. It has over 2000 songs in it but the limit is 1000. Please remove this limit Google!
Rd. Vortex said:
Since Google doesn't seem to have any support forum anymore that would be related to Google Play music, I'm forced to post this message elsewhere. I did already contact Google support about the issue, however they've not answered me yet.
The problem that I have with Google Play Music is that playlists seem to have rather low maximum limits for number of songs. Currently I've mostly been listening to music by simply giving good tracks a thumbs up. After this I can simply shuffle the thumbs up playlist and It'll only play songs that I like and not only one genre like the radio stations. Recently, however I realized that the number of songs on the 'Thumbs up' playlist doesn't keep increasing but instead stays at approx 1150 songs or 95 ½ hours. For whatever reason my phone and other mobile devices show 1200 songs for the 'Thumbs up' playlist.
I tried to go around this problem by creating a new playlist and adding everything in thumbs up to it but apparently other lists only support 1000 tracks. :silly:
What this means is that the whole thumbs up system is almost entirely useless for me from now on; adding more songs will simply drop some earlier added ones from the playlist (I did verify by copy-pasting the whole playlist to Notepad++ that there are actually only 1146 songs in the list). It's also pretty much impossible for me to now keep up with which songs have been dropped from thumbs up and should actually be there.
Has anyone else ran into this issue? I couldn't really find anything similar to my issue by googling around. Surely I can't be the only one who has over 1200 tracks on their thumbs up list?
Edit:
After some further investigating I found out that on my every mobile device the amount of tracks on 'Thumbs up' is different. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Google Music Thumbs Up Keep Disappearing from Auto Playlist
Rd. Vortex said:
Since Google doesn't seem to have any support forum anymore that would be related to Google Play music, I'm forced to post this message elsewhere. I did already contact Google support about the issue, however they've not answered me yet.
The problem that I have with Google Play Music is that playlists seem to have rather low maximum limits for number of songs. Currently I've mostly been listening to music by simply giving good tracks a thumbs up. After this I can simply shuffle the thumbs up playlist and It'll only play songs that I like and not only one genre like the radio stations. Recently, however I realized that the number of songs on the 'Thumbs up' playlist doesn't keep increasing but instead stays at approx 1150 songs or 95 ½ hours. For whatever reason my phone and other mobile devices show 1200 songs for the 'Thumbs up' playlist.
I tried to go around this problem by creating a new playlist and adding everything in thumbs up to it but apparently other lists only support 1000 tracks. :silly:
What this means is that the whole thumbs up system is almost entirely useless for me from now on; adding more songs will simply drop some earlier added ones from the playlist (I did verify by copy-pasting the whole playlist to Notepad++ that there are actually only 1146 songs in the list). It's also pretty much impossible for me to now keep up with which songs have been dropped from thumbs up and should actually be there.
Has anyone else ran into this issue? I couldn't really find anything similar to my issue by googling around. Surely I can't be the only one who has over 1200 tracks on their thumbs up list?
Edit:
After some further investigating I found out that on my every mobile device the amount of tracks on 'Thumbs up' is different. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the same exact issue, but I am not sure how we are going to be able to do anything about it until Google just figures it out. I doubt they are trolling this forum. I called Google and they said there is a limit and that it was recording the thumbs up/down, but it only allows for a certain amount of songs in the auto playlist. Something about something on the back end preventing longer playlists. This is complete bull**** as Spotify and other music services do not have these limitations. Whats the most annoying is that I love Google music and want to keep using it, but if it's just going to keep blasting away my thumbs up playlist periodically as I add new tracks over the next 10 years then whats the point? I should have like 10,000 thumbs up tracks in there, not 1,000!!! Complete FAIL!
Google Music Thumbs Up Missing Workaround
doomsdalicious said:
I have the same exact issue, but I am not sure how we are going to be able to do anything about it until Google just figures it out. I doubt they are trolling this forum. I called Google and they said there is a limit and that it was recording the thumbs up/down, but it only allows for a certain amount of songs in the auto playlist. Something about something on the back end preventing longer playlists. This is complete bull**** as Spotify and other music services do not have these limitations. Whats the most annoying is that I love Google music and want to keep using it, but if it's just going to keep blasting away my thumbs up playlist periodically as I add new tracks over the next 10 years then whats the point? I should have like 10,000 thumbs up tracks in there, not 1,000!!! Complete FAIL!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey friend hopefully you're still monitoring this thread. I found a way around this bug and hopefully it works for you also. When I was on the phone with Google they told me that my thumbs were all being saved, but just not all showing on this thumbs up playlist. What I did was select all the tracks in the thumbs up playlist, and then select "add to library". Once I did this all of my thumbs up tracks appeared in the thumbs up playlist and everything seems to be working now. I guess there is some sort of bug in which if you add your thumbs to your library they will all show. I will do this periodically as I thumb up more songs, but at least this worked for me. Let me know if it works for you and hopefully others can find this thread!! I may or may not call Google back to report this finding. I do have an open ticket with them and they said they would call me back.
Download a third-party music app!
Third party music apps are a good way to go about music issues.
I like Apollo and Rocket Player. There are plenty of others, though. usually third party apps don't have a playlist limit.
Don't forget to use the Thanks button!
Hey all,
so I've been noticing some issues with using music controls for both Google Play and Poweramp. I use Poweramp for my everyday player and would prefer it worked with the Gear 2. However it does not display track information correctly, instead it only displays the most recent video played. More importantly, there is noticeable lag between button presses and skipping track, it makes scrubbing through an album difficult. Google play works better, much quicker and responsive and it displays track info, but you are unable to skip forward or backwards if you hold down previous or next, as you're able to do with Poweramp. I've messed with settings in Poweramp, made it high priority in bluetooth settings and disabled the beep option for track skipping and it is still very slow in response. I've also enabled all the bluetooth track info things and it still doesnt send the track. I'd be happy, I guess, if I could only get it to respond as quick as Google Play does. I dont see using google play though because of the inability to seek through tracks. I've updated play music with no success, still no scrubbing ability. It's frustrating. Any thoughts?
UPDATE: In case anyone else wants it to work with poweramp, apparently you need to have google play NOT disabled. And you should start music via poweramp instead of the gear and track info will be sent. Responsiveness is still very slow and laggy. As much as I hate Play music, if only it would be able to skip, I would switch over to it for the gear. But at least Poweramp can skip and display track info if you havent disabled Play Music. Hopefully the poweramp dev can make it work quicker but I'm doubtful. It really flies on Play Music. A shame.
celticpride34 said:
Hey all,
so I've been noticing some issues with using music controls for both Google Play and Poweramp. I use Poweramp for my everyday player and would prefer it worked with the Gear 2. However it does not display track information correctly, instead it only displays the most recent video played. More importantly, there is noticeable lag between button presses and skipping track, it makes scrubbing through an album difficult. Google play works better, much quicker and responsive and it displays track info, but you are unable to skip forward or backwards if you hold down previous or next, as you're able to do with Poweramp. I've messed with settings in Poweramp, made it high priority in bluetooth settings and disabled the beep option for track skipping and it is still very slow in response. I've also enabled all the bluetooth track info things and it still doesnt send the track. I'd be happy, I guess, if I could only get it to respond as quick as Google Play does. I dont see using google play though because of the inability to seek through tracks. I've updated play music with no success, still no scrubbing ability. It's frustrating. Any thoughts?
UPDATE: In case anyone else wants it to work with poweramp, apparently you need to have google play NOT disabled. And you should start music via poweramp instead of the gear and track info will be sent. Responsiveness is still very slow and laggy. As much as I hate Play music, if only it would be able to skip, I would switch over to it for the gear. But at least Poweramp can skip and display track info if you havent disabled Play Music. Hopefully the poweramp dev can make it work quicker but I'm doubtful. It really flies on Play Music. A shame.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1 with displaying most recent video played. For me, I mostly want it to work with Spotify, and have run into the same problem you have. Best we can do is wait for Samsung to iron out all the kinks.
I've always been curious, when you "shuffle" your songs, does it truly pick songs at random, or is there some special "algorithm" the app uses to play certain songs? The reason I ask is, it seems like every time I shuffle my songs (which is how I normally listen to music), I always end up hearing the same general pool of songs. I have, like, at least 300 or so songs downloaded to my device for offline playback, but it seems like every time I shuffle, it's mostly the same songs I heard before.
My assumption is that it takes into account how many times tracks have been played, and the more times they've been played, the more likely they are to show up in shuffle. Thus, when I shuffle my songs, it would use generally the same ones, because those are the "most played" due to all the time they come up in the shuffle.
I just wonder, though, is there any way to change this algorithm, or at the very least, reset all the amount of plays my songs have? I thought I remember one time finding a way to reset the number of plays via the Internet browser client of Play Music, but it doesn't seem like that applied to the number of plays on my actual phone, as it didn't affect which songs were coming up in my shuffle.
I've got like same feeling about it. Shuffle all music seems to pick up songs which have higher listen countet than others, so I end up listening same good 'ol songs - mostly
Every time I open Google Music and start playing a song in an album it will auto choose shuffle all. I don't want to shuffle the songs! Any ideas?
v2.2v said:
Every time I open Google Music and start playing a song in an album it will auto choose shuffle all. I don't want to shuffle the songs! Any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
1. Turn off shuffle.
2. Do not press the giant play button on the upper right side of song lists or albums. It automatically shuffles.
3. Try clearing your current play queue.
4. Still doesn't work? Contact Google.