Lo all,
Got my new orbit 2, so far impressed after moving from the original orbit. Problem is that when importing music into the htc app, it won't find all the tracks and seems to get stuck somewhere, with the magnifying glass always present on the track list screen... I'm using an 8gig card, but the old orbit had no issues with this...
Same with pictures, it finds some, but not all... is this software or is my device faulty... failing that, am i just thick and doing something wrong?
cheers for any help!
How are you synchronizing your music? I am using Windows Media Player on my PC to sync and all my tracks are read just fine off my 8GB miniSD.
FYI: HTC Audio manager scans the SD card for tracks, so maybe you just need to let it finish scanning and you'll find your tracks?
Cheers for the reply!
I'm not sync'ing, I'm dragging and dropping straight to the card via usb reader...
As for letting it find the tracks, when I put lumps of tracks on, it takes seconds to find them, with the lot on, I've left it for an hour and still no joy!!!
bilbob said:
Cheers for the reply!
I'm not sync'ing, I'm dragging and dropping straight to the card via usb reader...
As for letting it find the tracks, when I put lumps of tracks on, it takes seconds to find them, with the lot on, I've left it for an hour and still no joy!!!
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Just curious, what is the bit rate your music is encoded at? I have heard issues with some players reading a list that had items encoded at too large a bit rate.
I had the same issue on the Polaris. 8GB SD. Magnifying glass keeps going and not all tracks were in the library. I think it's an HTC Audio Manager thing. I don't remember seeing WMP having the same problem.
hambola said:
I had the same issue on the Polaris. 8GB SD. Magnifying glass keeps going and not all tracks were in the library. I think it's an HTC Audio Manager thing. I don't remember seeing WMP having the same problem.
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No, not neccessarily, I use HTC Audio Manager as my primary mp3 player. But I sync from the PC using Windows Media Player. All tracks show up. I however only have about 4GB synced at this point. Maybe the issue is when you get closer to 8GB of music on the card?
hi all.
have noticed something with my hd2 that is rather annoying; as it happens everytime this is done.
i have music on my storage card, and the hd2 sense player will play it fine. however, if you connect it to a computer as a Disk Drive, so you have fast access to the storage card, and then remove it from the computer, the music player is unable to read the music stored on my card, and any that is stored on the internal storage as well. the only way i have found to resolve this is a soft reset, and then the player will properly find the media again.
it looks like it hangs while trying to search for the media, and if you tilt for albums, it can't find anything despite displaying the media on the portrait page.
apologies if this has been answered, but i couldn't find this bug in any of the other music freezing threads.
does anyone know what exactly causes this and how to fix it?
other than don't use it as a disk drive
Hey all, I recently received my Gtab and wanted to highlight some issues and see if anyone else had experienced them or had solutions to them. I am running the latest vegan 5.1 or whatever.
1) I popped in my 8gb microSD card, but when I mount it via the notification bar, an 11gb storage device shows up. I am not sure if this is the internal storage or if it is my SD card combined with internal storage. If someone could clarify which one it is, and how to access the other storage device, that would be lovely.
2) When throwing a video onto it, I tried playing it with the stock video player, and there is no audio. I alternatively downloaded rock player and tried playing it through that, but again new audio. Do show and stuff have to be specifically converted for the g tab?
Thanks all
The audio sometimes turns off because it thinks headphones are plugged in. Plug some in an un-plug to get sound back. It doesn't happen to often but I keep a cut off Jack in my Gtab case to remedy the situation if it arises.
Are you sure your looking at sdcard 2? That's what your 8gb should show up under.
Hello all,
I got My VZW branded M8 on launch day and have been getting used to it and checking 20 times a day to see if a perm root solution has been found or better yet an S-Off method. On to my issue in the past few days I've had some time to listen to some mp3s from an SD card on the M8's stock music app and I have found that there is an audible stutter randomly occurring 3-5 times per song. The same mp3 played in poweramp plays smooth. The same SD card played the same songs smoothly in my DNA. So I'm lead to believe there some issue with the stock music app. I tested with screen timeout disabled, motion gestures disabled and still got the same thing.
Did anyone notice the same issue or is it just my phone.
It sounds like song skipped a beat or someone bumping a CD player, not really a sound but just the timing got out of sync for an instant. The first time I just thought it was a error in mp3 then I picked up that it was happening continually but could not be reproduced by replaying the same section of music. I love poweramp but the stock music player should function correctly on a flagship phone and IMO. I like the HTC stock music app as it lets me stream music from my DLNA server on my network, so I like it to function properly.
Kind Regards,
mc
Maybe try a factory reset since its obviously not a hardware issue if a third party app is working perfectly. Only music player i use is the stock HTC Music app and never had any issues with it across the board. Works perfect here even streaming over BT in the car or BT stereo headsets.
No stuttering here, but i've had tracks reset to start after short inactivity. I listen to audiobooks and had to go use Google Play Music because my chapters kept starting over after pausing them.
mc_365 said:
Hello all,
I got My VZW branded M8 on launch day and have been getting used to it and checking 20 times a day to see if a perm root solution has been found or better yet an S-Off method. On to my issue in the past few days I've had some time to listen to some mp3s from an SD card on the M8's stock music app and I have found that there is an audible stutter randomly occurring 3-5 times per song. The same mp3 played in poweramp plays smooth. The same SD card played the same songs smoothly in my DNA. So I'm lead to believe there some issue with the stock music app. I tested with screen timeout disabled, motion gestures disabled and still got the same thing.
Did anyone notice the same issue or is it just my phone.
It sounds like song skipped a beat or someone bumping a CD player, not really a sound but just the timing got out of sync for an instant. The first time I just thought it was a error in mp3 then I picked up that it was happening continually but could not be reproduced by replaying the same section of music. I love poweramp but the stock music player should function correctly on a flagship phone and IMO. I like the HTC stock music app as it lets me stream music from my DLNA server on my network, so I like it to function properly.
Kind Regards,
mc
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I've actually been having this issue but over Bluetooth only but my audio never skips when I have a 3.5mm jack plugged in. I'm getting a new Bluetooth device and I'll report back on my findings.
Have not had this issue with my Verizon M8. I have all my music (about 20gb) on the sd card, and normally play through the 3.5mm jack.
The one thing I did notice is, with my old htc phone, when playing music and a notification came in, it would interrupt the music and play the notification. I liked this because I would know to look at my phone. With this one, there is NO interruption of the music. So I can be in my car for a half hour playing music, and not know of any texts or emails unless I look at the phone. Anyone know a solution?
UPDATE: I tried using another Bluetooth device and the same problem occurred. Also to note, I'm having this issue with the stock music app & PlayerPro. However, if I reboot my phone the problem does not occur and I'm able to play music through my Bluetooth device without stutters.
@mc_365: Trying to see if we have anything in common. When music stutters, are you connected via Bluetooth? By any chance are you rooted & did you freeze any apps? Do you have the problem while connected to a 3.5mm jack?
UPDATE (9:32a PT): I just tried a factory reset & I'm still having the problem. Anybody have any other suggestions?
compir99 said:
UPDATE: I tried using another Bluetooth device and the same problem occurred. Also to note, I'm having this issue with the stock music app & PlayerPro. However, if I reboot my phone the problem does not occur and I'm able to play music through my Bluetooth device without stutters. I have not tried a factory reset yet.
@mc_365: Trying to see if we have anything in common. When music stutters, are you connected via Bluetooth? By any chance are you rooted & did you freeze any apps? Do you have the problem while connected to a 3.5mm jack?
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I'm not rooted and trying to play music through my Camaro bluetooth from Play Music it just constantly skips. I am running on ART and will switch back to dalvik to see if that fixes it. If not, I'm going to exchange my phone or return it all together.
UPDATE:
I switched back to Dalvik and did a factory reset to make sure everything was done properly. Now Google Play Music doesn't skip when I play music through my car. Are any of you on ART runtime by chance?
I just came back from Verizon & exchanged my M8; I'll have to check to see if that helped.
mc_365 said:
Hello all,
I got My VZW branded M8 on launch day and have been getting used to it and checking 20 times a day to see if a perm root solution has been found or better yet an S-Off method. On to my issue in the past few days I've had some time to listen to some mp3s from an SD card on the M8's stock music app and I have found that there is an audible stutter randomly occurring 3-5 times per song. The same mp3 played in poweramp plays smooth. The same SD card played the same songs smoothly in my DNA. So I'm lead to believe there some issue with the stock music app. I tested with screen timeout disabled, motion gestures disabled and still got the same thing.
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Trying to see if we have anything in common. When music stutters, are you connected via Bluetooth? By any chance are you rooted & did you freeze any apps? Do you have the problem while connected to a 3.5mm jack?
deeznuts said:
Maybe try a factory reset since its obviously not a hardware issue if a third party app is working perfectly. Only music player i use is the stock HTC Music app and never had any issues with it across the board. Works perfect here even streaming over BT in the car or BT stereo headsets.
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Are you playing music from your SD card or internal memory?
bloodiedwraith said:
I'm not rooted and trying to play music through my Camaro bluetooth from Play Music it just constantly skips. I am running on ART and will switch back to dalvik to see if that fixes it. If not, I'm going to exchange my phone or return it all together.
UPDATE:
I switched back to Dalvik and did a factory reset to make sure everything was done properly. Now Google Play Music doesn't skip when I play music through my car. Are any of you on ART runtime by chance?
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I never messed around with changing Dalvik/ART; I checked and I'm running Dalvik. Are you playing music off your SD card or internal memory over Bluetooth when you're having this problem?
I'm just playing mp3s from SD card on a regular pair of earphones. I think maybe my issue is the HTC decoder just doesn't like the CD rip I was playing, maybe the bitrate or the error handling within the app or something like that. I've played other mp3s now and can't say that this is something that is consistently happening.
I have all my songs on external sd card. I can try streaming Pandora in my car and see if any stuttering If that makes a difference? I did though download a few so to internal storage and played over Bluetooth in my car on the way home without stuttering. Played the same as the songs on my external sd card.
I have an obnoxious stutter on the Netflix app through speakers and headphone jack. Noticed it through play movies today also. Reset did nothing. Sadly it isn't noticeable for it to pass through the replacement check
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I get the occasional skip when streaming over bluetooth from my SD card. I'd suspect it has more to do with the I/O read ahead or scheduler than anything. It seems to happen whether or not the screen is on, so I don't think it's a processor hang or anything like that.
I hope this update helps anyone with the same issue. :fingers-crossed:
*knock on wood
I noticed that the skips were less and far between if I was playing music over Bluetooth using the internal memory. So what I did is take another SD card and played music on that. This resulted in no skips that I could tell. Perhaps it might be a defective SD card or bad format so I reformatted the SD card completely (full not quick) and so far I'm having less skips in music. I ordered up the 128 GB SanDisk card & hopefully I won't have any skips using that card.
I'm thinking once we get a permanent root & S-Off we can try putting AOSP on our M8s & see if that eliminates the issue completely. :fingers-crossed:
If anybody else can share any suggestions on what to try, that would be great!
sitlet said:
Have not had this issue with my Verizon M8. I have all my music (about 20gb) on the sd card, and normally play through the 3.5mm jack.
The one thing I did notice is, with my old htc phone, when playing music and a notification came in, it would interrupt the music and play the notification. I liked this because I would know to look at my phone. With this one, there is NO interruption of the music. So I can be in my car for a half hour playing music, and not know of any texts or emails unless I look at the phone. Anyone know a solution?
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This is the problem I'm experiencing that brought me to this thread. Did you ever find a solution? Both Google Play Music and Stock HTC Music play over the notification. My podcast app, Pocket Casts, appropriately gives focus to notification sounds every time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2732264
same problem, fix seems to be something to do with viper rom.
broprah said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2732264
same problem, fix seems to be something to do with viper rom.
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In sum, the potential fix is to change the read-ahead buffer from 512 to 1024, and the guy said it worked for several days with no further updates. He happened to be running Viper when he made the changes... apparently it uses the stock kernel. I am running CleanROM with stock kernel, so I just installed trickster and changed my read-ahead buffer to 1024. I'll report back if that makes a difference. There was one follow-up comment that it didn't make a difference in the stock ROM (edit - ahh... from broprah... any update to that?).
FWIW, I have been noticing this issue a lot BUT I only get it when streaming to my BT earbuds (with HTC Music, Google Play Music, and Pocket Casts). This stuttering does not happen when I use wired earbuds or playing over BT in my car. I understand the scenarios are different for everyone, but that's my own situation.
furious78 said:
In sum, the potential fix is to change the read-ahead buffer from 512 to 1024, and the guy said it worked for several days with no further updates. He happened to be running Viper when he made the changes... apparently it uses the stock kernel. I am running CleanROM with stock kernel, so I just installed trickster and changed my read-ahead buffer to 1024. I'll report back if that makes a difference. There was one follow-up comment that it didn't make a difference in the stock ROM (edit - ahh... from broprah... any update to that?).
FWIW, I have been noticing this issue a lot BUT I only get it when streaming to my BT earbuds (with HTC Music, Google Play Music, and Pocket Casts). This stuttering does not happen when I use wired earbuds or playing over BT in my car. I understand the scenarios are different for everyone, but that's my own situation.
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I ended up flashing Viper and I haven't experienced any stuttering since. In poking around, I see that changing the read ahead in the built in system tools only changes the internal read ahead. Further poking revealed that the external read ahead is preset to 4096kb, which could be the solution in the end.
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I ended up flashing Viper and I haven't experienced any stuttering since. In poking around, I see that changing the read ahead in the built in system tools only changes the internal read ahead. Further poking revealed that the external read ahead is preset to 4096kb, which could be the solution in the end.
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I don't see a differentiation in Trickster. Do you know if that's just a Viper setting?
I was using FauxTool to check and change settings, regardless of kernel.
No such luck with my read ahead change. :/
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Hello!
I'm having a issue of crackling sound on play back and then loosing a second or so of sound. This started after 4.4.4. update.
I have problem with music after update on 4.4.4. Kitkat. Every time i play music in Walkman or Poweramp from sd card, music short stop and than play again, like short break 0,5 sec. When i play music from internal memory of phone is everything ok, music play smootly. Micro sd card is Sandisk UHC-1, write 20 MB/s. I try format microsd, another microsd, repair phone over PC Companion, still the same. Please fix it... I bought Sony M2 for surfing and listening music and now i cant enjoy in music.
When i put my microsd into other phones everything works fine. When i put any other microsd in my phone, music stops shortly.
Whats wrong? Thank you very much!
I also having the same problem with you. But i moved to internal memory card, try another Music App (including, walkman and google play music) , turn off equalizer, turn off stamina mode, turn off xloud, turn off wifi, turn off cellular, turn on flightmode, try internal speaker and wired earphone, etc... BUT THE PROBLEM STILL THERE... BUT I NOT ONLY HAVING SHORT BREAK, I HAVING A LONG (10-30SEC) STOP
We have the same issue. How can I resolve without moving music in internal memory or to use another player?
Music stop 0,5-1 second.
I have this Micro Sd card http://www.adata.com/index.php?action=product_specification&cid=7&piid=178&lan=en
I use latest Walkman + latest Viper4Android FX.
How to fix this problem ?
I cant believe this!
With BSplayer music play ok!
It would be that error is in audio codecs in software update?! Bad update...
FIX !!!
Add this line in buil.prop
tunnel.decode=false
My phone is not rooted. Can i edit this without root?