Not sure if this has been discussed here yet, but the latest version of Google Play Music is now playing gapless for me. Works with both local flac files and stuff I've uploaded to Google. OK so possibly a very small skip from the Google mp3, but the local flacs are perfect. I'm running version 4.4.811H.526848. Congratulations Google. I'm impressed. Now if I could just do something about this crappy Yamaha DSP in my skyrocket...
Running CM10 stable.
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Android Music Player (stock) vs UberMusic and Google Music. I'm not a huge fan of the stock music player on my Samsung GT-i9000. Tried out UberMusic and Google Music but they both add track numbers to the front of 40% of my song titles. This makes it pretty difficult to find specific songs (because I don't know track numbers anymore, if I rip a CD it doesn't even rip in the order of the CD). Since my android player displays the song titles correctly; I am thinking there is something I can do to fix it in one of these better music players.
Anyone have this issue? Suggestions? Any better music players?
GT i9000, Gingerbread 2.3.4 (JVQ build), Rooted
Hello,
Title says it all. I'm looking for an app displaying lyrics whenever I listen to a song on Google Music streaming service. I know MIUI music player does it but I got an unrooted Nexus S, on stock, running ICS 4.0.4.
Thanks in advance!
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/...lyrify&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Both TuneWiki and MusicMatch will display lyrics for streaming Google Music but its not 100% smooth. I believe the limitations are on Google's end.
I know the new HTC One has similar feature, wonder if it will work with streaming music.
As per July 3rd (If I'm not mistaken), my Desktop Music Manager for Google Play Music starts; what i thought then; reuploading most of my library. Upon more inspection, i discovered that it is actually uploading my ALAC formatted library.
Google Play Music Supported file types
According to the "last updated" date, it may started supporting ALAC files since July 1st 2013.
It is not mentioned whether the uploaded ALAC formatted files will be transcoded to 320kbps MP3, but that is the norm.
If you're using iTunes, covert arts obtained from the Apple Store are not embedded within the files, thus Google Music Manager uploaded them without cover arts.
NB : Apple Lossless Audio Codec sources
Palthron said:
As per July 3rd (If I'm not mistaken), my Desktop Music Manager for Google Play Music starts; what i thought then; reuploading most of my library. Upon more inspection, i discovered that it is actually uploading my ALAC formatted library.
Google Play Music Supported file types
According to the "last updated" date, it may started supporting ALAC files since July 1st 2013.
It is not mentioned whether the uploaded ALAC formatted files will be transcoded to 320kbps MP3, but that is the norm.
If you're using iTunes, covert arts obtained from the Apple Store are not embedded within the files, thus Google Music Manager uploaded them without cover arts.
NB : Apple Lossless Audio Codec sources
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Whoa -- you're right! I didn't think they'd add this feature... time to install Music Manager again and reupload my library
I like how Google pays attention to the small things that are really important to users.
Thanks for the heads-up!
I was glad to see this feature as I was fixing to spend all day converting my ALAC music files today so I could upload them to google play but just as I was about to do that I noticed my songs were already being added so I did not have to do that. I had all of my MP3 formatted music on their already but since alot of my new music that I have added to my collection has been either FLAC converted to ALAC or ALAC I it used to tell me they were unsupported so I had not tried uploading them. Then today I said screw that I want those songs in my play library since with the exception of my old iphone that stays plugged up in my car as an ipod touch I mostly used play music for listening to music these days. :good:
YES!!!!!!! OH GOD YES! I've been waiting for this for so long. Why did I just find this out now!?!?!?
Are ALAC files transcoded to 320 MP3s or do you actually get to listen to Apple Lossless files on the Google Play Music app when you go back to your phone?
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Are ALAC files transcoded to 320 MP3s or do you actually get to listen to Apple Lossless files on the Google Play Music app when you go back to your phone?
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They are transcoded to 320kbps mp3.
For some strange reason I'm getting no audio on google play music and an outright crash when attempting to play through Apollo.
The only thing I have managed to use is Music Player by Mobile_V5, which doesn't support lockscreen controls or headset controls and has tons of ads. Youtube, Gallery and everything else still plays media fine.
Any ideas?
Currently running
Squid Kernel 10b and Slim 0.6-20150825-1034 with Nano Gapps
Hello,
I am on a neverending quest to get Spotify to play my local files gapless.
I have some concert rips and some gapless albums that simply aren't on Spotify. Neither Google Play Music nor Spotify will play them gapless. Worse, GPM won't play ANYTHING gapless, from their library or not. I'm very serious about my music and this is a problem. i've been reading that GPM playing gapless depends on the phone itself, mostly Nexus can do it. I wondered if anybody here has a S7 and Google Play Music and would be willing to do a test for me?
1. Download not stream a gapless album (say, Madonna "Confessions Tour", Mike Oldfield "Tubular Bells 2003", etc.)
2. Play it on headphones
3. Are there gaps between songs? (Half a second or so, but still)
My Xperia Z5 Compact can't play GPM content gapless, it plays Spotify library content gapless, but not local files I sync.
Thank you very much to anyone who can be bothered to check that for me! I'm changing phones in a month and I would like to get one that won't make my musical OCD triggered every few minutes.
I was about to report something similar.
Actually, I have ripped Madonna's Confession Tour and transfered it locally on my phone.
Both GPM and Samsung Music refuse to play them gaplessly.
On the contrary, apps that use somekind of dedicated/internal decoding do play them gaplessly, for example Foobar.
I strongly believe there is something on the kernel or google's native decoders that gets lost in the chain of audio playback when it comes to gapless playback, like the implementation chain is breaking or there's simply no native gapless implementation.
This sucks, if you do a google search you'll see LOTS of people being frustrated with the issue, reporting it and google simply ignores them.
I am p*ssed off aswell, I find it very embarassing that at 2017 not every device can do native gapless out of the box atleast on formats that support it natively, a day that our phones do so many stuff that a decade ago we needed like 20 separate devices to do the same stuff yet something like this seems like it's either not important or too hard to do.
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there's simply no native gapless implementation.
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This is correct
You can however make an app that plays gapless without
VIRGIN KLM said:
somekind of dedicated/internal decoding
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That app would internally use 2 players, when the first one finishes its song, the second one starts and when that one finishes, the first one starts again etc.
waterdaan said:
This is correct
You can however make an app that plays gapless without
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It is not entirely true though. There are devices that most of them run on CM based or pure AOSP that actually gapless works with the same combination of apps.
For example:
My old HTC EVO 3D has gapless playback on CM based roms with GPM.
My Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 has actual gapless on GPM but not on Samsung Music.
My dad's Nexus 5 needs to have enabled the equaliser for gapless to work.
There is somekind of chain from the audio file until the audio reaches your ears that one of the links break.
I'm just trying to figure out what.
@raytheblacksmith and @waterdaan or everybody else that may care, I can confirm that Nougat fixed the gapless playback issue!
All tracks I'm playing with Samsung Music are gapless now!