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Anyone else have horrible music playing experience?

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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Strange issue with POWERAMP

so I don't use the stock music player but ever since I got the phone while using power amp to play music something it makes a weird ERHGHGHGHGH noise like a CD skipping. I tested it out on stock music player and it never happens. a few times poweramp couldn't find my music (located on SD card).
Could this be related to power amp or maybe an SD card issue? I'll listen to stock music and see if i have it happen but I haven't had it yet.

It could be power amp pulling for more ram than you have available. Try clearing your unused processes and see if it helps. If not it could be a setting on power amp. Also, are you running any kernels/ROMs? And I don't think power amp has been updated for jelly bean yet. I don't k ow for sure but i could be wrong.
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I think I'm good on ram but I could see that being possible. I'm running SYnerygROM r68 with leankernal 0.7 but I've had it happen on stock also. I also have the original root method so Idk if that makes a difference

Try clearing the data from it and reinstalling see if it works.
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AftermathLK said:
so I don't use the stock music player but ever since I got the phone while using power amp to play music something it makes a weird ERHGHGHGHGH noise like a CD skipping. I tested it out on stock music player and it never happens. a few times poweramp couldn't find my music (located on SD card).
Could this be related to power amp or maybe an SD card issue? I'll listen to stock music and see if i have it happen but I haven't had it yet.
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Try increasing the size of the audio buffer:
Poweramp settings -> Audio -> Advanced tweaks -> Audio buffer size
Also, have you noticed any trends with this sound? And have you skipped backwards to see if the sound plays again? I've noticed that songs downloaded via torrents on a cellular data connection often have glitches

preusstang said:
Try increasing the size of the audio buffer:
Poweramp settings -> Audio -> Advanced tweaks -> Audio buffer size
Also, have you noticed any trends with this sound? And have you skipped backwards to see if the sound plays again? I've noticed that songs downloaded via torrents on a cellular data connection often have glitches
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thank you, this actually seemed to work. at least after a few songs of testing. No, it's not an issue with the songs (totally random, works fine on google music/stock player)

Music"not smooth" in playback issue

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.

Trivigumle said:
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!

Trivigumle said:
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.

Google Play Music Skips

I'll start with this:
I'm on build 20 of klin1344's PACman rom
Newest version of Play Music
AC!D sound mod installed
-if I recall correctly my issue existed before I installed acid.
What I've been experiencing is skipping while playing music through be play music app. Not skipping as though it's struggling to buffer, but whenever I tap the screen, within as well as outside of the app. The issue isn't new to today's update, as it's been a problem I've always dealt with. It also doesn't have anything to do with streaming music vs playing music stored on the device, skips while tapping occur regardless.
I've searched around to no avail, so I do hope one of you can be of assistance.
Thanks
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I have had this issue since I got my S3 a few weeks ago too. When I unlock my phone, type in password, or otherwise click the screen, the music skips.
This even happens when I am using Spotify to play music.
EDIT: BTW I am on AOKP ROM.

I failed to mention that poweramp runs smooth as a baby's bottom. Not the case with play music.
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playback probelms
I have the same problem like it will return to the lock screen and then the Google music widget and the camera widget like combined and start flickering. this is when playing a song stored on the device as well as the new Google music access they came out with. Mine just pauses forever though and its annoying. I also have power amp and it works beautifully. this happens whether I'm on WiFi or cell data. Good thing this is a free 30 day trial!
jonnyboiii said:
I failed to mention that poweramp runs smooth as a baby's bottom. Not the case with play music.
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Cauchon said:
I have had this issue since I got my S3 a few weeks ago too. When I unlock my phone, type in password, or otherwise click the screen, the music skips.
This even happens when I am using Spotify to play music.
EDIT: BTW I am on AOKP ROM.
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jwattt said:
I have the same problem like it will return to the lock screen and then the Google music widget and the camera widget like combined and start flickering. this is when playing a song stored on the device as well as the new Google music access they came out with. Mine just pauses forever though and its annoying. I also have power amp and it works beautifully. this happens whether I'm on WiFi or cell data. Good thing this is a free 30 day trial!
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I actually did end up figuring out what was wrong. A simple disabling of the system touch sounds and you're good to go. It was trying to compensate for the sound at the same time as playing the music, like when you get a text message it lowers the volume, plays the notification sound, and resumes at normal volume.
Jwattt I don't know why that happens, but it also happens to me. Weird.
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I'm currently running liquidsmooth 2.4 on 4.2.2 android and there is no system touch sounds option. I believe this is only for touchwiz roms? I think my problem is something to do with how the widget is handled on the lockscreen. I know it's not just this rom too because I switched from MROM and before that deviant xone and since they are all pretty much based of Cyanogenmod I think it's some kind of mis match somewhere.
jonnyboiii said:
I actually did end up figuring out what was wrong. A simple disabling of the system touch sounds and you're good to go. It was trying to compensate for the sound at the same time as playing the music, like when you get a text message it lowers the volume, plays the notification sound, and resumes at normal volume.
Jwattt I don't know why that happens, but it also happens to me. Weird.
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I had this problem as well and turning off the lock screen widget fixed it.

[Q] Music glitches and erratic skips. Hardware or software?

Whilst listening to locally stored tracks on Google Play or cached/streaming songs on Soundcloud, I experience odd audio playback behaviour on my Nexus 5.
Music sometimes skips to random parts of the track - with earlier or later parts of the song disrupting the order of the song. It's as if I tapped a random part of the track's time bar. Very frequently these random sections then repeat. On other occasions one part of the song will simply repeat over and over again (up to 5 times). Most commonly, a song will just skip a couple of seconds ahead of itself once or twice.
This issue happens only occasionally, but it's very annoying and worrying when it happens. It's also very difficult to reproduce under controlled conditions. There is very little rhyme or reason to when it happens. In the past I've noticed the problem, checked the phone, restarted the song / app and the problem goes away. I've searched for the problem on google and xda, but can't find anything relevant.
What would be your take on the problem? Is this a hardware or a software problem? Should I factory reset or RMA? Everything is entirely stock and I have no other problems with the phone.
Some crazy speculative theories: Maybe the phone's low power music playback state causes this problem. Perhaps the device sometimes mis-reads song data in its memory. Or maybe it's just an app / playback software bug. I don't think the song data itself is corrupted because different parts of songs skip each time and sometimes songs play back without any problems at all

Are you stock?
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markdapimp said:
Are you stock?
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yup

I doubt it's a hardware issue...have you tried different music players?
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Try doing a factory reset it Doesn't hurt to do one
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