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Disable Audio Ducking

I'm wondering of there is an easy effort that I can do to disable the volume duck that occurs when I receive a notification (while listening to music)
Some ROMs have a setting g for this, but I'm wondering if someone could direct me to the proper file I might edit and turn this feature OFF..
I like my notification sound to just play over the music, or just not bother me..
Thx.

Mal_toofy said:
I'm wondering of there is an easy effort that I can do to disable the volume duck that occurs when I receive a notification (while listening to music)
Some ROMs have a setting g for this, but I'm wondering if someone could direct me to the proper file I might edit and turn this feature OFF..
I like my notification sound to just play over the music, or just not bother me..
Thx.
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Pretty sure this has to do with what app you're using for playing music, and whether it uses the mediaplayer of your device or it's own custom one.

it's true, I hated the ducking but was able to disable it in PowerAMP settings.

marquimsp said:
it's true, I hated the ducking but was able to disable it in PowerAMP settings.
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Yeah, PowerAMP uses its own media service.

Is there a music player that has this feature that doesn't cost money? I'll pay for Poweramp if there isn't. VLC for Android, for instance, doesn't have this feature.
Edit: After some trial and error with various programs, I've discovered that MX Player plays back audio without ducking, but a drawback is that it doesn't have dynamic playlist creation capabilities (you need your files ordered in folders). It also plays Opus files, which is something that I was also looking for.
Another app, Rocket Player, will let you choose *between* ducking and pausing (under Settings->Sound->Audio Focus->Temp Focus Action), but it won't let you disable the action completely. That being said, I've found that for audio books and podcasts, I actually prefer pausing to ducking or no ducking, so I like Rocket Player in this respect (same goes with Poweramp).

guys,COS 12+ has this option in their OS. the question is there any xposed modules to do the same action like in COS ?? ( I'm not sure if it's available in CM12+ roms or not ) any idea?

Dirty unicorn have this feature and its working great.

mohawahba said:
guys,COS 12+ has this option in their OS. the question is there any xposed modules to do the same action like in COS ?? ( I'm not sure if it's available in CM12+ roms or not ) any idea?
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did u find any xposed module for that feature?

How to remove music application?

Hi,
The app is taking over spotify when I try to listen to music with Bluetooth in my car. I asked assistance in spotify forum but they could not help.
The app is built in as people know and there is not even disabling option. How can I get rid off it?
Thanks in advance

Leilebule said:
Hi,
The app is taking over spotify when I try to listen to music with Bluetooth in my car. I asked assistance in spotify forum but they could not help.
The app is built in as people know and there is not even disabling option. How can I get rid off it?
Thanks in advance
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have you tried to change default app settings?

vertex444 said:
have you tried to change default app settings?
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Thank you for the respond. Yes i tried, but there isnt any other available option. Writing with my honor 6 so excuse some typos. Also my main language is not english.
Let me explain this better:
I use spotify with bluetooth to listen to music through my car stereo, which is pioneer mvh 360bt. Everything worked; i could see the song details etc in the stereo display screen and next or previous buttons worked with stereo buttons. Making it very easy to change a song while driving. Suddenly i could no longer see song details and buttons to change songs stopped working also. No idea what may cause it. I did not change or install anything suspicious, except updates on apps obviously. What i discovered is the built in music app, which started to show song details in stereo screen and took over spotify. Basicly the whole controlling is in the music app now. I tried to figure out how can i get spotify back as it used to be, no luck yet. I deleted all songs related to music app and so on. Now i can play songs through spotify, but i cant change songs with stereo buttons and the screen show no title or no name. I think the stereo and bluetooth still connects to music app while leaving spotify outside.
What i tried to do:
Reseted phone to factory settings
Tried two different apps: bluetooth connect and play app, autoaudio bluetooth help. These programs did not change anything.
Messed with phone and stereo settings..
I think i will also reset the stereo settings just to make sure.. But my girlfriends Sony xperia m2 aqua functions as it should, so the problem must be in my phone, not in stereo.
TLDR: How can i get rid off built in music app and make my spotify to function again with my "honor 6 - bluetooth - pioneer mvh 360bt" so i can change songs with stereo buttons and see the song in stereo display screen?
Spotify said that they cant help me with the issue so i hope i could get some help here.
Feel free to ask more questions and details. Thanks in advance.

have you tried to uninstall spotify or music updates to that version that worked?

vertex444 said:
have you tried to uninstall spotify or music updates to that version that worked?
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Hi,
Yes. I tried to install Spotify again, many times. I also tried to install previous versions of spotify with no luck. Though might be a problem that I didn't possibly delete "old files" causing the issue still be there.
The music software, I have absolutely no idea what is it and how can I find previous updates. The software is called "Musiikki", which is "Music" in englishand the version number is v7.0.21.
Btw, I found more threads about similar issue with other Honor 6 users, but also some other phone models having them. Seems like they appeared after installing newest or second newest version of Spotify, but it's weird that I can't even fix the issue anymore by reinstalling older version of Spotify.
What really makes me think is this place where I can change default music application. I can only see there this music software and google play music, but Spotify will not be there, not even with older version.
Tomorrow I am going to reset my phone still one more time and install Spotify version where everything worked. Meanwhile I will also reset my car stereo. If I can't get this to work, I am out of ideas..
Thanks in advance.

i have Music version V6.9.6, try to uninstall updates to Music, from Huawei App Center

vertex444 said:
i have Music version V6.9.6, try to uninstall updates to Music, from Huawei App Center
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Hi. I guess it is worth to try. I downloaded Huawei App Store APK, installed it and I found the Music software but unofortunately I can't do anything for it.. How am I supposed to uninstall the program or even install previous version?

Leilebule said:
Hi. I guess it is worth to try. I downloaded Huawei App Store APK, installed it and I found the Music software but unofortunately I can't do anything for it.. How am I supposed to uninstall the program or even install previous version?
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did you uninstalled the huawei app center? didn't you had it when you bought the phone?
try an phone restart or reset to factory( wise idea - make a backup first)

The phone is european version so it uses google softwares. Anyway i figured out, installed older version of spotify and it started to work. Will keep this version untill spotify fixes this.
Thank you.

Leilebule said:
The phone is european version so it uses google softwares. Anyway i figured out, installed older version of spotify and it started to work. Will keep this version untill spotify fixes this.
Thank you.
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you're welcome
if u want to uninstall the Music app you have to do it from Hi Suite from a PC, at least for H60 L02 phone version.

Lockscreen music controls

Hi everyone!
I've looked and seen that some of you had troubles with the lockscreen music control. I'm on B162 and have the same problem as you guys do; I was just wondering if this problem got solved with an update since the B162 or if you guys still have the same problem.
Thanks a lot!

PrimuSSaintS said:
Hi everyone!
I've looked and seen that some of you had troubles with the lockscreen music control. I'm on B162 and have the same problem as you guys do; I was just wondering if this problem got solved with an update since the B162 or if you guys still have the same problem.
Thanks a lot!
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Using the stock Huawei music app lockscreen music control works just fine (B1xx and now on B3xx as well) :good:

Pfeffernuss said:
Using the stock Huawei music app lockscreen music control works just fine (B1xx and now on B3xx as well) :good:
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Yeah but what I hate about the Stock Music App is that there is no "Genre" tab, and i'm someone that loves just selecting a genre and listen to whatever I have on my phone. Also, I'm trying Spotify Premium for three month (there was a promotion that costed me 1€ for 3 months), so I don't really use anything else.
Any other ideas?

PrimuSSaintS said:
Yeah but what I hate about the Stock Music App is that there is no "Genre" tab, and i'm someone that loves just selecting a genre and listen to whatever I have on my phone. Also, I'm trying Spotify Premium for three month (there was a promotion that costed me 1€ for 3 months), so I don't really use anything else.
Any other ideas?
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what I ended up doing was just installing Microsoft's "Next" lockscreen app from the play store, and enabling the setting to "use password lock only".
It's a workaround, but it works well (works with fingerprint unlocking and doesnt make you have to unlock twice, usable media controls with spotify and all other media apps)
just make sure you grant it every possible permission, battery setting etc and it should work fine. its not like the huawei lockscreen was really any good anyway.

With B320 lockscreen music controls show album art from Google Play Music, in previous versions that did not work, so maybe other apps will work too.

Music Player

Question for you guys...
I stream music from my phone while I work out, using Amazon Music. On my AW watch, once music is playing, it is always on the active watch face (change track, volume, etc). On the Gear, if I open the music app, I get the same features (even the cover art), but when the face times out, the app closes. Is there a way to get it stay on until I close it? It's handy to have running while I am working out.
Thanks!

I'm not sure if this helps, but my BeyondPod podcast app stays on my S3 music player widget after I initiate it on the paired S6 phone. Have you tried using the music player widget?
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DaWeav said:
I'm not sure if this helps, but my BeyondPod podcast app stays on my S3 music player widget after I initiate it on the paired S6 phone. Have you tried using the music player widget?
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I have not, I'm more familiar with Android Wear. I will see if I can figure that out. You mean set it as one of the programs you can quickly access from the bezel?

ret4425 said:
I have not, I'm more familiar with Android Wear. I will see if I can figure that out. You mean set it as one of the programs you can quickly access from the bezel?
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Yes there's a music widget app. I have mines set up to be the first widget from my watch face for easy access. Any time you play music from your phone from mostly any app it will show up controls for it. Weather its the stock music app, YouTube, Spotify, play music, or SoundCloud to name the few I use it will show up. Just go all the way to the right of your watch fave with the bezel scroll and it will have the option to place a new widget and just hold the widget when place to move it around

ret4425 said:
Question for you guys...
I stream music from my phone while I work out, using Amazon Music. On my AW watch, once music is playing, it is always on the active watch face (change track, volume, etc). On the Gear, if I open the music app, I get the same features (even the cover art), but when the face times out, the app closes. Is there a way to get it stay on until I close it? It's handy to have running while I am working out.
Thanks!
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This!! Music controls are essential. I also went from AW and this has been my biggest issue. I would have loved the watch to keep the app open, any app for that matter, until I chose otherwise.
My "fix" has been to add the music player app to open with the double click action, but it's still a pain.
Also, rotating the bezel to skip songs instead of volume, seems kind of redundant in my eyes, as there are already buttons for that on the screen.

so if I am tracking, you have to rotate to the widget each time you want to manipulate the music? am I getting it right? there is no "stay active" portion of the music player?
thanks all

ret4425 said:
so if I am tracking, you have to rotate to the widget each time you want to manipulate the music? am I getting it right? there is no "stay active" portion of the music player?
thanks all
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It would seem that way. I really hope someone finds a fix for this.

+1 here....I'd like a way to keep ANY app in the foreground...sigh....

skeeter123 said:
+1 here....I'd like a way to keep ANY app in the foreground...sigh....
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It really shouldn't be that difficult either. I'm new to Tizen, but as far as I can understand, it was a feature they removed.

This doesn't really help solve the issue, but another way to get to the music player quickly is to swipe down from the top (12 o'clock position) of the watch face to get to the "quick settings." There you will see a music note - touch it and it brings up the music player.

tomglass said:
This doesn't really help solve the issue, but another way to get to the music player quickly is to swipe down from the top (12 o'clock position) of the watch face to get to the "quick settings." There you will see a music note - touch it and it brings up the music player.
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Thanks While it's nice to have a shortcut there, you still have to navigate to that button every time, which is a hazzle. It seems we just have to wait till Samsung hopefully brings an update to fix this.

request it as a feature through samsung's help system, this can be found in the Samsung gear app in the help options.
i requested it there before I found this thread.

thedicemaster said:
request it as a feature through samsung's help system, this can be found in the Samsung gear app in the help options.
i requested it there before I found this thread.
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Thank you! :good: Didn't know they had that. Do you think they will actually listen?

big companies only listen to big noise, so it's unlikely they'll do anything unless more people suggest this.

thephonus directed my attention to this little tool in another thread: http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=suQANKUenM
it's a decent temporary solution, while active it disables the standby/AOD timer.
you should be careful though, as it also prevents burn-in protection from activating (shifting pixels, low light)

stock music app does not start with bluetooth

Help! Honor 8 (FRD-L04) with the latest patches and the stock app does not start automatically when connected to my truck. I have to turn on the screen go into the music app, select local songs, then select a song to start playing.
I just want it to start playing when I connect. Should I goto a 3rd party music app? The stock one seems too complicated. I wish I could default the app to local songs.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

When i connect to bluetooth player mine (stock music player) never automatically started in emui 4.1 & 5.0 ,, weird

bhoth said:
Help! Honor 8 (FRD-L04) with the latest patches and the stock app does not start automatically when connected to my truck. I have to turn on the screen go into the music app, select local songs, then select a song to start playing.
I just want it to start playing when I connect. Should I goto a 3rd party music app? The stock one seems too complicated. I wish I could default the app to local songs.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
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Stock one doesn't have this feature. Better go with 3rd party ones.
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bhoth said:
Help! Honor 8 (FRD-L04) with the latest patches and the stock app does not start automatically when connected to my truck. I have to turn on the screen go into the music app, select local songs, then select a song to start playing.
I just want it to start playing when I connect. Should I goto a 3rd party music app? The stock one seems too complicated. I wish I could default the app to local songs.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
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Stock music app sucks. I have tried a ton of 3rd party ones and the simplest one I found is :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.pulsar
Its plays automatically when connected to my cars Bluetooth. I have just enabled folders tab, it's so simple and it just works...

bala1701 said:
Stock music app sucks. I have tried a ton of 3rd party ones and the simplest one I found is :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.pulsar
Its plays automatically when connected to my cars Bluetooth. I have just enabled folders tab, it's so simple and it just works...
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Poweramp works great .

A suggestion bro , sorry for late answer and does the third party apps work for that?

i tested "Neutron Music Player" ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neutroncode.mp&hl=de )
it works. when the phone connects via bluetooth to a device it will play the last played position and track/list.
you can turn this behaviour on or off.

Did this happen when you were running the previous version of the OS on your device?