I have it turned on,
The Pixel 4a is always listening for music.
It findS music and the song information is seen on the Ambient Display.
It is pretty nice, but how does it impact the device ?
Extra Battery, Extra data ?
Of course this is another source of data mining, when Google is listening for you music it takes note of your preferences.
Oh you listen to .... here is an Ad you may like; but this alone does not bother me; the overhead in resources maybe prohibitive.
AstroDigital said:
I have it turned on,
The Pixel 4a is always listening for music.
It find music and the song information is seen on the Ambient Display.
It is pretty nice, but how does it impact the device ?
Extra Battery, Extra data ?
Of course this is another source of data mining, when Google is listening for you music it takes note of your preferences.
Oh you listen to .... here is an Ad you may like; but this alone does not bother me; the overhead in resources maybe prohibitive.
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I don't know about battery life but it should not use any data or affect your ad preference because google claims "Now Playing never sends audio or background conversations to Google" and "Now Playing protects your privacy using on-device recognition and privacy-preserving analytics." These are shown in my settings at the bottom of the page where the toggle to "Show songs on lock screen" is found.
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See title.
I've tried turn by turn, but the music and voice directions are the same volume. They're drowned out.
I've switched from Android, and the way it worked with Google navigation is as follows:
Music is playing -> Music Paused -> "Turn Right on X St" -> Music resumes
Do any apps have that option? I'm interested in Navigon, specifically.
Thanks for any help!
Don't know about any thrid-party ones, but the built-in navigation feature works like that.
However, it doesn't give instructions automatically; you have to tap it when you want directions for the next leg of the trip. Some (few) people like this, many find it annoying and/or unusably impractical.
GoodDayToDie said:
Don't know about any thrid-party ones, but the built-in navigation feature works like that.
However, it doesn't give instructions automatically; you have to tap it when you want directions for the next leg of the trip. Some (few) people like this, many find it annoying and/or unusably impractical.
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Yeah, that's just not very useful :/
For those who have Navigon: does it pause the music when getting audio directions?
I would really like something like this too. Poweramp on Android gives the ability to pause music on short audio focus change (like when voice navigation is active music is paused and then resumed). I have yet to find an app on WP7.5 that does this.
I know bing maps does it but that doesn't give automatic voice guidance.
Any help would be appreciated. It would be extremely useful for listening to music through a bluetooth car stereo whilst having the navigation on...it is hard to hear when the navigation voice is speaking if music is playing at the same time.
mikesnav said:
See title.
I've tried turn by turn, but the music and voice directions are the same volume. They're drowned out.
I've switched from Android, and the way it worked with Google navigation is as follows:
Music is playing -> Music Paused -> "Turn Right on X St" -> Music resumes
Do any apps have that option? I'm interested in Navigon, specifically.
Thanks for any help!
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I've had an app that stopped/paused music fail certification for that very reason. If an app pauses or stops music, it must warn the user EACH TIME the app is loaded. Kind of silly, so I doubt any navigation apps out there pause the music.
I've read posts before of people seeing better battery life after they've had their phone a couple weeks. I've had my a couple days, and sometimes it gets pretty hot when I'm not doing anything. So I've been using Android Task Manager to view realtime processes. What I've noticed is that the "Music Enhancer" and "Sound Set" processes all the sudden have become active and are in the top 5 CPU utilizers. Usually this was accompanied by Power Amp (which I wasn't using the app) but now it is accompanied by Google Play Music Service (which I wasn't using either).
I have a large music collection loaded. Is Android/Google up to something as far as cataloging my music or sending information to Google Play about the music on my Phone. Of course that wouldn't explain why Power Amp was eating CPU when not being used.
It's enough draw that the USB charging can't keep up with the CPU utilization. This is on wifi so it can't be something to do with 4G data transfers going on.
I have Google Play music sync turned OFF on the phone.
It has to do with HTC Music Enhancer. Must be analyzing my 2000 MP3s for the first time or something? There's no information anywhere as to what it does / is doing.
I should have posted my app in here a long time ago. But I guess it is never too late to post it and hope for some good feedback on how to improve the app even further.
What does SleepTimer do:
It simply gives you a way of stopping your music after x minutes. Set it, and listen to music (or a video) in the evening without having to worry about the music running at 3am and waking you up from your sleep. SleepTimer lets you even do more like turning off wifi and/or mobile data after it turned off the music so you do not get interrupted by those annoying WhatsApp messages .
Scenarios
1. Turning off music after falling asleep
2. Turning off remote music like iTunes Remote, YouTube over ChromeCast, ... (needs some configuration)
3. Like fall asleep while talking with your love but hate high phone bills? Let SleepTimer stop the phone call (needs some configuration)
For most use cases SleepTimer just works. Open it up, set time, start. Done. And it even looks nice (at least I think so).
Only like 6% of the apps need some additional configuration to make them work.
More details (only for those who want to know/read more)
The app uses many different techniques to turn off the music. Audio controls, audio foreground, and even notifications since the newest version. Sadly there are some really bad music players out there that do not support any way of stopping their music except for opening the app and using the stop button in there. In such cases there is only the way of lowering the volume (which I hate ). I hope those developers get to work and implement a proper Music Player. Luckily most apps work though.
About notifications (new since October 2014)
This I am actually pretty proud about and took me a while to implement. And it gives us two new features.
1. Stop music using the notification
So if they have a pause/stop/close control in the notifcation, one can add a custom action in settings, select the app and click on the button in the notification that stops the music. SleepTimer will then use that button in the notification to stop the music. That allows more ways to stop an app and allows to stop apps like iTunes Remote, YouTube with ChromeCast, ...
2. Wait until the end of a track
If enabled, SleepTimer will not turn off the music immediately but wait until the track ends. This is done using the text content of the notification. As soon as the text in a notification changes SleepTimer knows that the track is changing and it will send a stop request immediately. (As well it ignores numbers like 3:12 which is obviously not track information but time information)
Shake extend
If enabled, you can extend the timer by shaking your phone. So you can set some quiet chime to run one minute before the timer runs out. If you can still hear it then just shake to phone to extend the timer.
Root
One can enable root in advanced settings to have even more options when the timer ends. For example turning off the phone or turning on airplane mode.
I hope you do like the app. If not, let me know why. If you have any recommendations or questions, please just ask. As well any ideas how to improve the app further are welcome.
Cheers,
Patrick
First.
Does it support all music & video players? Or only stock players?
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First.
Does it support all music & video players? Or only stock players?
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It supports a lot of music and video players. Basically all of them that support the events of Android that good Audio Player apps should support according to Google Many players I tested (Stock, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, YouTube, ...) worked. And even if they don't work by default, try out adding a custom action in settings in on sleep actions.
Is is possible to turn off the device after x minutes?
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Is is possible to turn off the device after x minutes?
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Yes it is. But only if you have a rooted phone. If you do, then enable root in the advanced settings and then go into the On Sleep Actions settings where you will find the turn off phone option .
I think it would be great idea to add some notification with countdown(few seconds), before phone shutting down.
This is a really neat app! All the other sleep timers I tried didn't feature root options like airplane mode etc. Thanks a lot!
Just a little request: Could you add a screen off option as well? I mean sure, the device will turn off the display afterwards by itself, but I thought it might be useful.
Continuous sleep mode
Hi
I would like to know if the app can be configured so that if I fall asleep with earphones on and wake up and press the play/stop button on the earphones, theaudio I was listening to continues, but is automatically in sleep countdown mode without having to start Sleep Timer again.
This is the way the sleep mode in Smart Audiobooks works and it is very nice.
Thanks.
Hey all,
I've just recently received my OPO and it seems to me that things like listening to pocket casts/google play music are burning through my battery at a much faster rate than on my n5. I know one of the selling points of the n5 was the the use of the secondary low-power processor for audio tunneling, and I believed this functionality was included in the snapdragon 801- can anyone confirm that this functionality is enabled?
Edit- earlier blog posts regarding this here ; anything I might have done to disabled this or any reason cached music/podcasts would not take advantage of this?
Yes, the actual playback of media uses very little battery, it's the apps that are sucking juice.
My suggestion:
Go to Settings>Privacy>Privacy Guard>Advanced and set "Wake Up" and "Keep Awake" to "Disabled" on all your audio apps.
One catch, you'll need to have the audio app on screen before you turn the screen off, or playback will pause a couple minutes after the screen turns off.
I've found this saves a ton of battery.
Hi folks, I just started a new account today to post about this issue so hopefully I am posting in the right place.
I have noticed that when playing music back on the Pixel, Google Play Music (GPM) keeps the device fully awake and away from deep sleep regardless of what settings are selected. I previously owned a Nexus 5 and the DSP audio tunneling feature allowed for audio processing to be done through the phone's DSP, allowing the device to reach a deep sleep state through most of the audio playback. This greatly enhanced battery life and I believe was advertised as a feature of the Snapdragon 800 chipset in that device.
I know that when making voice calls with the pixel, the battery usage and associated wakelocks look very similar to my Nexus 5. It seems to do this audio processing with the DSP just fine, and the phone enters deep sleep intermittently despite the voice call, so long as the screen remains black. I also know that the Pixel has a more creative use of the DSP in the camera software, and it is part of the reason we get such beautiful photos with such small shutter lag.
However, I have found absolutely nothing online or otherwise related to the Pixel's distinct lack of DSP usage during audio playback. It would stand to reason that this device, using a chipset based on the Snapdragon 821, and including a DSP even more advanced than that of my Nexus 5, should also be taking advantage of this feature. Unless there are any drawbacks that I am aware of, it would only serve to improve the battery life even more.
If anyone knows something that I do not about this, or has any inclination to try it out and see if it works on your device, I'd love to know more! It could be a bug that nobody noticed, or they may have removed the ability for the device to do this for some reason. Or it could be a GPM related thing, I really don't know if this feature was enabled for other devices. I am using a play store purchased Pixel 32gb running stock 7.1.2. For the record, it is less of an issue on this phone than it would have been on the Nexus 5, because I get great battery life streaming music or otherwise.
The feature only ever worked without bluetooth, by the way, as streaming audio over bluetooth adds extra processing that requires the device to be kept awake as far as I know. Only playback through the phone's internal speaker or through the audio jack with EQ disabled allowed the feature to work for me on my Nexus 5.