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[Q] Is there a way to listen to a music player while playing a game?

Sometimes i wanna listen to music while playing a game but on opening any game my music player automatically goes off. Any suggestions?

weird question :
Probably a big no if the game is not made for that
Try it it's simple :
Launch a game
press home button
Launch a music player
relaunch the game and resume your party

Thanks but that doesn't work, I tried.

on a sidenote, does anyone notice that aside from when playing music the headphones that come with the play sound weird?

i use a bluetooth headset and i haven't experienced this. usually i turn off the notification and set it to vibrate. my music never stops even in switching games

It automatically turns off any music that you are listening to and plays the game music by default.

jdz7t8 said:
It automatically turns off any music that you are listening to and plays the game music by default.
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Try to turn off music in the game. Playing and listening music and have no such problem

HeadShooter1979 said:
Try to turn off music in the game. Playing and listening music and have no such problem
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Same here. Start the music playing. Open game. Mute the audio in the actual game not using the volume keys. Then the volume keys will control the music's volume

AriStar said:
on a sidenote, does anyone notice that aside from when playing music the headphones that come with the play sound weird?
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I haven't even taken those out of the plastic, so no comment from me. I'd personally recommend some Shure over-the-ear headphones, as the phone does a decent job pushing them.

So it's not possible..Poor design IMO.

Another reason to hate the stock music player.
Winamp works perfectly.

Charleszan said:
Another reason to hate the stock music player.
Winamp works perfectly.
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Really, i will try winamp now, though i must say that i am skeptical.
***UPDATE***
Winamp works flawlessly!

[Q] How do I browse the web and play music at the same time?

Hey gang, new TF owner here. I want to play an MP3 in Winamp and surf the net at the same time. How come every time I go to switch applications (by leaving Winamp running, I just hit the home button to start a new app) - the music stops playing.
I'm a little disappointed that I haven't figured out how to do this yet. Anyone have this figured out?

I don't know about WinAMP, but I use the Google Music app and the music doesn't stop when switching apps.

Winamp also plays music in the background, regardless of app switching. Even continues playback even while the screen is turned off, if I recall.

Mine doesn't stop or exit music keeps playing and a notification is added to the bar.

I can confirm on my tablet, Winamp does not keep playing when I switch apps. If it matters, I am using the headset port. Maybe I'll try it without the headset and see if it does.
Maybe the headset port shuts off when the screen goes into sleep mode.

Ok yes, when I am NOT using the headset port, apps play in the background. However, when I use the headset port, the music shuts off when the app is switched (and also when the screen goes into sleep mode).
What's up with that?

I haven't tried Winamp specifically, but every other music app plays in the background no problem with or without headphones plugged in. Music, TuneIn Radio, and iHeartRadio are three that come immediately to mind.

I just download Winamp so I can test and WITH headphone I can multitask and listen to music just fine.
Music still play when screen shut off also.
My built in music player is the same way.

[Q] Google Music prematurely skipping to next song

When playing music via Google Music, sometimes the app skips to next song before the current one is done. Any idea why this is happening, and how to solve it?
My observations:
This happens during good internet connection (both on WiFi and 3G)
It happens to both "pinned" songs (cached) and the ones that are streamed. This happens even when the whole play queue is pinned (so there isn't a problem switching from cached song to streamed song)
All my music is via All Access subscription, so no songs are uploaded by myself (this eliminates the possibility of having a corrupt mp3 file)
After the music skips to next song, if I go back to the "problematic" song it plays fine to the end
This happens randomly to any song, and if a song skips once it doesn't mean it will skip again (this I find the most confusing)
Any help would be appreciated, this random skipping is frustrating!
P.S.: I have stock, rooted Nexus 4 running 4.3.

matus201 said:
When playing music via Google Music, sometimes the app skips to next song before the current one is done. Any idea why this is happening, and how to solve it?
My observations:
This happens during good internet connection (both on WiFi and 3G)
It happens to both "pinned" songs (cached) and the ones that are streamed. This happens even when the whole play queue is pinned (so there isn't a problem switching from cached song to streamed song)
All my music is via All Access subscription, so no songs are uploaded by myself (this eliminates the possibility of having a corrupt mp3 file)
After the music skips to next song, if I go back to the "problematic" song it plays fine to the end
This happens randomly to any song, and if a song skips once it doesn't mean it will skip again (this I find the most confusing)
Any help would be appreciated, this random skipping is frustrating!
P.S.: I have stock, rooted Nexus 4 running 4.3.
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You could try to uninstall app or wipe the app data.

Are you using earphones or headphones?
Because it might matter.

I'm using Audeo PFE 112, so ones without any controls.
I've reinstalled Google Music, let's see if it helped..

Did you manage to get a solution to this? I've had the same problem on my N4 and previously my S3. I have noticed that it seems to happen when connected via Bluetooth. It seems to also be worse if I receive a notification, even if the notification sound is muted. if I use PowerAmp it's fine. In PowerAmp there are more options available to set the audio priority and buffer size. Could be down to that but obviously we don't have those options in the Play Music app.

I've got some more info that may be of use. It happens when I have an unread notification. It may not just be on Bluetooth as I don't read the notifications whilst driving obviously. This used to happen in PowerAmp when updating to Jellybean, however they fixed it. Makes no difference if notifications are on silent or if you swipe it from the notification bar, it has to be marked read.
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I still have the problem. I will try to find out if it happens more when i get notifications and will report here..

This issue has been annoying the hell out of me for a few months now on my GNex on 4.3 (running AOSPA 3.99). Every time they push an update to the Play Music app I think "Finally!" assuming it will fix this issue, but no dice.
Mine is always on Bluetooth, and happens with streamed or pinned music. It will play whatever song I left it on when I last exited the player, completely, then the next song that comes up in the queue is the one that will skip after partially playing. I haven't timed it, but it's something like 20s or so. If I manually go back to the beginning of the track it skipped, it will play it completely to the end with no issues. I have found, from messing around with it, that if I proactively skip back/forward to another track manually before hitting "Play" it doesn't seem to happen. It's acting like when the player starts up, it "thinks" it received a "Next" button press via AVRCP and advances to the next song on its own.
Is that description consistent with what you guys are experiencing?

Wade-0 said:
This issue has been annoying the hell out of me for a few months now on my GNex on 4.3 (running AOSPA 3.99). Every time they push an update to the Play Music app I think "Finally!" assuming it will fix this issue, but no dice.
Mine is always on Bluetooth, and happens with streamed or pinned music. It will play whatever song I left it on when I last exited the player, completely, then the next song that comes up in the queue is the one that will skip after partially playing. I haven't timed it, but it's something like 20s or so. If I manually go back to the beginning of the track it skipped, it will play it completely to the end with no issues. I have found, from messing around with it, that if I proactively skip back/forward to another track manually before hitting "Play" it doesn't seem to happen. It's acting like when the player starts up, it "thinks" it received a "Next" button press via AVRCP and advances to the next song on its own.
Is that description consistent with what you guys are experiencing?
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This is what I'm experiencing. Since it doesn't happen outside of that I'm not too upset.

This latest Google Play Music app update (5.2.1224L) seems to have fixed the issue for me.

Wade-0 said:
This latest Google Play Music app update (5.2.1224L) seems to have fixed the issue for me.
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Did anyone else have this fixed? As of today, the songs still skip for no apparent reason. Its happened on my GS3 and Nexus 7 2013. Both rooted and unrooted.

Same Issue
I'm still having this problem using my nexus 5 and Nexus 10. Both are running Android 4.4.2 and app version 5.4.1413N.1048534.

I'm having the issue too. I was originally using power amp and thought it was that. But i went back to Google play and it's more prevelent there. I not only get songs that skip, i get songs that play with the wrong name( songs father down the playlist play ontop of another song name) or it adds sounds that arent supposed to be there. Ive even had a song playing in slowmotion. I used to never have this happen. Last time i did a transfer of music ( pc to phone) was almost a year ago.
I'm using the LG L90-4.4.2

I have the same problem on my head unit 4.2.2. Is it possible to force the PRIORITY for google music app?

Same skipping problem
I am having the issue quite a bit on my home wifi with sonos system playing through sonos app. Every 30 minutes or so, 2 or 3 songs in a row will play about 5 seconds and skip to the next. Really annoying when you actually like the song it is skipping. I'm using iPhones, iPads and windows computer with the sonos and it does it will all computer types. I am not hitting buttons inadvertently. Did anyone figure this one out?

I have the same problem on my ZTE Z820 Obsidian.

I have this problem, but not with this phone. I think it is related to some aspect of Google music. I am using BubbleUPnP to stream to a Raspberry Pi 3 running RuneAudio which has the Debian standard MPD player embedded in it. BubbleUPnP runs on 2 Android phones - Samsung Galaxy S3 mini (4.4.2) and Moto G5 (7.0).
When I stream from my own UPnP server, fine. When the streaming source is Google Play Music, I get these symptoms. No internet issues, no mobile data, just domestic broadband and ethernet/wifi LAN. Every 3 or 4 songs it just skips to the next track half way through a song. Maddening.

Hi guys, I have the same issue with my One Plus 5T. Did you find a solution?
thanks in advance

The problem went away, but I can't remember why. I think it may have been to do with the buffer in RuneAudio which was too small/big. Or maybe a new version of Play Music came along. Sorry.
Marmite.

[Q] Audio muting itself

At random times when i play music there isnt any sound coming out the the headphones. After pausing and playing, changing tracks or scrolling the track it suddenly starts working again. This happens at random times and gets pretty annoying. I have tried different Equilizers but no luck. Right now im using the Noozxoide Eizo rewire pro on xnote 20. Anything i can do to fix this? has anyone else experienced this?

Yep, mine does that occasionally. Haven't been able to pin down the cause as of yet.

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Dizy801 said:
At random times when i play music there isnt any sound coming out the the headphones. After pausing and playing, changing tracks or scrolling the track it suddenly starts working again. This happens at random times and gets pretty annoying. I have tried different Equilizers but no luck. Right now im using the Noozxoide Eizo rewire pro on xnote 20. Anything i can do to fix this? has anyone else experienced this?
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u r using third party music player so it might be a bug in that music player
try another app or reinstall it
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Geeks Empire said:
u r using third party music player so it might be a bug in that music player
try another app or reinstall it
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Stock, N7, Winamp, Poweramp, Shuttle. All have the issue.
Full firmware reflash & data+cache wipe did nothing to resolve it.
It's not any specific song that has the issue.
Files on the SD or Internal make no difference.
Neither doe the EQ settings, headset vs speaker.
Adapt sound is disabled completely in applications.
It's not overly common (+-Once every 3 days of 12 hours listening), but it does happen.
Also at times it won't play the next song after the last one ended until I hit the power button to turn on the screen. Then it starts.
I suspect it has something to do with the notorious Mediascanner process. It's so bugged it probably gets stuck halfway through.

Yea i've tried mulitple 3rd party music players as well as the stock player. Im starting to think it might be equalizers.. I uninstalled the equilizer i was using which has worked fine for me on the stock music player, however, 3rd party music players still have the problem.

Music player working strangely and phone is restrarting

I bought Moto g4 plus 2 days ago. When I am playing music in Google music player or any other music player after 2/3 songs the music player behaving strangely. After beep sound songs are changing automatically. Sometimes music stops playing with a beep sound. After 2/3 occurrences like this phone is restarting automatically.
Now, this is only happening when an earphone is plugged. When I am playing music without an earphone on it is not having any problem. I have tried with 3 earphones and 3 music player including Goggle music player.
One more thing, when I am doing something else with earphone plugged (like watching YouTube, cellular calls) it is not having any problem.
I did factory reset once but same problem.
Does anyone has any idea what is the problem actually might be.