Bluetooth audio playback problem, skips

[Guest dwattsy21]

Hi Guys,

After recently downloading spotify i couldnt wait to show off to my mates that i can play any album i want in my car (as i have a bluetooth enabled pioneer player).

However every 30 seconds or so of playback, it pauses playing for a milisecond or 2.

You can imagine my dissappointment :D when my mate with an iphone looks at me :P and says "Dave it doesnt work though does it"

I have made sure nothing else is running in the background, i just don't know what it is, but it's so annoying!!

Very rarely it will work fine, but most of the time it has this annoying problem.

Any ideas guys?

Thanks, Dave

[Guest dwattsy21]

"Whoaaaaoooaaaoooaaaooaaa mysterious girl, I wanna get clo.......se to you" :D

Should mention that its not streamed music from spotify, it's a playlist saved to my phone, and the same happens with the HTC music app.

Please help!!

Dave

[Guest mox2001]

"Whoaaaaoooaaaoooaaaooaaa mysterious girl, I wanna get clo.......se to you" :D

Should mention that its not streamed music from spotify, it's a playlist saved to my phone, and the same happens with the HTC music app.

Please help!!

Dave

I have a weird problem which I expect is something similar.

When playing music through Bluetooth the music goes up and down in speed and pitch as if it was playing on an old broken record player.

This it pretty annoying listening to, which means that playing music over Bluetooth is no longer an option.

[Guest ptruman]

I know what this is (probably).

I have seen this before on my Motorola Z8 - and believe it's CPU related. Whenever the handset switches cells, it has to do a small handover. With my Z8, I could *guarantee* places on the road it would do it, and lo, the HTC Hero does it (periodically) at the same spots.

If however I kill off most apps I don't want/need running, it does it very rarely, if at all - which to me, implies it's processor related as it can't read the SD card, translate the MP3 to sound, keep the Bluetooth transmitting AND handover the cells all at the same time. I can force it to skip by running CoPilot at the same time (which eats CPU/battery), but close most things off (or clean boot) and start the MP3 then "sleep" the phone, it's fine (I got an entire trip with no skips at all - save an SMS interrupting it).

[Guest kosmiq]

If you have WiFi on, switch it off. That solves it for me whenever the music skips and I'm listening on BT-headset.

[Guest dwattsy21]

That makes sense, I noticed the problem doesnt happen if i stay still in my car.

Really annoying though, looks like I'g guna have to just get an aux in for my cd player and make use of the 3.5 jack.

Can you see this being fixed in the future?

[Guest ptruman]

That makes sense, I noticed the problem doesnt happen if i stay still in my car.

Really annoying though, looks like I'g guna have to just get an aux in for my cd player and make use of the 3.5 jack.

Can you see this being fixed in the future?

How can you "fix" CPU usage? If you have lots of stuff open, close them first :D

Get TasKiller (or another task killer) and kill off the apps you don't want running - TasKiller is nice as it lets you "one touch kill" anything you haven't told it to ignore (like the music player) - disable WiFi and off you go :P

(or hope someone creates a "car mode" app that enables BT & GPS, disables WiFi and kills anything other than music player, phone and other chosen apps) ;)

EDIT : I have used one of the Home screens to be a "car mode", with GPS, WiFi & BT widgets, so basically I scroll to that, tag them all, then start CoPilot and/or music player as necessary :lol:

Edited November 3, 2009 by ptruman

[Guest dwattsy21]

How can you "fix" CPU usage? If you have lots of stuff open, close them first :D

Get TasKiller (or another task killer) and kill off the apps you don't want running - TasKiller is nice as it lets you "one touch kill" anything you haven't told it to ignore (like the music player) - disable WiFi and off you go :P

(or hope someone creates a "car mode" app that enables BT & GPS, disables WiFi and kills anything other than music player, phone and other chosen apps) ;)

EDIT : I have used one of the Home screens to be a "car mode", with GPS, WiFi & BT widgets, so basically I scroll to that, tag them all, then start CoPilot and/or music player as necessary :lol:

Yea i always use taskiller to end free up RAM before i tried it. I have to say turning off the wifi did improve it, but i still got a few skips. I think I'm just guna fix an aux in lead to my CD player, can't be doing with skipping music! I just wondered if there was any chance of it being improved because i know there is some development being done now to do with bluetooth, but don't really understand it

[Guest scb100]

Hi

Well like everyone else my hero stuttered and slowed up/ speeded up etc etc with music player. Most annoying! The stock answer from HTC [pathetic as it is] is, that its not their phone! that it must be some 'thing' running invisibly in the background and would I please let them know if i find out ... what a load of crap. HTC partner with other companies - in my case orange and of course android etc. They are collectively responsible for making sure that their advertising claims of bluetooth audio streaming etc work but I digress - will be reminding them of this shortly. On the subject of the lag time and clicks and blips !! I purchased a kingston micro sd card 8gb class 4 [class most important - they are faster] The cluster selection is important because the larger the cluster the faster the data access time but a 1k file will inhabit all of the cluster so you loose space - but space is cheap really: formatted it on the pc as follows - fat32; 16k sectors [wmp set to sync to device defaults] - guess what - all the lag has mostly gone. If you have everything running in the background the pauses return but if you have only minimal they are gone. Running copilot 8 with BT, mobile and gps on its hardly noticeable now - it will stop for incoming messages and email but when Im driving and BT to the car stereo I can certainly live without email. Also running taskiller. The bottom line is when I consider that my HTC touch diamond had none of these issues, with a very fast onboard 4gb, I come to the following conclusion. This issue is purely to do with the speed of the card. A class 6 will possibly be even better. So i now have the really very good HTC audio sound without most slow ups [poss there are some but my ears are so screwed up now because I'm listening for faults - you tell me!!] gone! Am now experimenting with even larger sectors ... let me know if this works for anyone. Good luck - Steve

[Guest kieranc]

I don't think it's related to SD card speed as it doesn't happen when using wired headphones. What would be useful is an app where you can set the nice level of a specific process, similar to the process priority in windows. if the music app was set above other apps, it might improve the situation...

Edited April 11, 2010 by kieranc

[Guest paulsmith]

You can imagine my dissappointment mad.gif when my mate with an iphone looks at me cool.gif and says "Dave it doesnt work though does it"

Tell him that the iPhone didnt do bluetooth A2DPtil firmware 3.0 - and then only for the top model (the 2G iphone didnt work with bluetooth A2DP) - so thats coming in an update - just like the iphone

;)