Music Play Loop / Lollipop

Mark J

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Nov 20, 2014, 12:08:52 PM11/20/14

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I have noticed that since upgrading my nexus 7 to lollipop that the music play loop functionality seems to no longer work. Is anyone else seeing a similar type problem? The overall task functionality seems to work aside from this issue so I am wondering if there is some sort of permissions setting that needs to be changed?

Pent

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Nov 23, 2014, 9:28:36 AM11/23/14

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Yes, can reproduce that, will try and find the problem.

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Pent

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Nov 23, 2014, 10:17:57 AM11/23/14

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Android bug unfortunately:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=77860

Will wait to see what they say before thinking about workarounds
etc.

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Jakub

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Nov 24, 2014, 9:49:23 PM11/24/14

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Workaround:

Open Developer options (click build number in About phone until it's unlocked in main menu),

disable "Use of NuPlayer (experimental)" - it's on by default and clearly has issue with looping.

I just turned it off and works fine again.

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Nov 25, 2014, 2:08:53 AM11/25/14

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Thanks Jakub, I should've suggested that after reading the bug report.

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Christian Andrew

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Feb 3, 2015, 7:54:13 PM2/3/15

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Workaround doesnt work for me. Running 5.02 with latest Tasker from Google Play.

With Nu Player enabled music plays though doesnt loop.

With Nu Player disabled. I receive an error after a couple of seconds of tasker trying to play the .wav file.

Abdullah Alahdal

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Apr 11, 2015, 3:59:47 PM4/11/15

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The workaround works fine here CM12.1 Unofficial for Note 3

Abdullah Alahdal

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Apr 11, 2015, 4:48:21 PM4/11/15

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Update: However, this will make an endless loop for Play Ringtone.

To overcome, I replaced the play ringtone action with Music Playa action without loop.

Mischa Krilov

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Jul 11, 2015, 9:19:00 PM7/11/15

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Pardon the thread necromancy, but is there any news on this bug?

Pent

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Jul 12, 2015, 7:51:19 AM7/12/15

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Since it's an Android bug, please refer to their bug tracker (link above in thread).

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Mischa Krilov

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Jul 12, 2015, 11:00:36 PM7/12/15

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Thanks, Pent, I somehow missed that!

Note that in 5.1.1, the developer option Jakub mentioned now reads "Use AwesomePlayer (deprecated)" in the list. Turning it on allows my Tasker audio loop to behave as expected.

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Jul 13, 2015, 3:24:10 AM7/13/15

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Thanks for mentioning.

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Saad Thahim

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Sep 6, 2015, 9:39:36 AM9/6/15

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I have similar problem, music doesn't plays, that option in dev options was already disabled.

what else should i do?

Mohamed Shiha

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Oct 1, 2015, 8:18:58 PM10/1/15

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Yes I have same problem in Nexus 7 Lollipop!!

Abdullah Alahdal

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Nov 23, 2015, 4:51:28 PM11/23/15

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Android 6 doesn't have the option in Developer Settings. Any other workaround?

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