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[Theodora Andy]

Asimilar fault is happening with me. I'm listening on an iMac. When I open Pandora sound is on only for a few minutes then the sound mutes, but in all appearances the music is still playing, the sound icon isn't muted, and the song time indicator is moving. The only way I found to get the sound back on is to close and restart Pandora, or change the station. Please advise on how I might resolve this. Thank you

Here are a few things to check:Pandora has a separate volume control. Make sure it isn't all the way down, the volume control is located in the bottom right corner of the Pandora page.If that's not it, make sure you are plugged into the main speaker outputs of your sound card. Sometimes there are two outputs. Pandora may only play from one of them on machines with some sound drivers. Updated drivers have fixed this for many listeners.If on a Windows machine, make sure that the "Wave Balance" volume is set at least 50% on your advanced volume control window. This is accessible by double-clicking the speaker in the lower-right corner of your screen.

Hewlett Packard desktop -- no error messages, the music just stops yet the dots are still moving as if the music is still playing. This is occurring on every station. The music plays for a few minutes and stops as described above.

When playing Pandora on my computer or laptop, the sound will stop but the bar tracking the song progress continues. It will move on to the next song but the audio never comes back. If I refresh immediately, the song continues. If I wait a bit, it refreshes to a new song, which plays and then will stop as mentioned above.

The other programs most commonly running when this occurs are Gmail, Google Drives, Calendar, Sheets, and Docs. I do not have any other audio playing programs running. The internet is not having difficulties with connectivity, and I have been on different networks.

It happens on the web. I am unable to download the desktop app on my work computer. I have followed the troubleshooting suggestions of @AlyssaPandora and do not have any of the mentioned issues from Chrome.

This just started happening a few weeks ago. I have been using the same system, same browse, same anti virus program and same firewall, log in and settings for years. Now, all of a sudden, via the desktop app or the Chrome browser, the sound stops, but the song continues. Honestly sounds like a server issue to me.

Has anyone here noticed that their Syntakt patterns sound different in song mode? It almost sounds like parameters for various sounds get stuck, or are slightly off. Everything sounds fine when selecting/playing them manually.

I start a song and it plays, but there is no sound output. This can happen at any point in a listening session. I have to pause the song, select the song again to restart it or select a different song to get sound again. This can take a few tries though.

I had this occur last night and to answer your question yes, the circle progress indicator and the time counter are both updating even though there is no sound. I have powered off the u1 mini and unplugged the USB cable and will see if the issue still occurs.

Please disconnect the USB, power cycle your DAC, and use coax - this is absolutely important in your case. This is not a Roon issue, and very unlikely to be a Lumin issue. Note that if you have previously turned off all the non-USB (i.e. SPDIF) outputs from Lumin app, please turn them back on in Lumin app.

I am having the same problem when connecting to a Naim Muso using airplay. This is the first time I have connected via airplay. I usually use UPnP, but my Sonic Transporter UPnP gateway is not working.

Right now this is happening to me. It does not matter if I am playing via hqplayer to my rasberry pies (then Bifrost or Qutest DACs) or to my Sonos play 1s or Sonos Move. Roon tells me it is playing the song / music but there is no output. However, if I use the Sonos ap or play from a CD I get music out through the respective systems. Have restarted the PC with the Roon Core and rebooted the router to no avail. Software is apparently up-to-date. Very frustrated.

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I am having this problem, too. I usually have crossfade on anyway, and have tried clearing my cache, deleting all app data, and uninstalling and reinstalling the app. It's not happening on every other song consistently - sometimes it will play 2 or 3 fine, then cut out on the next song, and going back to the previous track or to the next track, then returning to the silent track usually fixes it. Any other ideas?

About six months into learning guitar, I tried my hand at composing a song. Looked into some basic composing theory, picked a specific tempo, learned how to record and actually play the thing, and then two months later I "finished" the song, complete with lyrics and some non-standard flourishes. At the time I figured I was just putting some beginner chords together and testing out some basic theory.

Then, after I played it for a couple people, they rightly remarked that it sounds exactly like the rhythm progression for Mary Jane's Last Dance with different lyrics. And when I listened to the two back-to-back, they were entirely right. This worries me for a couple reasons.

Firstly, while Tom Petty never consciously entered my mind while I was composing, I'm a big fan of his and I'm familiar with MJLD. I never intended to plagiarize the song but I can't say I've never heard it, and it worries me that at any time I can accidentally tread on somebody else's work.

Secondly, supposing I had released my composition without noticing how similar it was and somebody wanted to take legal action against me for plagiarism, I don't know how I would defend myself. I can explain my way through the song and try to justify my choices of chords and tone but there's no way I can tell them why I just chose an amp setting that "sounded good."

Finally, work on the song has basically halted because running every flourish and idea through the lens of "is this REALLY my idea?" has thrown a kink in what's passing as my inventive process. There are only so many time signatures and so many chords I can use and it's not hard to find somewhere else somebody decided that an Em and a C chord sound good together.

What do you mean by 'rhythm progression?' If you mean just the chord progression (the chord chart I found online shows Am G D Am for the verses) that wouldn't be unique enough to be a copyright violation. If the melody also is too similar to the Tom Petty song, you have a potential copyright problem. When you describe it as the same as Mary Jane's Last Dance, but with different lyrics, I imagine your melody is too similar to the Tom Petty song.

I have a quote somewhere (see edit below) that makes this point: a dilettante is unwilling to revise their work and a true composer is willing to change their ideas and explore possibilities. In that spirit I suggest applying all the techniques you can to modifying what you produced. Some of the results may seem forced, but going through the process is the important part.

If you try these things with the Tom Petty song, it will probably all sound lame, because you will be effectively destroying a cool song. That's probably how it will feel. But the processes and judging the results are the main point. Do any alternatives work? Would they work with a different lyric if the song mood has changed too much? Try it, keep what works, then move on. Hopefully in the future you will notice sooner when you are recreating an existing song and steer it in a different direction before you are fully committed to an idea.

Below is a scan of a notebook page I cut and pasted (the old fashioned way with paper, scissors, and tape) of a quote from Seigmeister, Harmony and Melody along with an transcription from a Beethoven sketchbook of five edits for a string quartet theme. I put this together for myself for inspiration.

I think this is a great question that a lot of people can relate to. I think the question addresses a few big topics: What does it mean to be original? How does the creative process work? What are the legal implications of copying a song?

First, it's worth stating the obvious--that you're not the first person this has happened to. When writing "Impressions," Coltrane copied a section of a tune called "Pavanne" by Morton Gould. Then, Hank Mobley copied Coltrane when writing Chain Reaction. In Coltrane's case, this was probably subconscious. In Mobley's case, I would bet this started as a contrafact and was similar by design. Maybe Mobley was paying homage to Coltrane, or maybe he thought he could improve Impressions to the point of writing an altogether new song.

My take on this is that it's impossible to be perfectly original. There are a lot of things we should expect to repeat within a genre: chord changes, drum beats, baselines, chord voicings, and even small fragments of melodies and lyrics. Our musical ideas are based on what we have previously heard and played, and this is simply how the brain works: we rely on past examples when learning and creating. In his article entitled "Inflexible Knowledge: The First Step to Expertise", UVA psychologist Daniel Willingham puts it this way: "the mind much prefers that new ideas be framed in concrete rather than abstract terms." In music, those concrete terms consist of chord changes, drum beats, baselines, and everything else I mentioned above. I see reuse as an integral part of the creative process.

That said, our creative products evolve and develop with practice and experience. As a musician spends more time playing and listening, her musical vocabulary grows. With time and experience, her creative process will produce increasingly more original and more unique work. In jazz, this same progression occurs in one's improvisational abilities and is usually encouraged by teachers. When I first started improvising, my teacher told me to pick a pianist and transcribe + learn an entire album of his solos. I chose Kenny Barron, and so at the beginning, every time I improvised I sounded like a much worse, unsophisticated version of Kenny Barron. As I transcribed more and more artists and practiced a range of different techniques, I built up a wider variety of licks, phrases, and rhythmic ideas from which to create a solo. This gave me more freedom, and I felt like I was being more creative, even though I was still using a very similar process as when I was just starting.

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