Questions tagged [music]

Questions regarding songs in your android device. The quality, bit-rate, size and file types is considered relevant to this tag. This should not be confused with audio and/or music-player

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Transferring music from laptop using usb cable

I tethered my galaxy s9 to my Asus windows laptop. How do I transfer my.laptops music files to my galaxy memory card?
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Audio from one android phone to another

I have an old oneplus 6t I am using to play music as it is rooted and using Viper4Android to get better equalisation At the same time, my main phone is a galaxy fold 4 and I would like to have my ...
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Some audio files won't delete or play on my alcatel phone

I copied audio files (music) from my desktop computer to my alcatel. I only have internal storage, It seems the ones I copied on a specific day won't play. Message is "We cannot play this file&...
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How do I stop music apps from opening in the background/a notification when turning on bluetooth/bluetooth tries to auto-connect

As an avid music listener I have several music apps on my phone. Everytime I turn on bluetooth (or when bluetooth tries to autoconnect to a device without any device to connect to) several of my music ...
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My Samsung Galaxy Note10+ is automatically deleting my Music!

In Some days, I listen to music on my Samsung music app. today, I found out that some of my music is gone! Even deleted on the My Files app! is there anything I can do to stop this? Most of my music ...
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How to know, which app is playing music in the background?

I installed some alarms, then I configured them... then I configured the phone settings the standard wake signal for a long music. I ended up that something is playing music in my ear, in the ...
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media control "resume" and "pause" via NFC tag do not work

Problem description I wrote tasks onto NFC tags to play different playlists in a media player app, to control the media player (Vol +/-, next/previous title, pause/resume, quit media player) and to ...
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How to fix "Selected playlist is empty" in Android 4.1.2?

I have an old phone that I use as a dedicated MP3 player after my actual MP3 player died. It's a ZTE phone running Android 4.1.2 with an SD card that has all my music on it. I use the default music ...
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Some music metadata/tags dissapeared after copying to micro sd

I tried copying my large music library from my internal storage to my external micro sd card, only to find 50% of my album art went missing, some artist and album info is gone, while the songs ...
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Start/Stop Music playing when power is supplied via the USB cable

I'd like to use an old(er) Android phone as a Music Player left always connected in my car. I have an ignition controlled USB socket in the car, and would also connect the 3.5mm jack to the Aux In of ...
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How can I prevent an app from interrupting audio playback of some other app?

I am using Duolingo to practice Japanese, and I'd be able to practice a lot more if I could actually do this while listening to music. Right now, when you get to the next question, it turns down the ...
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How to migrate playlists (for local music library)

My old and new Android phones have SD cards, and the entire music library (mp3 & flac) is on the SD card. On the new phone, the playlists are all there, but they have no songs in them. I use ...
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Repeat music in Chromecast

Found this song and want to play it in a loop through the TV when using Chromecast. When I'm using YouTube Music before Chromecast, then I'm able to repeat it. Thing is, once I start to Chromecast it, ...
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Autodeletion of bootup sound

a noob here My stock rom doesn't have a default boot soundBut my old device has a boot sound(Which means I can change it)Then my question is that how can I set boot up sound on my relatively newer ...
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Backup of Music Playlists

I’m trying to make a backup of my music playlists, that I've created using the Samsung Music app on my Samsung Galaxy A6 (Andriod 10). So far I’ve not been able to locate where these playlists are ...
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Audio file not Supported

So I just went from the LG ThinQ to the LG Velvet and transferred some of my music over. However, when I try to play certain songs, they come up as "file not supported". They will play on my ...
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How do I exclude songs from being ring-tones/notification tones?

So, I have amassed quite a collection of music on my phone, which runs Android 4.1 (yes, I know this is old… the phone works better than many newer devices)… about 3300 odd tracks. I also have 3 files ...
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Samsung Galaxy S6 - Want to talk on phone and listen to music at the same time - is this possible?

I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone. I want to talk on the phone and listen to music at the same time - is this possible? Is there a native app on the phone or another app that allows this? I find ...
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WhatsApp messaging interrupts Music while the wireless headset is connected

I just discovered that when I tap the send button on WhatsApp the music stops for while. Actually it doesn't stop. The headsets goes silence for a second and then continues normally. The same thing ...
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How does one remove a single song from a downloaded album?

I have purchased an album on the play store and downloaded the entire album to my Android device, through the Play Music app. I want all of the songs from that album on my device, except for one. If ...
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Disable music ticker on ambient display

I have a bootleggers ROM (Android 9 pie) installed on a Motorola Moto E 2015 phone and it lights the display (ambient display) every time a new song starts playing on the phone. There is a setting to ...
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Google Play Music keeps putting non-music audio files into my music library

So now all of my audiobooks and ring tones are in there with my songs and there's no way to seperate them even though I keep my music, audiobook and ringtones in separately files on my SD card.
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Watching Youtube and listening to music at same time in android phone- Is it possible [duplicate]

How can I watch Youtube video (app) muted as well as listen to music in phone's built in music app in any android phone? It is not a duplicate of this How can I mute the YouTube app while playing ...
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Music app overlay with control on volume level change

I'm newbie in android world (recently switched from windows phone). And I really miss the music overlay that comes into place when you press volume level button. In desktop windows it looks like ...
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How can I mute the YouTube app while playing music on another player?

I do love to listen to music while watching text YouTube videos, but I can't because YouTube can't be muted. I use the respect audio focus in Musicolet Music Player. I have tried App Volume Control ...
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How do I play a video in the YouTube app at zero volume while simultaneously playing music in an MP3 player app?

Sometimes, I love to play music at a high volume while watching text YouTube videos and muting YouTube, like what I do on PC. I have a Huawei phone running Android 5.0 (Lollipop).
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Accessing music on samba share

I'm in the process of putting a large amount of music ~1.5TB (in many folders) into a samba share on ubuntu. I'm wondering what a good application to stream this to android would be, currently I can ...
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How to stop notifications from interrupting music in Android?

I have Huawei mate 10. When I am listening to music from an app called "Anghami" I get bombarded with continuous notifications interrupting the music in a very annoying way. I want the music to be ...
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android 8.1 plays random music sporadically and stops after 10 seconds or so

I have an android phone that runs 8.1 and sporadically it will run some random music that I don't know of. It then stops on its own after a few seconds. My browser is turned off, and the phone is on ...
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Why can my phone interact with other devices wifi streaming?

I've noticed today, that, if someone in my company is streaming music to our smartTV, my phone is able to interact with it and, for example, pause it or even fully stop it. I don't know what causes ...
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Is my Galaxy s7 edge hacked?

My phone's volume gets messed up. It turns all the way up and down even without headphones. My google assistant keeps popping up, my music gets skipped or interrupted by google assistant, and the ...
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Samsung Gear S3 music sync

I mainly use my Gear S3 for listening music while running or doing exercises in gym. But It is very annoying to add new songs into it. First I have to download new songs to my computer, then I have to ...
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My phone is making weird music when I am not touching it

My Moto G play just stared to do weird stuff, it started to play a really creepy music that I didn't even have on my phone. Google play music an Spotify (which are the two apps that I use for music) ...
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Google Play Music can't see WMA files on Pixel 2

On my PC, I have a library of WMA files that I have ripped from CDs using iTunes. About 6 months ago I got Google's Pixel phone, and wanted to load a bunch of the music onto my phone. A quick ...
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How to play Bluetooth speaker and device speaker at the same time?

I'm on the Moto z and on 7.1.1 nougat. I have the JBL speaker mod and a Bluetooth speaker. But I want to use them both. How do I do that? If I connect to the speaker the mod speaker turns off.
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Play sound from two apps simultaneously [duplicate]

Is there a way to play sound from any two apps (or more) simultaneously on Android? For example I have Audible reading a book. I'd like to play sound from a relaxation app at the same time. Or from my ...
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How can I stop Opus audio files skipping when played from the SD card?

I'm on LineageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1.2). When I play music off of my SD card using the built-in music player, it does fine with MP3 and AAC. The real problem is when I play opus files. They are ...
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Problem playing music via Chromecast

In the last couple of Android updates I've found an issue when playing music via the Chromecast device on my TV. It seems once the screen sleeps the phone disconnects from the Chromecast and doesn't ...
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How do I change the audio balance on android 7.1.2?

I have conductive hearing loss in my right ear, and I'm wondering if there is a way without rooting, for me to adjust the balance to make my music sound correct.
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different audio on different devices

I am going on a trip with my son and want my music to play through bluetooth and his youtube to play through the phones speakers, is this possible
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"Unknonwn Artist" only on Google Music with corred ID3 tags

So, before you dismiss this question please continue reading for all the details. I have my music collection on an SD card on my phone. All my music is very well organized, I'm almost OCD about it. ...
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Can I connect android through headphone jack to car stereo's USB?

Basically I want to be able to stream music (Youtube / Spotify) from my smartphone to my car stereo. Android outputs audio from its headphones female jack and my car stereo has a female USB port. ...
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I can only hear Music and Blurry voices while listening songs with headphones

I'm using Gionee P5 mini running on Android 5.1 My nephew broke my original headphone so I bought a new headphone from market. But I can only hear music and some blurry voices when listening songs ...
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Incoming call doesn't stop the music in Nexus 5X

Before this time I've been using Samsung Android-phone with Android 4.4. There was the next feature: when I listen to the music in headphones and somebody calls me then music stops and I start to hear ...
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How to keep my music and alarm files separate

I have two folders of mp3 files, one for music and one for my alarm clock. I have them both on my sd card. Right now I'm trying to use (or find) 3rd party apps that will do what i want. Even ...
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Every album has the same icon

I downloaded Shuttle(free version) to listen to music on my Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro. I downloaded a lot of music albums(only mp3 files), but the last one created a problem. When I downloaded this album, ...
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My phone don't use speakers to the maximum of its possibilities

I've a Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro. I've a problem with its speakers. When I put the maximum volume and I put the phone close to the hear, I found that my phone uses only half speaker to share the music(or ...
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My device can't play .m4a files

I've a Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro. When I put some .m4a files on my device from my computer, I can't play them. I always have to convert the files from .m4a to .mp3 and then I can listen to them. How can I ...
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Tell app to lower volume

Is it possible to tell a specific app to lower volume, using intents? I would like to be able to use Tasker to tell the HEOS app to lower the volume. EDIT: Heos is a streaming system, controlled ...
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lollipop how to get music & photos on sd

I have Note 3 running android lollipop 5.0 How do I get my music and photos on to the 32Gb sd card? Note I do not want to move the apps just the data.
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