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Prevent music players from auto play on bluetooth connect
Background
Major part of this guide was extracted here: How to Disable Bluetooth Automatic Playback on any Android Phone
The point of this guide isn't to disable Bluetooth music entirely, otherwise ...
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Does YouTube Music allow non-premium accounts to download their own uploaded music to their device for offline use?
I haven't tried this but according to Upload your music - YouTube Music Help, you can
You can play uploaded songs in the background, ad-free and offline - even if you are not currently a YouTube ...
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How to have two applications play sound simultaneously?
As for my device, whenever I play Duolingo and music at the same time, then the audio fades slightly with CM 12 built-in player
Now if you are OK with any third-party application, here is what you ...
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What can play Ogg Opus on Android?
According to the Supported Media Formats page Opus is supported natively since Android 5.0, but only in the Matroska (.mkv) container. The Xiph.org wiki and IETF draft state that the mime-type for ...
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Why the music player stop playing music when taking photo?
This is an old question, but I think that some people might find it useful since I came it across using Google search.
The camera app has a permission called TAKE_AUDIO_FOCUS which it is granted by ...
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How to have two applications play sound simultaneously?
You CAN play two audio simultaneously. I don't think it's possible with the stock Music player. You can install a third-party music player. In Rocket Music player, you can configure the Audio Focus to ...
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Possible to transfer songs from iTunes (on Mac) to Android phone?
Of course, it's trivial to transfer the non-DRM music. There are lots of apps on Google Play that effectively sync iTunes with Android in an iTunes-iOS way. Personally, I really like iSyncr used ...
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How to have two applications play sound simultaneously?
Samsung's SoundAssistant does this and allows you to adjust the volume of both apps separately.
Not sure if Samsung's app store (Galaxy Store) or the app itself is available for non-Samsung devices, ...
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Prevent music volume from being lowered when using turn-by-turn navigation
From what I've read elsewhere, this functionality is generally handled by the application playing the music/audio. So, I've been testing out various players, and found a couple that does what the ...
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Direct Music Player audio to Caller
You cannot
Media Playback developer documentation says (emphasis added)
You can play back the audio data only to the standard output device. Currently, that is the mobile device speaker or a ...
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Google music player queue
If you want to play selectef songs back to back it is recommended to create a playlist of the songs you tend to listen more often. It is quite easy way and reliable as well.
Add to queue is nothing ...
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What can play Ogg Opus on Android?
It's an old question but it's hard not to mention Foobar2000 (that has finally been ported to mobile) for Opus support.
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How can I backup playlists or extract path+filename information from them (generated with builtin MP3-player)?
Playlists are stored in a SQLite database in /data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/external.db.
I've made a Python script to convert the audio playlist from this database to M3U, it's ...
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Chose which player is activated by headphones play/pause buttons
Bluetooth connect & Play from Play Store meets your needs. App description says
This app is designed to tie the Bluetooth connect event to playing the music player of your choice. Unlike other ...
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Where (and how) does Android store music playlists?
I found a post from XDA Developers.
If anyone reading this doesn't find it on the directory listed above, try this one instead:
/data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/external-{{some hex ...
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How to stop music apps from playing when connected via Bluetooth to my car/headset/receiver?
Go to Settings, Applications, Application Manager, and then Modify System Settings. Find the player that is starting (for me it's Samsung Music) and switch the toggle to OFF.
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Control media player on one phone from another
KODI + KORE
for those who looking not only streaming but a simple remote control over media player itself (android - to - android)
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/494-android-tv-remote-...
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Samsung Galaxy s6 Music Player Track Sort
Have been searching for a solution to this for a few days and have finally found one.
Open music
Top left drop down menu, go to tracks
If you only want to have it in alphabetical order in the app, ...
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Multiple Music libraries
To hide media in any folder showing up, you need to add .nomedia file to it. If you search your device, using file explorer (either stock or your preferred),you are likely to find quite a few of these ...
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Streaming audio files from SMB (or AFP, or NFS) share to DLNA receiver without resampling
If anyone else is seeking for a similar solution, I think doubleTwist player uses a combination of android's media scanner and it's own directory scanner to import music. So the method with mounting ...
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Listen music from OneDrive
I've tried downloading music to my phone, but I could only make the files available off-line, no proper download
To download music from Onedrive follow the steps below:
Click on the 3-dots next to ...
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How to make an app behave the same way with screen off, as with screen on?
So, the only way I have found yet, to stream music to a DLNA device with screen off, using these apps, is to disable Doze mode by using this command in terminal:
dumpsys deviceidle disable
followed ...
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Why is Google Play Music the only app that produces a "Browse" button on my car stereo?
This "browse" feature is probably part of "Audio/Video Remote Control Profile" aka AVRCP. AVRCP has different versions with different feature sets. Browsing of playlists was ...
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Why is Google Play Music the only app that produces a "Browse" button on my car stereo?
The Bluetooth snoop log with the other players shows that the players do not support browsing as part of the GetFolderItems request on AVRCP.That is the reason why browsing is not working with other ...
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Force Sony Music app to refresh album art from MP3 files
You could just go into Settings, Apps, Music, Storage and tap clear all data.
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Force Sony Music app to refresh album art from MP3 files
I had the same problem. I solved it by playing a track from the album that showed the 'old' art, went into update music info and deleted the album art. All of a sudden it displayed the 'new' art. This ...
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Music keeps pausing
I once had that problem with a previous Android phone.
The problem turned out to be my earbuds. They (or perhaps the connector) were going bad, and apparently sending extra signals through the ...
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How to have two applications play sound simultaneously?
MPV for Android continues playing audio as well. If you connect an external keyboard, you can adjust the volume independently of other apps with the 9 and 0 keys.
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Prevent music volume from being lowered when using turn-by-turn navigation
Go to settings on your Android phone and search for "sound assistance". Then click on the toggle button to select "multiple audio sources". It works perfectly for Redmi Note 11S ...
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