Google Play Music stopping when screen turns off

[D-Caf]

See post #5. It's set to always be on.
(sent from new account since I don't remember my password...)

Yeah, missed that sorry, so clueless again...

 

[Racer-X#AC]

Well, I'm giving up for now. I've checked the Wifi and screen settings again, and am at a loss at to what is causing this. I even went so far as to set our screen brightness and time to sleep the same.

Short of the different apps we have, our phones are identical. The odd thing is that the wife has a *lot* more apps than I do, including security stuff, multiple accounts, etc. Why hers works and mine doesn't is beyond me. I really don't have time to delete and reinstall all my apps, so if I want to listen to music - which was the only reason I got the Chromecast - I'll use her Transformer or phone.

If anyone has any other ideas on what setting could affect this, I would love to hear it.

 

[ncguy]

I'm having a related issue with my galaxy nexus. I have multiple access points in my home with the same SSID, just different channels. Every time I roam from one AP to another the CC stops itself. When I get connected on the adjacent AP I can then resume the CC.

 

[Freshy03]

Its something with Google music. I have hdmi cec turned on.. I have my chromecast connected to my receiver as well. So I am able to play music thru my receiver and watch TV. Whenever I try to play a playlist as soon as it goes to the next song it changes my input on my TV(I'm watching football) to the chromecast screen.. Its like it thinks I started a brand new cast

 

[Racer-X#AC]

Its something with Google music

Not in my case that I can tell. It works on my wife's phone, but not mine. It works on her Transformer prime. We're not doing anything with the receiver but listening to music.

 

[amels802]

I'm having the exact same issue as the OP. It started in the last few days. It ONLY happens with Play Music connected to Chromecast and not when using the app via my phone's speakers or my car bluetooth. Sometimes when I turn the screen back on, there's an error in the notification dropdown "Couldn't play the track you requested". I thought hard resetting the Chromecast and applying the 8/16 Play Music app update might help but no luck. Also cleared data and cache for the Play Music app.

I have a Nexus 4 with stock 4.2.2 and Franco kernel. Neither of those have been updated since Chromecast was released. Wifi is set to Always on during sleep.

 

[niffrig]

The play music app only streams from Google's cloud. The advantage is that you *should* be able to continue to play music when the wifi goes to sleep when the screen does as well as significant battery savings. I am having the same issue and suspect that it is happening because the wifi sleep is preventing the device from requesting the chromecast to play the next song.

 

[Racer-X#AC]

I've found the issue!

Why I didn't think of this before is beyond me... I went to Settings / Apps / Running and took a look at what was currently running on my phone. There were a few Google services, and three apps - Field Trip, Savored, and WiFi Toggle Widget (by Droidmania). I started with the obvious one, the WiFi toggle widget. I went back to Settings / Apps, cleared the data, deleted it and now Google Music does not stop after the first song! I don't know why that app was messing things up, but it was.

I did try my phone again before starting today's testing and deleting anything, and it would only play one song. I was hopeful that the updates to Play Music and Chromcast would fix it but they didn't.

I'm going to email the developer and let him know what I found, and then install the toggle that my wife uses.

 

[W Joshua Kennedy]

Here's another data point for you all experiencing this. I definitely think there's a strange bug because I have a Nexus 4 with up to date OTA Android, Play, etc. and my problem is similar but slightly different. If I force my phone to sleep via the power button after starting a chrome cast the music will stop after a couple of minutes, usually some time during the middle of the first or second song. However, if I leave the screen on and let it go to sleep on its own (set to 2 min timer) play continues uninterrupted! I almost always stream "radio" (ie, Pandora-style Google Play streams), but this behavior is also the same even with locally pinned playlists.

 

[skiznoo]

I'm running a Gnex with AOKP. I found this thread looking for a solution to a similar problem. My Chromecast wouldn't promptly advance to the next song in the queue when my Gnex was asleep streaming music from my Google Play Music library. It would take upwards of 15 seconds. If I unlocked my phone, it would advance immediately.

My possible fix: I went into my Wi-Fi settings, then advanced settings, and switched off "Wi-Fi Optimization: Minimize battery usage while Wi-Fi is on." I changed that, rebooted my phone, and now have continuous, gapless playback. Hope it works for you other folks.

 

[Moe Joe1]

As soon as I uninstalled Sensor Music Player, all my streaming audio programs began working again.

 

[unix4linux]

Racer-X#AC,

Thank you very much for your post throughout your trouble with figuring this out. I was having this issue for two days and ran into your post. Your issue and fix helped me a great deal. I was able to fix my issue thanks to you. I too had the wifi toggle app. After removing it I am now good.

Thanks again!!

 

[johnnyfear]

As soon as I uninstalled Sensor Music Player, all my streaming audio programs began working again.

Interestingly enough, that's about when I started noticing the issue on my Moto X. I'll try uninstalling Sensor also and report back, for what it's worth.

 

[ZarathustraHead]

Try this app. https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...=jp.miraidou.regpon.wifi&hl=en&token=GXPeghcj

I have the same problem on my Note 3. Using the REPGPON wifi KeepAlive app, I've played Google Music on my Note 3 through Chromecast with the screen off with no disconnects for over an hour. I would uncheck the boxes in the app, turn off the screen, and my phone would disconnect within a song or two just like it was doing before. I would recheck the boxes, and the music would play again without interruption.

Please give it a try and report whether it works for you.

sent from my Nexus 10

 

[Appelflap]

REGPRON KeepWifiAlive works on my Note 3. But it drains the battery like hell.

 

[ZarathustraHead]

Verizon updated my Note 3 tonight. I am running Google music from my phone to Chromecast with the Regpon wifi app off without issue for the first time. I'm only about five songs in, but feeling optimistic. It's never gone this long before.

sent from my Note 3

 

[CMChe]

I've had the same issue with my HTC ONE. It disconnects from Chromecast when the screen turns off and stops playing music with Google Play Music. My wife has the same phone, but not the same problem. I've tried the solutions suggested above, but have had no success. Any other suggestions for the HTC ONE?

 

[kambroso]

I'm experiencing the same issue with a Nexus 5. In my case at least, I think it all stems from a wifi sleeping issue. I have wifi set to always stay on, and am not using any toggles or any of the previously mentioned apps, but occasionally I'll see a 3G icon when turning the screen back on, and have also noticed mobile data usage while at home and [supposedly] constantly on wifi. So if the wifi is indeed turning off along with the screen, it follows suit that the phone can no longer control the Chromecast, which can only be done from the same wifi network. In my case, if I play an album, it will successfully play a few songs, then stop and the TV will show the ready-to-cast screen. As soon as I turn the phone back on, playback resumes with the next song. This randomly occurs after anywhere from one to several songs.

 

[tomnoir]

I have been having the same issue as the OP, although I do not have the plugin installed that he mentioned as the culprit. Like others, my WiFi is set to Always On.

I found a setting today that seems to have helped. There is an option under Settings > Wi-Fi > Advanced called 'Wi-Fi optimization'. I unchecked it and at least for the moment the Google Play -> Chromecast connection is not cutting out.

 

[Mk Ml]

Hi all,

so much time has elapsed with solutions for only a part of you, and the same topic in several other forums has stalled... Today I found out something that might both surprise and help many of you:

I have been having the OP's issue with my NotePro (SM-P905, stock). No suspicious apps, and no way to deinstall the TouchWiz toggles of course. Today I just replaced the TouchWiz launcher ("TouchWiz Start") with the Google Now Launcher -- and voila, still playing!!! No root required -- just install Google Now Launcher and select it under Settings -> Application Defaults. There is no big difference otherwise, the toggles (when swiping down) and all other TouchWiz features are unaffected. You will gain better "Ok Google"-experience in addition. You will have to re-arrange your start screens, though.

In fact, this finding will probably be relevant for many other phones as well, and potentially also for the OP: As an example, I have seen two different samples of the Moto G 2nd (XT1068) bought within 4 weeks in Berlin, one of them using "Launcher 3" from stock and the other with the Google Now Launcher by default. (Yes, slightly different build numbers.) The OP might have missed this difference when comparing his phone to his wife's, because it seems that the Android Settings item "Home", for switching between launchers, is only displayed when you have more than one launcher installed. Clever hide-and-seek, isn't it? :-$

Hope that helps (and happy New Year),
Mk