Podcast players stop randomly during playback

[mccornwall]

Vexing issue with m P8Pro. This just started yesterday. I was using BeyondPod (yes, I know it's no longer in the app store) and my podcast paused for no reason. I restarted it. It kept stopping at random intervals. When I went looking for the developer is when I found out it is no longer around. I thought, well, I'll change to another podcast player and installed PocketCasts. Set it all up and started using it last night. All worked well. Now, PocketCasts is pausing st like BeyondPod was. Randomly. As I sit here typing this my podcast has paused, and from time to time starts playing again for about a second and then pauses again...it has done this several times. I checked and the app has "Allow background usage" turned on. I have no battery saving settings turned on. Frustrating as hell, especially now that I surmise that the problem is in the phone and not the player since it has done this with two different player on different podcasts. Does anyone have any ideas? I saw the thread about youtube pausing and I need to look at that thread again because it mentioned an app to install that can tell you about system events and such as they happen.
Thanks, tearing my little remaining hair out.

 

[mccornwall]

Vexing issue with m P8Pro. This just started yesterday. I was using BeyondPod (yes, I know it's no longer in the app store) and my podcast paused for no reason. I restarted it. It kept stopping at random intervals. When I went looking for the developer is when I found out it is no longer around. I thought, well, I'll change to another podcast player and installed PocketCasts. Set it all up and started using it last night. All worked well. Now, PocketCasts is pausing st like BeyondPod was. Randomly. As I sit here typing this my podcast has paused, and from time to time starts playing again for about a second and then pauses again...it has done this several times. I checked and the app has "Allow background usage" turned on. I have no battery saving settings turned on. Frustrating as hell, especially now that I surmise that the problem is in the phone and not the player since it has done this with two different player on different podcasts. Does anyone have any ideas? I saw the thread about youtube pausing and I need to look at that thread again because it mentioned an app to install that can tell you about system events and such as they happen.
Thanks, tearing my little remaining hair out.

Shoot, update. Good lock is Samsung only

 

[B. Diddy]

Are you listening with headphones/earbuds, or just through the main speaker? If you're using headphones, I'd wonder if they're sending unintentional remote pause commands.

Also, when the playback stops, does the app actually get killed, or is it still there, just paused?

 

[VidJunky]

Hmmm, well until you started talking about it happening to other apps I was kind of thinking it was another issue I have seen in the past where it is related to the app being put to sleep, which fits for most of what you describe. If the system was putting the app to sleep it would randomly stop playing, when the screen turned on it would resume playback and could stop and start randomly if you were, say using other apps in the foreground. I know you said that you allowed background usage but you didn't say if you checked your sleeping app lists for these apps. You should be able to find them by searching sleep, sleeping, or deep sleeping, in your settings menu. Since you said Good Lock is only for Samsung I will assume you don't have a Sammy and I will tell you IDK how to find these lists on other devices, but recommend you check both sleeping and deep sleeping, both of which I feel are different than allowing in the background.

Let us know what you find.

 

[jhilker]

I've used PocketCasts, and I remember there was a setting I had to change to help the app from being closed. This was in the settings for this app. Could this help?

 

[mccornwall]

Are you listening with headphones/earbuds, or just through the main speaker? If you're using headphones, I'd wonder if they're sending unintentional remote pause commands.

Also, when the playback stops, does the app actually get killed, or is it still there, just paused?

Still there, ust paused.

 

[mccornwall]

I've used PocketCasts, and I remember there was a setting I had to change to help the app from being closed. This was in the settings for this app. Could this help?

Already turned on.

 

[mccornwall]

Still there, ust paused.

Forgot to say, thru main speaker or bluetooth.

 

[mccornwall]

New development, it seems to happen during "X" (formerly twitter) app usage. Also in the time period after I finish using X. Interestingly, if I force stop X after using it, the playback pausing does not occur.

 

[B. Diddy]

Does it happen with preinstalled apps like YouTube or YouTube Music? If so, test in Safe Mode. If it doesn't happen in Safe Mode, at least you know the problem is due to something you installed. The challenge then would be to pinpoint the culprit (which might require uninstalling apps one by one).

 

[VidJunky]

X has video and audio that it may see and pause operation for. Then when you've closed X or moved on to an article, something non-media, it resumes and pauses again as you scroll.

I had a podcast app that had a setting that said, pause for other media, the alternative was that it played through notifications, other media, including voice navigation, which is why I enabled it.

 

[Mooncatt]

Try turning developer mode on and check for this setting in the Apps section. If it's set to enabled or default, try disabling it. It's a hidden battery saver option that has caused this sort of issue for me. There is a possibility it'll make battery life worse, but I didn't notice much of a change when I disabled mine.