Droid music skipping with headphones

[briand515]

Yeah it is an issue that's inherent to Android. I've used a myTouch 3G in the past and the problem is significantly worse on that phone and I witnessed complex webpages causing the music playback to stutter quite a bit. On the Droid I've noticed some small slight dropouts while doing certain activities (bringing up the virtual keyboard while playing back music can cause this), but a far cry from the major stuttering I had on an Android 1.5 myTouch. I think the real problem is media player just isn't very optimized and is very sensitive to what's going on in the background, this shouldn't happen at all, Google needs to step it up with the multimedia capabilities of Android. The Droid is an amazing web browsing device but I think that music player leaves much to be desired.

[forthesakeof]

it certainly does leave a lot to be desired as a music player unfortunately. not even in terms of looks or functionality because i could care less about how things are formatted as long as it plays the music well but it doesn't even do that. the guy a few posts before said he doesn't have this problem with pandora which seems weird since i do, but i have noticed it's less audible with lower-end headphones.

i wish there were a way to assign foreground and background applications, or at least to have the phone put music playing as top priority even if that leads to it hogging resources. its not like i do much else when listening to music anyway; nothing else would need the resources :-P

but afaik,
2.1 = faster
faster = better resource distribution
better resource distribution = (i hope) no more crackles

[adultswim810]

I sent off my droid and apparently they had never heard of anyone getting this issue. I got a new one, no different, same stupid problem. I'm about to call them again and give them a piece of my mind.

[JFDroid]

I sent off my droid and apparently they had never heard of anyone getting this issue. I got a new one, no different, same stupid problem. I'm about to call them again and give them a piece of my mind.

I've had 3 Droids myself, my dad has had two Droids, and another family member of mine has had 3 Droids (VZW employee) and we have all had these two distinct problems on our druids that relate to music: 1) the crackling, especially in the left speaker when the volume is maxed out, and 2) skips in music playback especially when doing tasks like browsing web pages, using the software keyboard, closing and opening apps, switching screens, and changing orientations.

This is NOT a hardware issue. It is an issue inherent to Android, probably due to sloppy code and lack of optimization in the music player (as mentioned by a previous poster).

[forthesakeof]

i'm on my 6th droid and it has happened for every one of them. i ended up rooting and overclocking to see if that would help it, and it did. but... i have to be at 1000MHZ min for it to never crackle, and i really don't feel like pushing the processor that hard.

[PyroManiac]

maybe you should root...and then over clock....and use the audio volume hack??

just a suggestion

I can help you with all of this if interested.

[forthesakeof]

maybe you should root...and then over clock....and use the audio volume hack??

just a suggestion

I can help you with all of this if interested.

I'm. Interested... enlighten me please.

[kmp14]

I rooted and overclocked. ... and it made a big difference. It rarely happens now.

[forthesakeof]

yeah man it definitely makes a difference but in exchange for an enormous amount of battery life... i listened to music for about an hour total and was down to half battery. unacceptable that we have to go to such lengths just to hear our music without skips

[kmp14]

yeah man it definitely makes a difference but in exchange for an enormous amount of battery life... i listened to music for about an hour total and was down to half battery. unacceptable that we have to go to such lengths just to hear our music without skips

Agreed. Luckily for me, I mainly listen to music at work, and I have it plugged in (Dock), so the battery life is not such a big deal.

Since overclocking helps (significantly), it proves that it is a CPU issue, the OS is not prioritizing the multimedia stack. Seems like something they (Google) could fix, they surely know about it. I am sure the Nexus One does not have the problem.