D2G mp3 music skipping

I can confirm I experience this too. I am coming from Motorola Milestone and initial firmware of the Milestone had a bug that was causing music playback over headphone jack to pop and skip quite often. That got eliminated completely after following firmware update (Motorola had recognized the bug officially). With D2G the sound effect is similar, but significantly less pronounced and happening much less often. Since my experience with my previous phone, I am pretty sure it is not insulated to my and your phone only. However, as it is less pronounced and it's quite possible many people won't even feel it (and complain), I am thinking it won't be easy to convince Motorola there is bug at all.
What is the link to the Moto forum post you made? I will go and post there too, hopefully Motorola will pay attention and look into this.

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I too get the popping. It's frustrating and annoying.

Note that it doesn't happen with other apps like YouTube, just Music.

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It was EXACTLY the same issue with the Milestone - streaming played fine. MP3 were skipping. Another thing was it was not skipping when playing over bluetooth. I haven't noticed skipping over bluetooth on the D2G, but I have used BT audio very little on the D2G to be 100% sure it is clear. But I suspect it is same bug as before, just less prominent.

 

Yes, I can confirm this as well.

I was afraid my audio files had become corrupted in some fashion, so I deleted them off the SD card and then copied them from my desktop computer (no sound issues), and the issue does randomly recur. It seems to be intermittent. I don't experience it on every track.

 

I think it's safe to say that this is likely a problem with decoding on the stock music player. I have 3 media players installed - stock, Vital Player, and Zimly.

I found one song that I could reliably reproduce the skipping sound at the same intervals, and played it with all three apps. Stock skipped as expected, Vital Player did not skip, and Zimly did not skip. Went back to stock, and it skipped again, while the others again did not.

Honestly, while this issue used to bother me, I completely switched to using Zimly almost exclusively two weeks ago. It's by far the best designed music AND video playing app that you've never heard of. I came across a mention to it in an unrelated forum post, and installed it from the Market. I was immediately in love with it's style and function. It has modules for music and video, and sounds great. You can actually "quit" the app, unlike the stock music player. It is constantly updated, and also comes with a really cool "pre-lock screen" lock screen music interface. Once you see it, that will make sense (it doesn't have a widget you have to add to widget locker to get music controls, it actually has a music interface that appears before the main lock screen when waking up a phone while music is playing - you can unlock from the interface, and it does skip the system lock screen).

Anyway...kinda went on a bit there...

 

I had the exact same problem and here's how I solved it.
I went into Task Manager.
And removed both music and gallery from the auto-end apps list.

Hope this helps

Edit: I just realized that this was about a skipping noise coming from your music. This solution was for when the phone just stops playing the music.

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If the other apps you mentioned don't solve it, I don't have this problem with PowerAMP. I picked it up because the stock player won't do FLAC, which is what I ripped my old cd collection to. I've never had the problem with or without bluetooth while playing mp3 or FLAC in PowerAMP.