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Listening to music on Spotify on my Samsung Galaxy S3 running Android 4.1.1, the music is always being interrupted by the notification sounds, like when I get a text. I cannot find the a setting that will stop this from happening, apart from getting rid of all notification and ringer sounds altogether, which I obviously do not want to do. Has anyone found a solution to this?
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turning off notifications could work, but what if you are using a navigation software and listen to the music at the same time? You don't want to miss the instructions. What if you are waiting for an important message, but want to listen to music until it arrives? It takes two lines of code for Spotify to fix this, but they don't care. I am a software developer and sent them the code, but they are ignoring.
Not to ressurect a dead thread, but in the newest version, they sort of fixed the problem. If you're device is not plugged into any auxilary or headphones it will duck properly...but once you plug something in it doesn't work anymore...not sure why this could be. Half way there though
Even better, let the user select if the notification audio level drops or the spotify audio level drops, or disable the playback.
I *want* this behaviour (though it's broken at the moment). So I think it needs to be an option.
Quite right, and the toggle, logically, would be switching into or out of the Spotify app. So, in other words, there are your global Android settings regarding notifications, then there are your Spotify notifications settings that only apply when Spotify is on top.
This would be nice, but for now I just wish the feature worked like it was supposed to. I'd rather have it intuitively function without needing user interaction. Mayby, MAYBE, an option to choose how much the music ducks out of the way of a notification, but the notification be the same volume as the "global android settings" as you said. I feel like if it ducked an appropriate volume having user side settings wouldn't be necessary.
This thread concerns music pausing on receiving audio notifications. It seems to have been fixed in release 0.7.9 but, unfortunately, both notification and music volumes are ducked when a notification comes in now.
If you are affected adversely by this, please post in the relevant thread here. Thanks.
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Hello Blindmouses,
I realize that is a workaround, but i need to hear my notifications. There are many times I am at the gym, jogging, or just plain old commuting and need to know if i received an important email. Silencing the notifications is actually worse for me than the music cutting out to hear the notifications. I don't understand why the fade / ducking out of the music works properly (in my eyes at least) when playback is done via the phone speakers and not when using the AUX port. It worked perfectly on my iOS for both playback on the phone speakrs and the AUX port.
Turn on DND (Do Not Disturb) and this will allow music player Spotify to play without interruption, #BE_WELL
RoberT A WilliamS
Works with DND on Android as stated, Using a Sony Xperia with Latest Android OS and Spotify App
I don't think so. I arrived here from a Google search It happens to me, too, with my iOS devices.
I had this same problem with the DOSS speakers and when I plugged it in it stopped. From the research I did, this is a tone that some manufacturers use to signal time to charge, although they forget that many people under age of, say, 30, may not have heard a busy signal before.
I'm not sure if this solves your problem, but I hope it helps someone out there.
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