I've been using the RP Android app for many years now, and very recently upgraded my phone to Android 11.  The app works fine and as it should, but I cant' seem to figure out why while within the app itself album art corresponds to the currently playing track, but outside the app (like on the notification shade controls and on the lock screen) album art is always one track behind from what is actually playing.

Hope I can clarify it this way:

Say I launch the app and track 'X' starts playing; when it's over and track 'Y' kicks in, even though within the app track 'Y's' album art is being displayed correctly, on the notification shade and lock screen album 'X's' artwork still persists throughout the whole of track 'Y'. 

Once 'Y' is over and track 'Z' starts playing, within the app album art will update to 'Z's' album art, but outside, track 'Y's' artwork will now be showing, and so on an so forth. Only if I stop playback will the artwork update to the correct one on the notification shade or lock screen...

I don't find this behaviour on the other music apps I've tried on Android 11, and album art is constantly updated both on the apps and on the notification shade controls, so I guess it could maybe be an issue with the way the app receives and handles track metadata?

It's not really a big deal, since the music is what's important and the app otherwise works with no hiccups, but was wondering if anyone's got a similar issue, and if the developer's could maybe look into it sometime.

Thanks is andvance!

 vuke15 wrote: 

thanks jarro
it's a cheap android phone (ht16) and it's sole purpose is playing radio paradise
android 6.0.1
CPU MediaTek MT6580
thanks in advance
jarro wrote: 

Hi Will look into that.
What model device do you have if you don't mind my asking?

 vuke15 wrote:
 

Hello everybody,
after newest update (4.4.15.gp) streaming stops every 30min or so. Wifi is stable, it happens with the phone plugged in or not.
Restart does not help. Does somebody else sees the same thing? Cache autofill is on, one managed channel RP Main mix with length of 2 hours.
Thanks in advance!

OK one more update ;) I removed all extra storage devices usb and sd and restarted RP App and set cache location and now it will download cache blocks and buffer ahead. No clue as to why but it works so I am going to leave it as is. I think I will have enough storage space without the usb and sd.

Jarro thanks for looking into this for me.

Gerry

 bevgerry wrote:
 

Hi, I wiped the TV box and reinstalled the firmware and now the app will see the cache locations but I can not download cache blocks, either static or auto fill. I am running out of ideas so any suggestions are welcomed.
 bevgerry wrote:
 

Thanks Jarro,  I have not seen any other posts about this problem so maybe it is something in my settings.  I will reset to defaults or reinstall the firmware in the morning.
I will let you know if it helps.

 jarro wrote:
 

Thanks  

Haven't been able to reproduce this yet.
But this should be helpful.



 bevgerry wrote:
 

 bevgerry wrote:
 
I should have mentioned the TV box has Android version 7.1.2. I have cleared the cache and uninstalled the app but on reinstall I get the same behaviour.  I have also formatted the SD card as removable and as onboard storage and also removed the SD card but nothing changed the behaviour.

Hi, We us the Android app on a Android TV box and it has worked well until the recent update. Now we can not download cache blocks or add auto fill channels. We can add them but nothing downloads. When I go to check cache location the App closes instantly. We are able to stream so it seems to just be a cache issue and not a connection problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Gerry

It's stopping due to a network error.  But it does  give up fairly easily  to avoid draining phone batteries. 

But there is another feature that may work in the background.  ( It's  designed to fill the cache  while the device is plugged in  so is more aggressive about retries )
Not sure if it will think the head unit is plugged in.    My understanding is they stay on  for a couple of hours after the ignition is turned off.
The hope is it will  have a couple of hours to  refill an offline channel  when you park the car at night.

Can try that via.  Settings -> Cache Options -> Cache Autofill  ->  Add Channel

We may need to add a setting here to bypass the  battery protection stuff depending on their behavior.





 thutchis wrote:
 

I have installed the RP App for Android on my newly installed ATOTO A6 Pro receiver (Android car head running Android 6) and It works great with Radio Paradise.  I can stream over Wi-Fi just fine, no problems.  However, when I "ADD BLOCK" to cache some music it works for only about 8-10 songs and then stop and changes to "Resume Download".  So this is really annoying, I can't download a significant amount of cache time without pressing "Resume Download" over and over.  YES, I have a good solid wifi Internet connection.  I can watch minutes and minutes of streaming YouTube videos without interruption.  Any help is appreciated.

Thank you-100% it is!
For clarity I wasn't referring to the Google home app volume - the one with the circular control -meant the HD8 physical volume buttons.

 jarro wrote:
 

Yeah that is generally how it works.   There will be a  volume for casting that is more for convenience.   You'll want it set to 100 then use the volume on the amplifier/tv.    

 rtrt wrote:
 

Confirm mirroring is supported on my v7 Amazon HD8 - great news thanks for the pointer! Using it now in fact.

One thing that caught me out was that the volume level was much lower than casting from the app as usual.

It took me a while to realise that the tablet volume level was impacting on what was mirrored.

Normally I'd never run anything at full volume as it tends to distort the audio due to amp performance.

I can't hear anything like that, presumably because the mirrored audio is completely digital all the way to the Chromecast - does that make sense?

 jarro wrote:
 

Support can depend on phone model as well.   The  option will be  in the home app you used to originally setup the chromcast device.  If it's supported.

 rtrt wrote:
 

Thank you for quick follow up.

Can I check as I'm not familiar with screen mirroring - maybe it's not available on my Chromecast Audio variant? 

 jarro wrote:
 

Yes the app is written to only use USB so the first thing it does is initiate the USB output.  The hardware is not a problem, I think it is an Android problem but I can not find an option to look for a DAC on the USB.  I have gone through the audio config files also and there does not seem to be anything there.

Thanks for taking the time to respond,
Gerry
 jarro wrote:
 

Probably not sounds like that app is doing some things that has a lot of side effects.  Normally audio apps  are not aware of where the output is being routed.   Be it headphones,  bluetooth,  usb dac  etc.  

Might be some way to have USB audio player pro  auto start and do it's thing.   Maybe with the tasker app if it's not something the app can do on it's own.

 bevgerry wrote: