Sound in Spotify cuts out completely after a split second when using the PA EQ

[carrystone]

Hi!

I'm using Pixel 7 on Android 14 and have the issue stated in the title. When I press pause and play the same thing is happening: there is a sound for a split second and then it stops, but Spotify keeps on playing, just without any sound being produced. It does not matter whether I use the phone's speaker, external DAC, or a bluetooth device.

I tried toggling on/off each of the settings in Known Players -> Spotify, as well as the general DVC toggle and Advanced Player Tracking and unrestricting battery usage setting for both apps.

The issue does not occur in other apps (YT, YT Music, Firefox).

I will be grateful for any help, as I mostly listen to music on Spotify.

Cheers!

[maxmp]

@carrystone the issue can't be reproduced with Spotify 8.8.88.397  and Poweramp Equalizer build-974 (running without Advanced Player Tracking on the default settings - for Equalizer settings means what you change in the Settings, not the equalizer/bands/tone settings). If your versions are lower, please update.

If phone reboot doesn't help, them most probably something is not on the default setting, e.g. try to restore Equalizer / Known Players to defaults.

Thanks!

[carrystone]

Thanks for the reply!

I'm also on these versions. Unfortunately resetting both apps to default settings (clearing storage) didn't solve the issue.

At one point, however, I managed to keep Spotify play sound continously: the volume was very low, but I was able to fiddle with PA EQ settings, and it was playing until I pressed pause/play. Then the usual thing started happening again. This was random, not caused by any particular setting, it happened after one of several resets to default settings and I failed to reproduce it again.

I don't know if this can be of any help, but I attached an exported log file, just in case.

pa eq log.txt

[wahrer]

On 11/20/2023 at 1:37 PM, carrystone said:

Thanks for the reply!

I'm also on these versions. Unfortunately resetting both apps to default settings (clearing storage) didn't solve the issue.

At one point, however, I managed to keep Spotify play sound continously: the volume was very low, but I was able to fiddle with PA EQ settings, and it was playing until I pressed pause/play. Then the usual thing started happening again. This was random, not caused by any particular setting, it happened after one of several resets to default settings and I failed to reproduce it again.

I don't know if this can be of any help, but I attached an exported log file, just in case.

pa eq log.txt 9.19 kB · 1 download

Are you using Wavelet or another EQing app as well, by any chance? I've been monitoring this thread for a while because I've had the same problem. I haven't found a solution to reliably EQ Spotify specifically, but I had to make sure ALL equalizer apps - in my case Poweramp and Wavelet - were ignoring Spotify to get the audio to stream like normal. No other apps (Youtube, Patreon, ReVanced etc) have had a problem with either EQ app.

[carrystone]

Since I couldn't get Poweramp to work, I installed Wavelet and it's what I'm currently using. I had to turn on crossfade in Spotify though, othrwise it was stopping after 1 track.

[carrystone]

Hi,

posting just to say that about 3 weeks ago I tried Poweramp again and it was working flawlessly. Not sure what did it, must have been either Poweramp or Android update. Immediately bought the app.

Cheers!