Running Spotify version 8.5.48.1049 with Hiby V1.7G. No equalizer used.
No other apps running, but i have Amazon Music, Neutron, UAPP and Poweramp installed.
Downloaded the playlist "Massive Dance Hits" in high quality, then switched to "offline" mode. Storage is my 256GB sd card. WiFi/Bluetooth turned off
I didn`t get a single stutter/interruption on the 10 tracks i played back to back. Even tried jumping a few tracks .. flawless
Do you have enough free storage on your card? (Spotify > Settings > Storage)
What is your cache value at? Have you tried deleting your cache?
Can you give an exact list of steps to try and reproduce. I use Spotify so can test
Many thanks for your responses guys.
Sorry for the following wall of text.
My card is a 256GB Samsung class 10 U3 that I checked upon receipt with the H2testw utility.
It shows as having 196GB free.
Ive only used 5.26Gb of the 16GB internal storage so I'd hope that's plenty?
As to the steps to reproduce the problem, well, for a couple of days I was finding that having both the R5 Wi-Fi turned off (in Android settings) and the 'Offline mode' (Spotify settings) turned ON that playback from a large offline Spotify playlist (3700 tracks) was halting by itself every second song (this was reliably consistent over 25-30 tracks).
Yet when I turned the Spotify 'offline storage ' setting to OFF I got uninterrupted playback for around 15-20 tracks.
I got the same results 2-3 times in a row, that's a lot of tracks and it took me ages to complete even these few tests).
This led me to conclude in error that I could avoid the interruptions by simply not using Spotifys offline mode, but while listening again at the weekend, the interruptions happened again (less frequent, maybe every 5-6 tracks) while offline mode was OFF. So that's clearly not the issue after all.
I've tried many different head/ear-phones in case my cheap BLON cable was shorting or perhaps even the wires inside the shells, but they are all fine on all my other sources, and no amount of cable wiggling tripped an unexpected halt in the music.
BTW, the stoppages are just that, a dead stop, no skipping or stuttering, just a dead stop that can't be restarted with the physical play/pause button. I have to wake the screen via the power button before resuming play with either the hardware button or Spotify software play button, either of which work once the screen is awake.
Sometimes Spotify is minimised to the Android 'recent apps' window, sometimes it isn't, don't know why.
Since no one else seems to be suffering this (weird) fault I am concerned that it might be hardware related, and not merely stupidity on my part!
But I am stumped!
I haven't emptied my Internet cache if that's what you're referring to?
I've barely used the browser at all so I doubt there's much in there.
How would I clear the cache on the R5?