Help Music player Galaxy tab2 7.0 p3113

[Charlym]

When playing a song in the music player, it will play every song(118) in memory before it stops running.

I looked in all the settings and can't find a way to just play one song and stop.
The only way to totally stop it is to go to settings>applications>running>music player>tap stop, otherwise the player is in the notification bar running sitting on pause, there is no stop button!

What am I missing?

 

[SiempreTuna]

I believe that's how almost all music players work.

You get options to repeat the same track, play all the tracks listed in some order or play them all in a 'random' order.

There might be a work around if you could make the 'list' contain just one track. The various lists by default are things like Artist, Album, Genre. Try playing around with those, see if any list just the track you want. If not, you update say the Genre meta data with the track name and artist. That ought to give you a list of one.

 

[jwither]

When playing a song in the music player, it will play every song(118) in memory before it stops running.

I looked in all the settings and can't find a way to just play one song and stop.
The only way to totally stop it is to go to settings>applications>running>music player>tap stop, otherwise the player is in the notification bar running sitting on pause, there is no stop button!

What am I missing?

If you're talking about the stock music player, tapping the home button or the back button while a song is playing, WILL cause the player to appear in the in the notification bar, so that songs can be easily manipulated without having to go back into the music player.

If you don't want it to appear in the notification bar any longer, just go back into the music player app, pause it, and tap the back button until it exits.

Most people keep a shortcut to the music player on their home screen.

There is no need for a stop button. It's not like a cassette player whose motor is grinding away while music is on pause.

You can also stop the music player with the ^ button at the bottom of the screen, then the task manager will allow you to stop it, but it's quicker to just open it and tap the back button until it's closed.

It's unlikely that the resources used by that app running in the background would cause any issues, so leaving music on pause isn't an issue.

 

[DoctorCAD]

I think the OP is more interested in how to STOP the music player, not how to stop a single song.

Android doesn't behave the same way that Windows does with regard to "stopping" programs. Android holds everything in memory until it needs to use that memory for something new. The easy way to "stop" a program on this tablet is to use the icon on the lower left of the home screen. When you touch that icon, a program manager starts and shows all the programs that you have used that may or may not still be in memory. You can pick the garbage can to clear out that list, but the programs in memory will still be running. To stop a program, touch the "pie chart" icon and on the right you will see anything still active. Touch "end" to close it or touch "RAM manager" and then "Clear memory" to stop everything that is running, except for those apps that Android feels you should not stop.

Hope this helps.

 

[AnciusD]

When playing a song in the music player, it will play every song(118) in memory before it stops running.

I looked in all the settings and can't find a way to just play one song and stop.

It seems that if you select the song via My Files the Music Player won't continue to another song as it would if you selected it from within Music Player itself.
...but you can't multi task

 

[cjebs]

I gave up on the pre-loaded music player and installed JukeFox. I like it a lot.

 

[Charlym]

Thanks for all the response.

This tablet comes installed with 2 music players.
"Play music"and "Music player". Nothing seems to work!
Once you start playing either one, they plant themselves in the notificaton bar, and you can only keep the music paused with the app running, and can't remove it from the bar, unless you do a forced stop!

Very frustrating!

 

[AnciusD]

I gave up on the pre-loaded music player and installed JukeFox. I like it a lot.

WinAmp should also work. I have it on my phone.

 

[DoctorCAD]

Thanks for all the response.

This tablet comes installed with 2 music players.
"Play music"and "Music player". Nothing seems to work!
Once you start playing either one, they plant themselves in the notificaton bar, and you can only keep the music paused with the app running, and can't remove it from the bar, unless you do a forced stop!

Very frustrating!

I posted how to "stop" things in Android, but it's not really necessary. The music player could sit open for 1000 years and not be any concern.

 

[Charlym]

I posted how to "stop" things in Android, but it's not really necessary. The music player could sit open for 1000 years and not be any concern.

I understood you the first time, and thanks for the suggestion, but as long as the app is running, along with anything else, it's also reducing the battery usage time!

 

[DoctorCAD]

I understood you the first time, and thanks for the suggestion, but as long as the app is running, along with anything else, it's also reducing the battery usage time!

I don't think that is true. Maybe on a Windows machine, but not on Android. It handles background tasks differently.

I could be wrong, though.

 

[yanger]

Yes! This is rather annoying. From what I can see, idling wastes 32mb of ram. See attached...

There is no way of killing the "Music Player" app, to kill it, you must go to the Applications and "Force Stop" it, or a reboot will also work.

 

[yogimehta05]

Yup it happened with my tab 2(3100) aswell google play music everytime I have to in task manager and have to do force stop but after few moment it come automatically, I want to remove it permanently and chat on app aswell what is the procedure for that?