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Thanks for looking into this...I've had to go back the Official one which incidentally plays all tracks fine...but it isn't half as good! I appreciate your hard work :-)
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Tonight I have been using my Tablet continiously and there have been no issues with playback so like you've said it is related to the device going to 'sleep'.I wonder how the official app avoids this issue?
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Ahh I guessed there would be a reason like that...and that is one of the reasons this app is so much better in my opinion...the ability to change your track list on the go. Well I hope you can find a work around, love this app! Let me know if you need me to test anything.
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I don't think it's the OS as such, but how the manufacturer has implemented it.
On my tablet, its setup when the screen goes off, the wi-fi goes off also - so as to conserve battery.
There's an option to disable this feature (so it stays on), but this never worked, both with HC & ICS.
Instead, I used an app which was able to delay the wi-fi off for 10mins - and after that, playback would stop (as there was no longer available)
However, an update a few days ago seems to have fixed the wi-fi off function, so seems to stay on regardless now, even if the screen is off.
(of course, I could be mistaken and it's something that has been changed in the app, but the wifi was a known issue with this tablet, which appears to no longer occur)
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Thanks for letting me know that it works better after the ICS update.
The app actually acquires a WIFI Lock and and a WAKE Lock to prevent the cpu and the wifi from going to sleep therefore in theory you don't have to configure your wifi to stay always on. It should do the same thing as the app you used.
I have discovered that in Honeycomb and ICS a new WIFI Lock mode was introduced especially made for streaming purposes. I have enabled this in my development build and will try this out a couple of days to see if the connection is more stable than using the normal wifi lock which existed in pre honeycomb.
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There is an update in the play store.
- Made some changes to prevent music playback from stopping
- play/pause buttons in the notification bar for ICS and Jelly Bean
- Added movie and tv show images in now playing screen
- Fixed some force closes
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Wow! App of the year man! Seriously amazing work.
Within 30 seconds of reading this thread I am streaming music to my phone. Works so perfectly. Just when I thought it couldn't get better, I realized I don't even have my WIFI turned on. I always enter in my xbmc box with its dyndns address, and it just worked, first try.
Streaming quality and consistency is perfect over 4G.
How much harder is to to get it to stream video?