High Pitched Noise (Beeps) During Song Playback

[MOS6502]

Hopefully someone can help me out - I just updated the spotify app on my Galaxy S3 today after completing the initial install a month or so ago. Once I updated I noticed a very high pitched noise which would come through when playing songs - this seems to be happening randomly but very frequently (many times per minute), and it does it on all playback mediums (internal speaker, headphones, bluetooth). It happens while streaming and while playing cached songs of all sound qualities.

I have cleared the app cache, reinstalled, restarted the phone and re-downloaded songs - It only does this on the android app, my desktop client still functions correctly.

All suggestions are appreciated - the android app was where I got most of my spotify usage, so if I cant use that then I dont really have a use for the service 😞

[Daniel]

Can you try disabling nuplayer as described in the sticky about lollipop at the top of the forum?

[MOS6502]

Thanks for getting back to me Daniel!

I should have also mentioned that I am running kitkat (4.4.2).

I know that it is not always the case, but this really seems like a bug in the spotify player - since it only appeared after updating spotify.

[Daniel · Accepted solution]

How about trying a previous version? Try a previous known working copy which you can get from the link in my signature

[MOS6502]

That worked! Thanks for the help Daniel!

I downgraded to 2.3.0.794 - now all audio playback is perfect.

[Daniel]

Great, keep that apk and disable automatic updates in the Play Store. Each time a new update is out update and see if it's fixed; if not you can roll-back again until it does get fixed.