Music pauses when adjusting volume?

[casper0611]

Hi. I have just installed android 4.4.2 on my HTC mini, and now my spotify is behaving. When ever I press the phones volume button, the music pauses. Any advice?

[Greg · Accepted solution]

Hi casper0611!

Sorry to hear you're having trouble with Spotify. 

Just to confirm, whenever you alter the volume with your phone controls, the music pauses?

I'd suggest a clean reinstallation just to be sure you're up to date too. 

[henrili]

Hi.

I've had this problem for some time, on Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-I9300), Android 4.4. Clean reinstallation did not fix the problem, and even after rooting and installing Cyanogen Mod, the problem persists.

The music pauses 1\2 - 2 sec after pressing either volume button on the phone. It is not consistent, and does not always happen, though quite often. I've tried to find a pattern, and it seems that it does not pause if any of the volume buttons have been recently pressed.

In other words; you change the volume, the music stops, you manually resume and press the volume buttons again within a short time, the music does not stop. The time interval is not consistent either, it can cause a pause after 3 sec, and it can work as expected after a minute.

If the phone has been without any input at all for longer time (>5 min), the music always pauses when the volume buttons are pressed.

My solution has been a bluetooth-headset with it's own volume control, thus avoiding using the volume control on the phone (fyi, the problem is there with normal headphones as well). 

[JoHighnes]

I'm having the same trouble on my Xperia Z2 - Android version 4.4.2.

It seems like spotify pauses whenever it loses audio focus. I had another audio application that also paused whenever I pressed the volume button, but once I disabled "pause on losing audio focus" for it, it never stopped on volume changes again.

I looked through spotify for a similar option, but I couldn't find one.

[alextrygg]

I have had this problem for quite a while now and today i found the solution! Hallelujah haha.

Open Spotify on your computer and untick the box "Enable Hardware Acceleration" in Edit > Preferences > Playback.

I hope it helps you too!