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Eradicatore · 2014-05-07

Hi,

So many people have complained to Google about their new design for audio focus. They removed the option to set navigation text to speech volume seperately from "media" volume. But what I've noticed is that after years of complaints, only some apps have issues still. Unfortunately, spotify is one of those.

See this message thread:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/qYhKWUz7SdY%5B226-250-false%5D

One person there summed up the issue very accurately:

Android 4.4.2
Maps version 7.7.0

When listening to spotify and utilizing Google navigation, navigation volume is about 50% lower than current music volume. Rendering voice navigation guidance useless.

When voice navigation announces next instruction / step, I've been able to turn up the volume mid-instruction; however navigation volume returns to 50% lower. Increased volume does not stay to where I set it.

Now, I would add to that description that this does NOT happen with Google Play Music, or Pandora. Those are the other apps I've tried so far. The text to speech does cause all of these, even spotify, to lower their playback volume. But I believe somehow Spotify is doing it wrong. Spotify lowers, or fails to set some audio level for the interrupting stream of text to speech from google maps.

Should I move this post to the bug section? I was unable to find any posts that discussed google navigation volumes.

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