Android App Plays One Song Then Stops

[rcblackwell]

I've installed Mezzmo Pro for Android on a Sony Xperia T3. Mezzmo Android finds the Mezzmo server on my PC and successfully lists all playlist. When I select and add songs to the Mezzmo Android playlist the first song plays fine. Subsequent songs in the list fail to play. This behaviour seems related to the sleep function of the phone as if I maintain the display in an active mode by occasionally swiping my finger across it the next song in the playlist will load and play. If I ignore the screen and allow it to go to sleep the current song will play until the end but the next song will not load and play. If I wake the phone the next song starts playing about ten seconds after the phone awakes. I have looked for a setting to prevent this behaviour but cannot find one. The renderer device on the phone is Mezzmo. Share Local Server and Auto Start Local server have been disabled as music is being streamed from a remote PC to the phone. How can I correct this problem?

[Peter]

Hi,
it is possible that your Wifi connection is being turned off when the phone goes to sleep, please go to the Wifi settings on your phone and press the menu button to get to the advanced settings then make sure the setting for wifi to remain active when the phone goes to sleep is set to Always.

[rcblackwell]

.... go to the Wifi settings on your phone and press the menu button to get to the advanced settings then make sure the setting for wifi to remain active when the phone goes to sleep is set to Always.

Wi-Fi Always On was enabled some time ago as I had a different application that required it. Checked it anyway - as suspected, it is set to always on. FYI: A Sony Walkman application on the same phone streams from Mezzmo PC Server without interruption even when the phone goes to sleep. This suggests Wi-Fi is always on even when the phone sleeps. What else could be causing this issue?

[Peter]

This could be a wake lock issue in the app, can you please try streaming music from the server in the android app to see if the same problem occurs?

[rcblackwell]

Some interesting findings.......

When steaming music from the Android App server to the Android App on the phone, songs continue to play.

When music is "Pushed" from the Mezzmo Server on the PC to the Android App on the phone, songs continue to play without interruption.

[Peter]

The Mezzmo app holds a partial wake lock on the android system when the app is in the foreground, when the app goes into the background the wake lock is released. This occurs when the lock screen is shown also.
The Mezzmo android server holds a wake lock also while it is running, if the server is not running then the phone could go into deep sleep and this will prevent the app from receiving the broadcast to play the next song.
Do you have the Mezzmo app's server set to start automatically when starting the app?