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Music Player BUG!

4297054 over 2 years ago

Repeat: ALL

Shuffle: ON

... AND YET ONE SONG IS STUCK ON LOOP!

It kept repeating over, over and over again until I intervened!!

0 nolman88 over 2 years ago

Isn't that the Spotify player? If so, that's a third party app, you should report that to the Spotify developers on the IQ store as that's an app bug.

0 4297054 over 2 years ago in reply to nolman88

How did you even figure out that the player is from Spotify and not from Garmin? Why are you sure about that? It's after all A WIDGET! Which means it is part of Garmin's platform.

0 5994630 over 2 years ago in reply to 4297054

Third party widgets are not Garmin's problem, no more than an Android app would be on Google Play. All the checks would do is make sure it doesn't do something naughty that might damage the watch.

If the Spotify app started playing music backwards it wouldn't be Google's problem.

0 4297054 over 2 years ago in reply to 5994630

Are you a software professional or are you improvising?

0 5994630 over 2 years ago in reply to 4297054

Define what is a software professional nowadays. I've had a varied career covering many aspects of software and hardware. Microcontrollers to mainframes.

0 4297054 over 2 years ago in reply to 5994630

I didnt say embedded systems nor did I mention bulk data processing & administration! So, the answer is: NO, you are not.

A widget is an abstract component which is part of the platform (in this case, Garmin). Its implementation is integrated into the 3rd party app. SO IT'S NOT A 3RD PARTY APP.

The music player per se is GARMIN.

0 5994630 over 2 years ago in reply to 4297054

Do you actually understand what you're talking about? Widgets are apps on the 955. I have several installed on mine, some written by members of this very forum.

What is a Garmin watch but an embedded system: a microprocessor with a bunch of sensors and a display?

It has what seems to be a cooperative multitasking system, with most base functions run as interrupt service routines. There's a watchdog timer which reboots it if the processor gets stuck.

From the null-dereference crashes the software is probably written in some form of C or C++. It has some open source components, mostly under MIT-like licences, eg. LWIP (an IP stack for embedded systems).

All this much I can tell just from observation and reading the About screens.

0 4297054 over 2 years ago in reply to 5994630

Garmin apps, indeed!

NOT 3RD PARTY APPS.

0 5994630 over 2 years ago in reply to 4297054

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/developer/2702e5a7-40d0-4858-8b03-d1d6a3ce1bef/apps

0 4297054 over 2 years ago in reply to 5994630

???

And where exactly on the link does it state that spotify is a widget? IT DOESN'T!!

Of course it's an app!!! A music service app.