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Android - why do music apps keep running?
Moto G, Android 5.
The music I play on the phone is simply my favourite tracks which I've transferred from my laptop via cable, about 1.5GB in total. I buy all my music on CDs (mainly 50s or 60s compilations, plus some groups from that era), so I'm not interested in downloading music. I didn't like the pre-installed Play Music app because I thought the interface was clumsy, so I read reviews of other music players. I settled on Shuttle, which works well, and looks like a stripped down Play Music. While in Settings, and looking at details about apps generally, I selected the "Running" tab, and was surprised to see Shuttle listed. It was shown as running 1 process and 3 services, and a timer was running. I uninstalled Shuttle, and enabled Play Music, to find that the same thing happened - even after turning the music off, it was still shown as running. Does this matter? There were a few apps in there which, to my surprise were still running, after what should have been one-off use. Of system memory, about half was occupied by 'system' and 'apps' , leaving about 50% free. Is it only the 'free' proportion which matters? Or can I switch apps off properly when I'm not using them? I tried the icon at the bottom right (no idea of its correct name) to list all open apps, and swiped them out, but this made no difference. |
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You might want to read the following here, gives a good background to what your querying.
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Thanks, that's an interesting article, and it sets my mind at rest. I won't worry about it in future - and I'll reinstall Shuttle.
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