Spotify on 100% volume music isn't muting F1 2019 own menu background music, so both...

Hello there Mikey,

If you download the Spotify app on Xbox, you can absolutely listen to your own playlists. You can leave the app running while you play the games to enjoy it in the background.

What won't happen is the music in games being automatically muted, so you might end up with music from both sources playing until you mute the game's music in its options.

For more detailed instructions about using Spotify on Xbox,
check this thread. If you have questions or need help, don't hesitate to ask here.

I usually mute the music in games and play my own music in the background.

Hey there. If you download the Spotify app on your xbox you can play music for free through your headset. If you also pull up the xbox menu you can adjust the volume of your game volume and music volume. Hope this helps!

Hi Diego,

I tried the steps you sent (cleared 6 times just for good measure!), but unfortunately there's no difference to the clicking and popping.

However, I think we are onto something as far as the solution goes. Thinking about your comments RE: signals competing in one space, I tried some experiments with the built-in 'Game vs. Music' volume slider in the guide menu (accessed by
pressing 'A' on the Spotify/Groove app in the Xbox Guide).

• Both Game and Music at 100% (centre position): Horrible clicking and popping with a loud piece of music and loud game section.
• Game at 100%, Music at 75%: Significant reduction in artifacts.
• Game at 100%, Music at 50%: The sweet spot. No artifacts in multiple tests.
• Game at 50%, Music at 100%,
  
  AND Spotify manually turned down to 50% using my phone (Spotify Remote): Sweeter spot - reducing the overall signal to 100%.

So it appears we have identified the problem and solution:

• The 'Game vs. Music' volume slider has a fundamental flaw in that the sum of both ends should always be 100, but the centre position is summing two signals at "full blast" to make 200.
• In my 4 examples above the total volume went from 200%->175%->150%>100%, hence getting cleaner and cleaner.
• Earlier in my checks, I could have sworn the the Stereo Uncompressed output was louder than the 5.1 equivalent. I now believe it actually is, and this is the reason it produces more artifacts (less headroom).

If you could somehow feed this back within Microsoft it'd be massively appreciated. But at least I have a workaround for now.

Thanks again for your help and understanding!

James

In my mind racing games and music dont mix.. I want to concentrate on driving and driving related sounds... so I allso turn off the music in the races... If the music isn't horrible I'll leave the menu background music on..