Media audio goes silent after a few seconds?

[cormie]

Hey folks,
I've had a problem recently with my S7 Active, that if I play a media file, music or what's app voice message etc, that it goes silent after a second or two. It appears to lower in volume very quick, not just cut out, and no matter what my volume is set to on the phone, I can't get the volume back again until I close the app, open it again and start the audio again, but then it will cut out again. Some times it will play fully, but I can't understand what's stopping it.

Any feedback would be great!

 

[AppALusa]

Happened to me after enabling Google Assistant. Disabled it and now audio is normal. Someone commented that GA is always listening, so might be choking audio stream.

 

[cormie]

Thanks for that! It seems to have fixed itself I think. I don't think I did anything, maybe it was just an app that was glitchy and updated itself and fixed the issue. I'll keep an eye out for it, but think it's ok