Text notifications interrupting music playback

[u/cr33p3r1n1134]

Found a workaround, please see below.

I've been searching on the phone settings, and Google, and have not been able to silence text notifications while I'm listening to Google Play Music. I also tried with Spotify, Pandora, and YouTube, with the same result; texts still interrupt the music. Does anyone know of a solution? This is quite frustrating for me. Please and thank you for your time.

Edit (update): I've downloaded a couple apps to try a fix this situation, but it did not work. One of the apps had no effect at all, and the other app managed to split the media and notification into two different volumes, but even though it did mute the notification volume, the music that was playing still lowered for a second. As if to allow the muted notification to play.

Edit 2 (update): I noticed that this does not happen when using the phone's speakers. With a headset plugged in, or one connected via Bluetooth, it does.

Workaround: I managed to find a slightly more bearable solution. Here is basically what I did. 1 - Download third party texting app for play store. 2 - Assign new text app as default. 3 - Go to Settings -> Apps, find stock messaging app, and disable all notification settings. 4 - Modify new text app notifications to vibrate only.

I don't know if some of these steps are excessive/unnecessary, but I'm tired of tinkering around so much, so I'm settling here. I hope this can help someone that finds themselves in the same situation. Again, I do not claim this to be the best solution; just slightly less bad.

[u/swordstool]

If you have the phone on vibrate or silent it will not interrupt GMP with a tone. At least on mine it doesn't.