Ok, recent iPhone convert here. So on the iPhone when you plugin headphones and press play on the inline controls it will start the iPod music player period, unless you have for example, Pandora already running. The better way to say this is that a freshly rebooted iPhone, open up the multitasking close all programs, plug in headphones and press play you will get the iPod app to play music.
On the S3, freshly rebooted, open multitasking, close all apps, plug in headphones and press play and you get the sounds of silence -- nothing, no music period. You have to go and start an app before the inline controls, or bluetooth controls will control anything.
My guess is that there are various different apps that could be controlled by the inline controls and the S3 doesn't know which one you want to control. So the question is can I set a default program to always accept the inline/BT commands even if it the app isn't running? I'd like not to have to install a 3rd party headphone program to do this but if that's the case then ok.
I'd like Google Play to be the default but am open to other suggestions. Conversely if the solution is to remove the Samsung music app and that won't screw me up doing so then I'll gladly do that.
On the S3, freshly rebooted, open multitasking, close all apps, plug in headphones and press play and you get the sounds of silence -- nothing, no music period. You have to go and start an app before the inline controls, or bluetooth controls will control anything.
My guess is that there are various different apps that could be controlled by the inline controls and the S3 doesn't know which one you want to control. So the question is can I set a default program to always accept the inline/BT commands even if it the app isn't running? I'd like not to have to install a 3rd party headphone program to do this but if that's the case then ok.
I'd like Google Play to be the default but am open to other suggestions. Conversely if the solution is to remove the Samsung music app and that won't screw me up doing so then I'll gladly do that.