Google Play Music Autoplay

[Daveinmaine]

I have been having a problem since I got my 2014 Moto X. With my old 1st gen Moto X when I got into my car and connected to Bluetooth it would start playing whatever I had last been listening to, podcast, Audible or music, it would start my last audio app. Great. When my MotoX kicked the bucket and I went back to my old S3 for a few weeks same thing. However, my new MotoX always start Google Music, playing whatever I last played. If I start playing Audible before autoplay comes in Music still squashes Audible and replaces. This happens even if I force close Play Music before connecting BT. Any ideas if there is a setting I can tweak? I seem to remember that there was a headphone connect setting somewhere in an older version of Android, but it does not seem to be there anymore

 

[anon(19981)]

Do you have "driving action" selected in the Moto app? You might have play music selected then. It's all I can think of.

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[Daveinmaine]

Good thought, got my hopes up for a moment, but I had disabled Car when I found I disliked the text reading. It does present a partial solution however, since using that at least lets me pick what gets autoplayed, and Pocketcasts is a less annoying choice than Google Music

 

[gone down south]

This has happened to me on multiple phones across multiple versions of Android. Googling presents a lot of complaints, but no real solutions - at least it's a sporadic problem so eventually it stops by itself.

 

[Rick Jacobs]

Just a couple of weeks ago my sons Droid Turbo and my Moto X 2014 both stopped auto playing Google play via Bluetooth in my car and his car. No idea why.....so last weekend I did a hard reset on my Moto X 2014 and rebuilt the phone. Now Google Play starts playing in my car just like it used to.

 

[dmark44]

A recent Google Play Music update said fixes were made to the way it automatically starts using Bluetooth. This could explain the change in behavior.

I know before the update, the other music app I have installed, "Shuttle" would auto start at random when connecting to my car Bluetooth. After the update, if I had been listening to Play Music, then that will start back up when I re-start the car.

 

[fatboy97]

I had that issue a while ago... it seemed to stop by itself after I stopped it a couple times and then started the app I wanted to use. I also listen to Audible a lot while in my vehicle. Occasionally it does still bring up Pandora when I come out the gym now, but that is mainly because I was listening to Pandora while I was in the gym... I guess this is understandable since I had stopped Audible when I went into the Gym and Pandora was the last thing I was listening to when I got back in to my vehicle. Additionally, I tested when I did not use my MotoX while in the gym, and Audible started right back up when I got back in my vehicle... so I have not seen Google Music start up again since those early days.