Spotify - Screen Wake When Skipping Songs

[ProBird79]

I'm trying to figure out if this is a "feature" or not as I can't find any info on this. When I'm connected via Bluetooth and skip a song with the steering wheel controls it wakes the screen which causes increased battery drain. On Pandora the screen stays off to conserve battery.

To me it doesn't make sense for the screen to come on when switching songs. As stated it increases battery consumption and you shouldn't be looking at your phone when driving anyway. I don't know if the same can be said with Bluetooth headphones as I don't have any to test with. People switch songs until they find one they like. If they like a song and don't know the artist then they could wake the screen to see the information at that point. To me this is a HUGE negative as phone manufacturers are making phones thinner and thinner thus reducing battery size. Not to mention upon switching songs it increases the chance of accidentally skipping another song since the controls come on the wake screen. I've tested this on wired headphones with controls and the screen doesn't wake so it only seems to be a Bluetooth issue.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a setting that I'm missing?

 

[ProBird79]

Ok, I was wrong. It does happen on Pandora as well. It is "Ambient display" that causes this on the Nexus 6 (I'm assuming this would be the case for Moto X as well and any other phone with this option). If I turn this off the screen does not wake. This is dumb since ambient display is the only way to receive a notification. I wish google would enable the LED. I guess I will have to just wake the screen myself if I need to see if I have any notifications or not.