Music doesn't start when connected to car

[nick169]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Samsung S10

Operating System

Android 12/One UI 4.0

Spotify Version

8.6.98.900

My Question or Issue

Since updating to Android 12 (or coincidentally at the same time with a Spotify app update and not related to Android 12 update), my Spotify doesn't start playing automatically when it connects to my car Bluetooth. This wasn't an issue with Android 11.

Even when hitting the "play" button on the car's infotainment system, Spotify doesn't start; I have to manually open the app and press play.

I already tried

• Rebooting device
• Clean reinstall of Spotify
• Using cell data instead of WiFi
• Clearing Spotify and device caches
• Disabling all battery optimizations for Spotify
• Friends' cars
• All applicable steps here
• Unpairing and repairing device on car stereo and phone

My guess is that Spotify is being closed and can't be "woken up" by the cars request to start the music.

I don't know if this is a Spotify or Samsung/Android 12 issue; maybe there are new Bluetooth permissions in Android 12 Spotify has yet to implement (Maybe an "Allow external devices to control playback" option like in Google Play Music?)

Thanks for looking into it 🙂

[nick169 · Accepted solution]

Hey guys,

Just wanted to quickly update everyone that the issue I had seems to be fixed after I performed a factory reset (because of an unrelated issue) on my device. It now seems to only not work sometimes (instead of not working all the time) and that may be due to Samsung killing the background app...

If you're having problems with your Pioneer/JVM/Kenwood car radio's Spotify mode, this post was not meant for this issue. Instead, check HERE.

Thanks to everyone who tried to solve the issue!

[Zledar]

Plan

Premium

Country

France

Device

Note 10+ 

Operating System

Android 12

Android Auto : Volkswagen Tiguan 2022 Wireless

My Question or Issue

Since I clicked on allow on this notification  "get the best spotify experience on android 12...allow bluetooth" 

On my android auto car I have to close and reopen spotify a few times to get my music in my car.

How can I disable "The best experience" that appears to be finally the worst experience ?

Thanks for your replies 🙂

[Commander_Jim_Raynor]

Hello, I have Spotify Premium from some years already. My car don`t have Android Auto, just bluetooth car audio.

For all this time when my phone connected to my car bluetooth Spotify did start automagically and played music. However it doesn`t do that anymore. It happened a few months ago and I`m not sure if this was after system update, Spotify update or phone changing.

I don`t see option to start automaticly and play at settings menu and I think that it was there many moons ago.

So what can I do to make it start after connection established with my car?

Plan

Premium

Device

Nothing Phone 2

Operating System

Android 14

[Giselsa]

Plan

Free

Country

Greece

Device

Xiaomi Poco M4

Operating System

11 RP1A.200720.011

My Question or Issue

Hello, I'm having a pretty frustrating problem. Yesterday i connected my phone with the car radio so I can play music on there. I tried to stream a song, it didn't. I tried streaming a playlist, neither that did. Even a podcast but no, nothing worked, and of course I was connected to the internet.

I rebooted my phone to see if that was the problem, it wasn't. The next day, as today, i uninstalled Spotify, cleared all my Spotify cache and rebooted again my phone. Then i installed Spotify again, nothing worked. I logged out of my account like two times and logged in again but nothing streamed anything! As if I was offline/didn't have an internet connection. Then i came here but couldn't find any answers, which led me to writing this.

Please help me out if you can. Try to not keep me waiting a lot.

[Giselsa]

I want to be more specific as i forgot to mention it earlier, NOTHING plays either when I'm connected to another device or I'm just on my phone. I have my Bluetooth closed or not, nothing works! It's not just about connecting to the car radio, it's about everything in general! So even if my phone is not connected to anything (with Bluetooth of course), nothing is able to be streamed.