Plan Premium

Country US

Device Pixel 6 Pro

Operating System Android 14 (latest release)

Spotify app latest release

2018 Honda Civic

     I've had no issues with spotify on this phone/car combination for well over a year.  I generally use the AAwireless dongle to enable wireless android issue through this same time period, again, no issues.

     About a week ago i started having issues where if i skipped a song, or went back a song the spotify display on my car dash would show the song still play as the seconds ticked up and the progress bar continued to move but i had not audio.  forcing the app to stop and restarting it got audio back but it would often disappear again when the next song came up.

     Now I can't get audio from forcing stopping.  Occasionally if i clear the cache and reboot my phone I can get a song to start playing but the audio will generally stop again.  If i pause then hit play I get less than one second of the song and it dissapears again.

     The rest of my android auto functionality works without issue.  Pandora plays audio through android auto no problem.

     I've tried clearing spotify cache and storage, uninstalling and reinstalling the spotify app, rebooting my phone more times than I can count, turning various spotify app setting on and off.  I've plugged my phone into the car directly with a USB cable and letting android auto initialize that way and the same issues persist. 

     I'm not sure but it possibly seems like spotify is trying to play through my car via bluetooth instead of through android auto, but I don't know if that actually has anything to do with it.

     Recently android did update to 14, and spotify has had updates including one i grabbed this morning that I was hopeful would fix the issue but no luck.  Very frustrating and any assistance would be greatly appreciated.