Strange behavior when connected to car bluetooth

[nate2014jatc]

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HI,
Whenever my phone connects to my car's Bluetooth, newpipe spawns a player on its own, that tries to play literally nothing. I can't pause the "playback" and when I kill the player notification, it immediately comes back until I disconnect my phone from my car manually.

[FunctionalHacker]

Do you by chance have a Xiaomi Roidmi bluetooth adapter? I had this same problem and after I removed the Roidmi app, this behaviour disappeared.

[nate2014jatc]

I do not have a Xiaomi Roidmi Bluetooth device. I'll look into it and see if I have anything similar though. Edited for clean up

[brimston3]

I get this behavior as well, but it's probably not a NewPipe issue per se. On connect, the last media player I had playing is launched and audio is started from that software (eg, vlc, pocketcasts resumes playback). In the case of NewPipe, the background player launches, but it shows "unknown" as the track info. Mine, on the other hand, does not try to relaunch if I close the newpipe notification -- my guess at @nate2014jatc's issue is buggy AVRCP behavior by the bluetooth sink.

[nate2014jatc]

What's really strange in my case is that it's almost always Newpipe, regardless of what I was using before. It's even overridden Spotify (the grabbiest music player I could think of). EDIT: Didn't realize all that garbage got pinned on the bottom from my email client.

[theScrabi]

Noticed this as well. We need to fix it.

[nate2014jatc]

Is AVRCP bug likely to be on the OS side or the receiver side?(if that does end up being the issue)

[theScrabi]

Its propably newpipe itself.

[TaranQ]

Same problem over here Newpipe starts as soon as bluetooth connection to car is made.

[theScrabi]

But stearing and brakes still work? 🤔

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[nate2014jatc]

-cough cough?-

[NeoFromMatrix]

same behavior with moto g5 android 8.1

[jjtParadox]

I have this same "empty playlist notification" issue with my own phones and Bluetooth devices. This issue does not come up if another media app (i.e. Spotify) is open (either on screen or has a player notification)

[skontar]

I have the same problem with Samsung A40 and Samsung S10e when they connect to my car Bluetooth. Does not happen with other Bluetooth devices (and any other players for that matter). Anything I can help with?

[Liknus]

Same problem: as soon as my OnePlus 6 connect to the Sync2 of my Ford I get an empty notification..
Newpipe v.0.18.4 on Android 10..

[Offerel]

I can confirm that behavior on a Galaxy S9 with Android 10. The last audio app is Media Monkey. But when it connected to the car BT, always NewPipe take control. It would be nice, if we could get an option, where we could disable automatic react to BT connects. I have no other idea if there is a workaround

[wb9688]

@Offerel: Could you test whether #3178 fixes it by any chance?

[Offerel]

@wb9688 i have re-tested it today with the actual release version an the commit from above. I cant reproduce it either. The issue seems to be gone, after i removed the default associations from all involved apps. After that, i re-added the associations, but the problem seems to be disappeared.

[Stypox]

Duplicate of #1574

[amosnet]

I have the same problem with Samsung A40 and Samsung S10e when they connect to my car Bluetooth. Does not happen with other Bluetooth devices (and any other players for that matter). Anything I can help with?

It's been more than a year and the same thing is still there with my Samsung S10, only when it connects to the car, pretty weird.

Not sure if it is affected only to Samsungs when they connect to cars.

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NewPipe 0.20.8 (Dec. 27th, 2020)
Samsung S10, Android 10.
bmw NBT stereo.