Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades

Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by CharlesW on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:35AM (#32165581)

> …since I'm an Apple Music user, whenever I start the car, it just defaults to whatever's I've been listening to there… […] Now why apple just defaults to Apple Music, and not "your music player of choice a.k.a. Spotify" is questionable…

As you noted, it continues playing whatever you were playing in whatever app you were using, with no preference for Apple Music (I'm also a Music subscriber). If you were playing something with Spotify, that's what will continue to play.

I do wish it were configurable with contextual defaults. Too often, I start my car and my sleep sounds app continues to play "Airplane Interior".

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by patentatt on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:44AM (#32165702)

Too often I start my car and it begins playing a podcast where I left off. With my kids in the car. I listen to a decent amount of stuff that isn't necessarily appropriate for kids. Makes for a fun scramble to hit that pause button.

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by jonny_eh on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:07PM (#32171505)

And that pause button is never visible by default in CarPlay. Ya gotta hit the menu button in the bottom left a couple times.

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Re:Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after... by thedrbrian on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:33PM (#32170196)

you can set up shortcuts to automatically start playing something. I've got one that changes to music and maxes the audio volume when it connects to my car.

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