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> "Oh, you were just playing a podcast in a different app, paused it by your headphones, and then press play again? Well fuck that podcast app I'm taking over."

> "Oh, you were just playing a podcast in a different app, paused it by your headphones, and then press play again? Well fuck that podcast app I'm taking over." I think that one is an Android issue. I have a handful of media apps, and with both bluetooth and wired headphones, the result of hitting the play/pause button is often completely random. * If something is playing, sometimes hitting the button will pause it, other times it will start some other app playing. * If I just paused something 5 seconds ago, sometimes the play button will resume that, other times it will start something I was listening to an hour or more ago. * Also, occasionally, it just refuses to respond to the button at all. I used to think this was just my earbuds being buggy and not recognizing my taps, but I got a different pair that makes a ding sound when sending the play/pause command, so now I know when it's the earbuds vs the phone that's being a dick. I think the problem started around Android 10 or 11. Before that, starting one media thing would boot out the previous one. Now they just hang around like zombies waiting to hi-jack your play/pause commands.

gadders 3y ago
Maybe? I think I've only ever seen it go one way though. I don't think I've seen the podcast app take over playing from Spotify.
- nfriedly 3y ago
  Yeah, I don't actually use spotify, but I've seen this behavior with a combination of Audible, Libby, Smart AudioBook Player, Youtube, Nebula, and Plexamp. Smart AudioBooks Player is by far the best behaved of the bunch. I think it's partially because it's entirely offline, and partially because it's not trying to sell me anything. It's so much better that I will sometimes extract my audiobooks from other platforms (Audible, Chirp, Libro.fm, etc.), reformat/de-DRM as necessary, and then move them over to SABP to actually listen to them. Plexamp is probably second best. I find the UI a little confusing, but it mostly just does what I want when I want to listen to my music. In the past, I used Podcast Addict to listen to a lot of podcasts. It was pretty well behaved also. But I got tired of all the adds and filler in the podcasts themselves and mostly switched over to audiobooks. When I do want to listen to a podcast, I've found that, with sponsorblock, youtube is actually the least annoying option these days But even with that I no longer consistently listen to any podcasts.

gadders 3y ago

Maybe? I think I've only ever seen it go one way though. I don't think I've seen the podcast app take over playing from Spotify.

nfriedly 3y ago
Yeah, I don't actually use spotify, but I've seen this behavior with a combination of Audible, Libby, Smart AudioBook Player, Youtube, Nebula, and Plexamp. Smart AudioBooks Player is by far the best behaved of the bunch. I think it's partially because it's entirely offline, and partially because it's not trying to sell me anything. It's so much better that I will sometimes extract my audiobooks from other platforms (Audible, Chirp, Libro.fm, etc.), reformat/de-DRM as necessary, and then move them over to SABP to actually listen to them. Plexamp is probably second best. I find the UI a little confusing, but it mostly just does what I want when I want to listen to my music. In the past, I used Podcast Addict to listen to a lot of podcasts. It was pretty well behaved also. But I got tired of all the adds and filler in the podcasts themselves and mostly switched over to audiobooks. When I do want to listen to a podcast, I've found that, with sponsorblock, youtube is actually the least annoying option these days But even with that I no longer consistently listen to any podcasts.