[JoeHenry]

I had to dump the pandora app from my iPhone. Every time I got in the truck (with my iPhone) the app would open and start to play music via blue tooth. Just a big pain in the butt. My wife likes music in the car and I detest it. So, we have a running battle about it all the time. With Sirius shut off, my three months are up, and Pandora removed and no CD player in the truck, I'm winning the battle. LOL>

 

[Janster]

Im guessing many of you drive around without any audio playing? I personally love that my phone connects and starts playing immediately, that is just one less thing for me to do. It usually starts where I left off but occasionally will play all on random. I just switched to the 6s from an s5 and recall that doing it too with pandora.

The problem I was having - the music would start playing out of the phone and not the truck speakers almost immediately when I'd get inside the truck and before it would sync to the truck (before I'd get the message on the DIC).

It was odd....and annoying. Ended up being Pandora. Pandora wasn't even open or loaded. In fact, I hadn't used Pandora in a long time. Dealership said that Pandora tends to 'take over'.

I logged out of Pandora. Problem stopped. Then a few days later...I logged back into Pandora. It's been fine ever since (this was back in March). I'm guessing the techno gremlins just needed some sort of 'reset' on Pandoras end ??? I have no idea.

 

[C9H13NO3]

Oh wow that is an interesting problem. Glad you got it fixed. Just downloaded the 9.3.3 update last night... Music skipping problem still present along with some others. Recommend not updating

 

[jbernielh]

I have the same problem... don't have pandora.. it's particularly annoying when I have a phone call come in just as I've started up.. music is blasting out of my phone while the caller is on the truck speakers

 

[Goodspike]

After growing increasingly frustrated with Amazon's music player, and the transition to Youtube Music from Google Music, I searched for some Android Auto compatible MP3 players. I've not been using it long but Rocket Player seems to be good, and from memory they do have some settings to try to control the type of behavior at issue in this thread. It does have a decent GUI that is suitable for use in a car, but also works through Android Auto.

 

[Johnnyone]

This old fart doesn't understand all this fandangled stuff. All I know is I have a 2019 Colorado. I have a IPhone 11 Pro Max and have Spotify Premium connected thru Bluetooth. I have to turn the app on on phone for it to play in truck with dash app John's IPhone (in the music section) aint no problems. If I get a phone call or message music stops and I get the choice of answer or decline and when done doing either music starts playing again.

 

[HenryT]

Was having the same issue with my Android Galaxy 9s and Spotify. Drove me crazy, there is a setting on the app where you can turn off allowing it to play in the background. Pretty sure this fixed mine...we will see if it sticks LOL.

 

[KingOfSpainMB]

That's not a bug, it's a feature! ;-)

Padre

It’s a bad feature. I just want to charge my phone, not listen to music. Yes, with USB, it’ll play music no matter what.

 

[MrCamo]

It’s a bad feature. I just want to charge my phone, not listen to music. Yes, with USB, it’ll play music no matter what.

Plug into the rear USB port. Depending on your truck it’s in the center console or the rear of the center console if I’m not mistaken.

 

[Goodspike]

It’s a bad feature. I just want to charge my phone, not listen to music. Yes, with USB, it’ll play music no matter what.

As noted in the post right above yours, it's the app on your phone that controls this, not the truck. For Android try Rocketplayer--I know the setting there is pretty obvious. If you have an Apple device, they probably not only force you to listen to music, but don't let you pick the song.

 

[hoodlook]

I have an android and this is happening to me too. It starts playing my voice messages 😑 🤦🏼‍♂️