topic Re: Albums do not play in order on Android Auto in Android

Albums do not play in order on Android Auto

bickgr — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:12:16 GMT

Been seeing an issue with android auto and spotify. I'm running android 7.0, android auto 2.3.716604, spotify 8.4.4.810. I have spotify premium. My issue exists regardless if I am in my car or not, it is whenever I run things through android auto(either by plugging my phone into my car and running through the head unit, or when at home and launching android auto and going to spotify). When selecting an album the tracks do not play in order.

Steps to reproduce:

launch android auto, navigate to music and open spotify
open the main spotify menu, select 'your library', select 'albums'
select an album

Expected results:

since i have premium, the album will play in order from the first track

Actual results:

tracks play in a random order

A few more notes, I've noticed that if I go to the main menu, select recently played, and choose the album from there then it plays from the first track and correctly in order. So this is sort of a work around, but i may not be able to find the album i want in the recently played list. I'm a qa engineer by profession, so I'm happy to help troubleshoot/reproduce the issue if needed.

Re: Albums do not play in order on Android Auto

ashleyschwartau — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 02:01:09 GMT

UG same issue. SUPER annoying. I listen to a lot of cast recordings and want to listen to the entire musical show in order. Please fix this soon!

Re: Albums do not play in order on Android Auto

Maxmo — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:50:41 GMT

I also have this issue. Album arder should be the default for premium. I can understand standard accounts being shuffled as this would reflect normal app playback.

Re: Albums do not play in order on Android Auto

randommonth — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:11:32 GMT

I also have this issue and find it extremely frustrating. It basically renders Spotify on Android Auto useless for me.

Re: Albums do not play in order on Android Auto

Maxmo — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:18:08 GMT

In the past week or so I have noticed that there is now a microphone/voice search button on the spotify library screen in Android Auto. It may have always been there, but I have just noticed it.

It would *appear* that if this is used and then the album name spoken e.g. "Flying Microtonal Banana"; then that album plays in full in order. I say that it appears to work properly as I have not tested this method extensively, and I don't know what would happen if say "Iron Maiden" was spoken, would it play the album Iron Maiden or would it play every song by Iron Maiden.

Re: Albums do not play in order on Android Auto

kanasva — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 02:15:12 GMT

I have been facing this problem too.

Re: Albums do not play in order on Android Auto

lizward — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 14:38:59 GMT

I don't understand why it shouldn't play in order even on the free version - surely that is why we put them in order? Certainly no way I would go up to Premium if it still has this problem!

Re: Albums do not play in order on Android Auto

flcknzwrg — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:03:53 GMT

A simple thing, not fixed since many months.

Extremely annoying!