Android Auto plays sound through the phone speakers

[Bthomas0324]

I just bought a Volkswagen GTI 2016 with Android auto. 

The phone connects to Android auto and I can press play in Android auto and the song showing on the car display starts playing from the phone speakers. Bluetooth phonecalls work over the car speakers and I can play Spotify through Bluetooth media connection but the audio doesn't work with Android auto. 

I saw someone else here also had this problem but it went unanswered. 

Thoughts? 

Phone: Nexus 6 -  android version 6.0.1

[declxn]

If your question remains unanswered I would suggest investing in an AUX cord to transmit the audio data through you car speakers without the use of Bluetooth. It also saves your battery usage

[MWYNDE]

Did you get any resolution to this? My new Touran with Sony Xperia 5 suffers the same issue. BeyondPod and phone calls play through the speakers, but Spotify only did for a couple of trips and then started only playing via phone's speakers.

[Fanda_K]

Same problem for me with VW passat and xperia z5 compact. Any solution for this?

[MWYNDE]

making sure Spotify is fully quit, ie not just minimised, and then started again after the Bluetooth connection is complete seems to sort things out.

[jimh_77]

Same issue, 2016 Sportwagen with Xperia Z5 Compact. Pandora / Google Play work fine but Spotify nearly always plays through the phone speaker. Is there any resolution to this?

[Bthomas0324]

I uninstalled android auto, reinstalled it and restarted both phone and car
and the issue went away. Hope this works.

I have also run into issues if Spotify notifications are turned off.

[Fanda_K]

The issue disappeared for me when I installed new version of Android Auto. It does not happen anymore.

Cheers guys

[pustekuchen2017]

@declxn This is exactly not what OP wants 😉