Pressing [Next Song] on headphone switches to Android Player

[cbourbou]

Hi all

Honor 6, Android 4.4.2, Spotify 3.9.0.965. Since a couple of weeks (worked before):

When I press [Next Song] within the Spotify app, it duly plays the next song in the Spotify playlist.

However, if I press [Next Song] on my headphone (double click on middle button), I get switched to the build in music player, starting one of my stored mp3 songs. Therefor I cannot use the headphone to skip song.....very annoying.

Tried with both with my former iOS headphone and my new Amazon headphone, same behavior.

Your help is much appreciated.

Cheers

Tino

[RV22 · Accepted solution]

can you try the SOLUTION from this post ? might be related...

i couldnt skip tracks using bluetooth headphones... this fixed it for me...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Android/Can-t-control-music-and-see-the-name-with-bluetooth-ca...

[cbourbou]

Thanks a lot, that sounds about right. I'll evalute the app downgrade as prescribed.....

Cheers
Tino

[RV22]

Tino if it works please come back and report that it actually did the trick.... Thanks.

Just to make sure this topic is really "SOLVED" for others to be able to quickly search through the forum and find the fix.

Seems like there is quite a few users affected with bluetooth problems from various angles, either on BT headphones or BT car audio systems.

We need more confirmed fixes on these bluetooth issues cropping up recently.

[cbourbou · Accepted solution]

You're right - it's not a solution until I tested and verified it....

(and be aware that my actual and most pressing issue was not related to "bluetooth problems", but the player switching from Spotify to the built-in Music-Player upon pressing [next song] on the (cabled) headphone). I actually - and luckily - didn't have the time to downgrade Spotify.

Luckily, because today I've upgraded my Honor 6 Android phone from KitKat (4.x) to Lollipop (5.1.1). Now, with the new Android version and the unaltered, current Spotify-Version of 3.9.0.965 => [next song] stays within Spotify. (Hurray!)

Update: Tested with my car BT player - it directly started with Spotify and [prev song / next song] correctly skipped withing Spotify.

So obviously it was the combination of Spotify and Android KitKat causing the problems.

Cheers

Tino