Music Auto Plays when Connecting Bluetooth Headphones

[Guest worthington_j]

Every time my bluetooth headphones connect to my android phone.  Emby automatically starts playing music in the background on the headphones.  I'm not seeing an option to disable this setting.  Does anybody know how I can prevent the auto play when the headphones connect?

[Luke 42077]

HI, did you have music paused when you did this?

[Guest worthington_j]

No the music wasn't paused and Emby wasn't open.

[Luke 42077]

And you're saying the app just opened?

[Guest worthington_j]

The app does not open. When the Bluetooth headphones connect music automatically starts playing. If I open the Emby app I can that it is playing music.

[Luke 42077]

Ok we'll take a look at it. Thanks.

[Guest]

I can confirm the same. It is an annoying feature of android that the last media app used resumes automatically whenever connecting to a Bluetooth speaker or car audio head unit. It usually happens when there are still items in the app's playing queue (even fully stopped, not paused). I typically have to open the resulting notification, enter the app, stop the playback (again), clear all the items from the app's "Now Playing" queue, then force close the app.

In this case, we're not getting any notification at all; Emby just resumes playing whatever is in queue, and the only way to stop it is to find and open the app manually.

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, we're looking into it. Thanks.

[bthoem 0]

Same problem here. I have not used emby in the car before, but all of a sudden it started behaving like this yesterday. Really annoying. Starts playing a random radio stream.

Edited July 17, 2022 by bthoem

[Luke 42077]

We'll take another look at it. Thanks.

[Luke 42077]

This is resolved in Emby for Android 3.2.61+. Thanks guys.