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And please AUTO PLAY the last thing I was listening to when the phone connects to bluetooth or at least when the app opens.

If I'm listening to a radio station when I shut off my bluetooth device I want it to start playing again as soon as I connect to that device again (or open the app via a voice command).

I don't want to touch my phone and I don't have any car specific hardware.

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Conversely, I've found Apple Music really wants to autoplay in my car, even though I haven't launched the app in years--only Spotify--and I have to stop it and sometimes relaunch Spotify to get back on track.

No joke, Apple Music also insists on playing me a mix of Tegan and Sara, Eminem, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, and the comedy of David Cross, and nothing else.

Not only does it autoplay, it will partially download songs from many years ago on the first connect, so your car gets stuck repeating the same 20 seconds of that one song you liked a decade ago. It's infuriating.

Holy hell I thought I was the only person experiencing this. The song it's stuck on is the most obnoxious song ever too.

I have Adult Education by Hall and Oates. It's just terrible.

That's interesting. My BRZ has a terrible audio system, but the one thing it does really well is get music to auto-play.

Say I start my car and open the BT connection. My iPhone auto-plays music from Apple Music. Then I switch to AM radio, the iPhone pauses. Then I switch back to Bluetooth, and my iPhone starts playing again from where it paused.

Apple Music definitely has problems, but I haven't had this one myself.