Android Auto: advanced search and (no) audio ducking

Feature requests
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I happen to use Symfonium on Android Auto a lot recently (you can guess why :wink:), and two things bother me a little:

  1. Search is limited to one letter which brings you to the list of artists starting with that letter. I remember from a previous request that Google does not allow full-blown searches on Android Auto because they do not want you to get distracted. But currently I have to scroll by around 60 artists starting with “S” until I finally get to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Google even forces a “safety break” on me a couple of times during scrolling. That is definitely distracting :upside_down_face:

Do you think it would be permissible to extend the search feature to more letters, still restricting it to the beginning of the artist name? If I could type “ste” I would definitely have to scroll and interact with the display less.

  1. I use Google Maps for navigation and every time it gives spoken directions, the audio of Symfonium is ducked. I can imagine that this is also a Google requirement, but I still wanted to ask if you think an option to not duck Symfonium audio would be possible (I saw that on Musicolet, although I think they have no Android Auto support).

Thanks!

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  1. not possible I do not have control it would require 3 level for each letter … Use voice :slight_smile:

  2. There’s an option to pause instead of duck. I’m not sure I’m allowed to disable that but can try to see if it pass they broken validation.

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  1. Will try voice. With Maps I had the impression it only works with Internet connection?

  2. Yes, I know that option, but I simply want the music to play on the same volume during other messages/tones. I would like that in general, not only for Auto, because ducking also happens when I use the app without Auto and e.g. receive an email. But I can of course disable notifications in that case, so it is less of a problem.

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The “no audio ducking” feature works very well, by the way! Thanks for enabling that.

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Interesting: with a different car, the ducking cannot be disabled anymore. Could this depend somehow on the Andoid Auto version implemented in the car? Will try to gather logs…