Android Auto randomly skipping in songs (Android 16)

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Issue description:

Sometimes when I get in my car and Android Auto resumes playback, it’ll skip 1-10 seconds of the song every 5-10 seconds.
This usually fixes itself by just opening Symfonium, but other times I need to pause the music, force close Symfonium, and then open it again.

Turning Android Auto off and on in my car usually also solves the problem.

I have no idea if this is actually a Symfonium issue, I assume it’s just Android Auto being weird. But it only happens with Symfonium.

I am on Android 16 QPR1 beta right now, but the issue has existed since I was on Android 15 stable.

Logs:

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Additional information:

 

 

Reproduction steps:

 
Get in car
Let android auto connect
 

Media provider:

Subsonic

Screenshots:

     

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I need logs reproducing the issue :wink:

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The logs were sent inn via the app, just before I made this thread.

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And the problem occurred during the log session ?

I do not see any jump or skip or any playback related issue in the 40 seconds that the log covers.

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Yeah, it was one of the few times I was able to enable debug mode in time before the issue vanishes on its own.

During the 40 seconds, it skipped at least 3-4 times, one of them a good 15s.

If nothing in the logs show this, then it truly is just a cursed Android Auto moment eh

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But it skip like skip not a pause without sound or something ?

Eventually try to disable battery optimization just in case.

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Yeah it skips, maybe a 0.01s pause in audio, then it skips a random amount of seconds ahead.
It reminds me of playing back broken video files in VLC where it skips over broken parts of the file.

Battery optimization is disabled, and it is really random when this happens..

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That’s really strange ExoPlayer logs every discontinuity normally.

Looks like a connection issue between the device and AA and AA skip data to try to keep up with lag or something.

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So if anyone stumbles upon this, here is the problem and solution:
This was a connection issue on both my Android Auto devices, where for some reason the wifi connection from the device to my phone was acting up.

Manually adding the wifi network created by my AA devices to my phone solved the issue completely. Verified by removing the saved networks which caused the issue to return.
Thankfully both my devices allowed me to find the password used for the wifi network they create, this is probably not the case for all AA devices.