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EVERY TIME I get in my car and plug in my iPhone, the same exact song plays: “All of Me” by John Legend. But not the John Legend version, which would be much less embarrassing. No, the very first alphabetically sorted song in my Apple Music library is a cover of “All of Me” by the Dartmouth a cappella group The Dartmouth Aires. It’s not that I hate the song, or this version. It’s that I’ve heard the first 15 seconds of the song approximately 438 million times, blaring through my speakers as I open Spotify or Pocket Casts and play something I actually want.
Every iPhone user has a song like this.
And:
I could go on a whole bender here, ranting about how my phone should know what I want to listen to when I get into the car (probably whatever I was listening to five seconds before I got into the car!) and how annoying it is that the phone instead just plays the song in my library in the alphabetical pole position.
And:
Instead, I’ll just tell you about Samir Mezrahi, the former BuzzFeed and the Dodo social media guru, and his new song, “A a a a a Very Good Song.” The song consists only of nine minutes and 58 seconds of glorious silence.
Silence is not the solution here. Silence is a bandaid, masks the problem. Interesting read though.
This must be a car specific issue. I’ve just got back from a two week vacation where the hire car had a stereo I could pair my phone to.
Yes, every time we started the car it started the music on my iPhone, however it quite happily continued from where it last was on either the playlist or album we’d been listening to.
I had the exact same reaction as you. I’d never seen this issue and I connect my phone everyday. Sought clarification and the difference seems to be we’re using Bluetooth, which behaves they way you’d expect. Apparently, this issue happens when connecting your phone via USB so it works like an iPod.
Most of the time my phone continues playing the playlist I was listening to previously. But occasionally it will play the very first song in my library. In my case though, that song is A Dream in Static by Earthside, which just never gets old. 🙂
I have this issue as well. 90% of the time, when I plug in my phone to my car, it plays the first song alphabetically in my library. It’s not like it’s a particularly old device either, it’s an iPhone 6S Plus.
I have had this problem sometimes, but it seems to be related to crashes in other audio playing apps. Marco Arment actually addressed this on an episode of ATP with regards to Overcast. It would get booted out of the background and then when you’d reconnect to bluetooth, it would no longer be the most recent thing that was played. (I’ve also had the issue where a video or a webpage with aggressive autoplaying audio will take over playback and cause the same problem when getting into my car.)
Lately, Siri has decided that when I say “play some music” I mean “play the Beatles,” which isn’t the worst interpretation I could think of.
Carplay seems to remember if I was last listening to Led Zeppelin’s “Lemon Song,” or better: “When the Levy Breaks.” Or Marty Casey and the Love Hammers “Trees,” or even “Hard Wired to Self Destruct” by Metallica.
Just glad it doesn’t start playing, “Despacito” featuring that little punk from Canada. But then that song would have to be in my account, now, wouldn’t it?
This happens to me too and it’s downright obnoxious, especially since my first song is A-Man by Suicide.
this is the automakers’ in-dash head unit seeing a plugged-in iPhone as an iPod, and then using the iPod interface to begin playback of the first song on the device. it is dumb, of course, but it’s not the iPhone doing it, it’s the in-dash head units being dumb in the way they coded it.
this doesnt often happen with Bluetooth because most head units let the originating audio device (iPhone) manage playback and the head unit acts as a dumb receiver.
“I could go on a whole bender here” about people who leave their car stereo’s volume on 11 when they turn off the ignition.
This happens to me EVERY DAY. And yep, we plug it in via USB. It’s horrible.
Every time I turn my car radio on, the volume goes back to a quiet volume. It used to annoy me since the volume is too low, but better this than that.
Yes, this is caused by a stupid head unit treating the iPhone as if it were a really big USB stick or CD.
Bingo.
So I guess I can tell the wife this is another reason why we need to get rid of our old Yaris and get the Tesla I have been to afraid to click ‘Order’ on.
“Abacab” by Genesis. Every. Single. Time.
Autoplay, the only thing more annoying than autocorrect.
The only way I was able to “fix” this was by deleting Apple’s music player app. Since I use Google Music anyways, this was no big loss for me. It’s disappointing that Apple choose to not fix this issue.
Even if it turns out the Tesla does the same thing, why not? 😉
How can Apple “fix” something that’s “the head unit treating the device as an iPod and just playing the first song every time”?
FWIW, I use Bluetooth, and my stereo will default to pulling in the first A song in my library sometimes. I’m pretty sure it’s the Bluetooth version not being able to get the correct last played app or song or podcast, most likely due to it not connecting fast enough. Not really the iPhone’s fault, though.
Almost as bad as a custom ringtone for any call from an annoying relative.
Well, obviously it’s Apple’s job to fix every mistake made by other manufacturers. Or by government. Sheesh.
I’m quite lucky in that I enjoy Babyshambles’s “A’Rebors”…
Plugging in via USB, this happens EVERY TIME. Mine is “Aaron Burr, Sir”.
My playlists will never play sequentially when I’m in car (connect by bluetooth). I find the Apple Music thing just way too random overall. Songs that were downloaded to phone are suddenly cloud only (so much for flights), album and artist art disappears, older purchases disappear until I “rebuy them” and iTunes tells me that I already own them, etc.
Apple Music is easily the most frustrating and buggy software of any type that I’ve used in the last 5 years.
In my previous vehicle (2010 Chevy Equinox), this would happen about 5-10% of the time (defaulting to Barenaked Ladies “A”; a decent song but I now hate it). In my current vehicle (Lexus GX 460) I haven’t had it happen once.
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I’m a tag completist. When downloaded songs are suddenly cloud songs I’m very quick to lose my $h!t. I’ve added lyrics to a lot of my songs because Apple won’t. It’s worse when they won’t even let me see them. Ugh.
I have this problem with a pre-CarPlay system. But only when I plug into the car’s own USB port. If I only connect via bluetooth, no problem.
So my inelegant solution is to buy a USB adaptor for the 12V power port (aka the “cigarrette lighter” port) and use that for power to my iPhone.