u/H0tsauce-2

Hoping there's a setting somewhere on my phone or in the car that I'm just missing.

Current behavior:
When using turn by turn directions and playing an audiobook via Bluetooth from an app on my phone, when Maps is talking the audiobook continues playback. Super annoying

The behavior I want:
When playing an audiobook via Bluetooth from the app on my phone, I would like playback to pause when Maps is talking (e.g. "in a quarter mile, turn left") and then resume afterwards. This is the behavior when the car does some other notifications, so I know it's capable of telling Bluetooth playback to pause. I suspect there's some sort of audio priority setting somewhere, and I'm hoping it's something I can change.

Can anybody recommend an AAOS-compatible app that plays media from your phone?

My biggest frustration with AAOS is that I have to use media player apps on my phone over Bluetooth to listen to the media I have on my phone. A trivial thing for Android Auto seems to be impossible for AAOS. Am I just dumb that I can't find anything in the Play store that's compatible with the car that will simply play what's on my phone? This is becoming a bigger problem for me because PA passed a law making it illegal to have your phone in your hand even driving. You're still allowed to use a phone mount like we all did in the days before Android Auto, but I'm finding that having the phone that close at hand is creating more distraction than I feel is safe.

Spent Thursday evening and Friday driving from Pennsylvania to Arkansas. On my way back now. Everything's going smoothly. Just thought I'd share