u/nerfherder616

Two years ago when I started using Android Auto, I was unable to disable autoplay. Whichever media app I was most recently using would automatically play when I started my car. This is despite having those settings explicitly disabled in my phone and my car. Since I couldn't disable it, I decided to hide all my media apps from Android Auto. I only use Android auto for my Phone app and my GPS/maps app. My media just plays through Bluetooth.

This worked fine until yesterday when I got the new Android Auto update. Now my media apps are playing through Android Auto even though I have them hidden. The autoplay bug still has not been fixed, which means my work around no longer works. Can someone please tell me a way to go back to just using Bluetooth for my media, or else fix that accursed bug and actually prevent autoplay?

Samsung Galaxy S10

2024 Honda Civic

I have an m4b file from Libation. I need to do some work on it (splitting, merging, etc). MediaInfo reads the audio stream as VBR. When I do my work with Ffmpeg, I make sure to use the copy option.

ffmpeg -i input.m4b -c copy output.m4b

The new audio stream is now CBR. I thought the copy option was supposed to preserve the audio stream exactly not not incur quality loss. Wouldn't changing from VBR to CBR be a change to the stream that would result in quality loss? What am I misunderstanding?