New Erratic Behaviour when Connecting to Car Stereo

[castlerock]

I bought GoneMad because it worked smoothly with my car stereo, connecting via bluetooth. But since the update it has become erratic in its behaviour upon starting a new journey. It used to connect to the car stereo automatically and carry on playing the same song, from the same playlist, with the same randomisation as when I previously drove. Now it often fails to connect, fails to start playing automatically, changes from the playlist to all tracks, and changes the random selection to sequential. It's very annoying as I am usually driving by the time I realise it has failed to connect/start and I can't fix it on my phone while I'm driving.

It also seems that every time a new update comes in (and there's been many recently) it seems to reset the connection and forget what I was playing.

Am I doing something wrong? Has there been some settings changed with the updates? 

[GoneMAD]

GMMP should never forget what was playing and NEVER change playback mode without the user doing it.. so that sounds like something is getting corrupt. typically clearing the apps cache/data fixes that up

As for connecting to the car stereo.. that requires the music service to be running.. if an update happened between the last time you ran the app and when you connected to the car, android could quite possibly not be restarting the music service. Usually keeping a widget on the homescreen keeps the music service running (since its required to keep the widget updated Newer versions of android are really aggressive at killing services running in the background.. but that was also the case for the old version

Also keep in mind that by default auto resume only works if playback was auto paused. There is a separate setting for always playing on connection (assuming the service is running)

[castlerock]

Thanks for the fast response. I've done everything you suggested. Hopefully that fixes the problem.

[GoneMAD]

other option is to disable auto updates on google play for a bit. until things fully stabilize there will most likely be weekly updates. once stable it'll go back to about once a month