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Automatically play Rhapsody

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Methos1979

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I'm programming a profile in Tasker that when it detects the phone connecting to my bluetooth speaker it automatically launches the Rhapsody app. I then have it wait a couple seconds and then use the media 'simulate press play' option to have Rhapsody start playing music. It all works except for the last part. Instead of Rhapsody, it starts playing one of my other media players, specifically PlayerPro even though I don't have this app up and running. What am I doing wrong? Is there a work around? I don't want to remove PlayerPro as I do use from time to time to play the songs on my device vs. music from the cloud. But Rhapsody is the definitely the primary music player.

Any help appreciated!
 
I've had this happen to me too. There's a setting in player pro that will enable auto start if headset or bt is connected. It's probably overriding tasker. You can try deselecting that option.
 
See if player pro is set as your default music app, in settings > applications.

If it is, clear it and set Rhapsody.
 
I never got the approach you are trying to work. I gave up on trying to use the simulated play or next button. Instead I used an emulate touch approach. This seemed to work for me.

Script> Run Shell > input tap X Y (check developer options to identify your x y coordinates)

Google "How to emulate touch input using Tasker and root"
 
Just figured out that the hit and miss was down to my chosen music app, deezer.

Now that all access is available on sonos I've made the switch and that plugin works perfectly.
 
codesplice said:
That looks like a very handy utility; thanks!
Click to expand...

+1

I use that plugin to play/pause music when I plug my headset in. Found that, when I installed a second music app, it didn't play nicely though. Didn't matter - only use one app (Play Music) on my phone! :)
 
I was wondering if it was how the apps were built. Google obviously can harness their full knowledge, where other developers have to try to work it out.

Part of my previous problem was down to android killing the deezer app after it hadn't been used for a while. Google Play Music All Access doesnt kill the app, so the song can continue once the plugin asks it to

Edit: I found out this morning that the above isnt quite true. While the app remembered which album I was listening to, it didnt remember the song/ song position.
 
Hello Methos1979
I was wondering if you could post how you set up Tasker to work with Rhapsody (Now Napster)
I'm a newbie to this Tasker app and can't figure it out.
Thank you in advance,
Tom
 
Welcome to android Forums.

You responded to a post that was made 3.5 years ago.

The way to learn Tasker is to start out simple. Get it to work by testing and tweaking. Add capability. Repeat the process.

In this case ... try creating a Task that launches the app you want. You would manually invoke this each time to run. Get that running and then look at the automation.

If you have a problem ... post it here and we will see how we can help.

... Thom
 
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