Spotify app on iOS

[8bit]

I bought an iPod Touch to use in my car, the reason being that I mostly use Spotify these days but still have a sizable iTunes library I still dip into from time to time. When I add stuff to my Spotify library on my other devices I'll download it to the iPod for offline use when I park up at the house, in range of the WiFi.

That's all great but I often find (maybe 1 time in every five or six) when I start the car, Spotify won't start from where it left off and the iPod just starts playing all the tracks in my iTunes in alphabetical order by track name. I have to unlock the iPod, go into the Spotify app and hit the play button there to get it to resume. It's not like it only does it if the car and iPod haven't been used for days either, sometimes it will happen if the car has only been off for a few minutes while I nip into a shop or something.

It's not the end of the world obviously, irritating but definitely in the category of first world problems but I just wondered if anyone else had found the same and had a way to get it to behave better.

[MaximumJed]

Not much help for why it happens, but we got hold of the A A A A Very Good Song (or similar name) which is basically 10 minutes of silence. It's named this way so that if Apple music starts instead of Spotify you don't get a burst of a song you don't want to hear and can have time to sort it out.

[8bit]

Thanks for that, doesn't seem like much of a solution but it might be as good as it gets.

I noticed something else yesterday; the issue isn't with Spotify I don't think, it's with the built-in app for playing your iTunes stuff (can't remember if it's called Music, iTunes, iPod or something else). I had been playing an album from that in the car yesterday on the way to work, but on leaving work I started the car and it just defaulted back to playing all songs in the library in alphabetical order.

I have a feeling that this won't be anything I can resolve...