I recently got in a car wreck that caused my Android Auto to malfunction. Don’t worry, I’m fine and my car is repaired. I was unable to play YouTube videos and music via Android Auto post crash, but Waze audio worked fine. I had a 7+ hour drive after the crash, so I had to fix this.
Local music files and YouTube videos names wouldn’t show on my Toyota’s infotainment display, even though it was shown as playing on my Pixel. Bluetooth worked fine, but I had to plug in my Pixel to charge for the long drive. So, I went to the YouTube Music app, and played a free ad riddled Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Episode (I don’t listen to Joe Rogan, personally).
Surprisingly, it played and worked fine via Android Auto! Afterwards, I tried playing a YouTube Music Video via FireFox and it worked! However, it would resume playing the Joe Rogan video every 10ish minutes which irked me. So, I restarted my phone, and re-plugged it in. It still showed the Joe Rogan Episode Title as playing as an audio source on my Toyota’s Infotainment system, but this time didn’t play it!
So, now I can listen to local music and FireFox YouTube Music videos as normal, but just can’t skip or skip to the next song via my Toyota’s infotainment system. Which hardly worked well anyway when it did function properly. So, since I have UBlock Origin instaleld in my Pixel’s FireFox Browser, I can listen to music ad-free without giving Google any of my money for playing via the YouTube Music App.
YouTube NonStop, and SponsorBlock are good extenstions for chill experiences for the FireFox Pixel Android Auto experience. There’s … other methods to crack/patch the YouTube Android app directly, or sideloading a chill version of YouTube with SponsorBlock + UBlock Origin harded code, but it’s risky to do so since there’s a risk of the cracks being malicious.