Apple Car Play / Android Auto - Podcast don‘t get paused while navigation announcement

I am trying to love Deezer. It’s european, has excellent sound quality and is not Apple Music or Spotify. Of course there are other reasons, however there are some things that are annoying to me that I hope can get adjusted if the developers agree with me.

And this is one of those annoyances: when a navigation app i.e. Google Maps does an announcement i.e. “turn left in 500 m” then podcasts will not get paused. Instead they become very quiet which leads to one missing the entire thing that’s being said during the navigation announcement. This gets even worse when you drive where there’s multiple turns you need to take one after another and you miss like 30 s of the podcast.

Why does it not just pause? Why is there no option to do that (at least I can’t find it)? Other music streaming services like Apple Music or Spotify do that out of the box. And for me that’s the only logical way to deal with that situation. And I really don’t want to go back. However, I also want to catch what the hosts of my podcasts are saying, obviously.

This gets even worse because there is no “rewind button” i.e. jump back 10 s. There is the option to use the progression slider, however while driving, trying to adjust the slider to go back 10 s is not only a safety hazard but also extremely inaccurate.

To me it’s also kind of strange that I can’t really find a lot online regarding the issue. Maybe it’s only annoying to me? If not I would appreciate if you could agree with me below and upvote this post.