[tahlsr]

meiinken thanks for chiming in. I don't feel so alone. Yeah I do have those same issues. My impression though is that A2DP controls are either binded to the active application or your default one. i.e. right now MortPlayer is my default audio player so no matter what screen I'm on within Android, if I hit the play button on my headset, MortPlayer opens. This does suck though if I'm using Slacer to listen to music and then the controls don't work for Slacer unless it's the 'active' application. Does seem in alignment with what you are saying?