Makes "next track" on Vehicle Console go to shuffled item if shuffle was previously pressed

Description

When driving and using VLC as an audio media player, "shuffle" is not sticky, and results in audio playing in sorted order after a single random song. This should fix that behavior.

Motivation and Context

This solves random not working as expected / intended

How Has This Been Tested?

I have not tested, because I do not have a relevant build environment. Everything I wrote was inferred correct based on the exact code being available in the same contexts.

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• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Enhancement (non-breaking change which cleans up / improves existing functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

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• I have read the CONTRIBUTING section of the README document.

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Could you write steps to reproduce the problem?

I second that. I am not able to reproduce the initial bug.

Certainly. This is using Android 15 and the latest version of the app from the Google play store.

Here's a 5 minute video demonstrating my issues: https://youtu.be/mMRTv-1odzA

This is unusual behavior. Can you reproduce the issue w/o being connected to your car? The Mazda display has repeat and shuffle buttons. What happens if you select those?

You are also jumping between the library view (with the album/artist/track/genre header) and the playback queue. If you leave it on the queue, pressing next on your bluetooth headunit will advance the display to the currently playing song, no need to scroll to find it.

Update: This appears to be a known Android 14 issue and VLC will need a preference to filter the shuffle and repeat state being sent from your vehicle. Refactored logic from here: MediaSessionCallback.kt will need to go here: MediaSessionCallback.kt

Thank you for getting back to me and pointing out that there is a "shuffle" button on the screen of the car. Enabling that (each time it reconnects to the car) seems to resolve the issue. One button press per car entry isn't bad.

I cannot reproduce without being attached to the car.

A regular bluetooth headset works fine, and shuffle works as intended.

I'll close this merge request.

@rhstone can we do a workaround for Android14?

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