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Music controls very buggy

Does anyone else find the music controls very buggy?

I mainly listen to podcasts, using Pocket Casts on a Pixel 3a, and the display on the watch is usually all wrong.

Sometimes, it shows me no track information at all. Sometimes the track information is correct, but when when I press Pause on the watch, or the phone starts playing the next track, the watch tells me that the previous track is still playing. The volume controls on the watch do adjust the volume on my phone, but the green bar never moves up or down.

If I disconnect and reconnect the phone to the watch, everything will generally re-sync and show the correct information, but only until I start pressing buttons again.

On the plus side, the watch controls do work all the time, even when what the watch is showing me is complete nonsense. I've had my 45 since Christmas, and none of the updates since have made it any better. I assume this is down to some incompatible Bluetooth audio standards or something, but it would be nice if there was some way to make it work better.