Stereo Bluetooth and audiobooks

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I use my phone (Samsung Note 3) to listen to audio books I have downloaded from the public library. I have been using LG stereo Bluetooth headsets (LBT700 series) to listen to the books with. Everything works fine EXCEPT the button to stop and restart the playback does nothing about 85% of the time (sometimes it will work). After trying several support options over a period of time I found a service rep at LG that told me that was a reported problem and I should not expect the LG headsets to preform this function on an audio book. Today I went out and bought a Motorola BUDS stereo Bluetooth headset and it is doing the same thing! Does anyone know of this problem? Is there a work-around? Again, this is with audio books I'm talking about NOT music playback. And only the stop/start button is giving me this problem, everything else with both the LG and Motorola headsets work fine. HELP PLEASE

Thanks in advance... Bob
 

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Do those work for play/pause on audio books?
 

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I use my phone (Samsung Note 3) to listen to audio books I have downloaded from the public library. I have been using LG stereo Bluetooth headsets (LBT700 series) to listen to the books with. Everything works fine EXCEPT the button to stop and restart the playback does nothing about 85% of the time (sometimes it will work). After trying several support options over a period of time I found a service rep at LG that told me that was a reported problem and I should not expect the LG headsets to preform this function on an audio book. Today I went out and bought a Motorola BUDS stereo Bluetooth headset and it is doing the same thing! Does anyone know of this problem? Is there a work-around? Again, this is with audio books I'm talking about NOT music playback. And only the stop/start button is giving me this problem, everything else with both the LG and Motorola headsets work fine. HELP PLEASE

Thanks in advance... Bob
What is playing back the audio? Is there a way to get it them to play through your music player if that's not what you're using now ? I found when I download sermons from my pastor using my music player (Power Amp) works best but I'm not sure how that'd work with audio books
 
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