Earbuds commands not picked up by audio player.

Hi guys.

I have a Samsung s24U, and JBL Tune Beam. For whatever reason, it is not picked up by the phone audio players. Activating the Google assistant works fine. But if I want to play/pause audio it doesn’t work. I tried this with podcast republic (a poscatcher), youtube and the audio player. I’m not even sure how to track this.

Any of you have an idea?