[Draft] Fix: Casting not working correctly to Google Devices

[mebarbosa]

Description

• This is an attempt to fix the reported chromecast issues:

Pocket Cast pauses less than a second into playing a podcast through Chromecast. Hit play, and it starts for a half second again and immediately pauses

• In my investigations, I noticed that we are receiving the stop command from MediaSession when casting an episode, and this is causing the episode to stop. We are overriding the stop method in MediaSessionManager.kt, which stops the episode when this command is received. However, upon reviewing the code, I noticed that this overridden stop method is being called only when attempting to cast an episode. It is not being triggered for the App, Wear, or Automotive platforms, as suggested by the comments in the stop method. All platforms call the pause method instead
• If I remove this method, the Chromecast issue is resolved, and all platforms continue to work as expected. I performed a smoke test on the app by interacting with playback through various sources, such as the notification media center, the now playing screen, Wear OS, and automotive, and confirmed that everything functions correctly, so my propose is to remove this method.
• ⚠️ I was not able to reproduce the same reported scenario the users are reporting because I don't have a Google Nest. What I used to cast was my Tv and the behavior I got was this one:

1. Have some episode playing
2. Open Now Playing
3. Tap on the 3 dots
4. Chromecast
5. Select the device to cast
6. In my case, the episode was paused here like the users reported
7. So I pressed play again and I was able to play the episode as expected. What our users are reporting is that this step don't work for them

• I opened this thread so we can discuss about this @Automattic/pocket-casts-android : p1735230022595629-slack-C07J5LNP4SF

Fixes #3321

Testing Instructions

1. Have some episode playing
2. Open Now Playing
3. Tap on the 3 dots
4. Chromecast
5. Select the device to cast
6. The episode should continue playing in the selected device ✅

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