Hi all,
I found out how to stream audio from PC to an android device. The problem is my jack cabel is not long enough to reach my receiver and I would like to stream the audio over to my HTC Sensation with android 4.0. This is working, however with a delay of like 10 seconds. When I'm watching a movie for example this is worthless ofcourse, you can of course set a delay in VLC but when I'm listening some music I don't want to have to wait 10 seconds for a song to begin to hear if I like it. Gmote is not working for me unfortunately. Also I tried every possible app, either not working or having a delay. The search function didn't bring me so much either. The problem with VLC is that is has to transcode the audio from my PC to MP3 which takes some time. But with a bluetooth headset for example the audio is directly streamed to your earplug, I want to learn how to achieve that with PC->Phone.
My main question:
How to stream your PC audio output to your phone without delay?
I'm not here to argue with you about why I would want to do that, if you came here to tell me to sort my music out in front and then make a playlist and accept the 10 seconds delay and set the delay in VLC to 10 seconds to compensate, please don't respond. I want to browse youtube and instantly hear any audio over my receiver. Also, DO NOT tell me to get a longer jack cable, cause I can't bother other people here with cables going around the whole room. I know this sounds very unkind, and I'm sorry for that, but I have to be very clear because people always respond to my threads like "Ah dude, stop worrying about it, just do it the easy way and accept the delay etcetera".
Thanks in advance
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is there a way that i can listen to my music thru my mono bluetooth earpiece. I am currently using a motorola h270. thanks
ive done it with my lg shine(yes a shine) dont see why not
Well I have been looking into this as I come from windows mobile I loved this feature. Since super BT mono does not work I have found a work around but its not the Best. So basically you call a number that has a long automated message like a movie theater for movie times or something else and put the phone on hold then just play music or video, I was testing it with slingbox and it worked great. However the samsung video player does not let you play when the phone is on. If someone can think of a number that gives us a long message that would be great.
So no matter what application I'm using on my Radar and how I exit the app, i.e., just pause, back all the way out, etc. the music starts playing again when I turn off my BT headset. I've tried looking through settings to no avail.
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hah2110 said:
So no matter what application I'm using on my Radar and how I exit the app, i.e., just pause, back all the way out, etc. the music starts playing again when I turn off my BT headset. I've tried looking through settings to no avail.
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That's odd. Music should automatically stop playing when your bluetooth device is shutoff.
It should not automatically start.
Please describe every detail of what you are doing, connected to, etc. Order and timing might be important.
JVH3 said:
That's odd. Music should automatically stop playing when your bluetooth device is shutoff.
It should not automatically start.
Please describe every detail of what you are doing, connected to, etc. Order and timing might be important.
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Starting with phone idle
Turn on Bluetooth headset
Verify it is connected in Settings
Back out and go to a streaming app (has occurred in slacker and metroradio)
Stream music for any given amount of time
Either pause music, pause and back all the way out, just back all the way out, etc.
Shut screen/put in pocket
Turn off bluetooth headset
Music starts playing from phone speaker
Bump - happened again tonight. This time I paused from the lock screen just to test. Paused -> Screen Off -> BT off -> 10 seconds later, music starts
does it happen if you shut bluetooth off before shutting screen off?
Does it happen with Zune as music player ? Also does these apps have any settings for this kind of situation.
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Does it happen with Zune as music player ? Also does these apps have any settings for this kind of situation.
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I don't use Zune. The only setting in Slacker is if I want Radio to resume automatically when Bluetooth is connected and that is turned off. Metro has nothing.
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You need the app "Stop the Music!
I had the same problem on my Lumia 800 today.. so awkward.....
I was at work and use a Logitech bluetooth docking station, playing music was fine, no problem at all.. I work a shoppingmall and while on my break I went in the another store just next to mine. A really hot girl works there and this lyrics came on highest volume:
"I'm fat, I'm Single, I'm ready to mingle"
here's a youtube link... Never been so embarrassed in my life, I managed to save my ass but only just! A fix would be superb!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpJooV7RrMk
I've had the same issue with the background audio from Podcasts! Pro. It doesn't do this with Zune. I'm guessing its an issue with the way the background api is being implemented.
Another thing i've noticed, when it switches to or from BT, the audio picks up from the last point before BT is connected. Example, if I'm listening to an hour long podcast, and I get 23 minutes into it before switching to BT, even when I listen to another 20 minutes of the podcast, it will revert back to the 23min point once BT is disconnected.
Same issue here
Hi,
I'm having the same issue here with a Mercedes B180 built in Handsfree and Lumia 800.
It happens with Wimp, not Spotify.
As a matter of fact music Streaming is not working at all from any app to this HF.
However: BT with my combination is ok for Contact Transfer and Phone functions so it's not a catastrophy, but....
One other thing: When turning ignition off, ongoing calls are disrupted and not returned to the handset...
Nokia Support said that this is a issue caused by them using the Microsoft BT Stack for Music Streaming while probably Mercedes is using some other (Widcomm, Toshiba...)
BTW: I've used iPhone in this scenario and it works fine with all functions.
So I got my hands on a Samsung Focus and decided to give WP7 a shot. Much to my surprise, I can't put the phone down. I've gone so far as to pull the SIM from my Galaxy Nexus and started using the Focus as my daily driver.
However, as with anything I have a few gripes (which I hope have resolutions). Any help would be appreciated!
Streaming music is dodgy at best. I've used wpFandora, Metro Radio, and Zune Pass and with all of them I get constant drops, song skips due to buffering problems, etc. I don't have these problems on Android or iOS devices. So, is this inherent to WP7 or maybe just the Focus?
Is there any way to prevent screen time out in music apps? I use my phone while driving, and having to wake it and unlock it to change media is troublesome and dangerous.
Bluetooth. When paired to a BT headset, there's no ringtone played on the headset. If I'm listening to music and the phone rings, it mutes the music (but doesn't appear to PAUSE) and that's it. The only ring is from the phone itself, nothing over BT
Really, that's it for me. I really hope these are fixable and/or device specific because I'm salivating to pick up a Lumia 900 once its available!
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Not sure I can help you with the first. I use T-Mobile, so my coverage is poorer than your but my network less saturated, and I almost never have trouple with streaming Zune Pass.
Press the Volume rocker once, either up or down, while at the lock screen. This will show the media controls, and allow you to pause or skip music (and change volume, of course). True apps can also disable the screen time-out (I don't think there's an option in the built-in player), though the effect on battery will be significant.
It takes the phone a second (literally, as in about 1000 ms) to sync to the headset when a call comes in. After that, the headset will either play the ringtone or text-to-speech the caller, depending on the headset and the settings on the phone. Also, on music playback that supports Pause (i.e. Zune Pass streaming, but not radio), the phone will pause music playback when a call arrives.
HTC HD7, build 7720 (quite out of date, by intention; your Focus should be on a newer version). It's possible the problems you are having are Focus specific. For example, there used to be a really bad bug where the Focus would vary the Bluetooth volume continuously while on a call, making it sometimes impossible to hear. I thought they fixed that though...
definately make sure that focus has all the updates installed (including firmware)
Also since you like streaming - check out tune in radio. it finds all the local stations around here and even tells you when shows are on like bob and tom.
Granted, if you have a headset plugged in you can also use the fm radio.
Streaming is normally not a problem at all. Might be the network towers you are on, but then other phones on att / verizon or whatever should have the same issue.
update all your focues firmware to get best experience out of it
Hello, I have rooted a brand new phone this weekend and it has been running fine for the last 3 or 4 days, until today that it started to continuously play and pause media playback ( audio and video). I tried different players but all have the same problem. Any idea what to check?
Ps also phone calls are stuttering
Sounds like something is hogging resources on your phone. Try to identify it using a system monitoring app.
By activating the processor usage on the dev tools, I dont' see any process hogging the cpu. Also now I am trying a custom kernel and the media app just pauses on its own after a few seconds.
I have now tried to connect the headphone and the music is playing, but as soon as I unplug it I hear the music breafly from the speaker and then it pauses. Could it be a loose contact in the headphone jack on the phone?
I remember reading a while back that Google Music had added gapless playback support, but it's not working for me (either on my phone or computer, actually). All the digging I've done says if you enable the equalizer it will be fixed, but I can't figure out how to do that at all. Can anyone tell me?
Reference:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/android-apps/222604-gapless-playback-music-google-play.html
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63337
It's also started playing music when it connects to my car stereo much less reliably. I used to get in and a few seconds later I was streaming music. Now, BT connects and a lot of the time it never plays a song at all, other times it will automatically take one but take as long as 5 minutes, and occasionally it will immediately start playing. What's going on here and how do I make it work the way it should?