Audio streaming to car via USB? - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I read that after JB, it was possible to stream audio to your car via USB. Similar to iPhone. I'm a huge audio fan and I hate using an aux cable, and having to physically touch my phone to change songs while driving and risking getting a ticket. Is there anyway to remedy this, bluetooth is out of the question.

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music - bluetooth to stereo possible?

just as the title says, is it possible to send music via bt to my stereo just like when i make or recieve calls?
not that i'd use this as a sole way to listen to music in my car, but i just started wondering if it were possible, and if so, how?
It's possible, but you have to make sure that your Stereo has the bluetooth profile for A2DP. It's the same pairing process, but instead of only streaming call audio it will stream any other audio too.
Also, the stereo will have a headphone icon under bluetooth preferences.
Hope this helps.
I do that all the time in my car. The sound quality is not as good as hooking up a cable through th aux jack. The nav direction also come through my car stereo.
Ah yes, I forgot about A2DP being needed... That would make my situation impossible... I'll just have to get a 3.5 mm to RCA plug for aux... Thanks guys.
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I had some trouble with this, but the key for me was making my Pioneer head unit "forget" my previous phone. Now it works great!
Actually there is a way to stream music wirelessly to your car stereo: mini FM transmitters. Quite cheap on ebay. I wouldn't bet on audio quality tho.

[Q] Phone audio through Docking stations

Ok is this a hardware problem or software problem?
The music plays though the USB audio port on the Docking stations (both Car and Desk), but the Phone audio does not.
If this is a software problem, is there any chance someone could enable the phone audio out the Docking station audio jack.
If this is a hardware problem, I'm thinking I might as well return the Car Dock, as that was one of the main reasons for having it. It connects the power and audio with one easy click, but if I have to connect to the headphone jack to get the phone audio to play through car speakers, it's not worth the hassle.

[Q] iPod USB Emulator... possible?

I am curious to know it if would be at all possible to develop a USB mode to emulate an iPod's USB connection. It'd be a tedious reverse engineering process to see how the iPod pairs with stereos, docks and such, however the outcome would be great considering how Android has no love in the stereo market right now. Perhaps the JVC receiver that will be coming out soon will change this... (http://ceoutlook.com/2011/12/05/jvc-mobile-gets-android-and-gesture-control/)
An ideal application would be to pair with your car stereo, just plug in your phone to the stereo and select the iPod emulator and voila, you can browse your music, play your music, etc. from your car stereo.
Yes, we have bluetooth, but as far as I know you're unable to browse your device on your car stereo using this. The audio quality is probably not as good as a direct connection to the stereo. Just recently I've become aware that it can transmit the song information to the receiver. The problem with this is finding a receiver that supports it, and for a relatively low price tag. Most low-end receivers already have iPod hookups, but if you throw in HD Radio, SiriusXM, Bluetooth, Navigation, or anything else the price will quickly double. You can also just get a simple receive that allows calls via Bluetooth but not A2DP for a lot less.
We also have an audio jack we could connect to, or audio through USB, but you still don't get interfacing as an iPod would (such as skipping tracks, browsing music, play/pausing)
Yes we need android connectivity just like the iPod. Why hasn't this happened yet?
i also was searching for this.
now i use this solution
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000PS70DM
This is needed
Old thread, I know, but this is an excellent idea. I had thought about such an emulation over the last few years, but had been happy to use DAB radio in my current car. We get a new car this weekend that doesn't have DAB, so I'm left with the old iPod USB connection issue.
I'm no coder these days, but is some reverse engineering of the USB signals not possible? Using bluetooth audio is *some* sort of solution, but doesn't go as far as to allow browsing tracks, albums, artists, playlists etc from my car's interface.
It seems like this is the obvious solution that no-one has thought of.
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I've been wanting to do this for years, ever since iPod control in car stereos became commonplace (2006-ish?). That is, build a little box with a female iPod dock connector and a USB port. Plug any USB flash drive or hard drive into the box, and it reads the MP3 files on the drive and emulates an iPod. The iPod protocol is serial and seems to be hacked and documented on the web.
https://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/FinalProjects/s2007/awr8_asl45/awr8_asl45/index.html
https://nuxx.net/wiki/Apple_Accessory_Protocol
My problem is I don't have the programming ability to write the software for the little iPod emulator box.

[Q] Music Remote Control to use in car

Hello,
I am looking for a music remote control to use while driving, so I don't have to reach for my phone to change music track.
Right now I am learning toward buying one of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Dog-T...ccessories&hash=item3a72fd0822#ht_5127wt_1270
With these, you are supposed to plug your headphones into that dogtag. My question is, if you don't plug your headphones into the dogtag, but instead plug the headphones into the phone itself, will the music come through the phone itself? If it doesn't then it defeats the purpose//
c19932 said:
Hello,
I am looking for a music remote control to use while driving, so I don't have to reach for my phone to change music track.
Right now I am learning toward buying one of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Dog-T...ccessories&hash=item3a72fd0822#ht_5127wt_1270
With these, you are supposed to plug your headphones into that dogtag. My question is, if you don't plug your headphones into the dogtag, but instead plug the headphones into the phone itself, will the music come through the phone itself? If it doesn't then it defeats the purpose//
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am looking for the same thing myself but cantbfind anything
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Actual for me too. Did you find anything ?
c19932 said:
With these, you are supposed to plug your headphones into that dogtag. My question is, if you don't plug your headphones into the dogtag, but instead plug the headphones into the phone itself, will the music come through the phone itself? If it doesn't then it defeats the purpose//
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but it sounds like you're missing the point.
You pair that device with your phone, and audio will be sent from your phone to it via bluetooth. You then connect the "dogtag" to your car's head unit's aux-in. You can then control the audio via the buttons on the dogtag.
edit: oh I see what you mean. You want to use the dogtag solely for control and still connect the headunit directly to the phone? I haven't fiddled with BT audio in a long time, so I'm not sure if you can deselect the audio profile and just use control. If not, sound will be routed over bluetooth.
You could look into a headunit with bluetooth support as well.
i have that same headset, which is originally desigend by jabra as BT3030. didn't use it anymore but just checked what you are trying to find out.
1. when the headset is not connected to telephone media you are not able to use the dogtag to control the player.
2. if the dogtatg is connected to telephone media your are able to control the player but the headphone out of the phone is muted.
so it does not work the way u want it to. sry mate
But I'm not exactly sure why you'd want to plug the phone into the car and use the remote by itself.
Plug the remote into the car and it becomes more or less a fixed item.
You'll be able to do everything just the same, except that there's a wire or two connecting to the remote.
You'll be able to leave the phone in your pocket. Depending on the design of that BT player, if it switches on and resumes playback when there is USB power, it'd be pretty much a completely automated solution. Turn the car on, USB power is supplied, it pairs with your phone in your pocket, and playback resumes.

So is there a way to have audio simultaneously on Bluetooth and Stereo plug ?

Hi all.
So I want to have audio output to both, simultaneously, to a remote Bluetooth-receiver (which is on the other side of my bedroom's wall) and to a stereo 3.5mm connection next to my phone.
Right now, I can have audio to one, but not both (Bluetooh, OR, 3.5mm).
After much searching, I am 50% happy using the app Turbo Alarm because it can play audio simultanously to my Bluetooth receiver and the phone's loud Speaker, but NOT to the phone's 3.5mm plug (silent).
Any thing you know that can do the trick ?
Thank you all.
My phone: Samsung Galaxy S3 (d2att), CM14.1 Oct-N Weekly 2017-06-02, TWRP.
sintoo said:
Hi all.
So I want to have audio output to both, simultaneously, to a remote Bluetooth-receiver (which is on the other side of my bedroom's wall) and to a stereo 3.5mm connection next to my phone.
Right now, I can have audio to one, but not both (Bluetooh, OR, 3.5mm).
After much searching, I am 50% happy using the app Turbo Alarm because it can play audio simultanously to my Bluetooth receiver and the phone's loud Speaker, but NOT to the phone's 3.5mm plug (silent).
Any thing you know that can do the trick ?
Thank you all.
My phone: Samsung Galaxy S3 (d2att), CM14.1 Oct-N Weekly 2017-06-02, TWRP.
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The hardware in your device is designed to only output audio one way or the other, not two or three. It's a limitation built into the hardware, you aren't gonna change it.
There is, however, a solution to your problem, it involves external hardware.
You will need a 3.5mm Y cable and a Bluetooth audio transmitter, plug the cable in your 3.5mm audio jack, connect whatever device you were gonna run via audio jack to one side of the Y cable, connect the Bluetooth audio transmitter to the other side of the Y cable.
This will allow playing audio to both but it won't allow them to listen to different media, they will hear both receive the same audio.
If you want the listening devices to be able to play different audio independently, then you'll have to consider other hardware such as wireless flash drive, it can stream audio to up to 8 devices and stream video to 3 devices, each of them watching or listening to different things independently of each other.
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