I'm trying to find an app that will do what I'm looking to do. Here's my story.
I picked up an android 4.4.4 headunit for my car. I'm looking for a way to sync my galaxy s4 over Bluetooth, and have the stereo see the songs that are on my s4's micro SD cards, and allow me to play whichever track I want without having to touch or look at my phone.
Does anyone know of an app that will do this, or any method I can use to have the music stored on my phone be accessible through my android stereo?
I'm currently using Plex media player/server running to let my android stereo stream music from my home computer, but I need to tether my phone to my stereo for data.
Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
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xxcrashxx said:
I'm trying to find an app that will do what I'm looking to do. Here's my story.
I picked up an android 4.4.4 headunit for my car. I'm looking for a way to sync my galaxy s4 over Bluetooth, and have the stereo see the songs that are on my s4's micro SD cards, and allow me to play whichever track I want without having to touch or look at my phone.
Does anyone know of an app that will do this, or any method I can use to have the music stored on my phone be accessible through my android stereo?
I'm currently using Plex media player/server running to let my android stereo stream music from my home computer, but I need to tether my phone to my stereo for data.
Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
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Android supports file browsing and playing files remotely via bluetooth. You need car radio which supports this. If you want to you can use an app calles Bluetooth File Transfer. It has many features such as bluetooth ftp servers and such but it's avery old app.
My stereo does play music from the phone, however the stereo just shows the Play/Next/Previous buttons on it's display, and I need to start the music on the phone manually.
I'm looking for something that will display the song data on the stereo, so that I don't need to look at my phone when I'm driving to see what's playing. BTW, I have about 50 gigs of music, quite a large collection, and the stereo only supports up to 32gb microsd.
I looked into Bluetooth File Transfer, not exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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xxcrashxx said:
My stereo does play music from the phone, however the stereo just shows the Play/Next/Previous buttons on it's display, and I need to start the music on the phone manually.
I'm looking for something that will display the song data on the stereo, so that I don't need to look at my phone when I'm driving to see what's playing. BTW, I have about 50 gigs of music, quite a large collection, and the stereo only supports up to 32gb microsd.
I looked into Bluetooth File Transfer, not exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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If your stereo doesn't display songs, than it can't. I connected my phone to a stereo in a (modern) car and it could select any song.
And if it supports up to 32 GB sdcards, split your library onto 2 cards? Maybe?
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Has anyone heard anything about a Google Music receiver for a car? I'd certainly be in for one. I'm imagining a device with the entire library and album/artist views. It should have a local cache for recently used music that WiFi syncs at night. When on the road requesting a song that isn't locally stored a Bluetooth connection to the mobile phone could be the solution to make for a killer media hub.
I suppose the main trouble with this is carriers would consider sending songs from Google Music to the head unit via Bluetooth tethering, but sending the same song to the head unit over an 1/8th in audio jack would be acceptable.
Anyone know of any development going on that could make this possible?
This is an awesome idea. In fact its the first possibility I thought of when hearing about Google music. My car now has a USB interface and is compatible with all mass storage devices. I imagine an application would create a dummy index for the receiver to access. After clicking on a track the application would then stream the track. I am not a developer here but I hope someone picks this up. The android app they came out with is nice but its interface is disappointing. There should be an easy way to get the raw data to stream without having to be amplified through your cell phone.
I do not have my Galaxy Tab Plus yet, I plan on ordering it soon from T-Mobile US. However, I am going to be mounting this tablet in my Dashboard of my car, I was wondering can someone who does have this device confirm for me that there is a way to connect an external input to this tablet?
For example, I would like to have a headphone (3.5mm) jack connected to the tablet on one end, and be able to connect it to the headphone jack (output) of an mp3 player on the other end, and listen to the music from the MP3 player through the Tablet. Please let me know if the Galaxy Tab Plus is able to do this.
Thanks in advance!
There's no external mic input for the P6210 7.0+. Not quite the T-mob version, but similar enough. A bluetooth stereo audio transmitter might be your workaround, mp3 player streaming via bluetooth to the 7.0+, assuming there is an app that can render the stream(don't know of any off hand).
Okay, I'll have to see what apps can render incoming Bluetooth audio for android then. I found the device I can use to do this through BT, http://www.miccus.com/products/blubridge-mini-jack.
Thank you for the information! I might just be better off waiting until T-Mobile gets some new tablets this year as well... we'll see, I am just pretty impatient and really excited to get this project going.
Hey all - tried to search for this but didn't find anything... I have a Kenwood car stereo that plays iphone via usb port, but I wasn't able to see how to get it to work by seeing the SR as a media device. On my captivate, you could choose 'media player' as a usb mode, but that wouldn't work either. Any ideas? I like the idea of playing music while being able to charge the phone at the same time. It does charge off of the deck via usb, but just can't get it to find the music on the SR.
That is such a coincidence, I just put in probably the same (or similar) Kenwood stereo into my car (KDC-248U). I was looking around on the website and under the KDC-252U they list an Android app "Kenwood Music Control" it's in the Market. I am going to give that a try later today.
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Apparently the app analyzes your music or something and then puts a file on your device to make it readable, worth looking into.
Also check here http://androidforums.com/android-media/167502-kewood-car-deck-problem-solving.html
Nice call! You have to have the music on the external SD though, in case anyone else has a problem getting it running Then choose 'auto output' in preferences. Also appears that the program stays active all the time... which I'm not crazy about, but it does work!
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Nice call! You have to have the music on the external SD though, in case anyone else has a problem getting it running Then choose 'auto output' in preferences. Also appears that the program stays active all the time... which I'm not crazy about, but it does work!
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That's great news! I gave it the ol college try but came up empty. Maybe you can help me out.
First what model stereo do you have and second, how do you store your media on your external SD , in a folder "music" or under a second level folder? Lastly, how did you get it to recognize did you plug it in and quickly choose USB storage or did you plug it in, choose USB storage and then cycle sources till you landed back on USB?
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So I've been playing around with it and now I can get it to play all the time. First plug USB into phone then into Head unit. When head switches to "Reading" change source to something else (Radio, Portable, etc.). Now enable USB storage and open Kenwood App, while doing this switch to "USB" on the source and it will play.
Now I am having lots of issues getting new music to read, I have tried manually analyzing to no such luck. What options do you have on? I noticed that at one time on reboot it re-did the scan.
It's not very elegant but it works. I wish I didn't have to use an app running all the time.
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I first scanned the music so it was all recognized by the app. Plug it in, and while the stereo is showing 'reading's then turn on the PC storage (and assuming you have auto output enabled). Then it worked. Clunky, but better than nothing for linger car trips. My stereo is the x695 excelon deck.
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I first scanned the music so it was all recognized by the app. Plug it in, and while the stereo is showing 'reading's then turn on the PC storage (and assuming you have auto output enabled). Then it worked. Clunky, but better than nothing for linger car trips. My stereo is the x695 excelon deck.
Kenwood Music Editor Light
After playing around a bit it seems really clunky and I don't like the idea of the app running all the time. However I did find a solution, the Kenwood Music Editor (Light Edition).
http://www.kenwood.com/cs/ce/music_editor_light/english/download.html
You are still limited to music on your external SD card but it does not require the Kenwood app to be running or present to work. It was meant to make music playable on any USB device so it can be used for flash cards as well if you are having issues reading them. You plug your device into a computer (Windows only) and then run a scan and you should be good to go.
After doing this it's the same situation to play for me, plug in and turn on USB storage (it takes long for my phone to get into USB storage so that is why I have to cycle the Sources after it's connected to get the stereo to play). It remembers track position and everything.
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After playing around a bit it seems really clunky and I don't like the idea of the app running all the time. However I did find a solution, the Kenwood Music Editor (Light Edition).
You are still limited to music on your external SD card but it does not require the Kenwood app to be running or present to work. It was meant to make music playable on any USB device so it can be used for flash cards as well if you are having issues reading them. You plug your device into a computer (Windows only) and then run a scan and you should be good to go.
After doing this it's the same situation to play for me, plug in and turn on USB storage (it takes long for my phone to get into USB storage so that is why I have to cycle the Sources after it's connected to get the stereo to play). It remembers track position and everything.
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newer car-stereos usualy suport any file when you put the phone in "storage-device"-mode.
im looking to get controll over the phone from my stereo, yther use the player in the phone or spotify. works great whit an iphone, but cant find any solution to get the same controll from my htc desire hd...
im guessing its not the stereo itself but the phones software thats the problem, not allowing audio out or controlls in from the microUSB
id love a solution to this though
Check out the other apps like kenwood music control for android:
http://www.kenwood.com/cs/ce/
I stream audio from my Infuse to my Kenwood DDX719 head unit in my car, and the thing that kills me is all it does is stream audio, not song info (id3 tag). Does anyone know if there's any way besides BT file transfer to get song data from my phone to the device?
I could just put my songs on a USB flash drive and plug that in, but for some reason it takes like 15 minutes to scan an 8GB SD card, can't imagine a 16GB USB drive...
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I stream audio from my Infuse to my Kenwood DDX719 head unit in my car, and the thing that kills me is all it does is stream audio, not song info (id3 tag). Does anyone know if there's any way besides BT file transfer to get song data from my phone to the device?
I could just put my songs on a USB flash drive and plug that in, but for some reason it takes like 15 minutes to scan an 8GB SD card, can't imagine a 16GB USB drive...
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what rom are you on? I never got the data on my Kenwood unit until i went to JB rom. Any of them will work.
I gave up and bought a 16GB USB flash disk. I'm getting a GNII when it comes out in a few weeks anyway. But thanks for the input.
Hello. I made my s4 mini as usb drive (mass storage), and it perfectly working in car stereo, I can switch songs and folders, but to make it easier to find songs i would like to control everything not from car streo player, but from my phone like in this video (1:40). Is that possible on android?
youtu[DOT]be/h0T7JdUpq1A?t=1m40s
SeipRandomas said:
Hello. I made my s4 mini as usb drive (mass storage), and it perfectly working in car stereo, I can switch songs and folders, but to make it easier to find songs i would like to control everything not from car streo player, but from my phone like in this video (1:40). Is that possible on android?
youtu[DOT]be/h0T7JdUpq1A?t=1m40s
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No, because of the way Mass Storage works, that wouldn't be possible. You could however use Bluetooth instead.