Hi xda,
I have an old iPhone 4 I use at the gym to listen to music over wifi. As it's so old it won't let me run Apple music, Spotify or Deezer now on the OS.
I'm after an Android device for cheap just for this purpose.
Just needs to have wifi a screen preferably small screen and run latest Android so i can install any music stream service on it. Around £30-£40 because It's going in the gym with me don't want to worry about breaking it. Hence why i don't take my Honor 7 in with me.
Any recommendations?
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I recently subscribed to GMusic all access, and I'm liking the service very much. I work out 4-5x week for 2h, and I need music. I've been using my Nexus 4 but it's too big and bulky and gets in the way. An armband helps, but I'd like to have a dedicated music playing device. It doesn't help that I've already smashed the screen on my N4 once while running with it (something I don't do anymore, and I don't run all that often, but it'd be nice to have something I can run with and won't fall/isn't worth $400). I found an old iPod Nano (6th gen I think) that would work great but there's no way to reverse sync it with GMusic (I manage my playlists, etc. on GMusic, not iTunes) and it won't get me any of my All Access content.
My conclusion is sell the iPod for whatever I can get (it's like new, so I don't think $60-80 is unreasonable) and get a cheap android phone to use as a dedicated GMusic streaming device. I'm thinking requirements are:
ICS+ (to be able to run current and future GMusic apps)
<4" screen. Shouldn't be too hard seeing as that keeping price low is a priority
WiFi (to stream)
Headphone out and half decent sound quality (i.e. not garbage sound, I'm no audiophile)
Custom ROMs would be nice, but not a requirement at all
I'm open to suggestions, including china phones and used phones (going off average market price)
Hello Everyone
I recently purchased and installed a Pioneer Appradio 2 in my car because the stock radio sucks, and I've always wanted to install a tablet in the dash of my car. So the App Radio II made a lot of sense to me because its cheap (compared to other head units), easy to install (as opposed to hacking your dashboard to fit a tablet in there), and after hooking up my phone to it, gives me way more features than the most expensive Head unit out there. There is a catch to it though; In order to see full Android on it, you have to root your phone, and buy an app called ARLiberator, which costs $35. But ARLiberator is worth every single penny, as it lets you do so much more compared to the stock app that pioneer provides, which only allows you to see a stupid menu with very few apps. With ARLiberator, I do everything my phone does on the Appradio's screen ie Navigation, youtube, music player, video player, even play a game (dont do that while driving lol). Anyways, its a great stereo, and its the best upgrade you can do to your car's interior if you like Android.
Quick video I made about the Appradio, showing how it works and how to connect it to your phone etc
Hi All.
I've an old Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) kicking around.
I'm wanting to give this device a new purpose: Become the office music controller. (yes I know it's a BIG device)
I have a premium spotify account, and I'm looking to run this from the device to the bluetooth speakers in the office. I understand i could just use the app. This being said, I want to remove all other apps and functionality other than to trawl spotify and stream the music to the speakers.
I've thought of XBMC, but i'm unsure how this would work for this purpose. I don't have the physical storage.
Any help here in how to progress or any input would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe Spotify Connect with the screen always on ?
Is there any way to cast media from an app, specifically Google Play Music and YouTube, from a Nexus 6P to a Nexus 7 (2013), similar to how a Chromecast casts those apps?
I'm trying to get a tablet head unit install working elegantly, and casting GPM/YT from my or my passenger's phone while still being able to use Maps navigation natively on the tablet would be the most elegant solution I can think of. If anybody knows of a way to do this or something similar, let me know! I'm willing to pay for an existing app or to incentivize the development or release of a new one. Thanks
I have the same question. I've been searching everywhere for a similar solution with no luck. I want to cast youtube music from my android phone to a nexus 7 tablet on the headrests. (Not just screen mirroring, that creates a sound lag.) Did you ever find a solution?
In other words, how do turn my tablet into a youtube "sink" or receiver?
Hey all,
I have an old (80's-style) full-length cabinet that sits on the floor. It's got a 8-track, FM/AM, and record player built-in, but the radio sucks and the record player is broken. I want to gut the whole thing, install some more modern speakers, install a new record player, and control it all from a tablet or touch screen computer. The big thing I'm looking for is a bit of "future-proofing" so that it can control both the built-in speakers and cast to other devices across the house or even the back patio. We have guests over pretty often, whether to cook out or just hang out in the house. I'd like to be able to pop open the lid of the cabinet and let anybody add/change the music playing, or be able to play the record player throughout the speakers in my house (my wife enjoys the records, while I prefer the convenience of Google Play Music).
I think the best way to do this is through Android, since it's much easier to cast to devices, and I can still change the music playing throughout the house via phones, tablet, and gHomes if I want.
Does anyone have a recommendation for building this solution? I think the most effective way to do this will be to set up the speakers in the cabinet and just plug them directly into a Chromecast Audio. I'll need either a ROM or a home launcher that's more conducive to selecting and limiting itself to a select few music apps & YouTube.
The big hurdles I see are setting up "zones" so that I can pick which Chromecasts the system plays to depending on where in the house we're going to be. I also need a way to feed the external audio (the record player) to the Tablet so it can forward that sound to other Chromecasts. I've looked for how to do this a bit, and it looks like Mozilla figured out a way to do it using a Raspberry Pi. I'm not opposed to this, but I want to be sure that I can use the tablet/computer I build into the cabinet to select which Chromecasts this streams to.
Thanks for the help / recommendations! If I get all of this figured out, I'll be sure to share the end result so people can see how well it all worked out!