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[Q] Is there a way to use my DS like an iPod in my car?

My car has a USB aux (no 3.5mm) It automatically detects my iPhone and can see my play lists and control playback from the car controls. When I connect the DS there is no option for Media Player in the USB menu. If I choose "disk drive", it can read the music but of course... no play lists.
Is there any way to connect DS to my car as a "media player/iPod"??

Essentially your phone is no different to your ipod in terms of what the car sees, you simply need to use playlists that are compatible with the car.

Actually my car sees my DS like a standard USB flash drive. It displays the file names and folders. It even shows my ringtones and apps sound files.
With the iPhone however, it only shows the music and it shows play lists and proper titles for music. It allows me to control audio playback from the car and the device. (All done through USB only)
Essentially what I'm looking for is something on DS that acts like/emulates and iPod when connected over USB.

Yeah, that's what I meant. You didn't say it was controllable from the iPhone too though - there may be an app for this already, otherwise it's fairly simple to make one.

moze bys nie pisal tak?

unclevil said:
moze bys nie pisal tak?
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Indeed!!!1

Anyone have an idea?

Nope, just put your songs or playlists on a cd and then put the cd in your car
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[Q] Looking for Bluetooth file browser with media player

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?

Bluetooth Meta data

Hey what’s going on guys. Has anyone been able to find a way to display meta data on the Bluetooth ad2p app?
I currently use the MTCD until service that’s on the play store that pulls out the data and displays Bluetooth data (app requires root but the Bluetooth data displayed does not) (Arthur, song name, time remaining) but would prefer to have it in the stock app or as a notification/widget.
Currently running 2.95 HA and Hal9k’s Mod

Song id over Bluetooth not showing

When I connect to my car (Volvo) with this phone and play music it just says 'streaming' on my car's display.
Usually it showed track number artist time etc..
Any idea why or how to fix?
Tried to switch to 1.3 instead of 1.4 in the settings but no luck.

I don't have phone but I use BT with music, podcast, audiobooks etc streaming to my car. Have you tried a different music player?
danitaro said:
When I connect to my car (Volvo) with this phone and play music it just says 'streaming' on my car's display.
Usually it showed track number artist time etc..
Any idea why or how to fix?
Tried to switch to 1.3 instead of 1.4 in the settings but no luck.
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I got the phone two days ago, and also have a Volvo, so I know how convenient it is to see the track title and artist in the car display when using Bluetooth to stream audio. I'll see what mine does later today and let you know how that goes. Hope to get it working!
EDIT 3/9: Paired the phone to my Volvo and it took a while, but connected just fine. Went to media and played music in Youtube - it displays the youtube name in the Volvo screen. Used VLC to play some music from the device, got the artist and track name in the Volvo display also, so no problems here so far. Haven't tested it with other media players yet (I like to use blackplayer). So if you don't see the media info, what player are you using?

I use 'youtube music' and the screen just says 'streaming' oh and the name of.my phone

What happens when you use other apps? Have you tried deleting the device from the bluetooth paired list on the Volvo and pairing it again?

All apps just say 'streaming'.
I tried now to put bluetooth profile on 1.6.
But I can't test it I'm on holidays now..

Android phone and album artwork metadata via Bluetooth in car

My Android phone I use as a media player doesn't seem able to send album artwork metadata to my car's entertainment system. Thinking this might be a bluetooth limitation I tried to read from the phone as a USB device but the entertainment system refused to read that at all even selecting File Transfer as the USB method.
The car (Mini Cooper SE) is meant to be able to read from a music player. I've tried all kinds of file types, several USB cables, it just refuses.
Anyone know how to get this to work?
(And no, we DON'T want to use bluetooth. Bluetooth doesnt give album art on the music on our players.)