Hi XDA Team,
Recently I ran into a predicament where my car's JVC Kenwood head unit stopped displaying song metadata and track information. It turns out this is because Spotify had dropped support for my brand of stereo, meaning I had to downgrade my Spotify version. Before this I used to be able to like songs, browse playlists etc all through my car stereo.
I then got to thinking about how music apps (particularly Spotify) like to drop features at a moments notice, stop working with older devices etc.
I don't have a good way to phrase this question, but can anybody think of an "audio bridge" that manages the connection between your phone's music player and your device of choice? Some third party app that could include support for various devices and apps? Even a custom developed Spotify application? Would love to hear any ideas as to how this could work or why it is/isn't possible.
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hi all...
i dont know if this was posted before...But I know there were many others like me that was looking for a way to fix this.
I am running DC 2.07.2 ROM...with Plantronics Stereo bluetooth headset:
I am running Meridian Player, and I can control the play back with the controls on my bluetooth headset.
Next song
previous song
pause
play
This might work on other music apps too!!
It does not work (bluetooth controls) with internet based music apps like: Pandora and TuneWiki.
before it would only control the HTC Music player. If I tried before while listening to music in any music player; it would start another playback in the HTC music app. I would be hearing 2 songs at one time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is great!!!
THanks to Damageless and his devs!!!
I am running Fresh 2.0d and I use Mixzing Lite connected by bluetooth to a JVC BT-1 headunit. In the past I would have the same problem where using the bluetooth controls would start a new instance of TC music and I would have two songs playing at once.
With Fresh 2.0d the bluetooth controls work with Mixzing with one catch. when I press skip it will skip two tracks. I'll here 1 second of the first track adn then the second will play all the way through. Now sure if it is a 2.1 issue, a JVC issue or a Mixzing issue. Not a big deal though. Just happy I can play and pause.
That's really good news for me. I had given up on ever being able to control a 3rd party music app. Thanks for posting this!
aggie6600 said:
With Fresh 2.0d the bluetooth controls work with Mixzing with one catch. when I press skip it will skip two tracks. I'll here 1 second of the first track adn then the second will play all the way through. Now sure if it is a 2.1 issue, a JVC issue or a Mixzing issue. Not a big deal though. Just happy I can play and pause.
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it might be the JVC Headset or Mixzing
I use Phantronics Voyager and it only skips 1 song at a time.
You should download another music app and try that. I recommend Meridian Player
I have a Galaxy S III running CM 10.1. I can connect to my car stereo (pioneer) via bluetooth without a problem. I can take calls and I can hear audio over a wide range of products (TuneIn Radio, Pandora, Google Music, DoubleTwist, etc).
The problem I'm experiencing is what information displays when MP3s play from Google Music, DoubleTwist, Apollo, etc. For example, if I play songs from Google Music, I see all of the MP3 tags displayed fine; artist, title...you get the idea. When I play the same MP3s from DoubleTwist, none of that information shows up. I would just stick with Google Music but the music sounds much better with DoubleTwist's equalizer on.
What mechanism drives the information being sent through bluetooth? How can I get DoubleTwist to send song info to my stereo?
Any help is appreciated...
gdmarquis said:
I have a Galaxy S III running CM 10.1. I can connect to my car stereo (pioneer) via bluetooth without a problem. I can take calls and I can hear audio over a wide range of products (TuneIn Radio, Pandora, Google Music, DoubleTwist, etc).
The problem I'm experiencing is what information displays when MP3s play from Google Music, DoubleTwist, Apollo, etc. For example, if I play songs from Google Music, I see all of the MP3 tags displayed fine; artist, title...you get the idea. When I play the same MP3s from DoubleTwist, none of that information shows up. I would just stick with Google Music but the music sounds much better with DoubleTwist's equalizer on.
What mechanism drives the information being sent through bluetooth? How can I get DoubleTwist to send song info to my stereo?
Any help is appreciated...
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My Samsung S4 connects to my car bluetooth and voice calls work perfectly. When i play music through the car audio system using the Samsung Music app or Google Play app the quality is very poor and the music skips. The phone also gets very slow.. The phone is basically brand new and i haven't installed much on it so shouldn't be battling to play music through bluetooth.
I've read in some forums and websites about Samsung compressing and decoding music before sending over bluetooth. Is there an easy way for me to fix this with an app or something as I'n new to Andriod and unsure about changing operating system core features
Thanks in advance.
Hey guys - let me explain my situation first:
Devices:
Nexus 5, CM 12 (5.0.2 Nightly)
KDC-BT53U (Car Stereo)
Using the default CM-Media Player (Eleven Music), my car stereo works fine and displays every single bit of information via avrcp (title, artist, album -all working fine).
HOWEVER, when using Google Play Music, i can absolutely not get the text metadata to work. All the controls (Pause, next, ...) work fine, but there is absolutely no text visible at all.
The reason i have to use Google Play Music is because i'm using Tasker and AutoShare in order to start certain playlist(s) - which i can't manage to do with Eleven Music.
I have also tried to "force display" some text via sending an AVRCP-Intent (from the AutoShare homepage) which also shows no results.
Which leads us to my questions:
What the hell is wrong with Google Play Music?
Can i get Eleven Music to play certain playlists via intent?
Is there a way to get manual AVRCP Intents to work (might turn out useful for other tasks in the future)?
MrStocki said:
Hey guys - let me explain my situation first:
Devices:
Nexus 5, CM 12 (5.0.2 Nightly)
KDC-BT53U (Car Stereo)
Using the default CM-Media Player (Eleven Music), my car stereo works fine and displays every single bit of information via avrcp (title, artist, album -all working fine).
HOWEVER, when using Google Play Music, i can absolutely not get the text metadata to work. All the controls (Pause, next, ...) work fine, but there is absolutely no text visible at all.
The reason i have to use Google Play Music is because i'm using Tasker and AutoShare in order to start certain playlist(s) - which i can't manage to do with Eleven Music.
I have also tried to "force display" some text via sending an AVRCP-Intent (from the AutoShare homepage) which also shows no results.
Which leads us to my questions:
What the hell is wrong with Google Play Music?
Can i get Eleven Music to play certain playlists via intent?
Is there a way to get manual AVRCP Intents to work (might turn out useful for other tasks in the future)?
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I wish I had a solution for you. I have a stock Nexus 5 and recently purchased the kdc-x998 (car stereo). I cannot for the life of me get any metadata to display on the receiver. My understanding is the x998 has avrcp 1.3, I cannot figure out what version the N5 has. Controls (play/pause, next) work fine, which are a function of avrcp 1.0. Most people that I am encountering in other forums report that their metadata worked fine up until Android 4.2-ish, at which point Google changed from BlueZ to Bluedroid for handling bluetooth. I don't know if this is the issue. The fact that you get it work using CM's player is unusual. I wonder if that player implements different intents than Google Play Music? FWIW, I can't get metadata from Play Music, Pandora, or iheartradio, the only three programs I've tried. Very frustrating......
I recently purchased an Android-based autoradio.
In the process of customization, I'm in the need of a (music) application to show streaming information about tracks playing over Bluetooth.
Obviously, I can use whatever app to play music locally saved on the autoradio itself, or to stream it online, e.g. Spotify, but I'd like to find an alternative to (at least) show what I'm playing on the phone and streaming on the car via Bluetooth.
Does anybody have any idea or tip?