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.)
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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.
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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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?
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.
Hello,
my car's radio is capable of displaying album covers, when I play music stored on a USB device. But when I stream exactly the same music file via BT, only the standard icon "unknown album" is displayed. There are a few options concerning BT in the developers options in LOS 17.1. Is there any option among these that could make my car radio display the album covers?
dvdram said:
Hello,
my car's radio is capable of displaying album covers, when I play music stored on a USB device. But when I stream exactly the same music file via BT, only the standard icon "unknown album" is displayed. There are a few options concerning BT in the developers options in LOS 17.1. Is there any option among these that could make my car radio display the album covers?
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Its About META data attached to the music format file
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Its About META data attached to the music format file
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Yes, I am aware of that. The question is: can this meta data be transferred via BT at all, or is this not possible / not implemented (yet), or does it depend on the BT version and/or some included protocol?
And in case it's the last option: are there any arguments in LOS, that can be tweaked to make the meta data being transferred?