I'm not sure exactly which part of the phone handles this...so I guess this will be more of a "pick your brain" thread than anything. I have the LG Revolution, on GV 1.3. In my car, I have the Sony XNV-660BT head unit, that supports streaming BT audio. I've used it many times with Pandora and Google Music, and love it. I am able to play/pause/skip which is nice. Through some strange fluke last night, I played some music via the built-in music player, and WHAM! Metadata on screen of my stereo. Artist, Album and Track name were all there, which made the whole thing even more awesome. What I am trying to figure out is why Google Music and Pandora don't send the data, when the built-in player does? Is there something I need to enable? It seems odd Google would not have included that feature.
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I'm not sure exactly which part of the phone handles this...so I guess this will be more of a "pick your brain" thread than anything. I have the LG Revolution, on GV 1.3. In my car, I have the Sony XNV-660BT head unit, that supports streaming BT audio. I've used it many times with Pandora and Google Music, and love it. I am able to play/pause/skip which is nice. Through some strange fluke last night, I played some music via the built-in music player, and WHAM! Metadata on screen of my stereo. Artist, Album and Track name were all there, which made the whole thing even more awesome. What I am trying to figure out is why Google Music and Pandora don't send the data, when the built-in player does? Is there something I need to enable? It seems odd Google would not have included that feature.
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Thanks, now I have a new toy I want.
Glad I could oblige. ;-)
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Perhaps the head unit reads the information directly from the file? That would explain why it doesn't work for streamed music. I think.
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No, even if I play a local file in Google Music it doesn't send it. It looks like a standard limitation in Android's BT that LG must have spent a bit to get working, or used a different BT stack. Oh well...maybe when/if we get ICS ported it will correct this. The newest standard BT stack they are using supports 1.3.
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Is there any Developer working in a new audio player, with a lot of new features including just play songs from the folder you select.
I use my g1 on my car alot and the stock audio players sucks!
for example I can't play songs from a specific folder, the player takes all the songs from the g1 sdcard. the shuffle option don't work right I have about 1500 songs and it playes the sames songs when on shuffle etc.
I'm desperate for a new audio players with good features, specific to use the g1 as a real mp3 player, and for car mp3 play use.
TuneWiki perhaps?
^^^ I hate tune wiki. It never displays the right album artwork.
Hey there! Not trying to hijack your thread, but I got a quick question...I noticed that you said you use your G1 in the car. I have Ford Sync and I have heard the music/navigation broadcast over the speakers, but only when I was actually on a call. How are you connecting? Bluetooth doesn't work and I've also tried using the usb cable.
I also second your "request" for a new music player. The G1 is lacking in the music/video department. My boyfried has an iPhone and I just can't argue when it comes to the media part of the phone...my only argument is having to use iTunes.
Perrosky, have you tried aPlayer?
I'll agree with you on those points. I have a lot of poorly-tagged music and just being able to browse by folder/file would be helpful. Shuffling a folder would be nice as well.
I ended up creating a ton of playlists to accomplish this with the current players. Tunewiki is a step up from the bundled player, but it is still quite lacking.
Some other features I'd like to see:
1. Audio controls like EQ, Balance, etc.
2. Bookmarking. If I'm 15 minutes into a 30 minute audiobook track I'd really prefer to not have to remember where I left off when I start listening again.
I'm sure it is only a matter of time before somebody ports an open source audio player to Android. If they can do it for Rockbox, they can do it for android...
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^^^ I hate tune wiki. It never displays the right album artwork.
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Funny it does for me. Best player out there right now. Coreplayer should be coming out with one soon for android.
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Is there any Developer working in a new audio player, with a lot of new features including just play songs from the folder you select.
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AMEN! I Have been searching for a media player that could do that.
That is the ONLY thing I miss about my windows mobile phone is the windows media player!
I hope coreplayer can do this. Almost 80% of my songs are poorly tagged (ID3) and being able to play an entire folder would be perfect!
Just wondering if this feature came with 2.2 or if the info given by Google is for for the Gingerbread release. I've been waiting for this feature for a long time. Thanks guys!
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Just wondering if this feature came with 2.2 or if the info given by Google is for for the Gingerbread release. I've been waiting for this feature for a long time. Thanks guys!
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you can do this with orb. music hasn't ever really been a problem. the only issue to streaming is divx/xvid movies.
go to orb, make an account. put orb on your computer. then, just make sure orb is running when you leave your house, and that you have an internet connection. then, on your phone, go to mycast.orb.com, log in with your account info. stream.
you can also stream non xvix/divx movies, look at your pictures, and look at documents.
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Just wondering if this feature came with 2.2 or if the info given by Google is for for the Gingerbread release. I've been waiting for this feature for a long time. Thanks guys!
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The streaming capabilities are already in the OS, it came along with the cloud to phone notifications. The software is not done yet. Simplify Media is the company in charge of the streaming software. On their blog it says that they pulled their iPhone and desktop apps last month and that they will support existing accounts for at least 3 months. Based on that, I would guess we'll see the software mid-summer, probably around the iPhone launch.
For reference here are the 5 other active threads specifically about music streaming. There are plenty of others that mention it. Try searching next time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687180
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686826
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686782
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=689011
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687943
GMote works well for me
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GMote works well for me
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gmote isn't for streaming, as far as i know, it's for using your phone to control music on your computer.
correct me if i'm wrong
timothydonohue said:
gmote isn't for streaming, as far as i know, it's for using your phone to control music on your computer.
correct me if i'm wrong
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You can stream while on WiFi, assuming the host machine is on the same network.
I highly recommend Subsonic for streaming music to your phone. You can use it from any web browser or the Android app. One of the best features IMO is that you can set up different users based on how you're streaming. For example, I have 2 users... 1 for streaming over EDGE or 3G with bitrate limited to 64kbps, another user for streaming over WiFi with unlimited bitrate. It also handles M3U playlists and saves the entire playlist (not just the currently playing song) so there isn't much skipping at all. Honestly, the only downside is that the dev hasn't yet implemented an option to shuffle songs.
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
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I highly recommend Subsonic for streaming music to your phone. You can use it from any web browser or the Android app. One of the best features IMO is that you can set up different users based on how you're streaming. For example, I have 2 users... 1 for streaming over EDGE or 3G with bitrate limited to 64kbps, another user for streaming over WiFi with unlimited bitrate. It also handles M3U playlists and saves the entire playlist (not just the currently playing song) so there isn't much skipping at all. Honestly, the only downside is that the dev hasn't yet implemented an option to shuffle songs.
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
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+1 for this. Subsonic is very good. Also worth noting; you have the option of syncing your music to your phone (well, kind of... once you select an album or playlist the Subsonic app downloads all the songs to the SD card).
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gmote isn't for streaming, as far as i know, it's for using your phone to control music on your computer.
correct me if i'm wrong
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You're wrong. Gmote works for controlling your computer AND it also works for streaming music and video etc. over 3G or WiFi.
I use Gmote a lot and I highly recommend it for music & video streaming.
As a noob to Android as well as the Atrix HD, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me whether I have to convert the mp4 music file format iTunes uses to mp3 before I use Welcome Home to transfer the music. I'd like to do this in one swell foop if you know what I mean. I also have no idea if I can transfer the ring tones I made in iTunes to this phone and if so, how do I do it? My phone will arrive today and I'm so excited to finally leave Apple and the closed OS ecosystem.
Also if anyone has any tips early on, I'd love to hear them. ATT has some good tutorials and the Atrix manual seems good too.
Thanks.
Have you looked into doubletwist?
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Download Google music on your computer and sync with iTunes and boom music.. I have 30gb of music without having one song on my phone
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My laptop runs WinXP and I installed Music Manager and it seemed very buggy so I couldn't upload my iTunes. I also installed Double Twist and it easily imported my iTunes music but all the files show the lock (DRM). Are you saying that once Double Twist is installed on my phone that the Atrix running 4.0.4 will play the music without any problems? I was looking at the online manual for the phone and I see that Moto/ATT offer the Welcome Home apps for both PC and phone so that also may be the solution. I'm just trying to figure out if I need to convert the music files in iTunes from mp4 to mp3 so that they will play on the phone.. Any ideas?
Thanks folks.. much appreciated.
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Download Google music on your computer and sync with iTunes and boom music.. I have 30gb of music without having one song on my phone
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When listening to music (I've tried several apps) in the car using A2DP and getting turn by turn navigation I have an issue with the muting. It only happens when using bluetooth. The map app mutes the music when needed but I get no sound (directions) for about 3 seconds. I may hear the very end of the directions or not, depends on how long it takes. It seems Google Map knows to mute the music but that is also mutes the map app for a while.
This worked perfectly on my S2. This is a bone stock SM-900A
Ideas?
I have the same issue. Using the stock music player, switch to the Google player and all is good.
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I have the same issue. Using the stock music player, switch to the Google player and all is good.
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Thanks for the reply
Tried that, didn't help me. Nor did PowerAmp or Rocket music players.
ATT update this morning, hopefully that made a difference. I'l re-install the Google Player.
Anyone that has this, can you explain what is and is not possible with google play music? Can you play and switch between specific radio stations that are in my library? Can you also select and switch between existing playlists that in my library? Can you thumbs up and thumbs down songs?
If you have a rooted device, you can try my Headunit app in standalone mode and see for yourself.
Or two devices USB OTG connected...
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Anyone that has this, can you explain what is and is not possible with google play music? Can you play and switch between specific radio stations that are in my library? Can you also select and switch between existing playlists that in my library? Can you thumbs up and thumbs down songs?
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I've got it running in my '15 Sonata. Yes, you can do all of the things you asked about. I was never much of a fan of Google Play Music, until now.
Picked up my Sonata today. Everything seems to work well except some of the Google Play Music radio station functionality is a mess. When I select Google Play Music radio stations on the Sonata there is a list of radio stations. Some of them are my stations from my phone and they play fine. Others are stations that I don't have on my phone and when I try to play them it says Google Play Music is not working correctly or something similar. Other than that it seems to work great.
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Picked up my Sonata today. Everything seems to work well except some of the Google Play Music radio station functionality is a mess. When I select Google Play Music radio stations on the Sonata there is a list of radio stations. Some of them are my stations from my phone and they play fine. Others are stations that I don't have on my phone and when I try to play them it says Google Play Music is not working correctly or something similar. Other than that it seems to work great.
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Yeah it's kind of basic for now. Android Auto is pretty much a beta product. I'm looking forward to future updates and improved functionality. Still love using it, though!