So I'd like to mount my Nook in my car to use while driving. I'd find it easier to push a large button on a screen larger than my phone/Zune screen. Not to mention my eyes won't leave the road while doing so. I might end up getting a big enough SD card to fit a majority of my music, or setup a hotspot and stream Pandora. How's the Nook's audio quality?
Is there a way to hook up my Zune, via a 3.5mm cable, to my Nook, then to my jack on my radio, to control my Zune's playlist through my Nook?
If you have your Nook mounted in your car, what do you use it for?
Edit: I wanted to see if bluetooth worked on my CM7 ROM, or if I had to set it up. I was able to enable bluetooth, and pair it with my phone. Since this is my first time ever working with this, my bluetooth works, right? I didn't attempt to transfer anything.
LaughingMoose said:
Is there a way to hook up my Zune, via a 3.5mm cable, to my Nook, then to my jack on my radio, to control my Zune's playlist through my Nook?
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No.
The 3.5mm jack on the zune is an output only jack. Even if you could send a data single down that wire, the zune wouldn't do anything with it.
That's what I figured. I found out I have an 8GB SD in my Nook, and I don't use it to store anything, so I can add a good portion of my music over.
Is there a preferred music app for the Nook that's recommended to use while driving? Like an app with large pause/play, next buttons, etc.
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Hey guys, I have a simple problem.
When I had my blackberry curve, I hooked it up to my car stereo via the USB cable and it worked perfectly.
Now, with my G1, It's.....annoying to say the least.
It just works randomly and I don't know how to make it work all the time.
This is the process I'm doing now.
1) Turn on Car (Stereo turns on)
2) Switch to USB Input
3) Plug the mini USB to my G1
4) Mount it.
Now...this NEVER works the first time.
I have to keep plugging + unplugging to make it work and that is really annoying.
I was wondering if anyone else has better luck than me?
On the SD card, I have two partitions with th ext3 being the first one followed by the fat32 one.
WHY mount? If you mount your sdcard on the computer, your music app can't access the sdcard. My advice is, do not mount the sdcard in your car and try if it works just going to the music app and playing a song.
I don't think you understood my question at all
I don't use any music players to play my music. The stereo gets the mp3's from my SD Card, and then the stereo plays it.
The stereo has to access the fat32 partition for it to access the mp3s.
and thus I mount.
tissle said:
I don't think you understood my question at all
I don't use any music players to play my music. The stereo gets the mp3's from my SD Card, and then the stereo plays it.
The stereo has to access the fat32 partition for it to access the mp3s.
and thus I mount.
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that is true. just connect my headset adapter to a cassette , and use the phone mp3 player. simple
tissle said:
I don't think you understood my question at all
I don't use any music players to play my music. The stereo gets the mp3's from my SD Card, and then the stereo plays it.
The stereo has to access the fat32 partition for it to access the mp3s.
and thus I mount.
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Sorry, I misunderstood your question
I have searched everywhere and can't seem to find a answer to this...
I use a phone cradle in the car, using my topaz as my music player, connecting my phone to my car stereo with a male-male 3.5mm audio jack.
I want to be able to steam music via bluetooth from any other compatible phone / device to my phone, meaning I don't have to trail cables everywhere when a passenger wants to play something.
I would have thought this to be a simple-ish thing to setup but cannot find any information on how to do it. Is it even possible, and where would I start if it is?
I also want to use my on-board mic when the headset is plugged so I can have call audio over car speakers, although iv been led to believe this isn't possible because of hardware reasons, can anybody clarify that?
Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, not really sure where it should have gone.
If I understand you correctly, you want to stream music TO your phone over BT from another device? Not possible.
For hearing call over speakers and using mic, you need to get the M-F w/built in mic.
I too don't think it will be possible to stream music from another device to your phone except if you transfer the entire music mp3 file via bluetooth to your device and then play it from there.
Regarding the possibility of using the device's microphone whilst using the car speakers for sound, again I'm afraid I don't think this is possible. I have a similar set-up to you in that my TD2 is connected to an FM transmitter which also charges my TD2 at the same time in a nice cradle. The TD2 thinks it is connected to a headset when cradled. The microphone is inactive in this state which is a shame as it would have made a good hands free system if it were to be active....
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I too don't think it will be possible to stream music from another device to your phone except if you transfer the entire music mp3 file via bluetooth to your device and then play it from there.
Regarding the possibility of using the device's microphone whilst using the car speakers for sound, again I'm afraid I don't think this is possible. I have a similar set-up to you in that my TD2 is connected to an FM transmitter which also charges my TD2 at the same time in a nice cradle. The TD2 thinks it is connected to a headset when cradled. The microphone is inactive in this state which is a shame as it would have made a good hands free system if it were to be active....
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I use this set up as well. You just need the cable with the built in mic.
My RF Transmitter has a male plug, So I found the HTC cable that has the HTC USB to Female with built in mic. This is my basic set up.
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I use this set up as well. You just need the cable with the built in mic.
My RF Transmitter has a male plug, So I found the HTC cable that has the HTC USB to Female with built in mic. This is my basic set up.
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That set up looks great Bruce, but I don't want to be fiddling about plugging in so many cables with so many wires visible. Brodit does something similar too, all in a cradle with an extended wire so you would be able to hide all the cables....
I got an el cheapo FM transmitter that has a 1/8" lead for the audio. It works great, except when I plug it in to the N1, whatever is playing starts rapidly skipping tracks, pausing, playing, pausing again, etc. I'm assuming that for some reason, the N1 thinks it's getting signals from one of those headphone-line adapters with transport controls on it. Is there any way to tell the phone to ignore transport commands from external headphones?
Or is this a different problem entirely?
I'm looking into car stereos, and is there a way to get one with a usb port that I could do audio out of the phone through it?
Right now I have to cables needed for my phone in the car, power cable and headphones. I'm trying to see how I can eliminate the headphones, but still keep the ability to use my phone for music (while its charging). I keep my music on the internal storage (not SD), but also use Pandora or Audiogalaxy.
Also if there are any stereo units that can do this and have support for ipod of usb that would be great too.
almost every car stereo brand has one with usb ports but unfortunately I think you need one with an auxiliary out that will connect thru 3.5 mm headphone jack
edit: I think there might be some out there that have bluetooth for playing music actually
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Check CrutchField.com and it should work just like you want. Go to best buy with your cable and plug into one of the HU's there and try it. Your music would need to be on the SD card and disk drive setup from the phone end I think
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This means your phone will act as an USB thumb drive.. It may not be the same effect you want, but is a pretty good solution.
I use a nice sony head to stream the media audio to in my truck, often 8 or 10 hours a day, love it. A few head units will allow phone and audio seperately. The ability to connect bt headset and head unit to the phone is well worth the money if you spend much time driving
Pioneer offers many units that have the bluetooth built in that allow audio streaming and call interuption etc
I know in my 2011 Camaro i can do call audio and any audio on my Incredible (ie: music, sounds, games, videos all output audio via bluetooth since the radio acts as headphones) but of course were also talking about a stereo that has rare support for the Zune integrated right into the USB.
The sony in my 2011 freightliner does the media and phone seperately, phone can be connected to stereo and headset at the same time, mp3 thru the stereo and calls thru the headset. Even with the external mic for the stereo people got too much background noise. Car might be a little quieter inside tho
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One of my vehicles is a 2011 Chevy Equinox and unfortunately it only supports bluetooth for phone calls and not audio streaming. When I tried hooking up my One to it last night via USB it just started indexing the entire contents of the internal SD card for music and started playing anything that was a sound file. How can I organize my music in such a way that it only indexes and plays the music in my Music folder? Also, any way to create a "pre-indexed" file? I noticed that because I have so much music on the phone that it takes several minutes to index everything during which time I can't select specific artists or songs.
Finally, is there any way I can get Pandora to play via USB connection? Right now the car just indexes and plays music that's on the internal SD card. I have to hook up the One via an Auxiliary cable in order to get Pandora to come through the car speakers.
I'll be honest, the whole integration with car stereos is one area where I think Apple has Android beat. My wife's iPhone 5 plays nicely with the car when hooked up via USB... no indexing, can quickly search by artist, song or album, and Pandora streams just fine. Of course I don't necessarily blame Android as much as I do the car manufacturers to catering so heavily to Apple devices and this wouldn't be an issue at all if my car supported bluetooth streaming properly, but I digress.
Thanks in advance