Change Default Audio Stream? - Tasker Tips & Tricks

Hello,
Here is what I'm trying to do...I typically use my phone as GPS (via waze app) and also streaming music over A2DP (google play music, or, another internet streaming service)
The issue is if I have turn by turn instructions on, it dims the audio stream to allow for the voice to be heard. This is a good feature and makes sense for most users.
However, there is an option in Waze to play sounds through the phones speaker. I only need a slight chirp of noise in order for me to understand I should look at the screen.
Except, even though the through the phone speaker is on, now it dims my A2DP audio, and then plays over the phone speaker...not the intended result on my part.
Therefore, I'd like to try to reroute the Waze app from media stream to something like alarm stream and then Waze dimming the Alarm stream will have no bearing on my media stream and my music won't dim every 3 seconds that there is something on the side of the road or a turn or a cop...it gets very annoying.
Any help will be appreciated.

Re-routing a specific app's audio stream. I researched it briefly a while back but never found a solution.
Be awesome if someone found a way. Post it up.

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Bluetooth issues?

I have a MOTOROKR S9 Stereo Bluetooth headset, and a G1 (Duh) with the latest Cyanogen Mod (4.1.999). I use the phone for my music as well as all the other smart phone stuff.
Now the issue I'm having is when I'm listen to music or a podcast with Google listen. the audio will cut out for a few seconds over an over and it's making it imposable to listen to music. Is there any way of fixing this issue just a side note I'm using the default music app.
Loading001 said:
I have a MOTOROKR S9 Stereo Bluetooth headset, and a G1 (Duh) with the latest Cyanogen Mod (4.1.999). I use the phone for my music as well as all the other smart phone stuff.
Now the issue I'm having is when I'm listen to music or a podcast with Google listen. the audio will cut out for a few seconds over an over and it's making it imposable to listen to music. Is there any way of fixing this issue just a side note I'm using the default music app.
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What radio version do you have?
Raido-2.22.19.26i
so this is a bluetooth related or app related your taling about? can you listen to mp3 over bluetooth if its a bluetooth problem?
I can listen to music or whatever over blue tooth but it's cuting out all the time.
I believe this is a common problem for cyans latest rom, but im not sure. you can check on his google code page and see if anyone has a fix because i know a lot of people reported the problem ( i personally dont use bluetooth, so i cant really help there)
did you also try turning off wifi and seeing if it work? bluetooth is kinda like wifi with much less power. maybe turning off wifi could fix it

[Q] bluetooth car audio issues

I recently went with an HTC One and while I'm loving the device I've gotten quite spoiled with the car integration of the iphone. My phone is connected via bluetooth to my car audio system. Makes and receives calls fine. Plays out of the "Music" app fine.
But getting beyond that is incredibly annoying. The Music app just wants to play whenever i go to the bluetooth input and getting it to play something else is sometimes impossible. Starting spotify sometimes gets me spotify audio, and sometimes I get stuck in a loop where my car's audio is "paused" and spotify is playing on my phone. I tried to use my phone to stream slingbox audio over bluetooth today and simply couldn't accomplish this, every time i went to bluetooth the music app would start and the slingbox feed would get disconnected. Same behavior with WatchESPN.
On an iphone, the audio is all piped through the same thing and multiple audio feeds can't play, so this would be as simple to fix as double tapping the home screen and going to the airplay like icon and selecting the right output if for some reason it wasn't playing a particular app's audio over bluetooth.
Is there an app or any change I can make that will allow me to control which application is sending the audio over bluetooth? Can I disable the music app just taking over whenever I connect my car? Any other ideas I haven't thought of?
Are you using the car mode system? Go into the car app, go to settings (tap on the bottom middle), and make sure to turn off all the auto-music and such.
No, would I be able to control sling player in that mode?
Similar Issue! Bluetooth works only with Google Music App
I have a similar issue. Bluetooth pairs well with my stereo, and if I use the Google Music App all is great. I get great sound and track information. On all other apps (pandora, spotify, tunein Radio) the app shows that my music is playing but there is no sound coming from the car audio. The strange part is...when I play on Google music, then hit play on Spotify, spotify will play my track for a few seconds before the sound goes away. The track is still playing in the app though. Has anyone else encountered this?
BioHackr said:
I have a similar issue. Bluetooth pairs well with my stereo, and if I use the Google Music App all is great. I get great sound and track information. On all other apps (pandora, spotify, tunein Radio) the app shows that my music is playing but there is no sound coming from the car audio. The strange part is...when I play on Google music, then hit play on Spotify, spotify will play my track for a few seconds before the sound goes away. The track is still playing in the app though. Has anyone else encountered this?
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Has definitely happened to me on more than one occasion. I've really only "fixed" it by restarting phone and car and hoping for the best.
iPhone market penetration and awareness has driven ICE integration to the exclusion of other brands.
Lack of similar joined up Android integration is the only thing stopping me going mechless in the car.
Until then, CD.
BioHackr said:
I have a similar issue. Bluetooth pairs well with my stereo, and if I use the Google Music App all is great. I get great sound and track information. On all other apps (pandora, spotify, tunein Radio) the app shows that my music is playing but there is no sound coming from the car audio. The strange part is...when I play on Google music, then hit play on Spotify, spotify will play my track for a few seconds before the sound goes away. The track is still playing in the app though. Has anyone else encountered this?
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Yes I've encountered this in my 2011 Sienna. Yep I'm one of those spoiled by how well iOS handled audio through Bluetooth. I haven't tried Spotify, but I did try pandor and tunein and got the exact same results as you, with Google Music being the only player that works. I just transferred some music from my iTunes library and will try playing music through the native music app.
This won't be a dealbreaker for me but man do I miss how seamlessley iOS handled this. At least the steering wheel controls seem to work with Google Music, allowing me to jump to the next track.
59er9er said:
Yes I've encountered this in my 2011 Sienna. Yep I'm one of those spoiled by how well iOS handled audio through Bluetooth. I haven't tried Spotify, but I did try pandor and tunein and got the exact same results as you, with Google Music being the only player that works. I just transferred some music from my iTunes library and will try playing music through the native music app.
This won't be a dealbreaker for me but man do I miss how seamlessley iOS handled this. At least the steering wheel controls seem to work with Google Music, allowing me to jump to the next track.
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So bluetooth streaming works fine for the native music player and I can go back and forth between Google Music and the native player and it streams fine via bluetooth. Still doesn't work with Pandora.
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59er9er said:
So bluetooth streaming works fine for the native music player and I can go back and forth between Google Music and the native player and it streams fine via bluetooth. Still doesn't work with Pandora.
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Hi, Mine is totally broken...I could it be that the Uconnect system in my Dodge truck needs an update...Is anyone with Uconnect having any issues streaming?
Thanks in advanced
BioHackr said:
I have a similar issue. Bluetooth pairs well with my stereo, and if I use the Google Music App all is great. I get great sound and track information. On all other apps (pandora, spotify, tunein Radio) the app shows that my music is playing but there is no sound coming from the car audio. The strange part is...when I play on Google music, then hit play on Spotify, spotify will play my track for a few seconds before the sound goes away. The track is still playing in the app though. Has anyone else encountered this?
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I am experiencing the same. Google music and google play stream perfectly. Maps(Navigation), Spotify, TED, Youtube have no speaker output, car speakers or otherwise.
In the same car I've previously been using a Galaxy S2 with all the above apps streaming via bluetooth just fine.
Anyone any ideas...?
Edit. I've tried everything but looks like this is a known issue with 4.1.2 jellybean. 4.2 update on its way within a month I hear.
Here's the workaround that I discovered in androidforums. I can confirm that it works with my AT&T HTC One and 2011 Sienna:
Launch pandora
Launch Google Play Music
Under Manage apps, select Google Play Music and stop it.
Sometimes Pandora starts streaming at this point.
If not, select Pandora from Running and stop everything under it.
Restart Pandora and it should stream now.
Just got an OTA update but no 4.2 yet. Bluetooth is still broken (unless you use Google music)
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
diabloescobar said:
I recently went with an HTC One and while I'm loving the device I've gotten quite spoiled with the car integration of the iphone. My phone is connected via bluetooth to my car audio system. Makes and receives calls fine. Plays out of the "Music" app fine.
But getting beyond that is incredibly annoying. The Music app just wants to play whenever i go to the bluetooth input and getting it to play something else is sometimes impossible. Starting spotify sometimes gets me spotify audio, and sometimes I get stuck in a loop where my car's audio is "paused" and spotify is playing on my phone. I tried to use my phone to stream slingbox audio over bluetooth today and simply couldn't accomplish this, every time i went to bluetooth the music app would start and the slingbox feed would get disconnected. Same behavior with WatchESPN.
On an iphone, the audio is all piped through the same thing and multiple audio feeds can't play, so this would be as simple to fix as double tapping the home screen and going to the airplay like icon and selecting the right output if for some reason it wasn't playing a particular app's audio over bluetooth.
Is there an app or any change I can make that will allow me to control which application is sending the audio over bluetooth? Can I disable the music app just taking over whenever I connect my car? Any other ideas I haven't thought of?
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I have a 2013 Honda Pilot and whenever I stream music from my HTC One via Bluetooth, it will "pause" the music player. This happens all the time. It might go a few songs before it happens or will pause multiple times during a song.

Interesting thing I discovered with Chromecast app and bluetoooth headset

I discovered that when using my bluetooth headsets with my phone the Chromecast icon appears in supported apps and clicking it will toggle audio from my BT headset/headphones to my device and back.
Nothing major but I found it interesting. Normally I'd have to turn of the BT headset or go into BT settings to accomplish this. Comes in handy if you are listening privatly to YouTube or something and want to share with someone.
Haven't tested a call so not sure if calls would still be to the headset or not, or just media audio.
I noticed the same thing last weekend. I also noticed another oddity: Once I connected to the bluetooth headset, it wouldn't allow me to cast back to my Chromecast again. Each time I'd hit the cast icon, it would toggle between the speaker and the headset, but I couldn't seem to make it go to the TV. I seem to recall I had to either turn off bluetooth on my Note 2, or reboot the phone entirely before it would let me cast to the TV again.
muchtall said:
I noticed the same thing last weekend. I also noticed another oddity: Once I connected to the bluetooth headset, it wouldn't allow me to cast back to my Chromecast again. Each time I'd hit the cast icon, it would toggle between the speaker and the headset, but I couldn't seem to make it go to the TV. I seem to recall I had to either turn off bluetooth on my Note 2, or reboot the phone entirely before it would let me cast to the TV again.
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Just tried it and at first it one gave me the choice between mt BT device and my Tablet, but less than a minute later it started to show the Chromecast as an option and it worked.
If I'm off the Network my Chromecast is on the button only works to goggle audio between my BT and Device (Phone/Tablet).

Bluetooth Bug

This only happens in my car but...
When I start the car, my handset connects.b, but the music will not play through the car. To get it to work, I have to wait until the car connects with my phone, then turn BT off and on again. Every time. Anyone else suffering from this.
My Bluetooth is working with my car. This is normal procedure that it will take a couple second to sync phone with car system. So even after a 1 minute even you load up Pandora radio or anything, it wont play on your car's stereo ? do you get any error message on phone ? The only thing which i noticed is missing artist and song title tag on my car's screen. I think it is caused by Pandora radio, cause when I restart Pandora, it will work fine. Try to reset your phone or 1st delete Bluetooth car sync profile and re-sync again. Good luck.
Do you have a Bluetooth headset connected when you connect to your car?
If so, go in to your BT device profiles on the phone, open up your headset, and disable media audio.
nokianyc said:
My Bluetooth is working with my car. This is normal procedure that it will take a couple second to sync phone with car system. So even after a 1 minute even you load up Pandora radio or anything, it wont play on your car's stereo ? do you get any error message on phone ? The only thing which i noticed is missing artist and song title tag on my car's screen. I think it is caused by Pandora radio, cause when I restart Pandora, it will work fine. Try to reset your phone or 1st delete Bluetooth car sync profile and re-sync again. Good luck.
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No message on the phone. I play though Google Music and on the phone it looks like it is playing as normal. I'm only using a simple BT device that conects through the aux port as Ford want a small fortune to supply the bluetooth adapter. I'll have a little play though, thanks for the advice.
TheAmazingDave said:
Do you have a Bluetooth headset connected when you connect to your car?
If so, go in to your BT device profiles on the phone, open up your headset, and disable media audio.
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No headset connected, nothing else via BT in range to connect to. I'll see if I can find anything else in the profiles though.
Maybe it's Google music. I will try to play music whatever it's store on your memory. I know it seems stupid but it's good to try it. I tried my nexus on my friend's car and no issues. He own Audi, I got Hyundai with navigation. Anyway there is not a lot settings regarding Bluetooth. Like I said before, might be worth to reset phone .
I have a similar issue and it is only with my car as well. It pairs up, the bluetooth audio controls on the stereo come up, but it doesn't play unless I hit play on the phone. After that, I can skip tracks, pause, etc. This happens about 90% of the time, to the point where it almost catches me off guard when it works like it is supposed to. This did not happen with my previous phone (HTC One M8) or any of the iPhone versions I had before it.

[Q] Notification (speech) WHILE google music is playing?

I'm listening to google music over bluetooth headset and receive a notification (via enhanced caller ID app) that's supposed to use the TTS engine. The music is dimmed but no voice is output. I tried to test the text to speech in settings, and nothing happens if music is playing (not even a dimming of sound). However, as soon as I pause the music, the TTS test works (I hear the voice).
Is there any way to force google music (lollipop?) play the speech/notification sound during music playback? I've tried various sound mixers and settings in lollipop, but can't get this to work.
Wow, I have a very similar situation.
soundneedle said:
I'm listening to google music over bluetooth headset and receive a notification (via enhanced caller ID app) that's supposed to use the TTS engine. The music is dimmed but no voice is output. I tried to test the text to speech in settings, and nothing happens if music is playing (not even a dimming of sound). However, as soon as I pause the music, the TTS test works (I hear the voice).
Is there any way to force google music (lollipop?) play the speech/notification sound during music playback? I've tried various sound mixers and settings in lollipop, but can't get this to work.
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I'm listening to Pandora through a Bluetooth audio system in my car, A notification comes in, (via enhanced SMS and caller ID app) and Pandora shuts down as it should and Enhanced asks me if I would like it to read the message, when I respond with yes, An error comes up on the screen that say something like this, Bluetooth Sharing has stopped. When Pandora comes back on it no longer plays through audio system just the phone speakers, even though bluetooth radio says they are still connected. When I turn Bluetooth off and on again, it still will only play through phone speakers. The only fix I have found is to shut down the Nexus and allow it to boot fresh, then everything is fine until the next notification arrives, the problem begins all over. Wrote ED a letter about this, He's the creator of Enhanced Caller ID and has always responded to me. So I'm waiting to see what he says, but I have used this program on my last four phones without any issues. I think it is yet another Lollipop issue. Not happy about it and hope the next update may address it. My money says that it has something to do with the screen being off, so tomorrow I'm going to have someone send me texts while I'm paired with car and keep the screen on while streaming Pandora and see if I get different results. Somehow I think it is related to the NFC security feature that will not let you use NFC unless screen is on and unlocked. Just a guess on my part, but I bet that is where the problem lies.
Found my issue. Using viper4android in compatible mode causes issues when two sources attempt to play together. Turned off viper and sounds over music playing worked again.

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