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[webtop] Sounding off in Ubuntu

This is an article I've been meaning to write for a little while now, since audio on the Ubuntu part of the Atrix is a bit tricky.
The basic idea is this: when in lapdock mode, it would be nice to have a music player that's designed for that form factor. As such, a decent starting point is the default GNOME music management program for Ubuntu 9.04: Rhythmbox.
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However, after installing Rhythmbox, three plugin errors pop up. Two of them don't matter much to me (the jamendo and the Magnatune Store ones) and can be disabled, but cover art should work. A bit of Google footwork reveals that installing python-gst0.10 fixes that (and the stores too).
Unfortunately, an attempt to then play a FLAC causes... playback with no sound. Based on a previous post, pulseaudio appears to serve as the audio backbone. Rhythmbox, on the other hand, uses GStreamer, so that connection might not be working properly.
Another Google search ends up bringing up a wiki page that suggests that gnome-media needs to be installed so that we can run gstreamer-properties.
But, the pulseaudio plugin supposedly isn't installed. So, gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio needs to be installed as well.
And, then, finally! It's possible to play music via Rhythmbox! This should also allow any other GStreamer-based programs to output sound as well.
P.S. Yes, I like the occasionally bad joke, as the title implies.

who listens to flac media files anyways

awesome, thanks!
and as you suspected it does fix sound in other apps, like pidgin.
hope you don't mind i added it to my list.

Bluetooth car audio issue HALP

Owner of an S4A and I love the phone, it convinced me to leave iphone for good.... until now. I recently installed a new head unit in my truck a Sony XAV-601bt, and when the bluetooth audio connects it asks to complete some action but i don't know what it is. No matter what i do music calls etc work fine on the head unit but for some reason my phone forgets the default launcher (nova launcher) and default music player (rocket) and default SMS app (gosms). I've exhausted google search looking for anything that resets app defaults and only found app managers etc, and i've not found anything related to the radio.
My question is this is there a way to find out what action is being executed so that I can find the correct app for it? I'm thinking that without that action it's causing strangeness with the rest of the phone
here is the screen i get when the phone pairs to the head unit
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You need 25 posts before you can post pics or links on XDA. My S4A works fine with my Sony head unit on my Harley. The first time it connected it asked if it could access my contacts. If you somehow skipped that step that might be your problem. You also mentioned what you say are default apps, but those sound like the names of non-stock apps. You may have set them as the defaults, but they may not work properly with other devices expecting to interface with the apps as the phone came from Samsung.

Assist Driving Broken Again(no playback resume)!?

Ok, so this was finally working as expected after the 4.4.2 OTA. Now, yesterday's update of Assist no longer resumes play of the podcast I was listening to on Pocketcasts when driving. It opens the app, but does not resume playback.
Same thing with Play Music as well.
I have wiped the Assist's data and cache, uninstalled updates, wipe the phone's cache, re-installed the update and re-setup Assist and the behavior is still the same.
Anybody else seeing this?
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Ok, so this was finally working as expected after the 4.4.2 OTA. Now, yesterday's update of Assist no longer resumes play of the podcast I was listening to on Pocketcasts when driving. It opens the app, but does not resume playback.
Same thing with Play Music as well.
I have wiped the Assist's data and cache, uninstalled updates, wipe the phone's cache, re-installed the update and re-setup Assist and the behavior is still the same.
Anybody else seeing this?
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I just got my moto x last week and also have this problem.
it sees that I'm driving and launches play music in the background but does not start playing.
kind of defeats the purpose of assist if you still have to unlock your phone and hit play....
The only work around I found was just installing bluetooth connect so music starts playing when my car bluetooth connects.
would also like to see a way to play/pause and skip tracks using voice commands.

Yeah... Mark [email protected] is aware of the issue so hopefully it gets fixed soon in an update.

Music browsing capabilities.

Looking to purchase an Android Auto Kenwood headunit.. I was messing around with one at my local car audio shop, and noticed that in Play Music 'My Library' was absent.. Is it possible to browse all the music stored on my phone, or has Google disabled that in the interest of driving safety?

It SHOULD work, that's the idea.
I dunno why it didn't for you.

It doesn't work for me either. I have a Note 5
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One little documented issue with Android Auto is that it enforces a maximum number of screen presses, around 5-6, to select music.
This is done to minimize driving distraction.
If your music collection has a deep hierarchy, AA may decide not to show it.

Ouch, that's a shame. This is one of the first things i noticed too.. Most of my music can't be seen, but can only be accessed via playlists or via voice command. This is in my 2016 Golf GTI.
I remembered during a test drive before i bought my car that I was able to see most of my music, but maybe that was because I didn't have much on my phone at the time.
Google really needs to include a library function comparable to that of the Google play music app because as of now, I much prefer the simple music browsing function of CarPlay.

I'm having the same issue on my 8100NEX. With Google Play Music, it's not a problem with a number of taps or a large hierarchy...because I've just started using it and have a pretty small library and haven't uploaded any of my own personal songs yet. It's just that the Library isn't there. So you have to either queue up a bunch of songs or create playlists for everything you want to listen to instead of adding albums and saving songs to your library. Or just rely on your "recent history" to have what you want, which is pretty dumb if you ask me. Hope they fix this.

Detect which audio output is selected?

Is there a way detect which audio output is selected (i.e. speaker or bt headphones)? I'm trying make audio notification through speaker ONLY when bt headphones are connected and audio is routed to it.
I found a partial solution here it works well, until audio output is selected for speker, while bt headphones still connected: I get double notification
Any tips?
Thank you.
Using Samsung S10+ with Android 9

Unless an app broadcasts the information of what stream it's using, it's not something Tasker will be able to identify, certainly not before the notification has already fired.
The idea of the profile you linked is that notifications that would sound over BT only because the headset is connected, are given an additional notification over the speaker.
I'm guessing that you have an app selected in the notification listener plugin that (also) sends it's notification through a different stream that plays on the speaker, even though the BT is connected.
If that's the problem, just deselect that app from the notification listener context.
If it's more complex than that, please provide specifics and we'll see if that's a solution.

It's somewhat system setting (SmartThings is built-in app?)
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It's somewhat system setting (SmartThings is built-in app?)
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I'm not a Samsung person, but a little searching teaches me that SmartThings is Samsung's home automation offering. Maybe there is a suitable plugin or something out there that will help you. An older post in the Samsung community forums, but a Tasker plugin was being discussed.