I own a Venturi Mini, which is a in-car FM Transmitter/Bluetooth unit. As well as being a hands-free kit it also connects as a bluetooth stero headset to my HD and transmits the music via FM to my stereo. It's a lovely piece of kit.
On the unit, as well as being able to dial and hangup there are play, pause, stop, fast forward & rewind controls. These used to operate the music player in Manilla.
I have recently flashed to one of the Stonehenge roms, but now the controls on the venturi connect to Media Player. If I am alreasy playing music through the unit from manilla and then press, for example, fast forward, the manilla player stops and media player opens on it's library plage.
This is annoying. The manilla player is nice and finger friendly as well as having simple visuals. This is great for driving.
Does anybody know if there are any windows settings or registry values I can change to determine which music player an external bluetooth headset controls. I don't mind if I ended up with it fixed to the manilla player or to whichever player is in focus.
Thank you in advance.
Once I wrote the above message I saw a couple of approriate keywords in the list at the bottom which helped me make my searches more appropriate.
Below are a few threads relating to this issue. It appears to be between the bluetooth driver and WM6.5
I can't yet post links so look for the following threads:
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566157
I have a Joying head unit, RK3066 based, 4.4.4, I am wondering if there is a way to replace the stock music player, and have it work like stock.
I have tried Poweramp (something better?), but it only works on a hard boot, I have my unit set to sleep for 2 hours before doing full shutdown, so on short trips, poweramp opens, but I have to reach over and hit play, also it starts at the beginning of the track, sometimes I listen to hours long audio tracks, and thats not nice.
I have tried xposedMTC, but it does not help.
The stock music player obviously restarts where you left off, no matter what - is there a way to emulate that stock behavior on a better app?
If the unit was shutdown completely I don't think there's a way to make PowerAmp resume where it was. This would be a behavior inherent to PowerAmp and I doubt it could be modified, but if you find a way please post it here as I'm also interested in the same.
Stock music player
Anybody has a solution for this? I have exactly the same problem. I know that I can use different app but this one is responding to my steering wheel controls
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Or maybe someone know an app which can be controlled from steering wheel buttons and also have little better organized viewing of audio file which can be sorted by artist..... an folders
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totalimpact said:
I have a Joying head unit, RK3066 based, 4.4.4, I am wondering if there is a way to replace the stock music player, and have it work like stock.
I have tried Poweramp (something better?), but it only works on a hard boot, I have my unit set to sleep for 2 hours before doing full shutdown, so on short trips, poweramp opens, but I have to reach over and hit play, also it starts at the beginning of the track, sometimes I listen to hours long audio tracks, and thats not nice.
I have tried xposedMTC, but it does not help.
The stock music player obviously restarts where you left off, no matter what - is there a way to emulate that stock behavior on a better app?
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just install "autostart" app on playstore and set autoboot "music player" that you want to boot up with additional setting like time to boot up and other, and for poweramp, if you like it to autoplay once it run, just go to poweramp setting --->audio--->audio focus-->select "resume on start". it will auto play once poweramp run.
I use PowerAmp as well I paid for it some time ago and I use it in this unit also there is a app you can use which will allow you to use your steering wheel controls 4 power amp it is called "head unit" it works great, and it is free
With my back to the rise I'll make my stand
Contra197101 said:
I use PowerAmp as well I paid for it some time ago and I use it in this unit also there is a app you can use which will allow you to use your steering wheel controls 4 power amp it is called "head unit" it works great, and it is free
With my back to the rise I'll make my stand
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thank you for info I will try it
Hi All,
Sorry to revive an old thread, but can someone please explain how you set poweramp as the default music player.
Regards
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I would like to know to
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Contra197101 said:
I use PowerAmp as well I paid for it some time ago and I use it in this unit also there is a app you can use which will allow you to use your steering wheel controls 4 power amp it is called "head unit" it works great, and it is free
With my back to the rise I'll make my stand
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hi , can u tell me app name which helps to change tracks from steering wheel
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just install "autostart" app on playstore and set autoboot "music player" that you want to boot up with additional setting like time to boot up and other, and for poweramp, if you like it to autoplay once it run, just go to poweramp setting --->audio--->audio focus-->select "resume on start". it will auto play once poweramp run.
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Thanks for the share but it doesn't work for my HU. It still go back to the stock radio/music everytime I startup my car.
same issue , how can we use steering wheel control to change track on 3rd party apps , it works fine with stock mp3 player which is very raw
Poweramp works for bluetooth streaming?
Hi peeps,
I got my new MTCE MX2 PX5 device up and running. All is well apart from the fact that the musicplayer won't recognise my m3u files. My S160 did w/o problems. Is this normal, or is the px5 supposed to work with m3u files as well?
Thanks!
Sebastian
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Hi peeps,
I got my new MTCE MX2 PX5 device up and running. All is well apart from the fact that the musicplayer won't recognise my m3u files. My S160 did w/o problems. Is this normal, or is the px5 supposed to work with m3u files as well?
Thanks!
Sebastian
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m3u is just a playlist file. If you need to access these just download a player that supports them. Mortplayer or PowerAmp seem to be the best choices
It is not that easy. The music player needs to support the way these units shut down. PowerAmp is a nice app but it can't cope with the sudden shut down. The built in music player is able to save the last playing position and resume after reboot.
Alright, alright, I admit it, it can be easy. The Hal9k ROM gives you the possibility to not close the app while in sleep. Also you can re-map the PX5 to use PowerAmp as a replacement of the stock musicplayer. Apparently the PowerAmp developers are aware of this HU specific behaviour. In the PowerAmp forum there is a post that the HU seem to send a stop command instead of a pause when shutting down. Hence causing PowerAmp to start the song from the beginning.
Also I found that I switch between the DAB app and PowerAmp by using the HW buttons on the radio, PA will not resume the last played song but stay in pause. This can be solved by using the manage app setting in the Hal9k mod and disallow PA and DAB app to run in parallel.
Hi friends,
since Sygic unfortunately does't offer the possibility to control the music player - in my case Spotify - I am looking for an app that can do something like that.
I looked at this one: Navigation Music Controller.
It works fine, but pressing previous track actually plays the previous track. But I'd like to have the current title from start again.
Does anyone know an alternative? Otherwise I'll write to the author of the app ...
Thank you!
No one? :-(
Hello everyone,
I am looking for the best app to play mp4 files. The default app doesn't have any functions other than rewinding between songs and choosing from a playlist. The only requirement is the ability to set random playback and compatibility with steering wheel keys.
-MX Player runs smoothly but doesn't works with the steering wheel keys
-KM Player works fine with buttons but it runs slowly and freezes frequently
I tested a few other apps but they didn't meet the requirements.
For mp3 files I chose Poweramp, it's perfect. I have a problem with the video player.
Any suggestions out there?
I'm used BlackPlayer EX on the head unit. SWC works fine.
But to avoid a sync of mp3s between phone and head unit I use BlackPlayer EX via Android Auto.