Hi, I recently purchased an Android head unit for my truck. It's great, but the Bluetooth music app is pretty basic. It does not let me navigate through albums, artists or playlists. It will only let you listen to and skip through the songs on the album that's currently playing on the phone, which is a big pain. I don't want to have to touch the phone when I want to put on a different album.
Are there any apps in the Play Store that would work for this? Or can anyone direct me to an APK that I can download from somewhere else that has a deeper feature set?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
After a year later, do you find any compatible bluetooth music player app? I'm interested in the same
I'm guessing not, I have just purchased a head unit, and am looking for something better, but nothing's coming up in the searches.
It's one of the things that I would have expected to work as my last car could do all that on its wince based system, which was pretty limited in other respects.
Ben
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Hi all,
I have installed an Android 7.1 headunit in a car, I have replaced most of the default apps, but one I am struggling with is the Bluetooth media app. The Default app on the HU allows me to play music from my phone, but it has only 3 buttons on it, play/pause, forward and back, it doesn't give any track information, or have any visual indication that music is even playing, the device does support A2DP (and so does the phone).
I thought it would be very easy to find a media player that does this, but it seems not, now I realised, this app is very rare, its not usual for an android app to be receiving the stream, normally it would only send the stream. So wondering if anyone has found an app that can do it?
Also has anyone else ever replaced the default FM radio app on a headunit? I believe its not possible because its customised to the specific hardware but I am interested to look for an alternative to this aswell (current one has a bad interface and doesn't save stations if power is lost)
flamery said:
Hi all,
I have installed an Android 7.1 headunit in a car, I have replaced most of the default apps, but one I am struggling with is the Bluetooth media app. The Default app on the HU allows me to play music from my phone, but it has only 3 buttons on it, play/pause, forward and back, it doesn't give any track information, or have any visual indication that music is even playing, the device does support A2DP (and so does the phone).
I thought it would be very easy to find a media player that does this, but it seems not, now I realised, this app is very rare, its not usual for an android app to be receiving the stream, normally it would only send the stream. So wondering if anyone has found an app that can do it?
Also has anyone else ever replaced the default FM radio app on a headunit? I believe its not possible because its customised to the specific hardware but I am interested to look for an alternative to this aswell (current one has a bad interface and doesn't save stations if power is lost)
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Also looking for this! anyone?
Bluetooth App
I completely agree. I just got an 8.0 head unit from Pumpkin ( px5). The BlueTooth App seems pretty basic:
1) sound quality is noticeably lower
2) app is buggy -- after a call, which was ended, the green call icon stayed in the lower right corner until I did a reset of the unit
3) no info about what is being streamed
4) UI of the app is really plain - not much color, etc.
Is this open source somewhere?
Same question here....
Waiting also!!
Enviado do meu iPhone usando o Tapatalk
i am also looking for it
Just installed this so called octo core, 4gb ram head unit and so far it mostly seems to work well enough apart from one really annoying problem, I can't get apple music to work properly on it, yes I can Bluetooth stream from my phone but that only gives me control over the album or playlist that is currently playing and not my entire library.
I have the apple music app downloaded directly onto the head unit and can log into my account, it also allowed me to download my library but when you then click on any of the content, it is blank inside. The same happens if you try and view any album direct from apple, I can play any single song from the homepage but if I click on an actual album then it is again blank inside.
Is this something that anyone else has come across and found a fix for.
I suppose I could try screen mirroring but as I use an android phone then that would mean connecting via USB in order to get that to work and tbh I would rather just leave my phone in my pocket.
Any advice much appreciated.
Well it's obviously an issue with apple music rather than the head unit as I have just signed up to amazon music for 99p for 3 months to try it and that runs perfectly, even the lyrics and album art work as well so I think I will just cancel apple as the more I play with the amazon app, the more I like it anyway.
The only downside that I can find with amazon music is that it won't allow me to split the screen to enable me to also show waze on the screen but it's not a deal breaker.
Does anyone know of a suitable app that will do voice dialling rather than having to scroll through my contacts by hand.
Hi guys, i'm looking for an online music player but can't figure out whats the best version displayed on chinese head units. Apple music is slow, icons are small, takes many clicks to play, search does not show partial results as you type (like on the phone).....all those make it hard to use while driving.
Spotify is also strange, has small icons, even on premium you can;t simply play what you save it always adds other stuff or skips to other songs.
how are your experiences with those, what do you recommend for driving? are there any special or older versions that have a better UI for our headunits? thanks
xiialive
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thanks i'll give it a try. the interface looks nice, big and clean in tablet mode
zerozoneice said:
thanks i'll give it a try. the interface looks nice, big and clean in tablet mode
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i use it too on my phone and also on auto, works very well and has small amount traffic data
how can i get the spotify interface to look like THIS?
on my unit it looks like THIS (on the left but fullscreen with a small album/song cover art at the middle top)
zerozoneice said:
Hi guys, i'm looking for an online music player but can't figure out whats the best version displayed on chinese head units. Apple music is slow, icons are small, takes many clicks to play, search does not show partial results as you type (like on the phone).....all those make it hard to use while driving.
Spotify is also strange, has small icons, even on premium you can;t simply play what you save it always adds other stuff or skips to other songs.
how are your experiences with those, what do you recommend for driving? are there any special or older versions that have a better UI for our headunits? thanks
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Your description of Spotify doesn't sound right. I have Spotify installed on 3 different vehicles with Android head units, and I have no problem with playing my playlist the same way I saved it. Are you sure you didn't forget to log into your account on your head unit?
Now, I used to have a problem with Spotify in the car wanting to play what it thinks was the last thing played on my phone. Sometimes it would show a pop up and ask me which source I wanted to play from, and others it would just play from the phone instead of the head unit, or switch to the phone in the middle of playing a playlist from the head unit. Even disabling the option where it shouldn't try to play from other sources didn't help. I am thinking it was a Spotify app bug, because it doesn't do it anymore.
I like YouTube music as most. I have a Premium Account and it works like a charm. It is also controllable through Google Maps and Waze. I like it.
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Your description of Spotify doesn't sound right. I have Spotify installed on 3 different vehicles with Android head units, and I have no problem with playing my playlist the same way I saved it. ....
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I use Spotify also and I am happy with it although some of the buttons can be small and hard to press.
There is an Auto/Car UI you can switch to. It will auto switch also I believe. I turned it off so has been awhile since I've seen it.
Good morning everyone.
Hope your all having a fantastic day.
This is more of a general android quesiton i suppose rather then a pixel 4. but being brand new to #teampixel thought i would ask.
while i have spotify and dont plan to use music on my phone to often, nice to have for them data black spots.
So i am gonna transfer over a few albums, just wondering what apps you are all using to manage albums and art work?
And then where are you putting your music on the device? surely i shouldn't just dump everything into the downloads folder.
Thank you for your time in reading this post, and hope your able to help.
Kind regards
Liam
You can use a simple Music Player Aimp / Poweramp ... Foobar
I copy the files to the Music folder from my PC.
Even though Google play music is being discontinued this year I'm still using it over YouTube music. I can access my music library on my computer and on my phone. Works great with Android auto too.
Hey there,
just use the preinstalled "YT Music" App. There you can manage your YouTube music and your local music, it also supports the "Motion Sense".
Regards,
Sebastian
Hello everyone,
i bought an android device and what i really hate about it is the stock music player app.
It doesn't really adds music from external usb and looks really cheap.
Has anyone the apk file from a nice stock music player of your android head unit to share with me so i can try another one?
On the play store i could not find any really good player, they all are full of ads or have not really a good interface for head unit use.
Thank you in advance to all!