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Metadata from streaming audio

I am in the process of writing an app that will stream the audio from my somewhat local radio station. I have the audio streaming but I would like to extract the metadata from it too (artist and songtitle). I have the stop and play buttons on the bottom of the screen and I would like the text to scroll (or just be static until the metadata changes) just above the buttons.
I have found a project called streamscraper hosted on google code, but I am not sure how I would use it in my app, or would it be easier to do without adding streamscraper?
Also, when I rotate the screen to landscape mode, it either crashes or the buttons are too low on the screen to see. Is there something I missed in the code to prevent this?
Any help is appreciated.

Finally happy with my Android stereo

EDIT: So I wrote this post to help others and show what I've done to make the unit look amazing, but seems I can't post pics because I'm new. Not entirely sure I can be bothered now, which is a shame because the launcher looks great.
So I bought the Seicane unit for my 2015 Subaru Outback
First impressions
Sound quality was actually very good, as good as my premium audio that came with the car.
Very quick to boot, basically it's up and running by the time I leave my street
The 3.5G usb modem that came with it didn't work so I ditched that straight away
The interface SUCKS
The screen is bright and clear and capacitive touch is great
The unit also looks 100% stock with no external branding.
4 months on
I found I still hated the interface so I have changed it so it looks like this
Launcher https:// ibb.co/fx5Bfz
App Drawer https:// ibb.co/fRPRDK
I used NOVA Prime launcher with the following tweaks
5 icons wide and 2 icons high for launcher page
Hid the status bar
Swipe up for app drawer
5 icons wide and 2 icons high for launcher
Adjusted text size to suit (I think it's the largest available)
Renamed certain apps to fit in the launcher better
I also installed the Simplicon Icon Pack from Google Play and used this to replace all icons that don't look quite right including the default radio app. Notice they are all circles now.
I also mapped the steering wheel controls to the following
The only button that is out of place is that the Answer button is both an Answer and Hangup Button, this makes sense to me as you can't hangup without first answering.
The hangup button is now a way to launch Android Auto.
Steering Controls https:// ibb.co/mwV2Lz[/IMG]
Android Auto
I have installed android auto natively on the stereo, this means no phone connection is required, it also unfortunately means phone calls can't be made from within the app. Fortunately tapping the answer call button on the steering wheel brings up the native dialler. So it's not too immersion breaking, but it is one of my only gripes.
Sound Quality
Sound quality is great....except when Google maps/Google assistant or Android auto is giving navigation directions, for some reason it feels like the audio is being affected by these apps and the quality goes downhill. Often times hitting the voice assistant button and then quickly hitting back can get things back to normal, but there is definitely a problem here. But as these stereo's are in a grey area of support nothing is being done about it.
I think overall I'm extremely happy with where things are, my next goal is to build a very simple app that once open begins streaming audio from a predefined source. My goal is to install this app x8 or so, create a custom icon for each radio station in my area and put these all on page 2 of the launcher. The plan is I will be able to scroll one page to the right and have all 10 of my favourite radio stations with their logos as the icons, I want to be able to press any station once and have the app launch and start streaming until I press stop, or another app takes over, whether that be another streaming app or my spotify library.
I think it's now a massive improvement from the default setup and worked perfectly for MY needs.

Here it is installed in the car https: //ibb.co/fwPe0z

Help with T3 k2001M

Hi all i bought and installed this unit:
Model: T3 K2001M
Board: exdroid
Hardware: sun8iw11p1
Product: K2001M_MSG_S212101
CPU ARM Cortex A7
Display: 600x1024
Android Version: 6.0.1 (even if it display 7.1.1 in settings)
Build ID: K2001M_msg_s212101.20180919.14412246
Kernel Version: 3.10.65
(all the details are also in the attached pictures readed with AIDA64)
My problem is that the software doesn't allow me to chenge the default music player and radio app (the installed one is without RDS Name station). If i select another music player when i open the Navi software or the settings the music stops. I wish to install on it a better firmware also to able the steering controls because this unit as the canbus but i can't activate it.
Can someone please help me to update the software?
Thanks

I just bought one of these same units to put in an old pickup truck I'm playing around with. I was able to get the steering wheel controls to work with the factory controls by tapping into the correct wires in the vehicle wiring harness. Then playing around with the Car Connect app to program the steering wheel buttons to the unit. I just googled the wiring diagram and pin placement for my vehicle. The lack of RDS and the music stopping when opening another app is my next challenge. Hopefully someone here can chime in.

my unit is a t3-k2001m
after firmware up gradation screen dosent fit 100%, no matter how many time and various FW i tried every time same issue, 20% of screen edge is cut on right side

First of all, I am glad to hear someone bought this radio (and is figuring out how the hell it works) because me too.
If you want to keep spotify or others on background running, youtube vanced or some other apps you must go to the menu showed by attached thumbnail from ceyrekoto, then hit on tab general settings and scroll down the left sidebar until the end. Tap over "White List". Then use add and delete to open a list with radio buttons in order to select which apps you want to run on background.
Any other option like battery settings (three dot button, and background apps) didn't work for me. Also I tried before to change in android settings -> memory and keep Spotify as "not opttimized, that also won't make any difference.
Well I write a bonus for you, forgetting messy things with Chinese cheap radios.
The final archievement was using FCC Car Launcher and Spotify (may be you can look for similar settings in other launcher).
It worked for me fine and with the rounded album art showing from spotify even static picture from Youtube.
When installing FCC Car Launcher and choose a skin showing album art widget you should do this:
1 you must attend to do the checks on android options launched by FCC Car Launcher in its starting guide (about enabling notifications and etc.)
2 when selection of album art settings appears, select the three aps you want to use (I selected Spotify, Youtube and Radio). This enables control buttons back, play/pause and next that appear on this widget.
3 Tap Home to launcher (if not select as always to replace the actual launcher by FCC Car Laucher, there is also the option on Android Settings to change laucher)
4 open spotify, go to library and look for Settings
5 search for the option enable notification for third party apps
6 Play some music
7 Home to laucher and you can see a floating notification by FCC Car Laucher telling the Artist - Song playing.
8 If you are lucky the rounded widget will show the album art. You can test it with youtube if you want
The messy thing I suffer now is that Album Art frozen and but I can read correctly in widget the current correct artist - song playing, also control playing with buttons.
I forgot to tell you anything about steering wheel control, the thing I know I needed an intermediate device to connect those buttons to the radio. Look for your car specific device on aliexpress, I have mine for peugeot 206
Hope it helps
Bye

you have this firmware android 7 ? you can send me please this update, my mail is [email protected]

android unit eonon 9450B E46 help

hi quick question i have a eonon android unit one i bought for my car... few things i cant seem to figure and its seriously bugging me,
basically i cant seem to add any new tiles to the pull down shortcuts at the top... i tri editing tiles but when you do you have a blank screen with no tiles to add...
and just now ive remvoed the only symbol which was the wifi one and now the little pencil edit icon has gone as well...
also is there a way to edit the steering wheel controls if anyone knows?
i know the xtrons version gives you loads more settings to play with the eonon however seems much more restricted...

kam90 said:
hi quick question i have a eonon android unit one i bought for my car... few things i cant seem to figure and its seriously bugging me,
basically i cant seem to add any new tiles to the pull down shortcuts at the top... i tri editing tiles but when you do you have a blank screen with no tiles to add...
and just now ive remvoed the only symbol which was the wifi one and now the little pencil edit icon has gone as well...
also is there a way to edit the steering wheel controls if anyone knows?
i know the xtrons version gives you loads more settings to play with the eonon however seems much more restricted...
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I have the same unit. I can only quote what Eonon told me which is that you can't change anything on the home screen. I know that' s not exactly what you asked, but I assume it's the same. There is a steering button learn function, but I think I only saw that come up after I installed an update Eonon sent me. I have not played around with it. Be cautious the update introduced a couple of other bugs (no volume control after using the Google Assistant, keyboard keeps reverting to Japanese (I've set it to English multiple times, but once the HU restarts, the keyboard comes up in Japanese again.
I'll get a video of accessing the steering learn function and get back you.
Todd

toddkageals said:
I have the same unit. I can only quote what Eonon told me which is that you can't change anything on the home screen. I know that' s not exactly what you asked, but I assume it's the same. There is a steering button learn function, but I think I only saw that come up after I installed an update Eonon sent me. I have not played around with it. Be cautious the update introduced a couple of other bugs (no volume control after using the Google Assistant, keyboard keeps reverting to Japanese (I've set it to English multiple times, but once the HU restarts, the keyboard comes up in Japanese again.
I'll get a video of accessing the steering learn function and get back you.
Todd
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yeah i did message them and they said in very broken english something along those lines... however its annoying cause there was a wifi symbol but since i moved it to remove tile now the little pencil icon etc has all disspeared!
but yeah thats great if you could try get a vid of the steering controls :good:

Amazon Music (and other players) that only support portrait mode... how do you navigate?

I love running apps natively on my Atoto S8 head unit, but music apps like Amazon Music and Spotify are designed to work in portrait mode only apparently.
The UI is wonky in landscape, forced to fill a screen in ways it was not designed to, and leaving some UI elements inaccessible. Has anyone found any workarounds?
I found that Amazon was the worst, with the tiny little play/pause button almost impossible to hit while driving with any kind of accuracy. I discovered "car mode" which helps tremendously within that app, however you get a very limited set of options (no way to pull up all your playlists to find) unless you go back to "not car mode". I see there's the ability to speak your commands with Alexa, so that could be cool, but trying that gives me a screen to click to enable Alexa, WITH THE "NEXT" BUTTON OFF THE BOTTOM OF THE DISPLAY WHERE I CAN'T CLICK IT. So I'm stuck without that, too.
This is so silly, I don't understand why more of these apps aren't designed with a landscape option in mind. But meanwhile, I'm wondering if there's some way around this I'm missing. Is there an option to make portrait apps letterboxed in the middle of the screen? Not ideal, but at least I can do things like enable Alexa and then go back to stretching to widescreen. Or is there a hacked/modified version of these apps for car units? Perhaps a widget or something that can plugin and give you control?
I've seen some car launchers seem to give you basic AVRCP controls and even album art, I'm wondering if this can be taken a step further and possibly have a companion UI app for different oriented screens? Or do we just live with this and rely on using Android Auto for all that?
I like native apps better than AA.