[Q] Android music app and "Now Playing" - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi All,
I have a Bluetooth car Kit (parrot mki9100) that i play music through, using the default ICS Music app. But the problem is that it doesn't displaying what's currently playing. I Thought this might just be a problem with the kit, but it works fine when connected to an I-Phone, and displays whats currently playing.
My question is, is this a problem with the music app or will it be my Kit?
Many Thanks

Ok. This happens to me too, but have an explain.
iPhone Only supports BT audio devices. It displays the music, everything. But - in the Android you cannot see it. In my Sony MEX-BT3790U it only shows BTA and battery, operator signal, etc.
You never can see the music in bluetooth audio devices using Android!
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Hi. I am absolutely clueless with this.
I am used to having my phone paired with my car stereo which acts both as a headset and as a multimedia playback device. Im using this for a couple of years now and been doing that with iPhones, Galaxies and now the Atrix nad this has never happened before.
This is the problem. Ever since I updated to Gingerbread when I answer a phone call with my car stereo, and end the call, the default Music player on the android pops up and starts playing whatever is on the playlist. I can try and pause the audio and it will play again in a few seconds. I can even force close the app and it will pop open back again. It happened with the old Music, with the new Music (with Google Music support), with Grooveshark, Winamp, you name it.
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I've found that the music player only works when no pre-installed or Google apps are on auto end. IDK why, but it has to do with interconnectedness.
The media player is reacting to the media pairing event as if a button was pressed.
I trap this using a Tasker profile triggered by the bluetooth connection to my car kit; the entry task grabs Media Button Events and the exit task releases them. This stops the media player launching.
Monkey see, monkey do.
If thats the problem then try headset interceptor and choose the app you want the button presses to be sent to...worth a short. Free app in the market.
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How about MixZing?
Hi. I have an Lg Optimus One (P500)with Stock Gingerbread 2.3.3 (rooted).
I installed MixZing 3.7 and it works perfectly on my Parrot MKi9000 kit. It is the player that starts by default when I choose the "Audio Bluetooth" option on the kit.
All keys work perfectly as well (Prev./Next/Play/Pause.
Hope it helped.
Cheers.
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Smartconnect opens the Walkman app, instead of Google Music play?

Hello Members
I've a bluetooth Alpine car stereo, and when I connect my XZU the default music player is the Walkman app, if I pause the app and close it then try and use Google Music Player app, I get no sound through the car stereo.
I've worked out that apparently the Sony Walkman app takes possession of the Bluetooth sound connection as default, and that this is showing up in the Smartconnect app under the 'device' section under 'application'.
So, how can I change the default application that opens in the Smartconnect app to Google Music play, when I connect to my car stereo?
Any help would be great, thanks
Regards
Livio
liviococcia said:
Hello Members
I've a bluetooth Alpine car stereo, and when I connect my XZU the default music player is the Walkman app, if I pause the app and close it then try and use Google Music Player app, I get no sound through the car stereo.
I've worked out that apparently the Sony Walkman app takes possession of the Bluetooth sound connection as default, and that this is showing up in the Smartconnect app under the 'device' section under 'application'.
So, how can I change the default application that opens in the Smartconnect app to Google Music play, when I connect to my car stereo?
Any help would be great, thanks
Regards
Livio
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SmartConnect/events then edit the one linked with your car stereo. Haven't tried it myself so don't know it you can change the default, but I have it so it plays PowerAmp on car connection, so should work.
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Thanks SpyderTracks, if I add an 'Event' to the 'Alpine car stereo' device to allow Google Music Player to start, then what I get is, on connecting to the car stereo the Walkman app will open in the notification bar, but I'll have to close it first and then open the Google Music Player app.
Smartconnect should really just allow me simply to change the default startup 'Applications' rather than having to add additional events.
Has anyone got any ideas if the primary Application for a device in Smartconnect can be altered?
I really can't understand how, or why it's having to work in this way, and why Smartconnect didn't ask me first what Application I wanted to start, when I first made the Bluetooth pairing to the Alpine Car stereo.
This option should have been a choice that I make.
liviococcia said:
Thanks SpyderTracks, if I add an 'Event' to the 'Alpine car stereo' device to allow Google Music Player to start, then what I get is, on connecting to the car stereo the Walkman app will open in the notification bar, but I'll have to close it first and then open the Google Music Player app.
Smartconnect should really just allow me simply to change the default startup 'Applications' rather than having to add additional events.
Has anyone got any ideas if the primary Application for a device in Smartconnect can be altered?
I really can't understand how, or why it's having to work in this way, and why Smartconnect didn't ask me first what Application I wanted to start, when I first made the Bluetooth pairing to the Alpine Car stereo.
This option should have been a choice that I make.
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Just worth a try, try adding a new action when you're next in the car and deleting the existing one.
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i can't get this working. i've paired my bluetooth earphones and all headset controls (even if in google music) work through that damn walkman app.
i looked in events and see nothing about stopping that app taking default control of inputs.
i tried to freeze the app and it did nothing.
i listen to audio courses on my phone on the way in to work and need to be able to press pause. this phone can't do that unless the screen is on in front of me the whole time which is going to kill my battery
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ok, froze smart connect and walkman and seems to be better, except oddly the pause button doesn't work as it did before
and what i've done above stops the smartwatch connecting.
any way to have both?
SpyderTracks thanks for the suggestion, and I did think of trying that.
But when I initially connected the car stereo up to the phone the first time, it never gave me the option to setup a new Smartconnect hardware action for the stereo's connection, it made that wrong decision for me.
So, because we need to find out if either the Smartconnect software can either be controlled fully, or if it can be deactivated without effecting the SmartWatch 2 functions, I've email Sony for help also. I think that all bluetooth connect 'Application' decisions in Smartconnect software should be confirmed, and all Sony bluetooth hardware specific items should be automatic.
Or, that the Smartconnect software should only be relevant to Sony NFC Bluetooth, and WIFi products, and nothing else.
Hope your listening Sony!
liviococcia said:
SpyderTracks thanks for the suggestion, and I did think of trying that.
But when I initially connected the car stereo up to the phone the first time, it never gave me the option to setup a new Smartconnect hardware action for the stereo's connection, it made that wrong decision for me.
So, because we need to find out if either the Smartconnect software can either be controlled fully, or if it can be deactivated without effecting the SmartWatch 2 functions, I've email Sony for help also. I think that all bluetooth connect 'Application' decisions in Smartconnect software should be confirmed, and all Sony bluetooth hardware specific items should be automatic.
Or, that the Smartconnect software should only be relevant to Sony NFC Bluetooth, and WIFi products, and nothing else.
Hope your listening Sony!
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Thanks for the info and your time on this... I hope Sony respond. It seems short sighted to lock such a good app to link to Sony apps only... Keep us posted please :sly:
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Just an update,...
Sony never responded to my email, I ended up doing a Web chat, which got me nowhere so I ended calling them with no success.
I have read a few forum posts regarding this type of problem from a while back, people were experiencing problems of the Alpine head unit showing BT A Pause' when using some apps, while other apps on there phones (of the time) worked with no problems.
I think this problem not so much a Sony problem, as it is, how Google Music Player is interacting within the Bluetooth connection of the phone, and the way the Alpine Bluetooth car head unit is understanding the connection.
There was a known issue with Alpine BT head units, and ipods/Iphones/and Motorola s, which lead them to issue a firmware update, I wounder wheather this might be the case again for the XZU
I have just discovered this issue today when trying the google music app. This is frustrating as Play Music allows saving to SD by default, and I am not willing to root my Z Ultra.
It does appear that smart connect is locked to the Walkman app which makes switching music service almost impossible. :crying:
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I have just discovered this issue today when trying the google music app. This is frustrating as Play Music allows saving to SD by default, and I am not willing to root my Z Ultra.
It does appear that smart connect is locked to the Walkman app which makes switching music service almost impossible. :crying:
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I use poweramp which you can set to autostart when there's a BT connection. Bypasses smart connect entirely with the same outcome.
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grrr sony
liviococcia said:
Hello Members
I've a bluetooth Alpine car stereo, and when I connect my XZU the default music player is the Walkman app, if I pause the app and close it then try and use Google Music Player app, I get no sound through the car stereo.
I've worked out that apparently the Sony Walkman app takes possession of the Bluetooth sound connection as default, and that this is showing up in the Smartconnect app under the 'device' section under 'application'.
So, how can I change the default application that opens in the Smartconnect app to Google Music play, when I connect to my car stereo?
Any help would be great, thanks
Regards
Livio
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This is quite a frustrating problem. Sony is quite elitist when it comes to their software. Fortunately andoid is flexible. Delete all events for smart connect. And install tasker. With tasker you can set Google play to start when headphones or bluetooth are connected.
Its not quite as good as smart connect unfortunately, because it has a very confusing interface. But once you figure out how to work with tasker its definately a "set and forget" type of functionality.
Hope this helps ^-^

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