First I will explain my set-up:
- Galaxy S 3 Intl. with CM11 snapshot
- USB Audio Patcher (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48966264&postcount=334)
- Fiio E07K with a USB OTG cable
Now I use this for my music (I use Poweramp as music player). Unfortunately, I can not really use this on-the-go because if the USB connector moves around, Poweramp (or android itself?) thinks the DAC disconnected and stops playing music (and if I press play, it will play it through the speakers if I don't reconnect the DAC).
The DAC itself isn't actually disconnected though. I am wondering if I can force music to always play through USB, regardless if Android thinks the cable is attached or not.
I also seem to have a problem where sometimes it makes crackling noises. Could this be because of an unstable connection too? Most of the time, when I reconnect the cable it's fine again.
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Can it be done?
When I connect via aux cable with my car nothing happens when I press previous/next on the car radio.
Thanks
Probably bc the standard 3.5mm headphone jack is only for transmitting audio, not to control anything.
This should be possible if you have a radio with USB input for flash drives or ipods but not over an aux cable. Perhaps you could try to find an aux cable with the track forward/reverse built in to the cable? I know I've seen headphones with it but not sure about the cable alone..
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I had an aux in fitted in my car and was told the next/previous would work. When it didnt they said it would only work on a ipod. Interesting comment about the cable - anyone able to confirm whether the headphones lead is different?
To be honest, with the swipe action on the music player, this doesnt really bother me as its easy to do this whilst driving. However, I'd like to switch to another music app given the random function doesnt work properly....
I definitely know where youre coming from, I've always used an ipod for music, but want to use my mt4g now (or try to).
I messed around today and here's what I've came up with:
with the aux cable (standard 3.5mm headphone cable) you only have control of the tracks on the device, not with the radio's controls. you might be able to find cable with seek buttons built in (like some headphones) to make it easier but I've never actually seen one.
If your radio has a usb input on it you can connect your phone via usb, mount the sd card (as if using mass storage on a comp) and your radio should detect and read it as a flash drive. going this route your phone will charge, but you'll ONLY be able to control tracks from the radio head unit and you wont be able to listen to Slacker Radio or Pandora or other similar apps via usb. another plus is that the processing is done by the headunit, thus you could use your headunits random function.
The last option (that I think is king) is if you have a bluetooth enabled headunit, the HD2 can stream audio over bluetooth (a2dp) to your radio. You could then pair and stream music, Slacker, Pandora, etc and maintain control on the device (I would prefer control on device and radio, but i dont see this happening) wirelessly. One huge plus to me is that you can charge it while keeping fully functionality with only one cable.
I cant find a cable with anything other than volume controls, but I wonder if either of these options would help
micro usb to 3.5mm
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3.5mm to usb
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I've been using a BT Venturi Mini for about a year now and it works perfect. You can change streamed track/ stop start and it has no wires.So no mess, best investment ever. Plus, you can pick up calls/ voicemail via car stereo too.
Sound quality excellent, especially when you increase BT pool bitrate via HD2 tweak.
Perhaps if someone modded the headphones that come with the HD2 so that they go from 3.5 to 3.5 with the controls in the middle of the wire to use ?
Hey Folks,
Wondering if anyone is having similar issues. For some reason, whenever I play music in my car (2011 X5 with IDrive) via USB cable & Default music player from my SGS 2, the audio stops playing on its own. Doesn't happen with same tracks or at the same time. It just stops and sometimes doesn't start playing again. I have to unplug the USB cable and wait a few minutes then plug it back in, put in my Unlock pwd and after a successful MTP connection it'll play again.
I don't think its related to media scanning. There's simply no message on my phone when the music stops playing. I know the USB connection is fine since I never had any issues playing music from iphone 3g via USB.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My phone is stock ATT Galaxy S2.
Thanks,
JV
Bump. This happens to me, but with just headphones. Happens in the music player, but never in Listen. Any more info on this?
Wow, I never even got my usb-connection to established. It rums around in circles trying to mount/connect. I just use the auxiliary port
Good Luck
Hi,
I wonder if it is possible to play music through USB. It doesn't work out of the box with CM 7, but maybe the is a hack or an app that would accomplish this?
Btw: Merry Christmas!
When you say: "through USB"; do you mean playing on the phone (with Music player) having audio output through usb? I haven't heard of one, but it could be theoretically possible as I have a USB Fm transmitter (also, docking bases have an audio out port) which plugs into the phone and transmits audio - so im sure a hack could be built? Otherwise, if you are asking about the ability to plug it into a USB port present on most modern stereo systems - the phone can simply be mounted and the stereo system would read it like any flash drive (have done this in my car)
Do you mean using the usb headphones?
Hi,
Many cars have a USB socket into which the driver / passenger can plug their MP3 devices and listen to music through the car's audio system. Can an Android phone redirect its sound to the car's USB, like it does for Bluetooth (if the car has one)?
I know this does not happen by default. But for cars that do not have BT, it would be useful if there was some application / hack which allowed me to do phone calls and listen to any media (including directions from a navigation system) by plugging the Android phone into the USB.
Theoretically, I can imagine some piece of software (not sure if an Android app can do that) that would represent itself to the car's audio system as an mp3 player, capture all audio-out of the phone, and play it as a single (continuous) mp3. When the phone does not produce any audio, it would just put silence into the generated mp3.
Thanks,
Shlomy
** Edit: Simple solution found. I have an AUX port next to the USB port in the car. Connecting the phone's earphone socket to AUX in the car (with a standard 3.5 cable) does the same thing that I wanted.
1) it keeps overwriting my bluetooth ( i need the charging from the cable)
2) it dodsn't allow me to play from my rocket player but uses some system srevice that indexes my music in the background?
How do I get rocket player and google maps to speak through my USB cord,OR my bluetooth?