Streaming audio through factory bluetooth
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Streaming audio through factory bluetooth
The other day I had an app open and received a call. Noticed that during the call, sound coming from the app came out through the car speakers as well. So I figured if we could convert media audio into phone audio, we could actually have real bluetooth streaming.
There are apparently several apps on the Google Play Store, not sure about Apple app store, that will convert your audio from what I'm guessing is stereo to mono which is what our old bluetooths can read. The one I'm using right now is called "Mono Bluetooth Router" from the Play Store. Once you open the app and turn it on, your screen will say "call connected" and any sound coming from your phone will now come out of your car speakers.
The Good: You can actually stream audio wirelessly! There is no 1 second delay that a lot of bluetooth systems experience so your video and sound are actually still in sync.
The Bad: You get potato quality sound because you're hearing the sound in mono and not stereo.
I'm having trouble with streaming music because after every song I would get a message on my phone saying "cannot play music during call" and the next song won't load. Still trying to figure that one out. Other than that, phone apps, games, youtube videos, navigation and such will work. The sound is acceptable for what it is. Definitely would just stick with an aux cable if it's for music.
Try it out and tell me what you guys think.
There are apparently several apps on the Google Play Store, not sure about Apple app store, that will convert your audio from what I'm guessing is stereo to mono which is what our old bluetooths can read. The one I'm using right now is called "Mono Bluetooth Router" from the Play Store. Once you open the app and turn it on, your screen will say "call connected" and any sound coming from your phone will now come out of your car speakers.
The Good: You can actually stream audio wirelessly! There is no 1 second delay that a lot of bluetooth systems experience so your video and sound are actually still in sync.
The Bad: You get potato quality sound because you're hearing the sound in mono and not stereo.
I'm having trouble with streaming music because after every song I would get a message on my phone saying "cannot play music during call" and the next song won't load. Still trying to figure that one out. Other than that, phone apps, games, youtube videos, navigation and such will work. The sound is acceptable for what it is. Definitely would just stick with an aux cable if it's for music.
Try it out and tell me what you guys think.
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Forgot to mention that you can still receive phone calls even though the head unit says "call connected". You might have to go back into the app afterwards to turn it off then back on again in order for bluetooth streaming to work again though.
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if you guys have an iphone 4 plug pin connector in the glove department, you buy a bluetooh device I purchased from amazon cool "cool stream" it connected to your Bluetooth phone and is played through aux, works perfect with perfect quality audio and youtbube videos
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if you guys have an iphone 4 plug pin connector in the glove department, you buy a bluetooh device I purchased from amazon cool "cool stream" it connected to your Bluetooth phone and is played through aux, works perfect with perfect quality audio and youtbube videos
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if you try and stream music through Bluetooth via the "phone call" protocol the music will sound horrible. best way to describe it is when you tune a radio station but your a few Mhz away from the proper station.
telephone calls only require and go through old Bluetooth 1 protocol. while music streaming require 2.0+ protocol because to stream good quality music, you need more bandwidth, bandwidth that the old 1.0 protocol does not have. also no stereo sound with the old protocol.
Best way is to get a USB Bluetooth to AUX adapter and syn that to your mobile device as music only. then select AUX on the COMAND unit and wola. Bluetooth streaming
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HandFree-...UAAOxyRhBS-dqo
telephone calls only require and go through old Bluetooth 1 protocol. while music streaming require 2.0+ protocol because to stream good quality music, you need more bandwidth, bandwidth that the old 1.0 protocol does not have. also no stereo sound with the old protocol.
Best way is to get a USB Bluetooth to AUX adapter and syn that to your mobile device as music only. then select AUX on the COMAND unit and wola. Bluetooth streaming
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HandFree-...UAAOxyRhBS-dqo
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if you try and stream music through Bluetooth via the "phone call" protocol the music will sound horrible. best way to describe it is when you tune a radio station but your a few Mhz away from the proper station.
telephone calls only require and go through old Bluetooth 1 protocol. while music streaming require 2.0+ protocol because to stream good quality music, you need more bandwidth, bandwidth that the old 1.0 protocol does not have. also no stereo sound with the old protocol.
Best way is to get a USB Bluetooth to AUX adapter and syn that to your mobile device as music only. then select AUX on the COMAND unit and wola. Bluetooth streaming
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HandFree-...UAAOxyRhBS-dqo
telephone calls only require and go through old Bluetooth 1 protocol. while music streaming require 2.0+ protocol because to stream good quality music, you need more bandwidth, bandwidth that the old 1.0 protocol does not have. also no stereo sound with the old protocol.
Best way is to get a USB Bluetooth to AUX adapter and syn that to your mobile device as music only. then select AUX on the COMAND unit and wola. Bluetooth streaming
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HandFree-...UAAOxyRhBS-dqo
Thank you though for the thorough reply!!
