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Music Through Car Stereo

I just bought a new car yesterday & have a question about playing music through the stereo. My car is a equipped with a 3.5mm & a USB. Basically it is setup so that you can play your ipod/iphone through the car stereo.
I can play music from my phone using the 3.5mm AUX but there is not a lot of volume. Not only that but the quality seem to be degraded.
I can connect my phone via the sync cable but music will only play when I select disk drive when asked for the usb connection type. The sound quality & volume is excellent but I can't use my playlists on the phone. Is there a way to get music to play through the car stereo when activesync connection is selected?
Or is there a cable like the iphone cable that will allow me to do this?

How good are you with wiring? Their are pretty easy to install car kits that will work better
http://www.amazon.com/Scosche-FM-MO...8?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1301009458&sr=1-8
http://www.amazon.com/Peripheral-PAC-IS77-Universal-Radios/dp/B002IY598O/ref=pd_cp_e_1

If you check the manual for the stereo system, are there any playlist formats that it does support?
Perhaps just by saving your playlists in a different format, you might get it to work...

normally in my stereo which only has the 3.5mm headphone jack I find that if you turn the phone all the way it up sounds very distorted, I tend to turn it down 2 notches from max and adjust my car stereo volume from there

i also found that to be very helpful with quality also

Update:
My car stereo will read the folders on my imagio when disk drive is selected for the USB connection. I can scroll to individual folders & songs that I want to hear. There are still too problems though.
1. I would rather navigate my music folders via the phone with an activesync connection.
2. When I have the disk drive connection selected I am unable to use TomTom.
I can use the AUX jack but I don't get as much volume. On the highway at 75MPH I have to have the volume on the stereo maxed & it still isn't loud enough.
Is there a solution that would allow me to use the USB connection?
I would prefer a solution that is only going to cost me a couple of bucks
Previously I did have one of the FM modulators to play music through the stereo. I am aware of lowering the volume on the phone to reduce the noise.
Thanks to those of you that have replied to my original post.

It looks like your phone doesn't have enough "power" to feed your AUX in.
Normaly you should use a line-signal to feed your AUX.
What you can try is to amplify your signal from you phone before you send it in you AUX.
If your car stereo have a bluetooth option, you can pair it for sound!

Audio quality: Car dock bluetooth vs car's built-in bluetooth

Hi.
I've seen it written a bit that audio suffers when playing through bluetooth, though I don't fully understand the technical reasons for this.
I read that the OEM car dock will use bluetooth to connect the phone to the dock, which will then send the audio to the radio via the plugged in audio cable.
So will that setup cause the audio to suffer? How would that compare to playing audio from my phone to the car's built-in bluetooth hands-free system?
If it the same, then I guess I wouldn't necessarily need to get the Samsung OEM car dock for it's pogo pin features (for audio, anyway), since I could simply use the car's hands-free system for audio. In that case, I guess I would just need a dock that can provide power. Does that analysis hold up? Are there any docks that provide power without having to plug-in the micro USB port?

A way to separate in-call and music audio to different cables?

The problem is:
I need to have separate leads for in-call conversations (mono+mic) and general audio, like music player (stereo). Meaning that audio normally goes via one cable, but when the call is placed it's automatically diverted to a different cable. It might be possible to make an external active switch-box if only there was a way to tell that a call has been placed.
I can only think of adding a bluetooth handsfree, which would only work for phonecalls, while keeping the stereo plug connected for music. But is there any way to do it with just an audio port? Is there any communication going on via the audio port at all for some advanced accessories?
The phone is in question is HTC Android, with 4-pin audio plug.

Volume Control

I just recently Got my Note 2 a few days ago. The only complaint i really have is the volume control when using the headphone jack, I never use headphones, but i do use the jack to play music through my car stereo. When i unplug it and plug it in the volume drops to half (probably for hearing safety). Is there a way to override or disable this?

Try volume control+ from play store. I didnt test it on note2 but worked great on tmobile g2
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I use Tasker to set my volume levels when I plug my headphones or my car aux cable in. It shows the hearing damage warning, but it sets the volume right where I want it.

Thanks Guys I will look into them. Much appreciated.

ProximaC said:
I use Tasker to set my volume levels when I plug my headphones or my car aux cable in. It shows the hearing damage warning, but it sets the volume right where I want it.
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Can you post how you set the values maybe a screen shot? I can't seem figure out exactly what to set.

Car Audio profile using Headset Plugged state with No Mic option. (that's how it knows the difference between my headphones, and my car's auxiliary cord)
That enables Car Mode which sets the current Media Volume to a variable, then sets the Media Volume to 15.
Exit task sets it back to the value in the variable, which is what it was before I plugged in the Aux cable.

[Q] Battery life of bluetooth vs aux cable

I tried to find info on this and found little peices here and there but wanted to get a clearer answer. I was wondering if anyone knows what draws more power from my phone. When playing music does it draw more power to play music through an aux cable at full volume, or through bluetooth. I would think that bluetooth would not require as much power but I'm not sure. This is the ultimate geek forum so I trust your answers Thanks!

Bluetooth would use more power because its having to broadcast the signal for the receiver. Over an auxiliary cable its just sending the signal and nothing else. Just like if you were listening on a pair of headphones.
Listening to music over a Bluetooth headset would use more power than listening over headphones.

two way communication
I think it should be other way round as now Bluetooth 5.0 has more power saving features and it detects if the music player / headphone is just with a speaker or with a mic too ( as mic will make it two way communication) and the headphones lead draws power for the current. Not sure, if someone can throw some light on this. many thanks.