I just got some new NFC tags and I'd like to be able to use Spotify in car mode instead of the default music app. Is this possible?
you can try to clear app associations and see if spotify can be a choice.
Can't you just add Spotify to the car mode app list and then choose it once car mode is activated? Or are to looking for something automated?
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Not sure the best place to ask this...when you've got your epic connected to a AVRCP-capable device (like a bluetooth headset with a play/pause button), the play button is capable of having the epic launch an app in order to play something is nothing is open.
My question is, what, in the Epic's software, determines the priority of which app gets launched, out of all the various playback apps you might have?
Some background: I mostly use my BT headphones for podcast listening on the go. I set up Tasker to launch Google Listen on phone startup (and then immediately go back to desktop) so that the app is in recent apps list. Then, if I put the play button on my headphones, Listen will launch and my podcast will start playing. If I want to switch over to pandora, I manually close Listen (using the back button) and launch pandora. Now my headphones control the play/pause on Pandora without trying to launch listen instead, which is what they might do if I had both apps open.
The problem comes in that I installed the Google Music beta app (this is different from the Music app that comes with the Epic, for clarity) so that I could access my music from the cloud. This app seems to take priority over all others. If I launch it, even once, it will always bypass Listen from then on, even if I manually close, it, kill the service, and dump the phone's ram. The only way I can switch the phone back to Listen app mode is to manually freeze Music with Titanium backup.
This is really annoying.
So, yeah, my question is, what on the phone makes it determine that launching the Music app is preferable to resuming the Listen app?
I find this extremely annoying too (because I have to pull over to fix it) so I only have miui player installed, not quite the answer but this sounds interesting would like t know as well
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Is it just me or is anybody else disappointed with this app? I have the Sony XAV-601BT double din head unit in my car and yes it syncs up (albeit after a bit of messing about plugging things in and starting the apps in the "correct" order), and works fine with the Phone/Navigation/Standard music player, but I was expecting more.
The way Mirrorlink was described (or how I interpreted it) was that my phone screen would be projected onto the radio head unit, not having me forced to use Samsung's limited app and nothing more. I know for a fact that I can access the home screen of my phone because the app crashed on my phone once and closed, leaving my home screen showing, but soon rebooted, locking me back into the Drive app again
The main gripe with this I have is the fact I use the Spotify app on my phone to listen to music. I have managed to get it to play through my car head unit through DriveLink, but cannot control Spotify directly through the head unit other than to skip to the next/previous song and pause/play. I cannot select playlists as the Spotify app is not shown on the headunit, just the basic player (which actually shows the wrong/no track name info at all) - all of which I can do through the bluetooth ADCP, without mirrorlink at all.
Does anyone else know of a way to get out of the Drive Link app and onto the rest of the phone menus whilst still connected to the head unit? Or are there any community created Mirrorlink apps similar to DriveLink that would work instead?
Thanks a lot for any input
Raiden2387
You need to remember this is the first release. They've said they will develop it more to include more options.
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djwilliams100 said:
You need to remember this is the first release. They've said they will develop it more to include more options.
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Yes, I appreciate that, but the ability is obviously there (as I've seen it when the app crashed), they just chose to lock you out from accessing your actual phone.
Raiden2387 said:
Yes, I appreciate that, but the ability is obviously there (as I've seen it when the app crashed), they just chose to lock you out from accessing your actual phone.
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Be patient or don't use it... >_>
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New version (1.1.012) is out. Apk. SamsungApps
Try putting your parking brake in. Only the car mode on the cellphone work when the head unit is in driving mode.
Samsung Drive Link & Spotify
Raiden2387 said:
The main gripe with this I have is the fact I use the Spotify app on my phone to listen to music. I have managed to get it to play through my car head unit through DriveLink, but cannot control Spotify directly through the head unit other than to skip to the next/previous song and pause/play. I cannot select playlists as the Spotify app is not shown on the headunit, just the basic player (which actually shows the wrong/no track name info at all) - all of which I can do through the bluetooth ADCP, without mirrorlink at all.
Does anyone else know of a way to get out of the Drive Link app and onto the rest of the phone menus whilst still connected to the head unit? Or are there any community created Mirrorlink apps similar to DriveLink that would work instead?
Thanks a lot for any input
Raiden2387
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Hi Raiden2387,
I am also trying to use spotify via Samsung Drive Link application. I can only stream it via bluetooth, but not via Drive Link.
Could you please explain how you could manage at least to skip to the next song?
Would be great help.
Thanks.
I am looking for a way to go nearly hands free in my car and need a decent Text to speech, and voice to text app.
I use my phone for music as well in the car and have tasker set to launch google music as soon as my phone is plugged in in my car. The driving app would need to be able to work with google music (vlingo incar shut off the music)
any suggestions?
I listen to music via Bluetooth streaming in my car using the factory MUSIC app. I'd like to be able to get into the car, turn on the BT streaming mode on my car audio and automatically begin playing music. However, the factory task manager automatically closes the MUSIC app after I get out of the car and I have to load it manually each time.
Being that everyone recommends that with KitKat one shouldn't install a task killer/manager other than what's from the factory....how can this be done?
Is there any way to put the music on an exclusion list?
Thanks in advance.
If understand correctly, you want the music to continue playing on your phone's speaker when disconnected from your car audio?
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If understand correctly, you want the music to continue playing on your phone's speaker when disconnected from your car audio?
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negative, the music will pause automatically when the music app detects a break in bluetooth connection when I turn off the car. What I need is for the MUSIC app itself to continue running in the background (it's not a big resource or battery hog) for when I get into my car for a seamless transition back to playing music.... because once the phone shuts down the app I need to load it again...a PITA.
Thanks.
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negative, the music will pause automatically when the music app detects a break in bluetooth connection when I turn off the car. What I need is for the MUSIC app itself to continue running in the background (it's not a big resource or battery hog) for when I get into my car for a seamless transition back to playing music.... because once the phone shuts down the app I need to load it again...a PITA.
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It will continue running in the background, this isn't really a task killer problem but more of an app thing.. For example, I use play music and it resumes playing once I connect to Bluetooth again even if I kill it myself.. I would check the settings if you haven't already and see if there's is a setting for it, I've seen other apps with settings like that, but don't know about the stock music app
it is not in fact running in the background. No such option in setting either. Anyone know of any app that could make it be ignored by the default task manager?
You can do it with xposed if interested
The head unit in your car may have something to do with it.
Factory? Aftermarket?
I have a Kenwood w/7in touch screen and if my BT on phone is enabled as soon as the Kenwood starts up whatever app was running before will start playing automatically, Samsung music app, Amazon music app..
If Milk music or Pandora I have to launch app.
Pp.
there are a few apps on the market with that name.... also do I need root access? As far as the head unit it's a factory stereo Infiniti q50
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there are a few apps on the market with that name....
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It's not on the market and you need root access.. If you are interested do a quick search for xposed on Google and go to the one here on XDA, read about it on the thread and how to use it, install it, open it, and search for a module called app settings, in there you have an option to always keep in memory for whatever app you want so just select stock player. Keeping the music player running may not even be the solution, but it is a possibility.. As the previous poster stated, there are apps that just lack autoplay feature.. It is also possible that some other music app or app that uses Bluetooth may conflict with it, preventing it from auto playing
I was wondering if it was possible to automatically toggle Boomsound into music mode when I start playing music in a particular app (poweramp). I keep it in theater mode otherwise because I like that better for videos, but when I go to play music, it would be nice not to have to change it manually. I block the persistent notification, so I would have to change it via settings.
I use Tasker and the Autoinput plugin, but I can't figure out how to automate it. Any help is appreciated.