I'm very particular about my music apps, so I generally steer clear of streaming services and prefer to use local mp3s with Poweramp or MediaMonkey. Problem is, the Nexus 5X doesn't have a microSD slot or wireless charging.
Is there any way I can simultaneously expand my storage and charge the phone? Doesn't *necessarily* have to be USB-OTG if there are other solutions.
So far the only thing I've really found is some WiFi USB drives, but those require you to play music from their application, which defeats the whole purpose. (Plus that seems like it would interfere with internet.)
The only things I can think of are:
1) a splitter cable or hub, but I haven't been able to find any indication that the USB-C port is capable of simultaneously receiving power and using USB-OTG.
2) some kind of wireless NAS device used in conjunction with either my phone's hotspot or bluetooth.
3) use hotspot tethering and an old phone. Basically, my Nexus 5X would be providing internet to my old phone, which would be running GPS and music
4) trying to find a new music app that has the queueing behavior I want as well as support for streaming from dropbox
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Can the Galaxy Nexus stream audio via USB to a car deck or other docks/usb device??
Im really hoping it can because i used to have an iPhone and i could stream internet radio all day long from "tunein radio" or equivalent app to my car deck via USB.
i plugged the USB in today and it seems like it can only dock as a media device to look for stored media but unable to stream audio from another app??
*well I think i found the answer, it can't. If your deck is compatible with a "mass storage device" which the Galaxy Nexus can turn on to, then you can play stored audio, but you are unable to stream internet radio services through this method.
The only workaround is via bluetooth or aux cable. This really sucks, so im hoping the dev's can develop some kind of mod/tweak to enable audio to stream over the USB connection when docked as a "media device"
Probably uses more juice if and when this happens. And won't be able to charge when doing so.
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Probably uses more juice if and when this happens. And won't be able to charge when doing so.
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This doesn't bare any relevance, all USB devices are able to transmit data and charge at the same time, irrespective of how much power the phone is consuming.
iPhone streams internet radio fine over USB/iPhone cable while charging.
Im saying right now you CAN play stored songs on the Galaxy Nexus with a car deck (while charging, but thats a given, it's USB),
BUT I can't seem to find a way to route the "streaming media" (eg- pandora, tunein radio apps) to transmit this audio through the USB cable to the deck. There must be a way, even if a tweak or mod has to be created.
Can any dev's chime in?
I'd love to see this too. I have the exact same needs and using the amplified 3.5" headphone as a make **** line out leads to less than optimal sound quality.
Since Sonos does not support Google Music I decided to undergo my own project using my Note 2. My house is already wired for sound with multiple speakers in most rooms attached to either HTPC's or audio receivers. So my goal here was to use my Note 2 to stream Google music to the rooms that I was in and have that music follow me around similar to the Sonos setup. I have found that inexpensive Bluetooth dongles attached to my audio receivers in strategically positioned areas allow me to connect and disconnect to the appropriate speakers automatically while I am moving from room to room. For the rooms without any previous audio, I have added some small high quality speakers with a mini amplifier attached to the dongle. So for less than $100 I can have music anywhere. This is an extremely inexpensive alternative to Sonos with 80% of the Sonos functionality at a fraction of the cost. Now anything that I can play on my phone I can push to the nearby speakers. This also allows my wife and her phone to do the same thing in different parts of the house. Further customization with NFC tags and Tasker makes it a no brainer over Sonos.
That said, here is the only annoying part of this project. I have tried everything to get my Note 2 (SGH-T889) to connect to my HTPC's running Windows 7 prof edition. There seems to be a lack of drivers for this phone and I have tried all of the previous work arounds in other threads but keep getting "Bluetooth Peripheral Device driver error". I can pair the device but the lack of driver support has prevented me from streaming directly to my HTPC's. I have attached another Bluetooth dongle to the HTPC speakers as a workaround but would really like to stream directly into the computer.
Has anyone successfully connected the Note 2 (SGH-T889) to a Windows 7 64bit machine and streamed audio over Bluetooth to the pc???
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Since Sonos does not support Google Music I decided to undergo my own project using my Note 2. My house is already wired for sound with multiple speakers in most rooms attached to either HTPC's or audio receivers. So my goal here was to use my Note 2 to stream Google music to the rooms that I was in and have that music follow me around similar to the Sonos setup. I have found that inexpensive Bluetooth dongles attached to my audio receivers in strategically positioned areas allow me to connect and disconnect to the appropriate speakers automatically while I am moving from room to room. For the rooms without any previous audio, I have added some small high quality speakers with a mini amplifier attached to the dongle. So for less than $100 I can have music anywhere. This is an extremely inexpensive alternative to Sonos with 80% of the Sonos functionality at a fraction of the cost. Now anything that I can play on my phone I can push to the nearby speakers. This also allows my wife and her phone to do the same thing in different parts of the house. Further customization with NFC tags and Tasker makes it a no brainer over Sonos.
That said, here is the only annoying part of this project. I have tried everything to get my Note 2 (SGH-T889) to connect to my HTPC's running Windows 7 prof edition. There seems to be a lack of drivers for this phone and I have tried all of the previous work arounds in other threads but keep getting "Bluetooth Peripheral Device driver error". I can pair the device but the lack of driver support has prevented me from streaming directly to my HTPC's. I have attached another Bluetooth dongle to the HTPC speakers as a workaround but would really like to stream directly into the computer.
Has anyone successfully connected the Note 2 (SGH-T889) to a Windows 7 64bit machine and streamed audio over Bluetooth to the pc???
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Although I have not tried connecting the note 2 to a windows 7 desktop. I am using the squeezebox system to connect the entire house sound system. I am not familiar with the sonos, The cost of the sonos made not to venture into this system. I have a squeezebox duet system in the garage, I got just squeezebox duet receivers in 2 rooms and the music room has the squeezebox touch system. The home server has all the music serving the different squeezebox system. the note 2 has the squeezebox controller app in it. It has also the squeezeplayer app in the note2, this app makes the note 2 of any android device act as player. This allows you to stream the music directly into your note 2. The squeezebox system has the wire and wireless option to connect. I prefer the wired connection inside the house. while the squeezebox in the garage is connected wirelessly.
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Although I have not tried connecting the note 2 to a windows 7 desktop. I am using the squeezebox system to connect the entire house sound system. I am not familiar with the sonos, The cost of the sonos made not to venture into this system. I have a squeezebox duet system in the garage, I got just squeezebox duet receivers in 2 rooms and the music room has the squeezebox touch system. The home server has all the music serving the different squeezebox system. the note 2 has the squeezebox controller app in it. It has also the squeezeplayer app in the note2, this app makes the note 2 of any android device act as player. This allows you to stream the music directly into your note 2. The squeezebox system has the wire and wireless option to connect. I prefer the wired connection inside the house. while the squeezebox in the garage is connected wirelessly.
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My understanding is that Squeezebox like Sonos is not Google music compatible yet. I can already access my music via a NAS but my goal with this system is to be able to stream all my music via the Google music app on my phone thus making my phone the data source. Since bluetooth is ubiquitous, making my phone the source allows me greater flexibility and portability. By bringing a simple bluetooth dongle and a 3" cable I can connect the dongle to any aux port on any music setup (home, car, radio) and stream my music. This also makes it exceptionally easy to listen to friends music collections by having them pair up their phones to the dongle.
Still wondering if anyone has been able to connect the Note 2 to a windows 7 64 bit pc via bluetooth. This is the last piece of the puzzle and I'm hoping someone finally finds a workaround or the the appropriate drivers. The generic windows drivers don't seem to work and the manual alternatives that have been posted to work with other phones have not worked either.
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My understanding is that Squeezebox like Sonos is not Google music compatible yet. I can already access my music via a NAS but my goal with this system is to be able to stream all my music via the Google music app on my phone thus making my phone the data source. Since bluetooth is ubiquitous, making my phone the source allows me greater flexibility and portability. By bringing a simple bluetooth dongle and a 3" cable I can connect the dongle to any aux port on any music setup (home, car, radio) and stream my music. This also makes it exceptionally easy to listen to friends music collections by having them pair up their phones to the dongle.
Still wondering if anyone has been able to connect the Note 2 to a windows 7 64 bit pc via bluetooth. This is the last piece of the puzzle and I'm hoping someone finally finds a workaround or the the appropriate drivers. The generic windows drivers don't seem to work and the manual alternatives that have been posted to work with other phones have not worked either.
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Have you tried bubblesoft's Bubble uPnP on android market. Google music does work with it and it costs $5 or so. However, it was having trouble playing songs from playlist that were added from sdcard. I am in touch with the developer and am going to ask for a refund if he can't make this basic functionality work. It could have to do something with his latest release.
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Have you tried bubblesoft's Bubble uPnP on android market. Google music does work with it and it costs $5 or so. However, it was having trouble playing songs from playlist that were added from sdcard. I am in touch with the developer and am going to ask for a refund if he can't make this basic functionality work. It could have to do something with his latest release.
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Chromcast has solved my google music to mediacenter/HTPC issue. I still use the bluetooth dongle for stand alone audio situations like a car or portable radio system due to the ease of connection through an input jack. You can also use this with a chromecast for audio only: http://www.amazon.com/J-Tech-Digita...IQER0E/ref=pd_sim_e_3?tag=androidcentral00-20
Hello,
I'm looking for a workaround regarding connecting my Verizon LG G3 to my car's audio system. Much to my dismay, my car's bluetooth system only supports calling, not audio streaming. I do not have an 3.5mm jackport, so I am limited to a usb port. Unfortunately, the head unit is not compatible with MTP.
I have read in forums for other phones that certain apps can be used to mount the sd card in such a way that it will appear as a mass storage device. Can anyone point in the direction of some resources that might show me how to enable such functionality on my g3? If nothing like that exists, does anyone have another solution that would allow me to connect my g3 to the car's audio system through the USB port?
Thanks in advance for the advice.
What is the purpose of mounting the sdcard into your car stereo system?
If it's to read music files from your sdcard, you'd better get a USB stick.
i understand you ts.
my car's hu supports bluetooth audio streaming, so no problem for me when it comes to music.
i was wanting to connnect my phone as mass storage so that my friends can watch movies via hu.
don't want the hassle of removing microsd card on phone and inserting it on microsd slot on car's hu unit nor do i have any flash drives around.
i downloaded i think the top 5 enable mass storage apps on play store, connected phone via usb cable to car's hu unit usb slot, none of the apps worked.
the other work around i was able to do was use my old galaxy pro phone as it can be connected as mass storage on my car's hu. so the movies go to this phone's microsd card.
Try going in to Bluetooth settings and hit the 3 dot menu. Turn on audio channel I think it's called. My phone wouldn't play music either but after enabling that I had the option for both call audio and music.
Hello all! Been a while since I last used XDA forums..
Lately I've been trying to find the most viable solution to bringing a large music library with me in the car..
I've tried using a non touchscreen netbook, and found that it's too hard to navigate while driving (lol)
I've been using an Acer A200 with an external hard drive, but the tablet is just too slow at reading 160+GB of music from the external drive, it freezes up between every song, and goes non-responsive when scrolling through the list of artists/songs/albums, this distracting me from the road ahead.
I've tried just about every media player app on the market, and they all yield the same result.
I see a lot of people use the Nexus 7 in their cars, and was wondering if this is a good option, or if I should look for something different?
I have been reading up a bit about the OTG cables required to do such a thing, being that there are few tablets with a full size USB port.
How reliable are these? Is there one that can charge while it also reads the USB device?
How is the Nexus 7 at reading, loading, and managing a large music library?
Should I use a 128+GB usb 3.0 flash drive rather than my current 500GB usb 2.0 external hard drive?
I hope this is easy enough to understand, I'm trying to cover as many bases as possible in one post.
Thank you in advance.
A USB-otg will run a flash drive just fine, but the tablet can't put out enough voltage to run an external hard drive.
As for charging, being that there's only one port, it's one or the other.
Might I ask though, why don't you look into something like Google Play Music or Apple Music for streaming anything there is out there essentially?
I've used Google Play Music since it was released now to stream music via the Bluetooth in my car.
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A USB-otg will run a flash drive just fine, but the tablet can't put out enough voltage to run an external hard drive.
As for charging, being that there's only one port, it's one or the other.
Might I ask though, why don't you look into something like Google Play Music or Apple Music for streaming anything there is out there essentially?
I've used Google Play Music since it was released now to stream music via the Bluetooth in my car.
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The 3/4G connection out here in my small town is rarely available, thus making it impossible to stream anything. I want to have my whole library physically with me.
Do you think the Nexus 7 is capable of handling such a large library from a flash drive? I've been watching 128GB flash drives lately and have seriously been considering buying one for this purpose..
Thank you for the response and help, I really appreciate it!
I know it's ridiculous for some folks and maybe I do it just for the sake of doing it, but ah well. It's the future so I enjoy these things.
I have my hotspot from my LG V10, did the same with my Nexus 6 until a few weeks ago, and a Nexus 7 with a usb hub w/ 3 x 128GB tiny flash drives in it connected to that network. I do the cast screen function and use PowerAmp and shuffle like 300whatever gigs of music to the Chromecast Audio which is plugged into my Scion xB.
Might move from the Nexus 7 to a Huawei P8max in january with tax returns coming since it has 64gb and I'll put a 200gb card in it and that'll be close enough to the amount of music I'm using now.
I'm more concerned with convenience than quality outside of the fact that I avoid bluetooth audio, this is wifi and full quality. Otherwise I'd fiddle with an external DAC as well. Who knows what the future holds though.
That's actually so stupid that it's cool,have to try this myself also Always interested thinking outside the box, thanks for the idea!
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unfortunately one big disadvantage is that it still requires internet to initiate the casting connection, especially if you are not covered with network it stops working
thats why for car-usage it seems that bluetooth is far superior (especially if using apt-x)
Id like to see a way to circumvent the need for internet connection though. Any idea?
Update: Ive made an interesting discovery!!
While connected to the Setup-Wifi (when the Test-Tone can be played!) of the Chromecast Audio it is possible to enable Screen Mirroring / Casting via the Chromecast App then you can listen to anything the Phone plays. If this is stable and usable this would be really awesome. I will keep testing
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Have you tried this? It works quite well actually. Not so ridiculous.
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Update: Ive made an interesting discovery!!
While connected to the Setup-Wifi (when the Test-Tone can be played!) of the Chromecast Audio it is possible to enable Screen Mirroring / Casting via the Chromecast App then you can listen to anything the Phone plays. If this is stable and usable this would be really awesome. I will keep testing
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Nice find. I have been waiting for root or some solution like this before i purchase a CCA. My scenario is - bluetooth handsfree profile to car bluetooth, headset jack to car audio input. This works great for streaming music from tidal. The problem is the 2007 audio input jack sometimes makes loud pops. Yeah i could probably clean the jack, but i want fully wireless!
Last time i checked, Tidal was not supported on CCA.
I am on Metro PCS, who provides UNLIMITED tidal music streaming, so simply hotspotting the phone will not work for me(no tidal app for CCA)(data plan would be consumed).
I think my car has an optical input, and getting this setup working would be awesome- not ridiculous.
So does this quoted workaround work?
And if so, what steps are required every time you get in the car?
Thanks.
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I got one for Xmas and it's been sitting around in a box looking for a purpose. That internet connection bs needs to go. If you want superimpose ads or whatever but let it function offline. For the same price I got a Hootoo portable htm05 router/nas/ battery and it works offline with dlna and bubble upnp. Too bad because the chromecast is smaller and more efficient. If anyone finds a practical workaround hit us up.
I am using Chromecast audio in both of my cars for these reasons:
Lack of bluetooth audio in car.
Steeamed media is far superior from an audio quality perspective.
The DAC in the Chromecast is exceptional.
VW Monsoon and Audi B&O both sound amazing.
I find the chromecast volume level should be at around 50% else distortion may occur on some of the high volume sections.
Post your vote for official support on mobile hotspots here:
https://productforums.google.com/fo...oter#!msg/chromecast/lpHteomXkhs/UJXgaDzbBAAJ
power issue in car
I plugged the chromcast audio in my car usb charger and I overburned 2 out of 2 chromecast devices.. anyone had similar issue? is there an Ampere limit I should stick to?
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Matteo
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I plugged the chromcast audio in my car usb charger and I overburned 2 out of 2 chromecast devices.. anyone had similar issue? is there an Ampere limit I should stick to?
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Matteo
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You can't "overburn" them. They probably went out for different reasons, like .. heat. Look at the factory charger the chromecast comes with and use that as your reference. I don't see why a regular 1amp charger would be an issue. The Chromecast will only pull as much as it needs, you can't feed it more.
Well car temperature was 18 celsius. Amp could have been 2.4 ...
Like the previous guy said, CCA will only pull as much power as it needs. Perhaps your power adapter is low quality and didn't supply enough power to the CCA which will cause failure.
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I plugged the chromcast audio in my car usb charger and I overburned 2 out of 2 chromecast devices.. anyone had similar issue? is there an Ampere limit I should stick to?
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What is the output voltage for your 12V adapter? The Chromecast takes 5V.
So I've made progress, and enjoyed using my chromecast audio (CCA) both to and from work today.
First, you need to decide whether you will only be playing local content on your phone, or will you want to play audio from the Internet via your phone. I'll only talk about Option 2 here for now.
To do this, you either need to have a mobile hotspot working on your phone, or you need to use a MIFI device in your car. I am using the mobile hotspot on my android phone.
In brief, you will set up the CCA to connect to the phone's hotspot when you turn on your car. Then, you will cast from your phone in guest mode (since your phone will turn off wifi when the hotspot comes on, you can't make the traditional wifi connection from your phone to the CCA via a wireless router). Once setup, your phone will notice that it is "close" to the CCA, and you can then cast to nearby CCA in guest mode.
The tricky piece is doing the initial setup. For now, you need to initialize your CCA in a different environment than your car. Choose an SSID and password that you will use in normal operation in your car. Find a wireless router that you can manage and change its SSID and password to your chosen values. (This router is only used in setup; I'll call it the "temp wifi router".) Connect your primary phone to this temp wifi router (scan for wifi, choose the appropriate SSID, and enter the right password).
Power up the chromecast nearby (in range of your temp wifi router) Now go to the Chromecast Home app. If all is running as it should, it should see the CCA and offer to set it up. Set up as you normally would, instructing the CCA to use your chosen SSID and password of the temp wifi router. Setup Guest mode on the CCA and remember the 4 digit pin. Turn off your primary phone's wifi, connecting to the Internet via the cellular network. Confirm operation by casting audio from your primary phone in guest mode to your CCA.
Now turn off the temp wifi router (or change its SSID). Turn on the mobile hotspot on your phone. Change the SSID and password of your mobile hotspot to your chosen values. Reboot the CCA and your phone. Turn on the mobile hotspot on your phone. In a 10-20 sec, your CCA will reconnect to your phone's mobile hotspot. Now use your phone to send audio to your CCA in guest mode. Done!