jstraw wrote: > Great, thanks for the help. I'm really liking the way this app > functions. > > I have a question that's sort of peripheral. Do you have any insight > into what determines how an app such as this interacts with a car's > infotainment system? > > Most audio apps on my phone function properly, inasmuch as artist, title > and album metadata display on the car's display and the car's controls > will pause and skip tracks. In the past this included the LMS controller > app I've been using, although 'artist' data never did. Some time ago it > all stopped interacting. Only Bluetooth audio going from the phone to > the car functions. > > I'd been hoping that Squeeze Ctrl would successfully restore this > functionality but it doesn't seem to. Nothing to do with the car's > firmware had changed. The phone hasn't experienced a major Android > version upgrade. Any thoughts?Try going to Preferences > Controls and > enabling use Media Buttons.
Originally Android didn't have an official way of supporting Bluetooth control, but apps got around that by spying on how the system audio player supports it. A formal API for audio remote controls was introduced around the time of Android 5, but a lot of older apps probably do not use it. In newer Android versions the older methods might not work anymore which would explain why the official SB app doesn't work anymore, since it hasn't been updated in ages. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk -------------- Squeezebox apps for webOS, Android and Windows Phone, http://www.angrygoatapps.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wt0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96757 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
