Will your car support the media controls within certain apps? My wife's 2015 Honda Pilot will work with all manner of apps on her phone and provide basic control from the steering wheel controls such as play, skip etc. For example, she can start a Spotify playlist on her phone and then be able to skip tracks and even view album art on the vehicle center display from her steering wheel controls. I believe but am not certain that it will do this via bluetooth connection in addition to the Iphone plugged in via lightning cable to the USB port. We have not tried an Android phone. My car, 2008 Infiniti G35S, will provide basic controls and some metadata (no artwork) as well when plugged in to the "Ipod" control. You may be able to load your FLAC music on your phone and utilize a third party app in the case of an Iphone to playback the music with full steering wheel controls. Many vehicles were programmed with basic music control of IPODS as they were the dominant music players and many of them can still control Iphones if you happen to use one of those.
With my Iphone I have access to all of my FLAC music through Google Music. I believe Google Music stores my uploaded tracks as 320 kbps MP3 (which I know is not what you asked for but I personally cannot hear the difference between FLAC and 320 MP3 in a car driving down the road). With my vehicle controls and my phone hooked up to the IPOD input I have some control from the steering wheel. The google music application on my music computer watches my music folder and uploads any new additions automatically keeping my FLAC collection and MP3s in the cloud completely in sync. This is what I listen to whenever I want something that is not on Spotify. My biggest concern with Google Music is that gapless playback does not work well. You may be able to find a different app that you can use on your phone that will interface with your FLAC collection at home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ usc95's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59694 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108853 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
