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Originally Posted by motrek
What's super annoying (other than the head unit being horrible) is that I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is.
Every Bluetooth audio device that doesn't have a screen works exactly as you would expect/hope. Earbuds, headphones, portable speakers, etc. etc.
The car's head unit has a screen and tries to be too smart by half. It wants to display the name of the track you're playing, the album art, the other songs in the current playlist, etc. This presumably requires the head unit to interface with the phone via a different Bluetooth profile and that's causing all the problems.
If the head unit just went the simpler route of just connecting and playing audio, I'm sure it would be fine.
So what kills me is that there isn't a button to do exactly this in the UI somewhere. It seems like it would be super easy to add via firmware, maybe have it be a setting somewhere, or hell, even an easter egg that they could tell customers about if they complained...
As a software developer myself, I'm pretty sure I could sort all of this out if they gave me access to the source code and a couple weeks. But of course that's never going to happen.
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IMO, Bluetooth sounds terrible. I have a headphone-in cord that I use on my new Sony head unit for music. ( I suppose that a pod cast would sound the same though) The sony is my third head unit. I replaced the stock unit with a DVD Pioneer screen that I never used.
The Sound is MUCH better from my new sony compared to either of the older units.
A software developer; you must have listened to your career counselor.
