I am thankful that I have a pretty great car. The first new car I have ever owned. And it has lots of cool gadgets typical for the price range. One thing mystified me however. The Bluetooth telephone connection for my cell phone is instantaneous and perfect in my car. Not so for the music on my phone. I have a new cell phone too, that my son described as "sick". So I suppose that is very good. But the music on my phone will not play on the car audio system.
One night when I had NOTHING better to do I ran this problem on Google and discovered that it is pretty common. It made me feel good to see that there are cars costing a LOT more than mine that have the same problem. Some sort of electrobabble about different types of Bluetooth signals or whatever. No amount of Scotch was going to make that interesting. In one of the comments to a post about this issue however a fellow mentioned that Blackberry made a little device that, when plugged into the accessory jack in his car allowed his phone to play over his audio system. I looked for the gadget on Amazon and saw it was under $30.00!!!! [It is under $20.00 today.] Of course I "one clicked" it and it was winging its way to the hinterlands.
I have to say, this thing, whatever it is, works perfectly. It is the size of a large pack of matches, requires no tech savvy to start using, doesn't take up any room, and does exactly what it is supposed to do. I LOVE IT. It allows me to play all my cell phone tunes through my car audio and I can also stream Pandora or Slacker or whatever through the car too using this and the app on my phone.
This little thing comes with the highest EPIC recommendation!!! Trust me, if I can use it ANYONE can use it. Enjoy!!
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Yes, yes, yes, blah blah highest Epic recommendation. But is it SICK?
Glad you got your issue sorted out. I went from making mix tapes in the 80s and 90s, to burning CD mixes in the 00s, to wiring my iPod to the face of my radio, to now streaming via Bluetooth. I have about 20% of my music on my iTunes and I regularly cook up "playlists". It seems I've been finding ways to avoid broadcast radio for over 35 years. Plus ca change.
Ben you are killing me!!! This thing is certainly SICK. So nice to fine a simple gizmo that does exactly what it says it will do.
ML
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