Music app && Bluetooth

guru · 2 Dec 2020, 07:03

Since last week I have a new car which does not have any CD player anymore, but Bluetooth. So, apart of connecting an external keyboard, it's the first time that I use Bluetooth with my E4.5. After fiddling with the hassle to get the two devices, car and E4.5, to connect to each other (for some reason the best way is to instruct the car to connect to the E4.5 and not the other way around), it plays nicely music from the Music app or the browser from YT. In the car's display touch screen it shows the progress of seconds of the title and "buttons" for pause, play, skip to next/previous title. But these buttons have no effect in the Music app, i.e. I have to use the app itself to manage titles, which is an security issue while driving.

Is this supposed to work? What can I do to investigate why it does not work?

A related question to Music app: How can I make a playlist from a bunch of MP3 files in a directory without adding them file by file to the playlist? Something like

ls -C1 *.mp3 > playlist

and then load the file playlist.

poVoq · 2 Dec 2020, 10:19

See:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5152/music-app-bluetooth-and-3-5mm-headphone-jack-controls

Seems like the Bluetooth controls are not yet implemented, but hopefully it should come soon.