MrDerek Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 Hi All,Does anyone know of an elegant way to get Spotify playing in my loop?Right now I just have the stock cd player and tape deck so relying on stupid radio transmitters. Looking around the only way I can see it working is via front or rear AUX of a new head unit.cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete91 Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 Yeah I think aux is the only way to do it cos most, if not all, USB connections won't let you use the iPhone (or whatever you have) whilst connected.Prepare to have your 3G hammered though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skezza Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 Yeah I think aux is the only way to do it cos most, if not all, USB connections won't let you use the iPhone (or whatever you have) whilst connected.Prepare to have your 3G hammered though Just get unlimited 3G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete91 Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 We're not all millionaires 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDerek Posted February 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 cheers, you can download your playlists for offline playing on spotify. no 3G charges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skezza Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 We're not all millionaires I pay 3 pound a month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver! Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 If I understand correctly, you have to pay Premium to download playlists to mobile devices @ £9·99 a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete91 Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 Yeah it's a tenner a month.How the **** does it only cost £3?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver! Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 Does he not mean his 3g? I have Unlimited Spotify at £4·99.I have free 3g bwahahaaaaaaaa... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skezza Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Yeah it's a tenner a month.How the **** does it only cost £3?!No, I don't have unlimited Spotify. I have unlimited 3G and In truth, I don't use Spotify. I use Google Play Music (currently a legally grey service, so I'm enjoying it's goodness while I can).It's Google's attempt at pushing everyone towards cloud, which for stuff like work and personal documents I won't touch but for music is absolutely fantastic. It allows you to upload 20,000 songs for free at high bitrate, and you then stream them using the Play Music app. I really didn't think it would work in practice (high bitrate + low 3G = buffering surely?), but honestly, I've not had it buffer once because they've got some quite clever caching going on, basically, it pre-buffers the first track in the album which takes roughly 10-15 seconds on good 3G (which I get quite regularly), then once a stable connection has been established and enough of the song has been download that there isn't likely to be a drop, it actually starts to pre-buffer the next track... and so on, so in reality, you are hammering your 3G, but if you have unlimited, it's fantastic! As I said, not a single drop and I've been using it for a few weeks.I am with Three mobile (no, they aren't as **** as they used to be), I am on a contract and then for a limited period (which I think is still going) they offered a £3 addon which gets truly unlimited Internet, with no fair use or throttling. I absolutely love it lol and I do take the piss with it! (I regularly download well over 10gb)To be honest, I think unlimited 3G should be a more common thing now. Years ago, 3G was actually unlimited, Three and O2 did packages with Unlimited 3G, then when people took advantage they introduced their fair use policies. They've basically done a full circle because now it's reappeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete91 Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Yeah I was meaning spotify is a tenner and the unlimited 3G is 3 quid.I think my contract got screwed up the other day cos it says i have 750gb available Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDerek Posted March 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2013 Hi Guys,Found a solution to my problem so thought I'd post it for anyone who want's to know. The answer didn't seem to be on the internet anywhere, nowhere obvious anyway.Alpine units - only tested this at halfords but if you simply plug in your iphone via USB, spotify plays through the speakers. No control though, all through phone.Pioneer app radio2 (sph-da100) - This is what I went for.plug the phone in via HDMI and again your phone audio plays through the speakers.The better solution however, is to get a rooted android phone, download an app called ARLiberator and you can basically mirror android onto the headunit with full control. So any apps you have (including spotify) can be controlled directly from the unit.Hope this helps someone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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