Windows Media Player Over Bluetooth to Car Stereo

peterjspencer · 07-02-2008, 12:44 PM

My car (older 5 Series BMW) has a bluetooth enabled stereo which has been successfully paired with my SPV M600. When I get a call the radio/CD/Tape mutes and the the call is diverted to the stereo. Works very well.
If my phone and my stereo will talk to each other it should also be possible, maybe using a bolt on piece of software, to play music from Media player on my handheld to the car stereo.
Ive trawled through and posted a question on www.XDA-developers.com and cant find an answer as yet.
Ive had great success on this forum before and I thought that maybe someone might be able to point me in the right direction.
Cheers

Ethereal · 07-02-2008, 1:21 PM

I think you need to have a phone with A2DP streaming to send music via Bluetooth and you also need a car stereo which accepts A2DP streaming of music.

peterjspencer · 07-02-2008, 1:27 PM

Ive read a lot about A2DP (which is whats needed to transmit to BT stereo headphones) , and Im pretty sure my 4 year old stereo wont have it. I just figured there may be a way that a piece of software installed on my phone may be able to fool the stereo into thinking the signal is an incoming call.

Thanks for the reply

Uridium · 07-02-2008, 1:30 PM

Ethereal is quite correct, your SPV would need to be running a Rom with an AD2P Bluetooth profile (Stereo Bluetooth audio) and additionaly AVRCP (Bluetooth remote control protocol) is useful for controlling the phone output via car stereo controls.

Obviously your car stereo needs to support these protocols as well. Many car stereos only have basic bluetooth serial communication with Mono audio.

there are plenty of after market stereo's that will do the Job though. sony's MEX-BT2500 is sub £100 and will do what you want.

Uridium · 07-02-2008, 1:33 PM

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Originally Posted by peterjspencer

Ive read a lot about A2DP (which is whats needed to transmit to BT stereo headphones) , and Im pretty sure my 4 year old stereo wont have it. I just figured there may be a way that a piece of software installed on my phone may be able to fool the stereo into thinking the signal is an incoming call.

Thanks for the reply

Even if you found a piece of software it would only transfer Mono audio as that is all your stereo can receive over BT.
Even though it may be coming out of all of your car speakers it is still mono. As it's only phone comms at the moment it sounds OK but as soon as you heard Mono music through it it would sound nasty