Driod 2 used as music player???

[Greg0282]

I got my Droid 2 about 2 weeks ago and I was hoping that I was gonna be able to sell my Ipod and use my Droid as my primary music source. I have a Pioneer DVD player in my car and it is Ipod ready and has a USB connection right on the front. My Ipod connects right to it and brings up all my music right on the screen, no playing around with the Ipod at all. When I put music on my Droid and plugged it in to the stereo I got a message that said "unplayable file." I can use my phone through the AUX input but the sound isn't as good and I would have to control the music through my phone, rather than having it through the stereo, definitely not safe. Does anyone know how I would be able to use my phone in my car??? I downloaded Isyncr lite to see if it would read like Itunes, no luck.

 

[everstar80]

To be honest, not too familiar with usbing but maybe if you had the memory card adapter you could transfer the songs that way. Another idea is if you purchase the docking station that turns your D2 into a stereo and have it ounted in your car. Maybe other posters will be able to build on some of what I said. Hope that helps.

 

[wlrottge]

Ok, just a SWAG, but...

Try setting the phone to "mass storage". Usually car stereo's read usb memory just fine, so if it thinks your phone is..... ???

 

[robyr]

Bluetooth is also an EXCELLENT option here. I too use a Pioneer ICE system, and screw using USB or AUX, I will NEVER get another HU without BT A2DP. The pioneer iPod controls that I have do work just fine though, so you may want to try out the other suggestions. What format is all your music in?

 

[Droidfish]

^^^+1^^^ I use bluetooth to play my music player, pandora, podcasts, mlb at bat and voice dialing. Audio quality is great. I know this all depends on the head unit you have but I highly recommend getting a car stereo that handles bluetooth ad2d and avrcp(for basic control interface) just for you phone as it really let's you take advantage of the what the device has to offer. I hate cords and wires, they bug me, I can't wait until we don't even have to plug in to charge lol

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[gsxr_guy3344]

bluetooth audio

Does your stereo have bluetooth capabilities? I have the droid 2 car dock and use it with blue tooth. I love it I can control the music right on the head set to a certain point. Other times I just open the music player and select the song i want. The sound from bluetooth is very compariable too that of a device plugged into an aux port. I like the fact that I can use my phone as a gps and play music as well. The music will play and when the gps says something it pauses the song and then picks it right back up. To get my music on my phone I did a simple copy and paste of songs from itunes folder to the sd card. Once in a while the phone will say something like " unable to play this file type" but i shut phone off and turn it back on and it works again. Hope this helped.

 

[spdivr1122]

Personally id just keep the ipod. I find music playing drains battery like crazy

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[wmnomore]

or just put the music on a flash drive then put into stereo. done. and easier.

 

[pulptastic]

Four years ago I bought a Pioneer USB stereo to do the same thing with an old Cowon X5 (which mounts as USB storage). It worked... but then I realized I could just buy an external USB powered 2.5" HD and leave it in there all the time. Come to find out spinning HD don't like to spin below freezing temperature, so I replaced that with a cheapo SSD in an enclosure. This worked in any temperature and was noticeably faster to start up.

If I had to do it again, I would get a head unit with USB (to mount the SSD) and bluetooth to use my phone audio. That is really the best of both worlds - all the podcasts and last.fm radio plus navigation from my phone, and 50+ gigs of music library when I want to hear "that one song" or shuffle all for a long road trip.

 

[mcatdtDroid]

Personally id just keep the ipod. I find music playing drains battery like crazy

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or plug into your car charger.....

part of why I got the Droid was to consolidate devices like mp3 camera, video, etc. Unless you just have 32GB ipod full of music and the Droid doesn't have the memory for it, I see no reason why people shouldn't be able to use the Droid.


however, that said, all car audio seems to be geared around iPods, not droids. I +1 for bluetuf if you have it.

I have a BT stereo headset I use in my jeep (cuz I can't hear the speakers anyways, and in the Xterra, I use BT. I don't have a lot of music compared to some on here, but I have an average amount. My entire 100 disc CD collection are converted to MP3's so I'm happy. Whenever I hear a new song or group, I download it from Youtube staight to my music folder.

 

[debdroid1a]

part of why I got the Droid was to consolidate devices like mp3 camera, video, etc. Unless you just have 32GB ipod full of music and the Droid doesn't have the memory for it, I see no reason why people shouldn't be able to use the Droid.

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That's why I got mine.

If you're not using it for long trips the battery won't go down that much. Mine goes down 10% on my commute, about 30 minutes. That's music or audio books or podcasts.

To the OP: If you want, create some playlists (I used Media Monkey, the free version, but there are other programs, I just had used that with my MP3 player). Then you don't have to worry about jumping around, skipping songs. I have one called Many Songs which are just a bunch of my favorite songs I've put on my computer to sync to my devices, and this playlist lasts forever. Then I have a few other playlists. I just found playlists eaiser on a touch screen.

 

[mcatdtDroid]

I have my music organized by folders on my computer, alphabetically. Folders are made up for every letter, then all artists within that letter has their subfolder within the main folder.

I drag and dropped my entire alphabet library into my music folder on the droid.
I downloaded 'music folder player' and I can build playlists by the folder I have already created. Very nice. The only thing I don't like about the music folder player app is there is no landscape view....

 

[phatkat66]

I have a pioneer avh-p4200dvd and I recently learned that the usb will not pick up any android devices. Even in "mass storage" mode it wont read it. I have NO idea why but I guess they wasn't thinking about android when they were creating these stereos. Which kinda sucks because now I feel like i have to get an ipod, because I don't like the AUX cord myself. I want to play the movies I have on my droid.

 

[OwlD2G]

Droid 2 Global as music player?

How do I turn my Droid 2 Global; into music player, step by step, please? I have well over 8,000 songs in iTunes on my Mac.

Thank you.

OwlD2G

 

[eg146]

I just used my Ipod adapter cord and connected the Droid 2 just like the ipod to my cars stock stereo.

I have a Mark Levinson system that came with the car and it sounds awesome. Otherwise I would have installed a custom system.

It also works in my b/f car. I wonder if you need to look at the Pioneer manual and adjust settings there? I don't have any media player apps, just what came with the phone. I also haven't changed the media player settings and it works in both cars.

That makes me think Pioneer has a special setting you need to enable. Probably just that simple.