Smartconnect opens the Walkman app, instead of Google Music play?

[liviococcia]

Hello Members
I've a bluetooth Alpine car stereo, and when I connect my XZU the default music player is the Walkman app, if I pause the app and close it then try and use Google Music Player app, I get no sound through the car stereo.

I've worked out that apparently the Sony Walkman app takes possession of the Bluetooth sound connection as default, and that this is showing up in the Smartconnect app under the 'device' section under 'application'.

So, how can I change the default application that opens in the Smartconnect app to Google Music play, when I connect to my car stereo?

Any help would be great, thanks

Regards
Livio

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hello Members
I've a bluetooth Alpine car stereo, and when I connect my XZU the default music player is the Walkman app, if I pause the app and close it then try and use Google Music Player app, I get no sound through the car stereo.

I've worked out that apparently the Sony Walkman app takes possession of the Bluetooth sound connection as default, and that this is showing up in the Smartconnect app under the 'device' section under 'application'.

So, how can I change the default application that opens in the Smartconnect app to Google Music play, when I connect to my car stereo?

Any help would be great, thanks

Regards
Livio

SmartConnect/events then edit the one linked with your car stereo. Haven't tried it myself so don't know it you can change the default, but I have it so it plays PowerAmp on car connection, so should work.

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[liviococcia]

Thanks SpyderTracks, if I add an 'Event' to the 'Alpine car stereo' device to allow Google Music Player to start, then what I get is, on connecting to the car stereo the Walkman app will open in the notification bar, but I'll have to close it first and then open the Google Music Player app.

Smartconnect should really just allow me simply to change the default startup 'Applications' rather than having to add additional events.

Has anyone got any ideas if the primary Application for a device in Smartconnect can be altered?

I really can't understand how, or why it's having to work in this way, and why Smartconnect didn't ask me first what Application I wanted to start, when I first made the Bluetooth pairing to the Alpine Car stereo.

This option should have been a choice that I make.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Thanks SpyderTracks, if I add an 'Event' to the 'Alpine car stereo' device to allow Google Music Player to start, then what I get is, on connecting to the car stereo the Walkman app will open in the notification bar, but I'll have to close it first and then open the Google Music Player app.

Smartconnect should really just allow me simply to change the default startup 'Applications' rather than having to add additional events.

Has anyone got any ideas if the primary Application for a device in Smartconnect can be altered?

I really can't understand how, or why it's having to work in this way, and why Smartconnect didn't ask me first what Application I wanted to start, when I first made the Bluetooth pairing to the Alpine Car stereo.

This option should have been a choice that I make.

Just worth a try, try adding a new action when you're next in the car and deleting the existing one.

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[tommo123]

i can't get this working. i've paired my bluetooth earphones and all headset controls (even if in google music) work through that damn walkman app.

i looked in events and see nothing about stopping that app taking default control of inputs.
i tried to freeze the app and it did nothing.

i listen to audio courses on my phone on the way in to work and need to be able to press pause. this phone can't do that unless the screen is on in front of me the whole time which is going to kill my battery

---------- Post added 14th October 2013 at 12:00 AM ---------- Previous post was 13th October 2013 at 11:25 PM ----------

ok, froze smart connect and walkman and seems to be better, except oddly the pause button doesn't work as it did before

 

[tommo123]

and what i've done above stops the smartwatch connecting.

any way to have both?

 

[liviococcia]

SpyderTracks thanks for the suggestion, and I did think of trying that.

But when I initially connected the car stereo up to the phone the first time, it never gave me the option to setup a new Smartconnect hardware action for the stereo's connection, it made that wrong decision for me.

So, because we need to find out if either the Smartconnect software can either be controlled fully, or if it can be deactivated without effecting the SmartWatch 2 functions, I've email Sony for help also. I think that all bluetooth connect 'Application' decisions in Smartconnect software should be confirmed, and all Sony bluetooth hardware specific items should be automatic.

Or, that the Smartconnect software should only be relevant to Sony NFC Bluetooth, and WIFi products, and nothing else.

Hope your listening Sony!

 

[SpyderTracks]

SpyderTracks thanks for the suggestion, and I did think of trying that.

But when I initially connected the car stereo up to the phone the first time, it never gave me the option to setup a new Smartconnect hardware action for the stereo's connection, it made that wrong decision for me.

So, because we need to find out if either the Smartconnect software can either be controlled fully, or if it can be deactivated without effecting the SmartWatch 2 functions, I've email Sony for help also. I think that all bluetooth connect 'Application' decisions in Smartconnect software should be confirmed, and all Sony bluetooth hardware specific items should be automatic.

Or, that the Smartconnect software should only be relevant to Sony NFC Bluetooth, and WIFi products, and nothing else.

Hope your listening Sony!

Thanks for the info and your time on this... I hope Sony respond. It seems short sighted to lock such a good app to link to Sony apps only... Keep us posted please :sly:

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[liviococcia]

Just an update,...

Sony never responded to my email, I ended up doing a Web chat, which got me nowhere so I ended calling them with no success.

I have read a few forum posts regarding this type of problem from a while back, people were experiencing problems of the Alpine head unit showing BT A Pause' when using some apps, while other apps on there phones (of the time) worked with no problems.

I think this problem not so much a Sony problem, as it is, how Google Music Player is interacting within the Bluetooth connection of the phone, and the way the Alpine Bluetooth car head unit is understanding the connection.

There was a known issue with Alpine BT head units, and ipods/Iphones/and Motorola s, which lead them to issue a firmware update, I wounder wheather this might be the case again for the XZU

 

[McNexus]

I have just discovered this issue today when trying the google music app. This is frustrating as Play Music allows saving to SD by default, and I am not willing to root my Z Ultra.

It does appear that smart connect is locked to the Walkman app which makes switching music service almost impossible. :crying:

 

[SpyderTracks]

I have just discovered this issue today when trying the google music app. This is frustrating as Play Music allows saving to SD by default, and I am not willing to root my Z Ultra.

It does appear that smart connect is locked to the Walkman app which makes switching music service almost impossible. :crying:

I use poweramp which you can set to autostart when there's a BT connection. Bypasses smart connect entirely with the same outcome.

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[freetoboard]

grrr sony

Hello Members
I've a bluetooth Alpine car stereo, and when I connect my XZU the default music player is the Walkman app, if I pause the app and close it then try and use Google Music Player app, I get no sound through the car stereo.

I've worked out that apparently the Sony Walkman app takes possession of the Bluetooth sound connection as default, and that this is showing up in the Smartconnect app under the 'device' section under 'application'.

So, how can I change the default application that opens in the Smartconnect app to Google Music play, when I connect to my car stereo?

Any help would be great, thanks

Regards
Livio

This is quite a frustrating problem. Sony is quite elitist when it comes to their software. Fortunately andoid is flexible. Delete all events for smart connect. And install tasker. With tasker you can set Google play to start when headphones or bluetooth are connected.
Its not quite as good as smart connect unfortunately, because it has a very confusing interface. But once you figure out how to work with tasker its definately a "set and forget" type of functionality.

Hope this helps ^-^