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    Help me understand What's happening in Media on P3 V70??

    Help me understand infotainment / media What's happening???
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    I have on my iphone a lot of downloaded music from Amazon Prime playable offline. When I connect my phone via the usb connector and select ipod in the media section on the car stereo, I can play the music but only if I control it on my phone and no song or album details etc are displayed in the car screen. What ever was played before is displayed not what is currently playing.

    This is not great because I'm using my my phone while driving instead of using the steering wheel controls to select tracks music etc. However music downloaded to itunes does display on the car screen and can be controlled by the steering wheel controls.
    Selecting USB option in the media section asks for a USB to be put in the USB slot. Thanks in advance

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    It's because music on iTunes is stored in music folder on you phone that your car is programmed to look in where as the Amazon files are stored else where unfortunately unless the Amazon app has some option of where to store the files it downloads your out of luck unless you can jailbreak your phone to allow you to run something like es fileexplorer which will allow you to see the folder structure on your phone and move files from folder to folder. You may also get the same problem with music downloaded to phone on Spotify although some newer car entertainment systems have been programmed to look for Spotify files.

    A way around this may be to download the music on to your PC and add them to your phone via the iTunes application

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    I think if you hook the phone up via bluetooth, you can still use the car controls (forward, backwards, volume etc) to cycle through the music. On long journeys don't forget to plug the phone in so it retains charge.

    That's the way I tend to use Spotify etc in the S60 and it works just fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExternalError View Post
    A way around this may be to download the music on to your PC and add them to your phone via the iTunes application
    Perhaps, this helps:
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...deId=201377780

    Otherwise, you need to convert the downloaded music (which is possibly DRM protected) from its original format to .mp4 or .mp3 format and add to your phone via iTunes.
    Last edited by htomi; Thursday 12th January 2017 at 20:53.


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    Thanks guys this helps it's not such a problem when there's a passenger but on your own its a pain! I'll have a look at getting the music on i tunes.


 

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