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How are you playing your I-tunes library through the A3/S3?

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Old 10-08-2014, 09:20 AM
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Default How are you playing your I-tunes library through the A3/S3?

Is there a Audi Music interface hookup for the device?
Are you using an Aux cable?
Or the Bluetooth music streaming?

How's it working? whatever you choose?

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I'll just load up a SD card with MP3s
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Thanks, will any of the other options I listed above work as well?
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I haven't tried the BT streaming yet. Used the iPod interface and SD cards. SD cards seems to work best for me.
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Most of the time with my phone (Android HTC One M8) I use bluetooth, because it's the most conveinent way to access my entire collection. I don't store the music on my phone, I stream everything from Google Music, which holds my entire library in the cloud. It would be really awesome if the MMI could integrate with that, but maybe when Audi finally has Android Auto implemented. It's nice that the MMI syncs everything over bluetooth - contacts, e-mail, texts (if using an app that it supports), cell signal strength.

The only problem is 75% of the time when I get in the car, the music doesn't automatically start over bluetooth. I have to pull out my phone and hit play. The only 25% of the time it does start. Seems like a small annoyance, I know, but sometimes I throw my bag in the trunk and my phone is in there.

I bought an AMI->USB cable to try connecting my phone that way, but so far it doesn't even recognize that it's connected. I don't have any experience with iDevices, but I'll try a friends' iPhone to see how it works.
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Thanks, I also see the S3 had HD radio. What is that?
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Originally Posted by jeff968
Thanks, I also see the S3 had HD radio. What is that?
Google search "HD radio". What do you want us to do everything for you?
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My bluetooth streaming has been flawless for the whopping 24 hours I've had it. Starts the second I get in the car and stops when I leave. Working great. I have B&O, for what its worth.
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Originally Posted by Spoonie G
Google search "HD radio". What do you want us to do everything for you?
Thanks, that's why people like you so much Spoonie
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Originally Posted by jeff968
Thanks, that's why people like you so much Spoonie
You know how many times people ask me something that they could have found out doing a google search? The time that it took for you to ask that simple question here, you could have typed it in google and got the answer at the same time.

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