I’d already paired my phone with our new car on the day we bought it, for the purpose of conducting phone calls. Today, I decided to see whether the car and the phone would team up to allow the distribution of audio. They did. So far so good.<\/p>\n\n
But would it really allow me to play from the Spotify client? The surprising answer — surprising to me, anyway — is yes. Thanks to A2DP<\/a>, I was able to listen to Spotify<\/a> through the car speakers. I forgot to check whether I could control the Spotify client in any meaningful way from the car’s controls, but I very much doubt it. If I can control it at all, I’m sure it will be no more than play, stop, rewind and fast-forward.<\/p>\n\n Of course, this requires a 3G data connection, which I have, but that would get expensive very quickly over the border. For local driving, however, it’ll be a very useful feature. Since our new car doesn’t even have a CD player, having the ability to stream from Spotify provides a necessary alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’d already paired my phone with our new car on the day we bought it, for the purpose of conducting phone calls. Today, I decided to see whether the car and the phone would team up to allow the distribution … Continue reading