hi guys well the fm transmiter is pants in my car, i can connect my phone to my car to make phone calls but im not sure how to get it to play music. Ive checked if its possible with another phone and it is. Any ideas? thanks

Well you will have to pair your car with your phone. Please refer to you car manual. Then you just connect to the car bluetooth system with your phone (some systems might auto connect) and the system should be enables as an bluetooth audio gateway. After that you are ready to start playing music from the media player. Though if you car bluetooth does not support a2dp the sound quality could be terrible. Atleast some old bt systerms were for hands free only therefore they did not support proper bt audio profiles.

Not sure, but maybe you can pair your car as headset with the N900?

Anyone has experience with Alpine headunits(parrot bt) or especially kce-400bt bluetooth extension ? I heard somewhere that audio volume is quite low with bluetooth.

Just as a point of information, I have successfully played music using bluetooth A2DP to my Pioneer DEH-P7000BT in-dash stereo.

Occasionally there are some dropouts, but it wasn't too bad. I haven't tried it since the latest firmware update.

In my case, you pair the phone with the stereo and it pairs each of the different profiles (including A2DP). Then to play music I select "Bluetooth" as the source for audio (on the stereo) and then play something from the phone.

I'm not that familiar with bluetooth becouse haven't used HF ever but now interested of playing music trough my car stereos.. Isn't there any easier way than manually connect my stereo every time? If autoplay isn't plausible could it be possible to make shortcut that has script to connect? Sorry for my english..

jtmstr: Music over bluetooth also works with my Pioneer DEH-P9800BT. It connects automatically but I have to start the media player on the phone and manually start playback. As it is, A2DP playback offer little advantage over having a seperate mp3 player hooked up to the AUX.

I suspect it should be technically possible to write a script that trigger when the car stereo connects to the phone. If so, starting the preferred playback program should be possible. That would be a great improvement.

ive got a sony bluetooth headunit cost about 100 uk pounds from halfords

it is handy to have the bluetooth avalible

as soon as i get in my car it auto connects to the headunit

it then gives me my whole music collection to play via car stereo controls and when a call comes in it auto switches to phone mode and i press the volume key in and it awnswers the call for me making the call come out of thew car speakers

the bluetooth stack on the n900 isnt as stable as say my n96 n97 5800 etc etc as sometimes it gets stuck in phone mode and the quality isnt great this has only happend a couple of times but it never happend with the other phones

if you have a tv in on your headunit you could have your n900 connected to that and play angry bird on your car dvd player screen :-)

just got a new car which has bluetooth in it. I can pair and connect the n900 with it, answer calls and make them with the stearing wheel button . BUT, I cannot figure out how to play music through it. If I have the n900 in media player, playing a song, then press the dial button it gives me a few seconds of playing the music before it switches to calling the last number dialled, so it MUST be possible somehow. Has anybody solved this type of thing already? Perhaps there is a really simple step I'm missing, leading to a "D'oh moment"? Could it be the car is missing the option to play music from the connected device? There must be loads of people in the same boat, perhaps someone knows an app that solves it, or has the expertise to write one which tricks the car into thinking the n900 is making or receiving a call, thereby playing the music on the car stereo (I can live without being able to receive calls most times)

Most of the BT-systems in cars only work as a handsfree device. Atleast this seems to be true for Toyota. I did manage to get music playing once by accident though. Tried a s60, s40 and my n900.