shadango Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Hi folks. I have been using Poweramp for a couple years now and love it. Love the UI, and it seems to be very robust. I havent tried other apps other than what came with my phones...no need to IMHO with Poweramp. Anyways, I recently installed a Rockford Fosgate PMX2 marine receiver with bluetooth. Crutchfield advertises it as such: The Rockford Fosgate PMX-2 offers built-in Bluetooth (version 3.0+EDR) for wireless music playback from your Bluetooth-enabled Apple iPod/iPhone/iPad, Android smartphone/tablet, Windows phone, Blackberry, and more. You are able to stream stored music and music apps from your Bluetooth device to the PMX-2 marine receiver. You can control basic playback functions like Play/Pause, Previous Next/Track and Repeat/Shuffle for stored music and music apps on your device. When using a Bluetooth AVRCP 1.4 compatible device like the Apple iPhone (iOS 5.0+) or an Android smartphone (OS 4.0+), you can even browse your stored music by category (Playlist/Artist/Song/Genre). The PMX-2 will also display your device's song/artist information with album art. I can play music just fine.....I can use the track skip buttons and I can pause the music. The song title and album title appears on screen. BUT ---no album art (not a huge deal to me) but more importantly I am not able to use the browser they have in the unit to pick an artist, album etc. Now that's Crutchfield's website. RF's website is a little more sketchy: The PMX-2 features...... Pandora control capabilities and Bluetooth audio streaming with album art support for Apple and Android products I called Rockford Fosgate and the guy there said "I am an apple guy so I cant really help, our android guys are out"....I am waiting for them to get back to me...... My phone is a Moto G5 Plus, OS 7.0, and I am using PowrAMp build 709 paid version. I am hesitant to try any other audio player apps....I trust Poweramp and frankly it does more than I need it to do......so much junk out there , tough to know what to trust..... But should Poweramp be able to supply the data needed to the RF PMX2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Sounds like the features they are mentioning and when your Rockford device is playing music files directly from a Bluetooth device (i.e. streamed from the phone's local storage) rather than when it is acting as an output device for PA. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadango Posted June 20, 2018 Author Share Posted June 20, 2018 On 6/12/2018 at 12:56 PM, andrewilley said: Sounds like the features they are mentioning and when your Rockford device is playing music files directly from a Bluetooth device (i.e. streamed from the phone's local storage) rather than when it is acting as an output device for PA. Andre But doesn't ANY playback of music from a android device require a player? When I connect to my phone to play the music, Poweramp is the app that comes up playing the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 12 minutes ago, shadango said: But doesn't ANY playback of music from a android device require a player? Not necessarily, the external device could just be requesting to read the physical files directly (with your phone acting like a USB stick). Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadango Posted June 20, 2018 Author Share Posted June 20, 2018 3 hours ago, andrewilley said: Not necessarily, the external device could just be requesting to read the physical files directly (with your phone acting like a USB stick). Andre I do find that when I fire up the RF PMX2, my Poweramp starts playing automatically where it had left off. So I do not believe it is doing that. When I stop PA, the music stops. The cheapie bluetooth plug in reciever for my car and the stereo in my garage works the same way.....starts Poweramp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 If you are asking whether Poweramp sends full library listings and cover art to Bluetooth head-units, I don't think it does (it never has for me anyway). Have you ever seen that work from PA on your device? Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadango Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 On 6/20/2018 at 8:04 PM, andrewilley said: If you are asking whether Poweramp sends full library listings and cover art to Bluetooth head-units, I don't think it does (it never has for me anyway). Have you ever seen that work from PA on your device? Andre No..........thats why I am asking. The PMX2 supports it, in theory......at least with iDevices.....now I am learning apparently not with android.....but wanted to confirm that and the first step is finding an app that DOES support it on android.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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