(solved) artist/track not displaying properly on ford sync after android 9 update

[wibbly23]

today my phone finally updated to android 9 and the first thing that broke was Poweramp.

i use my phone connected to my 2016 ford f150 to play music via bluetooth audio (not the android auto app, i hate it). on oreo this worked perfectly. the artist and track name would show up, i'd get a progress bar, everything was gravy.


the moment i got the pie update this all stopped working. now the artists and titles lag behind by a song, and the progress bar doesn't move. if i don't manually advance the song then it will just stay on the same one indefinitely. if i advance the track manually it updates, but lags behind by a song.  the audio works flawlessly, but it doesn't show what's playing as it used to.


any ideas? i rebooted the phone and unpaired/repaired the device with sync but to no avail.

[andrewilley]

You could try Settings > Misc > Metachanged Intent.

However sending data content by Bluetooth can be a bit of a black art and things can indeed change with different versions of Android, Poweramp, and even the software in the receiver.

Andre

[wibbly23]

i don't have any such option in my settings > misc folder?

 

 

edit, found it in headset/bluetooth. metachanged intent was set to on already.

[andrewilley]

2 hours ago, wibbly23 said:

edit, found it in headset/bluetooth. metachanged intent was set to on already.

What version of Poweramp are you using? Latest version is build 858

Andre

[wibbly23]

in the about Poweramp it shows

v3-build-853-arm64-play
full version 64 bit

[andrewilley]

Try updating to 858 (though I don't think that will make a difference to your problem).

Andre

[wibbly23]

i enabled beta and updated to 858, but it didn't solve the problem.


however i did fix it. when android 9 installed it changed my AVRCP in bluetooth to 1.4. in developer settings i changed it back to 1.3 and now everything is working flawlessly again.


thanks very much for the replies!

[andrewilley]

Great. I hadn't though about the BT standard changing during the OS update, but yes that can indeed make a difference.

Andre