Santilli
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Thanks. Just ordered one.
There is a considerable difference in data transfer compared to the 9S+.
Also needed new software, since VLC doesn't seem to see the 512G MicroSD card.
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There is a considerable difference in data transfer compared to the 9S+.
Also needed new software, since VLC doesn't seem to see the 512G MicroSD card.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I spent about $400 on a head unit to get wireless Android Auto in my 2011 Honda. I know not a single thing about cars and I still managed to install it about three hours. Before that, I used a $15 bluetooth to aux transceiver, which was great for me but didn't work well for my partner's iphone for some reason or other.
There's a distinction between the bluetooth call profile and bluetooth audio profile. BT Audio is MUCH higher bit-rate and not even all BT headsets meant for phones handle it, let alone car stereos.
One of my favorite stories about this that the Pornhub Android app was specifically coded to work over the BT call profile. My partner found this out after being stuck in a rental car on a drive to Florida when nobody in the car had a way to make the car stereo play anything else. Also, there's a surprising amount of pirated not-porn movies and TV shows on there. The Pornhub app doesn't work any more. Pour one out for a true king.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Android has had some changes to permission structures in the last six years. Your card needs to be exFAT and you need to grant permission to the root of the SD card before you can use it. I'm 95% certain that VLC prompts you for that. I also had an S20 for a very long time. I used a 1TB card on it without issue..
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I use Blackplayer EX for local media on my phone, Spotify for streaming when I'm out of the house (the app is more responsive and someone else pays for my Spotify), Amazon Music if I'm streaming at home, Pocket Casts for Podcasts and I've done an absolute fuckton of work to make Plex see and properly list my local audiobook collection if I'm messing with THAT. My partner is on an Apple Music family plan and she's an Audible subscriber.
I pay to keep Amazon Music because I'm grandfathered in to an Amazon Cloud Music plan that has many thousands of files I uploaded to it. One of the cooler things that can be done with Spotify/Apple/Amazon music is speaker groups via Echo devices. It's a pretty nifty way to get whole-home audio, since all of mine are connected to much bigger audio systems.
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Florida Man
You can just as easily get a USB-C dongle that would let you hook it up, or a bluetooth dongle or FM transmitter (my personal choice when I still had my 2010 Corolla), or, hell, even a new head unit that'd support it natively. I have plenty of friends who've gone that route. You could leave it in the car. They're not dear enough to prompt a thief to get in just for it. And you can get other, admittedly more bulky ones, that also allow you to charge your phone while it's plugged into aux.
Seeing FLACs isn't a thing that a phone can individually decide or not, it's 100% about the app you use. VLC will see them fine, my personal music player of choice for local files was Poweramp when I was on Android last, and even your pack-in music player should very well also see and play FLACs fine though it might have some stipulations the other apps don't regarding bitrate, sample rate or bit depth.
Seeing FLACs isn't a thing that a phone can individually decide or not, it's 100% about the app you use. VLC will see them fine, my personal music player of choice for local files was Poweramp when I was on Android last, and even your pack-in music player should very well also see and play FLACs fine though it might have some stipulations the other apps don't regarding bitrate, sample rate or bit depth.
sedrosken
Florida Man
Wow, just noticing I missed several posts before I made mine. It might help if I read some.