Hi All,
For all of you who are wondering what AVRCP is, it stands for Audio/Video Remote Control Profile. It's a profile used to remotely control Bluetooth enabled devices just as the name suggests. Android seems to be stuck on version 1.0, and it has been stuck on it for years now.
The main issue for me is the metadata added in version 1.3. My car has a small screen that displays metadata about the currently playing song. This works great on my wife's Galaxy S3 (Or pretty much any other skinned version of Android for that matter), but since I prefer to stick with stock Android, I have to forgo this feature. See pic here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3GApIuovrrwOVMyZURKMUdlaEk
I know some of you will say "just drop a ROM on it", but given that this is a industry standard, I think it should be baked right into the stock OS. Come to think of it, even google must agree to some extent since AVRCP v1.0 is baked in...they just haven't updated it since they first implemented it.
I hope this post serves to make the community and google aware of the issue so it can be addressed in the next major version. Key Lime Pie feature anyone?
Thanks for reading!
For all of you who are wondering what AVRCP is, it stands for Audio/Video Remote Control Profile. It's a profile used to remotely control Bluetooth enabled devices just as the name suggests. Android seems to be stuck on version 1.0, and it has been stuck on it for years now.
From Wikipedia:
AVRCP has several versions with significantly increasing functionality:
1.0?Basic remote control commands (play/pause/stop, etc.)
1.3?all of 1.0 plus metadata and media-player state support
The status of the music source (playing, stopped, etc.)
Metadata information on the track itself (artist, track name, etc.).
1.4?all of 1.0, 1.3, plus media browsing capabilities for multiple media players
Browsing and manipulation of multiple players
Browsing of media metadata per media player, including a "Now Playing" list
Basic search capabilities
AVRCP has several versions with significantly increasing functionality:
1.0?Basic remote control commands (play/pause/stop, etc.)
1.3?all of 1.0 plus metadata and media-player state support
The status of the music source (playing, stopped, etc.)
Metadata information on the track itself (artist, track name, etc.).
1.4?all of 1.0, 1.3, plus media browsing capabilities for multiple media players
Browsing and manipulation of multiple players
Browsing of media metadata per media player, including a "Now Playing" list
Basic search capabilities
The main issue for me is the metadata added in version 1.3. My car has a small screen that displays metadata about the currently playing song. This works great on my wife's Galaxy S3 (Or pretty much any other skinned version of Android for that matter), but since I prefer to stick with stock Android, I have to forgo this feature. See pic here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3GApIuovrrwOVMyZURKMUdlaEk
I know some of you will say "just drop a ROM on it", but given that this is a industry standard, I think it should be baked right into the stock OS. Come to think of it, even google must agree to some extent since AVRCP v1.0 is baked in...they just haven't updated it since they first implemented it.
I hope this post serves to make the community and google aware of the issue so it can be addressed in the next major version. Key Lime Pie feature anyone?
Thanks for reading!
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