Bluetooth Car Stereo won't list directory of artists and albums

[gkendall43]

Our 2015 Subaru Forester Bluetooth works fine with my iPhone, my wife's Galaxy S6 and our other Android phones. The stereo lists a directory of all the artists, albums and songs. From the car stereo you can pick what you want to play. With my Nexus 7 2013, it connects fine, plays songs fine and displays the song metadata fine. However, the car stereo does not have a list of artists, albums and songs I can use to select what I want to play. I have to start a music player on the tablet and start the music playing from the tablet. Both Play Music and Poweramp work the same.

Does anyone know what I need to do to get the car to see the directory of artists, albums and songs on the Nexus 7?

Thanks.

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[gkendall43]

Which player you have in your car ?

It's the stock Subaru head unit with navigation.

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[Darksurfr]

might it have something to do with the bluetooth compatability?

your S6 has a couple more features for bluetooth then the Nexus 7 does
s6 = v4.1, A2DP, LE, apt-X
N7 = v4.0, A2DP, LE

Just a thought.

 

[gkendall43]

It certainly could be the lack of a Bluetooth feature or something missing on the N7. Can others see the directory of artists and songs on their car stereos with the N7?

Does anyone know the name of the Bluetooth feature that enables this?


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[gkendall43]

Well I think you nailed it. I did bunch of searching and I think it is the version of the Bluetooth AVRCP profile supported that controls this. I believe that AVRCP version 1.4 or above is required to support browsing of the media on the device. I think the Nexus 7 2013 only supports 1.3. Many Android OEMs have added 1.4 support but it looks like stock Android only supports 1.3 as far as I can tell. How disappointing!

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[gkendall43]

I forgot to add the link to one source:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis...io.2FVideo_Remote_Control_Profile_.28AVRCP.29

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