XC60 Android Auto conundrum
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Afternoon all!
This is without doubt the most niche question I've ever asked on here (and there have been some pretty niche Excel ones!) but I figured it was worth a go!
I have an MY21 XC60 with Android Auto. This was the model just before Volvo went all in on building Google in to the dash for Nav and everything.
I'm trying out Amazon Unlimited on a free trial at the moment as a potential alternative to Spotify, primarily because Amazon stream at a much higher quality than Spotify, and with the right equipment, the difference is REALLY noticeable. One of the features of the Amazon app is that it will tell you what quality it's streaming at, from SD, HD or UltraHD, with HD being 16 bit / 44.1kHz, aka standard CD quality. It also tells you where the bottleneck is if it has to drop a song from HD down to SD, and this is where we get back to my Volvo and Android Auto!
If I play music through the car via a Bluetooth connection, then Amazon plays in HD, and I get nice, CD quality sound, so all is good on the music front, but it means I can't use Google Maps and instead have to use the built in maps, on which the traffic info and reaction to jams is nothing like as good. It also means I lose a lot of the hands-free phone operation capabilities.
If, on the other hand, I connect via Android Auto, I get Google Maps, but Amazon caps sound quality at SD, and the difference is quite noticeable!
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what might be causing this, and if there's a way around it? I would've thought that if anything Android Auto should handle the higher quality, as it's a wired vs wireless connection!
This is without doubt the most niche question I've ever asked on here (and there have been some pretty niche Excel ones!) but I figured it was worth a go!
I have an MY21 XC60 with Android Auto. This was the model just before Volvo went all in on building Google in to the dash for Nav and everything.
I'm trying out Amazon Unlimited on a free trial at the moment as a potential alternative to Spotify, primarily because Amazon stream at a much higher quality than Spotify, and with the right equipment, the difference is REALLY noticeable. One of the features of the Amazon app is that it will tell you what quality it's streaming at, from SD, HD or UltraHD, with HD being 16 bit / 44.1kHz, aka standard CD quality. It also tells you where the bottleneck is if it has to drop a song from HD down to SD, and this is where we get back to my Volvo and Android Auto!
If I play music through the car via a Bluetooth connection, then Amazon plays in HD, and I get nice, CD quality sound, so all is good on the music front, but it means I can't use Google Maps and instead have to use the built in maps, on which the traffic info and reaction to jams is nothing like as good. It also means I lose a lot of the hands-free phone operation capabilities.
If, on the other hand, I connect via Android Auto, I get Google Maps, but Amazon caps sound quality at SD, and the difference is quite noticeable!
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what might be causing this, and if there's a way around it? I would've thought that if anything Android Auto should handle the higher quality, as it's a wired vs wireless connection!
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