Listening to Broadcastify Thru Your Car Audio Speakers

[enduser56]

I recently traded my 2003 GMC Envoy for a 2018 Jeep Compass with their UConnect software. With the Envoy, the only way to hear Broadcastify on the car speakers was to purchase one of those low power CLA Bluetooth FM transmitters, set it to a desired frequency such as 87.9, run an audio cable from it to your smart phone, open the Broadcastify app and tune your radio to 87.9.

However, with the Jeep's Uconnect system (and I would imagine any other car manufacturer's present day onboard connectivity suite with Bluetooth capabilities) you simply need to make sure your phone is paired to your car's system, fireup the Broadcastify phone app then select the Bluetooth icon on your car display. Maybe most already knew this and I'm just now catching on but thought I'd mention it for those interested. If this info has already been posted and covered then my apologies.

Just a thought, but what would be really excellent is if there was a Broadcastify portal on Sirius XM. Of course the next obstacle would be how to afford SXM

 

[belvdr]

Bluetooth works for any audio from your phone, and usually calls too.

 

[zapman987]

Theres probably an option on your car, to play either audio (what you want) or phone, or both. I know in my car I can not stream bluetooth music/audio/etc without the "audio" option on. This is for folks that want to listen to something on their phone but also play the radio or something, but still have the phone interrupt if it rings.

 

[DJ11DLN]

Theres probably an option on your car, to play either audio (what you want) or phone, or both. I know in my car I can not stream bluetooth music/audio/etc without the "audio" option on. This is for folks that want to listen to something on their phone but also play the radio or something, but still have the phone interrupt if it rings.

Doesn't work on my car ('17 Terrain). The phone part works fine but it turns out that there is an additional option to stream "regular" bluetooth audio, MP3's etc...and mine doesn't have it. I learned this the hard way in the run-up to a recent trip; I had to resort to the aux jack and a jumper to get the Google Maps and Audible (audio book) audio into the car system. It's a minor thing that I can live with; I suspect there's even a setting somewhere that I'm missing so that I can do it via the USB port, and the phone needs to be plugged in for that kind of service anyway, but it's still aggravating to me that GM did it that way.

 

[krokus]

Just a thought, but what would be really excellent is if there was a Broadcastify portal on Sirius XM. Of course the next obstacle would be how to afford SXM

Have you the number of streams that this site supports? It would double the stream load of the service. As an added concern, I wonder how much extra delay would be added to the feeds.

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[belvdr]

Have you the number of streams that this site supports? It would double the stream load of the service. As an added concern, I wonder how much extra delay would be added to the feeds.

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They would need to go multicast, rather than unicast, to scale it up. The load increase would be minimal.

 

[jeepsandradios]

Jeep will allow you to play any blue tooth audio thru the system. change to phone and media in the settings. Listened all the time in my GC. Just got a F150 and do the same there.