A soundbar/bluetooth question.

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Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
So..... my tv has a soundbar wired in.
I can bluetooth a track from my phone to the soundbar with good results.
My question is......can I bring up a whole album on my phone and get the whole album played through the soundbar ?
If so, what are the simple steps to do this ?
Thanks.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
Location
The Urban Fringe
Yes you can.

"How" depends on what app you're using to play the music.
 

nogoodnamesleft

Senior Member
The way my soundbar works is it's a loudspeaker but without cables. As it some some sound effect processing it may have some minimal buffering (couple of seconds max.) but is being driven by the device (in OPs case phone).

Unlike the more modern Homepod type thinks (with voice assistants built in) where you tell them to play think they store locally (on themselves) of get from the internet.

The complication comes maybe that some/many soundbars can also be connected to the internet and have apps built in to play from internet sources maybe with a phone app providing control eg what to play, where to get it from, volume, pause, etc.

So from the question it sounds like it's up to what the phone is streaming but there are other possibilities.
 
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Dave7

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
Yes you can.

"How" depends on what app you're using to play the music.

A bit technical for me but I can tell you..... my phone is a Samsung galaxy 5 so I think its classed as a smartphone.
All I do is 1st match my phone to the soundbar then type eg "little red rooster". When it shows up I tell it to play.
The reason I want this is that I have 1st 2 (1964) vynil uk Rolling Stones albums.
Problem is i no longer have record deck plus the albums have been 'played to death'.
Album one is available in cd but album 2 isn't (due to some financial disagreement with Decca + others).
 

nogoodnamesleft

Senior Member
All I do is 1st match my phone to the soundbar then type eg "little red rooster". When it shows up I tell it to play.
Still difficult to say (given it's a smartphone.

Some time back I enabled voice commands on my iPhone. I have Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon loaded locally on my phone listed in the Apple Music app (as being local storage). Once I said "Siri, play Dark Side of the Moon" and instead of using Apple Music to play the locally stored copy it used mobile data and subscribed me to Apple's online service and downloaded a version from Apple's servers and started playing that. And even more anoying was it subscribed me to a free trial of Apple's Online Music Servers and there was no way to unsubscribe. OK, cancelled before I was charged but it has automatically linked my phone to the music they charge for and provide on their servers rather than playing something I already had stored locally (RIPped from a CD I own).

And looking online I was far from alone at being unhappy about such voice system behaviour. And the Siri voice system was disabled pretty quickly.

Voice and Siri are integrated into search functionality so it all depends on what you types "little red rooster" into and then what that app did to find what you wanted.

Sorry, doesn't answer a straightforward question but these days there are so many variables and the "smart" in "smartphone" certainly doesn't mean it doing what you want or intended and often not much "smart" in it either.
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
You ideally need an app like Spotify, Amazon Music etc to play a whole album. You'll pay a subscription if you want a full library - we use Amazon Music for an additional fee, but it's worth it to us as we use it all the time.
 
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Dave7

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
You ideally need an app like Spotify, Amazon Music etc to play a whole album. You'll pay a subscription if you want a full library - we use Amazon Music for an additional fee, but it's worth it to us as we use it all the time.

My saviour aka my grandson has arrived to save the day.
I have got Spotify....the app symbol was hidden away.
So it appears I am good to go.
Thanks to all.
 

SpokeyDokey

69, & my GP says I will officially be old at 70!
Moderator
My saviour aka my grandson has arrived to save the day.
I have got Spotify....the app symbol was hidden away.
So it appears I am good to go.
Thanks to all.

Presumably the free version of Spotify?
 
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