I seem to recall looking around for hard data on this issue back at around xmas, but ultimately deciding that the Note 2 was just too new for people to really have solid answers.
Now it's February. Time to pin this one down.
I stream music to my car (2012 Civic) using HandsFreeLink. This works, although there are issues which I will delve into in a separate thread. However, it is painfully obvious that the stream is defaulting to the SBC codec, which provides sub-MP3 quality, similar to MP2 or MiniDisc if anyone has ever heard those.
The problem here is lack of transparency. There does not seem to be a way for me to force the phone to tell me what it is doing, and/or force a change in what it is doing - specifically, force it to use Apt-X or whatever I happen to want it to use. The solution I am hoping for is an app or some other means of enabling this functionality which I'd like to think I should have been able to take for granted. Sort of like how there is an app to force ringtones to play at 100% volume from beginning to end, overriding the phone's normal (and frankly dumb) behavior of initially playing them quiet.
I mean, Samsung goes out of their way to list Apt-X (as part of Bluetooth 4.0) as a feature. It seems to me that there must be some way for the user to forcibly enable said feature.
So where do we stand on this, now that the phone is about a third the way into its lifespan with the Note 3 officially looming on the horizon?
Now it's February. Time to pin this one down.
I stream music to my car (2012 Civic) using HandsFreeLink. This works, although there are issues which I will delve into in a separate thread. However, it is painfully obvious that the stream is defaulting to the SBC codec, which provides sub-MP3 quality, similar to MP2 or MiniDisc if anyone has ever heard those.
The problem here is lack of transparency. There does not seem to be a way for me to force the phone to tell me what it is doing, and/or force a change in what it is doing - specifically, force it to use Apt-X or whatever I happen to want it to use. The solution I am hoping for is an app or some other means of enabling this functionality which I'd like to think I should have been able to take for granted. Sort of like how there is an app to force ringtones to play at 100% volume from beginning to end, overriding the phone's normal (and frankly dumb) behavior of initially playing them quiet.
I mean, Samsung goes out of their way to list Apt-X (as part of Bluetooth 4.0) as a feature. It seems to me that there must be some way for the user to forcibly enable said feature.
So where do we stand on this, now that the phone is about a third the way into its lifespan with the Note 3 officially looming on the horizon?