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Media Button Router

Media Button Router

Harleen Sahni

10,000 - 50,000 downloads

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Media Button Router works with your Bluetooth stereo. Gone are the days when you were limited to a single app that would launch and play music when you hit the play button on your stereo. This app lets you, the user, decide what app should play music when you hit the play, previous, or next button on your stereo. It prompts you with text-to-speech, and lets you select by hitting previous to go back an app, next to go forward an app, and hitting play to select the app that you want to use. If music is already playing, Media Button Router stays out of the way, and lets whatever app that is playing the music handle media button presses. You can now have a fully hands-free music experience.

Please note that this app is targeted towards Bluetooth devices that have at least Play/Pause, Previous, and Next buttons. Also note that this app will not be compatible with all music apps. It has been tested, and works with at least the following apps: MixZing, PowerAMP, ³(Cubed), Android’s default music app, Pandora, and the latest version of Amazon MP3. It works most of the time with Google Listen and Rhapsody. Winamp and Doubletwist are not supported. In order for your music apps to work, you will likely have to enable a “headset controls” option in each app’s preferences.

Please report any issues at http://code.google.com/p/media-button-router/issues/list

Also, please free to submit a patch or contribute to this project, it's all open-source. I no longer use this app daily (my commute has changed), so any progress is going to come from YOU.

Tags: android media button, media buttons apk, android testing media button bluetooth, "media button router" headphones, media button router apk.

Recently changed in this version:

1.4.0:
Display indicator for current selection so you know what app will be selected on timeout. Useful if you have your volume down or text-to-speech disabled.
Add faster timeout option
Add option to disable text-to-speech prompting on open and navigation
Make selector layout wider and truncate app names in middle
Remove debug output to improve performance


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Comments and ratings for Media Button Router

  • (72 stars)

    by Ryan Gartin on 16/05/2013

    Simple, elegant and refined. Well done. Does exactly what I needed and puts the icing on the cake too. Thanks!

  • (72 stars)

    by Drew Henkels on 02/05/2013

    Excellent app. It stops my car from autoplaying music whenever I connect with bluetooth. I only wish it had an option to not play a sound when the app selection dialog disappears

  • (72 stars)

    by Mika Norén on 01/05/2013

    This application should be a default part of Android. I cannot understand why Android does not have a feature like this. Gone are the days when application responding to my media controls in an arbitrary order. However, one feature I'd like to see in futu

  • (72 stars)

    by Cody Watson on 27/04/2013

    ...however, having compatibility issues with my new HTC One.

  • (72 stars)

    by Bruno Gomes on 24/04/2013

    Just what I was looking for, I was able to program it to use Rdio by default!

  • (72 stars)

    by Greg DeSanto on 20/04/2013

    Keeps turning off and have to always turn back on

  • (72 stars)

    by Scott Byer on 04/04/2013

    Makes it easy to choose what to listen to in the car, helps make sure the buttons get routed consistently. It's a must have if you have more than one music/radio app.