A few years back when I first discovered live internet radio that you could stream from halfway across the world I thought to myself, "it sure would be nice if you could listen to this in your car." The solution I came up with back then was to record a live broadcast and then burn it to CD.

Fast forward to present day... I was playing around with my phone today and realized that I could stream live radio from Hong Kong. Then it occurred to me that our car has bluetooth audio. Schwing!!! Took me long enough, but I was driving home and listening to live radio from HK and grinning from ear to ear. Love this car!!!!!!

 

HAHA, gotta love technology these days...

 

I've been streaming music/radio through bluetooth ever since I got my Droid last year. And yes, it is awesome

 

If you have pandora it works REALLY well and I'd have to say the sound quality bests XM by a HUGE margin. It's not perfect by any means but the compression sound is not present, what you do give up is that here is a small amount of "hiss" during very quiet passes. I use an iphone 3GS and in my area there is rarely buffering problems. I'd say that when I had the XM it cut out more than streaming audio over a 3G network. Who knew?

 

Wow thanks for posting this MrOto!

I just assumed my base model didn't have BT audio cause the manual says premium model only but to my surprise I hit the "aux" button last night and it sync'd up with my phone no problems.

Only issue I'm having is the hissing/cracking sound once in a while. It's not sounding as clear as CD but nothing beats the convenience.

 

Now if you can only get it to play video on the nav for free.

 

I just got a 2010 tsx and the bluetooth audio was totally unexpected. I was actually in the process of connecting the cable and had my head down when all of the sudden the music started before I connected the other end of the cable. Everything in this car just works, plain and simple.

 

Great, congratulations and welcome! Good to see some positive posts about the car every now and then.

 

Didn't another forum member post how he figured out how to tap into the nav screen? I think it's in this same section, maybe a page or two down.

 

the bluetooth doesnt work for some of the blackberry's, and of course one of them being mine and i dont know why. i guess it isnt "pairable" so does that mean i should get a new phone?

 

You say bluetooth audio, is this A2DP?

 

visit crackberry.com
i learned how to get my BB to pair with my car from there.
unfortunately i dont remember the steps

 

i just got an iphone and did this for the first time

holy shit...

mind = blown

 

^^^ ditto

 

Would this also work with streaming apps like Pandora?

 

yeah, i streamed pandora, this is the biggest win of all time.

when you have pandora plugged in and the bluetooth on a small box appears in the pandora app on the bottom, click it and select handsfreelink and then switch aux to bluetooth audio and enjoy the victory

 

Thanks Killer, todays ride home from work will be glorious. Almost as glorious as the time I rode Falkor through the city, in attempt to save the Empress from her illness.

 

Sounds like a rhapsody of fire song

 

Ha ha! Nice reference to the Never Ending Story.

 

What can I say, I was born in the 80's! Its a part of life. Streamed Pandora on the way home yesterday. I felt like the traffic just moved out of the way. Going on a trip to Charleston SC today, this will make the ride much more enjoyable.

 

At first -- was thrilled I had XM Radio! However, I really found the sound quality to be horrible compared to using aux-jack with my phone's Winamp/Pandora/<insert audio service here>

However, I found the BT Wireless Audio performance to be horrible... while it worked, the audio quality didn't sound as good to me. To each their own I guess!

I have to charge the phone anyways when using streaming; can't imagine how quick I'd eat battery life if I was using AD2P plus 4G Audio streaming....

 

The Bluetooth Audio is so money and was a totally unexpected bonus in my '12 TSX. I have Pandora ONE, and would agree that the sound is superb! I can also play pretty much anything else on my iPhone 4 - songs from my iPod, podcasts from other sites, and even the Bible using the audio option on YouVersion's bible app. BTA FTW!