I see that it has built-in Wifi. How does it load? I want to use it for music: Spotify and Pandora. How do they work on it?
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I find it works well with videos, however I have no first hand knowledge of its use with Pandora nor Spotify. The wifi antenna is very good though, and has no problem with streaming files, or apps. That is to say as long as your wifi signal is fairly strong.
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I got to load pandora on my own. With blackberry they have their own apps. You have to go online and search pandora on blackberry tablet and install it yourself from hooked up to USB on your computer.
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They don't work on playbook unfortunately bbworld doesn't support those apps for playbook
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I have used Pandora on it without a problem. I don't know about Spotify bu I am sure it will load fine.
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what kind of phone do you have!? all I had to do was put on pandora or my music playlist and it automatically played.
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No unfortunately you have to be connected to wifi. You can download a show or music and listen to it. This is one of the downsides. I only use it in my service van so this isn't ever been a problem for me.
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I have this radio and have no problems. It plays everything fine...bluetooth is great..I listen to pandora without problems. I had it Iinstalled professionally though
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I could stream music that was on my iPhone to the iReceiver. I could not stream music from Pandora etc. Hope this helps.
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You would have to use your phone to stream Pandora. the unit does not have any apps. You may be able to control the Pandora experience using head unit buttons, but I do not know for sure.
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I think it's either one. You only need a Pandora connection. Also as I say to others as well check a youtube video that can show you the correct way to connect it.
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I use the USB cable to connect in my car. That's what I bought it for. I have a much older model and wanted one with more storage for my music. I listen to the music in the car on my way to and from work. I just checked my Nano and it has bluetooth capability but not Wifi. Hope this helps.
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Plays Pandora and iTunes just fine. It wants to install it's own app that is.... eh. Not required. I took it off.
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I owned this device for 1 whole day when I found out that I couldn't save playlists on it, but I'm pretty sure there is no Wi-Fi capability. It is more like a portable hard drive that will play videos and music. It connects to a computer for downloading of files. I've owned other Cowon devices and am very impressed with the audio quality, but the smaller ones will store playlists.
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Same here - as long as the jack is in all the way, its good. In my case, I found a quirk - I was playing Pandora radio from my ipad speakers and then pushed the jack of the kinivo in and couldnt hear a thing. Then i gracefully exited Pandora, and restarted the app and all was good. Just remember to keep the ipod or pad at full volume and use the kinivo to control the volume and you should be good.
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The Pandora applications will not work, however it works just fine with the bluetooth streaming. Song, artist, album show on the display and you can pause, previous, next track.
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Hello, I actually don't know how to explain this well, so I will try and give it a shot. All that I do is hook it up to my laptop, play music from ITunes or Spotify, and plug in the 2 Sony Speakers I have and it's like having music anywhere around the house. Does that help?
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Not exactly sure of the question but this is how I use it. First, you log your radio in to either your WiFi by identifying it and providing a password if necessary or hooking it up with an Internet cable. Once connected, you use a service called Reciva... https://radios.reciva.com/. In Reciva, you select the radio stations you want to listen to and also assign the unique identifier of your radio, which will link your Reciva account to your radio. This way you can maintain your stations on a computer and download them to the radio. I also have Pandora and Live365 linked to Reciva so I can listen to those services also. You can also assign them directly from the radio but I have found it easier to do it the way I have described. I would say the instructions are pretty good so, if you have even a little experience with computer related stuff, you should be able to get it going with no trouble.
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I don't have Spotify premium and therefore was disappointed to find out it doesn't work without it. Does anyone know a way to play any music out of the smart phone through bluetooth on this receiver? Even if it has to be mp3's saved on this phone's SD storage card.
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Via bluetooth - audio playback, previous/next buttons, and current artist/song display (SPP) works in some applications. Also, make/answer calls, and it may support the phonebook (i don't know)Via USB (if the phone can mount as a mass storage device) - browse folders, play songs or playlists.Pandora mode - No. (you can play music from pandora over bluetooth, but you cannot change station or thumbs up/down from the head unit).AppRadio/Advanced App mode - No (not for me at least).
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Hi, paring method on this Sony Sound system is via Bluetooth and apparently streaming music will only work on audio files that are downloaded on the device itself. It will not work on streaming music coming from Pandora. -Ely