I have an external bluetooth speaker I use with my bold. When playing stuff in MediaPlayer, the track skip/pause buttons on the speaker control the mediaplayer remotely, which is very neat (so that I can skip/pause even when my bold goes into password mode, and the speaker buttons are easier to access and less dangerous to operate when driving ).
However, this doesn't seem to work in the podtrapper interface. Would be great if it did. Don't know if A2DP has anything to do with it; some sort of standard for audio transmission for portable devices which apparently is used between the bold and the speaker -- but not sure if that is only for streaming music from device to receiver rather than for control signals in the other direction.
I could make the podcasts visible in mediaplayer and play from there, but there are two problems I see with this...
Firstly, it is not clear to me whether all podcasts will appear under the "podcast" genre for ease of selection -- should they? I do have at least one "stray" podcast (see another post).
Secondly, once in the mediaplayer, I can't use Play All or Shuffle to play just my music -- can I filter out the podcast genre? Or perhaps I could use a playlist and add all except podcasts (not sure if that's possible without doing it one-by-one though).
Any thoughts welcome!
Mike