High quality music streaming over the Internet to your car stereo
You may have heard that Ford SYNC (based on Microsoft's Windows Automotive) will play music from your mp3 player, or even from a USB drive, as the video here shows. Turns out you can also stream music from either a phone or a laptop via a mobile phone Internet connection and Bluetooth using the A2DP profile. If you're like me, you may have wondered how good the music would sound streaming over first a cell phone connection and then Bluetooth.
TheRadio.com conducted an experiment to answer this and other questions about the real world experience of streaming music to Ford SYNC. A few excerpts:
"It's hard to believe we were listening to Internet streams of this quality."
"I am quite pleased at how seamless the handoffs were from one cell tower to the next, added Laramie Guest. Not once did the data session fail to be properly handed off to the next tower."
Read about the test setup and get the entire results here.
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About john.mullinax
John Mullinax is a Platform Strategy Advisor with Microsoft's DPE Team. Before joining Microsoft in 2006, John held a vartiety of positions at Ford Motor Company, most recently leading IT services strategy to support explosive business growth in China. Other positions included: Enterprise Architect, Application Portfolio Management, Technology Governance, and Product Manager. Prior to joining Ford, John earned his MBA at the University of Washington. Before that, he was Director of Elections for Douglas County, Washington, where he conducted the first Federal mail-ballot election in the USA. Subsequently, he joined the Secretary of State's office as a consultant working with county election officials in Washington state to improve operational effectiveness, integrity, and security (aka, to prevent the kind of debacle we saw in Florida in 2000).
