Audio output device indication

Feature requests
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Feature description:

I’d like to be able to see from the now playing screen where audio will play. For example, whether it will be the phones built-in speakers or my bluetooth headphones

Problem solved:

When I’m playing music at work, sometimes there’s a delay in connecting my headphones before the audio device switches to them, and I accidentally press play too soon and music plays via my speakers for a few seconds. If there was an indicator, I could wait till it shows the bluetooth icon before pressing play

Brought benefits:

Confirmation you aren’t playing on the wrong device, e.g. maybe you forgot to disconnect from the bluetooth speaker in another room, or share headphones which allow multiple devices and you don’t want to override the other persons music, or maybe for phones with a headphone jack you might not have plugged in all the way. I know someone with hearing aids that can also be used as bluetooth headphones, and sometimes they ask if their music is playing through the phone speaker, since it’s hard for them to tell. Having an indicator on the now playing screen would solve all those

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Ideally, there would be an option to show this as an icon to the left or right of the volume bar, and an option to show in the top or bottom bar

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The app have the same delays as the OS and it would not work in all cases on some devices.

You can just create EQ profiles with names and auto change based on device and display the EQ profile.
That will do what you want.

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Yeah, I’d want it to have whatever delay the system has, so it’d accurately reflect which device audio output would go to. It looks like the equalizer profiler will do it so I’ll give that a try, but I was hoping for an icon that could go next to the sound bar or in the top/bottom bar

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The other problem with the eq profiler is I have to make a profile for each bt device. But, it does work pretty well as the top bar title text so I’m happy as-is. Thanks!

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It can have a delay too that’s what I’m saying. There’s no real control.

And an icon would not say to what you are connected, jack, USB, what BT device …

So will close as I think the workaround works for the need.

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I think just four icons are all that would be needed - internal speaker, bt, jack, and usb. But like you said current solution works

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Or if the os exposes the device indicator shown in the notification dropdown, maybe it’d be easy to add for the versions of android that expose it?

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