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Perhaps with all the things you can do with Android Auto in your car you forget one of the most basic and useful: listening to the radio. And it is that, in addition to reading your incoming messages out loud, telling you where to turn at each intersection or even reading audiobooks, Android Auto also allows you to listen to the radio. Any radio It doesn't matter if the station is within your frequency or on the other side of the planet. Or that you want to listen to podcasts. You can do all of this directly with this comfortable system for Android mobiles.Even when your car is not supported. Here we tell you how to do it.
The key is to use a radio application compatible with the Android Auto system. The best known in this regard, with countless stations, and therefore we recommend, is TuneIn Radio It is also available totally free on Google Play Store. It is enough to download it as a normal application on our Android mobile. And, once we have this, configure everything in Android Auto.
Step by Step
If we already have both the Android Auto and TuneIn Radio applications on our mobile, all that remains is to access the Google service to turn our mobile into the on-board browser. Of course, handle the mobile only when you are completely stopped and safe
Once inside Android Auto, press the headphones icon to access the music section.Having several music applications compatible with this service, Android Auto shows an arrow next to this icon. If we press it, we activate the menu of compatible applications to choose the one we want to use at this moment. That will be TuneIn Radio. So find it in the list and select it.
A list of radios automatically appears on the screen. It's huge so you better get clear on what you want to hear The app helps you find it by categorizing stations into local radios, radios you've recently listened to in the app, trends, podcasts, music genre, sports, news or even by language. You just have to click on the section that interests you and browse the available collection until you find the station or radio that interests you.
When you have selected it, it will begin to play over the Internet.The controls remain the same as in other apps like Spotify A large central button helps to pause or start playback. There are also buttons to skip to the next or previous station. All of this highly visible and comfortable so as not to lose attention to what is most important: the road.
How to listen to your podcasts on Android Auto
On the other hand, if what you like to listen to when you're driving are podcasts of your favorite programs, which you don't get to due to schedules, or because they are only broadcast over the Internet, you can do this other thing. The system is the same, but we recommend the Google podcasts app for its simplicity and convenience.
Just download the app from the Google Play Store. It is free and has a good search engine to find most of the podcasts that are available on the Internet.Search for your favorite program and click on the button Subscribe to be aware of each new content they publish. This way they also appear in Android Auto.
Now go to Android Auto and double-tap the headphone icon to bring up the list of compatible music apps. Among them must be Google Podcasts. When you activate it, you will see that collects the contents to which you have subscribed This way you will have available the programs of the Podcast channel that you follow. All of them available to listen through the Internet.
