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I have been connecting an iPhone through the front USB port to avoid the Bluetoofs.If connected through CarPlay or Android Auto, the car can play any audio the phone can. This is because when connected to CarPlay or Android Auto, audio is routed over Bluetooth, so the phone takes care of decoding whatever filetype into a bluetooth audio stream.
I meant digital audio players (DAPs, an Onkyo DP-X1A as an example), not a phone or an iPod. DAPs are mostly Android-based, and I'd like to know if anyone has had direct experience with a Honda rejecting one, treating it like a USB drive, accepting whatever it plays or only through Android Auto.
I believe the head unit must convert to analog, since the signal is all digital until it comes out of the speakers.As described above, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, Ogg, DSD, etc. can all play from a compatible phone because the phone does all the decoding and not the HU.
The head unit also accepts lossless WAV files through a USB drive (16-bit/44.1khz anyway).If when you're talking "HD-Quality" you're talking about CD-Quality lossless audio, the only lossless files the HU supports on a USB stick are WMA-Lossless. If you're looking for Hi-Res audio (24bit/96khz, etc), the car does not support this in any configuration I have tried. WMA-Lossless is limited to 44.1khz, if you try to play anything with a higher sample rate the HU plays static.
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