I do NOT have the ipod - aux jack in my car. But I was wondering... since it's bluetooth compatible, is there a way to pair it to my phone so that when I stream music on my phone (Pandora or something) It could be detected by bluetooth and played over the system?

 

The headunit only supports the bluetooth phone profiles. To stream stereo audio it would need a2dp.

 

There is a difference? It couldn't just use the same mode that it uses to broadcast phone convos over the speakers?

 

Bluetooth is a virtual serial port - each type of device that connects with BT has a "profile" which defines the protocol and data required. A2DP is for stereo audio and supports play/pause, track names, track skipping etc. The phone profiles support bi directional audio, phone books, call lists etc.

If you had a jailbroken iPhone and an app to redirect the audio output to the phone then maybe it would be possible - but it'd only be mono and it's encoded with an audio codec optimised for phone calls and the headunit would be listening to the microphone and would probably mute the audio everytime it thought you were speaking.

There's an aftermarket parrot kit which plugs into the amp connector on the back of the head unit (so it won't work with the premium or B&W audio packages) which does stream music and phone - but it kind of defeats the purpose.