TuneLink app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 8048 ratings )

Music Lifestyle
Developer: New Potato Technologies, Inc.

Free

Current version: 1.2.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 17 Nov 2010
App size: 23.44 Mb

The TuneLink accessory from New Potato provides the true Bluetooth-based in-car audio solution for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. The TuneLink app works with the TuneLink accessory to provide users with the highest quality, most comprehensive in-car audio solution available.

NOTE: The TuneLink application is designed to work with the TuneLink hardware accessory. For information on where to get the TuneLink accessory, please visit www.newpotatotech.com

The TuneLink device connects to your car’s 12V outlet to provide:

-Convenient App Control – Control the FM transmitter option from the free TuneLink app. All your music controls, one convenient touch screen interface.

-Wireless Bluetooth link – Keep the music playing and keep your device with you. Stay in the action, and play music wirelessly from over 30 feet from the TuneLink device.

-FM Transmitter Option – Transmit music via FM through your car speakers. New Potato’s innovative ground loop noise elimination technology ensures clarity of sound.

-Direct connect – Connect TuneLink directly to your car stereo via line out. Keep your device with you and keep the music playing through your car’s stereo system.

-Fast charger – Connect to TuneLink using your charge/sync cable to quickly charge your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.

App features:
-Access all your music controls from one convenient app screen
-Speedtune: Scan open frequencies and locate the station that provides the highest quality playback based on your location using GPS functionality.
-Station Favorites: Locate and save stations to your favorites for quick access at a later date.

Created for you by the in-car audio accessory experts, TuneLink delivers the best performance of any wireless audio interface on the market without the usual hassles of traditional solutions such as clunky docks, cabled solutions, or poor performing dongle based FM transmitters.

All Features:
- Bluetooth
- Stereo Audio receiver
- Works over 30 feet from player
- Data link enabled for app control
- Auto-pairing - no passcode needed to connect to your device
- Auto Reconnect - When you start your car TuneLink seeks out your device, reconnects and plays your music
- Link multiple players
- Best-of-class performance
- direct audio output
- 3.5mm stereo phono jack
- Line-level audio output
- Compatible with all car sound direct inputs
- FM transmitter
- 88.1 107.9 MHz (USA)
- European and Asia Pacific Modes
- Stereo / Mono operation
- RDS Enabled - Pass device and track information to the car radio display if RDS is supported
- Speedtune - Uses GPS to find the best open FM station to transmit on with a single tap.
- advanced features:
- Simply plug the unit into your accessory power socket and you are ready to go
- TuneLink is controlled using our FREE TuneLink app downloaded from the iTunes App store
- Link to your car s audio system from over 30 feet away
- "TuneLink" share mode plays tracks from all connected devices! Multiple devices can link to the TuneLink interface simultaneously and take turns playing tracks over the link
- TuneLink Application:
- Control the tunelink audio Link
- Control the FM transmitter
- Find the best FM station to use for your current location
- Add/Remove stations from your favorites list with one tap
- Easy touch screen interface
- TuneLink Share feature
- fast charge USB port
- 5 VDC, 2.1A output
- Fault tolerant, internally fused
- "Humbuster" ground loop eliminator removes engine and vehicle electrical noise that affects about 40% of automobile direct aux inputs when charging your device.

For more information, please visit www.newpotatotech.com or contact [email protected]

Pros and cons of TuneLink app for iPhone and iPad

TuneLink app good for

I picked this FM tuner up at Best Buy because I was fed up with cheap FM tuners that just dont work. It just works. The app is brilliant and the automatic stop and restart is still completely remarkable. I cant believe how seamlessly it all works. Great job TuneLink! You better win some serious awards for this.

This app-cessory and app are amazing. I live in Toronto where there are limited available stations. This will find the best station by GPS or any one of my choice. The app does not need to be open to use my GPS app, or the iPod music. Music automatically starts up in the car, and shuts down when I turn the car off. The app-cessory is small and works perfectly for my console, of which I have a manual transmission, so the other devices were far to clunky and always in the way. This thing works waaay better than my $100 Belkin FM tranmitter ever did...and now I have no annoying cord to deal with. Works exactly the way its shown on the website, and better! If youre looking for an FM transmitter for your devices for your car, dont hesitate to get this one.

ios 7 upgrade ? There bluetooth audio transmission so choppy and deductions.

Definitely the best solution for listening to my iPads music in my car over FM (and Ive tried several...). The fifth star is still missing because I believe the RDS feature could be improved, as it only shows one word of the songs title, and one word of the artists name, whereas it would be nicer if it scrolled, allowing me to see the whole of the information on the radio LCD... The only other improvement could be to make it a universal app, and perhaps add a gesture or two to allow for song skips (forward/backward) without having to look at the screen to find the playback buttons. Keep up the GREAT work! 

Some bad moments

Since IOS6 - Does not work at all Blue tooth got disconnected after a few seconds… Many other Bluetooth audio devices just still works… so not sure the issue is on IOS side. Just useless

Bought the app-cessory at best buy mobile at square one. It never worked properly. I followed the instructions to a tee. It paired with the iPhone the first time. Then I downloaded the app and it just didnt work. Sure the display said it was broadcasting on 88.1 but it was nothing but static when I ran the iPod app and switch the output to Bluetooth. Then, all hell broke loose. Bluetooth disconnected on its own and refused to reconnect after a number of times I turned off/on my car. I had to delete the bt device and re-pair from scratch. The app kept saying the device was off-line despite it being paired and connected. Did a full iPhone reset, deleted the bt device, shut the car down. Tried again, failed. Did this for 2 hours to no avail. This thing just refused to work.

It is nice that there a USB port on the TuneLink so the phone can be charged while playing. The sound quality is pretty good. Downside: after about 40 seconds the TuneLink disconnects with a note that the iPhone doesnt support this device. I and a friend have tried every problem solving tactic out there. The company finally told me that they sometimes have trouble with Apple. It would be good if they could fix this bug.

After a few months the app can no longer connect to the corresponding hardware. Makes it pretty much useless.

Have tried and tried to get this thing to work on my iPhone 4S but just wont link to my iPhones Bluetooth. It worked a couple of times after plugging in and out, turn phone off, rebooting phone, now I get nothing at all. I contacted New Potato support and all they could tell me is what I had already done. DO NOT BUY!!! DOES NOT WORK WITH IPHONES. Waisted my hard earned $$$

My TuneLink Auto used to be really great. Its degraded over the last few months, and now it very rarely works for more than a few seconds, if it all. So, I checked the App Store for an update. Looks like it has not been updated in the last 5 years. 5 years is a very, very long time in mobile technology. TuneLink used to be the best thing on the market. Maybe the developer forgot about it, and their customers?

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