[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] malfuncion:
You can skip to the TLDR section if you dont want background and "my story".

BACKGROUND INFO:

As many of you faithful note users know, as of right now there is a HUGE bug with CM, the OEM cardock and the Galaxy Note (and iirc the S2/S3 as well). The USB audio redirection just flat out doesnt work with CM. Yes, I do know that the headphone jack works. However, in my case that simply doesnt work for a couple reasons: 1) The factory dock 3.5mm audio plug is a 90 degree angle plug head. When plugging in the back it makes the appearance smooth, however this angle causes a problem with the headphone jack placement. If you reroute this plug to your headphone hole it will bind on the actual OEM dock. If you have a dock, you know what I am talking about. You end up with shotty sound quality, possibly mono output, and its just overall sketchy. Not to mention a PITA to do in the dark. 2) My dock is routed all through my dash so for me to get enough slack, I have to basically rip my dash apart. With me taking a 300 mile road trip this week, wanting to use CM10.1 was pretty much out of the question as this issue is pretty much a deal breaker....or WAS!

My Story:

I personally drive an Infinity G35, 2006 model. This car is equipped with "hands free Bluetooth" but not the streaming radio Bluetooth. Basically it's a glorified ear bud that redirects calls only, through my speakers in my car over BT. I thought to myself, "hey lets find an app that would trick my car in to thinking Media output is a phone call". So I searched, and found a few apps that did this. Overall impressions were pretty much sketchy in functionality on the first few I tried. Also, the sound quality at best is comparable to a tin can speaker as alot of these types of apps do MONO redirected output only. After trying a few apps I said eff it and was about to give up. I decided to give it one more market search and give one more of these "Bluetooth apps" a shot. By chance, I found one called SoundAbout. That is the link to the free version on the market. I noticed it had a bluetooth out feature and purchased the paid version to check it out. After jacking with the settings I eventually got frustrated again with the bluetooth out and was close to saying eff it again. Before quitting I realized that from "stock" settings of the app, it would decide on how to redirect the audio all by itself. I said, "ahh why not?" and gave the default config settings a spin. I loaded pandora, slapped the phone in the dock, not really expecting anything "new" or any changes but OMFG IT WORKED! I thought to myself, "Are my ears deceiving me? Do I hear HIGH quality audio through my speakers using my car dock and CM10.1!?" Yes, yes I did.

TLDR:

1) Download this app: SoundAbout

2) Launch app, take default settings to "let app decide" how to route audio for media.

3) Launch Pandora/PlayMusic/Apollo/wtfever poison you got to listen to musics.

4) Profit and possibly dance a jig in your car while sporting CM10.1 and the OEM dock

5) This is optional of course, but I thought it was much necessary as this a life saver for me: Donate to the author of the app- buy his "full version" here, it's a $2.99 well spent(or was for me).

Now the next question is how in the hell do we get this guy in touch with a CM dev to see what the hell he did to FIX THIS ISSUE!!!!???? If he can do it with an app, there has to be a way to natively do it as well, right? But again, this is why I'm downloading the app and not making one/doing commits to CM myself.