GROM releases new AUX adapter for your budget

GROM Audio is excited to announce the release of our newest aftermarket audio adapter the G-AUX! This easy-to-use adapter that will transform drivers' vehicles into mobile media centers. Giving drivers the ability to connect a variety of electronics, including Apple products such as  iPhone, iPad and iPod, this aftermarket solution provides consumers with crystal clear sound quality through the vehicle's speakers. Supplying drivers with the power to utilize applications stored on their multimedia device such as navigation, business look up, music streaming and many more, the GROM AUX adapter will transform your day-to-day driving experience.

Using the 3.5mm phone jack, drivers can connect the G-AUX main module through the auxiliary connector provided upon purchase, creating a direct-connection for seamless integration. Priced to fit your budget at $54.99, this audio adapter gives you everything you want and nothing you do not need. At a price that is affordable for anyone's budget, this adapter will transform your outdated stereo system into a modern media player!

Head over to gromaudio.com and grab the code for a special $10 off coupon for any of our GROM-USB2P or BT3 kits too. Available for this this holiday weekend only!!

Get Your End of Summer Music Fix with GROM Audio [Playlist]

The month of August represents that the end of summer, meaning the new school year is just around the corner, BBQ season is closing and cold weather is slowly approaching. But there is still time for you to get in your last hurrah with a road trip to your end of summer music festival. While the trend of music festivals has grown astronomically over the last few years, with attendance of infamous gatherings like Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo hitting the hundreds of thousands—there are still countless options for you to get your music fix without the crowds and the repeated lineups.


North Coast Music Festival

About: Celebrating its 5^th anniversary, North Coast Festival takes place in downtown Chicago; giving attendees the vast city skyline as a backdrop to their music listening experience. Known for a plethora of electronic artists, this music festival brings Chicago a laundry list of big name EDM artists and up-and-coming underground acts alike.

When: August 29-31

Where: Chicago, IL

Who to see: Kid Kudi, STS9, Bassnectar, Snoop Dog, Alesso, Zeds Dead, Little Dragon*, Cashmere Cat, Future Islands, Keys'N Krates, Riff Raff, Talib Kweli

Austin City Limits

About: The long running Austin City Limits festival encompasses more than just a musical experience for attendees, with featured food trucks, art installations and a local market which showcases to essence of everything Austin. With a variety of genres showcased at this Texas festival, attendees can catch classic rock, indie, EDM and hip-hop acts over two back-to-back weekends.

When: October 3-5; 10-12

Where: Austin, TX

Who to see: Pearl Jam, Skrillex, Out Kast, Eminem, Beck, Foster the People. Lana Del Ray*, Chromeo, Childish Gambino, Major Lazer, The Avett Brothers, Sam Smith, Real Estate

Dimensions Festival

About: Known as one of Europe's largest underground music festivals, Dimensions is known for its impeccable sound systems and its picturesque beach locale. Popularized by the curation of countless unknown and up-and-coming electronic acts, this festival features of the sounds of tech, house, dubstep and drum & bass.

When: August 28 – September 1

Where: Pula, Croatia

Who to see: Warpaint, Caribou, DARKSIDE, Special Rewuest, The Internet, Nina Kraviz, Ben Klock, Theo Parrish, Kode 9, Mala, Floating Points, Omar

Electric Zoo

About: Founded in 2009 and taking place every Labor Day weekend, Electric Zoo music festival features a wide variety of electronic music act as well. Known for growing into one of the largest mainstream EDM in the United States, this musical experience has reached crowds of 150,000 over the years.

When: August 29 - 31

Where: New York, NY

Who to see: David Guetta, Dada Life, Carnage, Datsik, Jamie XX, Gorgon City, Fehrplay, Nervo, Kill Paris, Dirty South, Alesso, Kaskade, The Magician, UZ, Morgan Page, ATB

Ilesoniq

About: Coming up this weekend, this Montreal based music festival boasts some of the best urban artists of today. Featuring many of Canada's rising stars, this music festivals showcases main stage big names and unique unknowns alike.

When: August 15-16

Where: Montreal, Canada

Who to see: Dillion Francsis, Tiesto, Adventure Club, Iggy Azalea, The Knocks*, Tyga, Thomas Jack*, Juicy J, Seven Lions

GROM Audio has created an end of summer playlist to get your road trip to your festival started off right. Check our our summer inspired picks at our Soundcloud page and catch some tracks from featured artists at these upcoming festivals. Happy listening
(*featured on our August Playlist) 

Recycle with GROM Audio for a Cleaner World

While the West Coast suffers from one of the most severe droughts in decades, the environment stays at the forefront of everyone's minds. States like California and Nevada have begun imposing mandatory restrictions on water usage, making it clear that this is drastic weather is effecting people's day-to-day lives in more ways than one.

Based in Northern California, GROM Audio strives to be as environmentally conscious all the time. To do our part, to help prevent adding more unnecessary waste to California land which is already suffering, GROM provides our customers with the least equipment possible. By customizing our aftermarket car kits to our clients specific needs, we can reduce the amount of unneeded accessories, while making our customers' lives less cluttered with useless cords, connectors and other add-ons. Through our packaging, which is made of 100% recycled materials, we make an effort to provide minimal waste for our customers as well. By staying conscious about both our impact as a company and our customers impact by using our products,  GROM Audio hopes to help lower unnecessary production, that ultimately creates excess waste.

To help our customers reduce their own impact, GROM Audio always encourages our customers to return any equipment that is no longer used. Whether it is outdated or just cords that you ultimately decided not to use, we will always recycle them responsibly at no extra charge! To do so, contact GROM Audio at shipping@gromaudio.com and we will send you a prepaid shipping label for shipping within the U.S.

If you have old or unused equipment please return it to:

GROM Audio Recycle Program
P.O. Box 619
Belmont, CA 94002

GROM Launches Summer Music Playlist Series!

GROM Audio is excited to launch our new Summer playlist series! Combining a passion for technology and music, GROM Audio delivers drivers high quality aftermarket audio adapters that transform your in-car listening experience. Taking pride in building seamless integration systems, we have spent time and energy in creating the best sound quality available for aftermarket adapters.

So to help celebrate our passion for everything music, GROM Audio has launched a playlist series that will feature music from up-and-coming artists and well known musicians alike. Bringing our customers something to listen to while on the road, each month we will unveil a new playlist to get you moving.

Last month was the official launch of our Summer of music and we brought you a sunny feeling through uplifting tracks ranging from a variety of emerging artists. GROM will be bringing drivers these playlists through SoundCloud and music streaming application, which is compatible with all of our aftermarket interfaces. With hopes to introduce new music artists to our current and potential customers, our goal is to spread our love for music to more listeners.

Check out last month's playlist below—and stay tuned for new playlists at the start of every month. Looking to contribute reach us on Twitter or Facebook and let us know what songs you want to hear on our next playlist!

Summer is here with Grom Audio!

GROM Audio Featured at Infamous Hot Import Nights Car Show

After an exciting first showing at a Hot Import Nights car show, GROM Audio is excited to reach new and current car enthusiasts from around the Bay Area. Held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, this was a car event to remember with beautifully customized import vehicles, hot up-and-coming models and live music—making it much more than your average car show.

GROM Audio hosted our own booth to help promote our latest aftermarket audio adapters and with major interest in our newest innovations, our team was able to showcase the future of GROM Audio. At this specific Hot Import Nights, aka HIN, car show, AT&T hosted a mobile app hackathon, which focused on connected cars. There, GROM was able to interact with some of Silicon Valley's brightest developers, many of whom were working to build upon innovation much like GROM's. Through this interactive aspect of the car show, attendees were able to see first-hand how programmers build upon, develop and master the latest cutting edge tools to give automotive companies the potential for connected cars. Helping spur a buzz about the latest in car connectivity, this hackathon gave attendees insight into how Silicon Valley may be emerging as the newest automotive epicenter.

While at the car show, GROM Audio featured a giveaway raffle for attendees to enter and win one of our Bluetooth car kits. After compiling countless entries, our team will be excited to announce the winner of the free Bluetooth audio adapter via Facebook later this week. Stay tuned to our social media pages for our latest company updates, future events and more contest for free merchandise!

GROM Audio would like to thank all of our supporters, current customers and newly introduced advocates from the HIN car show. Through your continued support, we are able to feature our latest innovations at car shows like these!

Listen to World Cup 2014 Coverage with GROM Audio

After months, if not years of anticipation, the 2014 World Cup if officially here. Hosted by Brazil, in Rio De Janerio, the world's biggest soccer tournament comes to fans every four years, giving the best players from every country the opportunity to prove they are world champions. As one of the most watched sporting events on the globe, the World Cup, brings sports fans and non fans together for the excitement of worldwide competition.

Thursday marked the start of the 64-game tournament and GROM Audio wanted to assure our customers that our car audio adapters will allow you to listen to the games wherever you may go. With the FIFA World Cup app, avid soccer fans or newly interested World Cup devotees can get the scoop on the behind the scenes action or the sideline play-by-play through FIFA's virtual World Cup stadium. Creating a global a conversation, fans can use the #joinin hashtag to see the latest trending topics for World Cup Brazil.

Starting the competition off Thursday afternoon, Brazil took on Croatia (3-1) for the opening game, with the US's first game on Monday, June 16.  How do you will the US do without their long time veteran Landon Donovan?

Over the weekend expect some heated battles with Spain took on the Netherlands on Friday (5-1) and England vs. Italy on Saturday before Germany goes up against Portugal on Monday, before the US take center stage. Ensuring you don't miss a second while on-the-go, GROM Audio is ready to bring you all the action while your on the road!

#Joinin the World Cup 2014 conversation with #gromaudio!

How To: GROM Audio explains downloading music to your Android device

For Apple users, uploading and downloading music to and from iTunes seems to be almost automatic. With over 13 years since the release of the first generation iPod, it is no surprise iTunes is still going strong. But other providers have made leaps when it comes to music on-the-go, giving consumers a choice when it comes to music mobility. Google's Android operating system has seen a serious influx of users over the past few years, making the Google Play application key component to Android users' listening experience.

As the first aftermarket car audio company to provide seamless integration of Android devices to factory car stereos, GROM Audio wants to ensure all of our users can listen to their music library while driving. Through just a few easy steps, GROM Audio can show you how download music from your computer to your Android device, allowing drivers to take control of their music selection!

For Windows Users:

1. Connect your computer to your Android device using a USB cable
   - If you are prompted to select a USB connection option on your device, select Media Device (MTP)
2. Locate the music files on your computer and drag to your device's music folder

For Mac Users:

1. Download and install Android File Transfer to your computer
2. Connect your computer to your Android device using a USB cable
   - If you are prompted to select a USB connection option on your device, select Media Device (MTP)
3. Locate music files on your computer and drag them to your device's music folder via Android File Transfer

After you have downloaded music to your Android phone, you can use GROM Audio's AALinQ application, a music player created to function seamlessly with our adapter.

To use the AALinQ app, download it from the Google Play marketplace. (Just search for the AALinQ in the Google Play search box)

1. Open the app, go to Settings

2. Tap "Music home folder" to specify what folder you want AALinQ to take the music from

 

Please note: Usually AALinQ will grab all the music that you have on your phone, but sometimes you still need to adjust the destination music folder for AALinQ

Start using AALinQ!