Using music player in a car

hi all
new user problem! I've just acquired a 5800 express music and so far so good. maps works ok now and i have only one blocker to a 100% good experience.
when using the phone as a music player in a car via line-out, with the phone connected to the radio via bluetooth at the same time, i lose the ability to use the car microphone for calls. I haven't found how tobluetooth music player; wired connection seems too be the way.
it seems that i lose the speaker connection as well; incoming calls cut the music off - ok, fair enough - but i do not then have ability to hear or speak to the caller.
when connecting the lineout cable i get the message 'use phone microphone' so i believe this is intended behaviour from the phone.
what i want to be able to do is either lineout or bluetooth music player to the car and then be able to make and receive calls using handsfree. it doesn't seem much to ask.
the car is 09my ford kuga. music player lineout cutoff to bluetooth worked fine with the last phone - sony ericsson 810 - so it's definitely a setup issue on the new phone.
bluetooth handsfree calls work ok with music player not running.
please advise me; what am i doing wrong/incorrectly/in ignorance? i'm obviously not seeing the setting to choose; it can't be true that 5800xm does not bluetooth music and won't cut off to bluetooth from an incoming call, surely...? it can't be intended that i have to unplug athe lineout connection, wait for all that to realign itself and go to hand operation while I'm driving, surely...
your advice is more than welcome!
regards
im

Thanks for the replies!
I only normalise when the volume is quiet, like when i rip audio from a video as usually videos are not very loud, ripping from a cd is normally ok so i dont normalise them unless i need to.
My stereo does have volume offset for each source but it only allows you to decrease the volume and not up it.
Sadly i dont have a usb input on my stereo, its the only thing it doesnt have!! And im not going to buy a new stereo as i have a £2000 limited anniversary edition Kenwood screen which is still better than most systems these days even though its from 2005.
I found a Fiio headphone amp on ebay but im not sure it will work without buying and trying it, might give it a go as its only £20.
For the moment what ive done is to crank up the gain on my external amplifiers in the boot which gives me enough volume when using the phone, then i used the volume offset to decrease the volume from all other sources so everything is about the same level.
After a bit of reasearch it seems that you are right about most aux inputs on car stereos being a bit quiet compared to usb or cd or radio, i dont know why this is, it seems silly to me that they do it like this but nevermind.
My Technics amp at home is totally different, it has a loud aux input so it seems not all stereos are the same........

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