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Apple's CarPlay has been out for awhile now, but Spotify hasn't seemed to address any of the major issues I and I'm sure many of you have encountered. I primarily use Spotify in my car to replace using the builtin music player. I purchased my AVH-4000NEX for the sole purpose of CarPlay and the Spotify integration. Unfortunately in it's current form these 2 don't seem to play well with each other at all, and the experience is often frustrating and borders on being unusable at times. I currently am running the latest firmware update from Pioneer (1.0.8) I believe, and have that paired with an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.3.
Here are the problems I've encountered. Feel free to add yours and let's see if Spotify reads these boards and will do something about it
1. Trying to open Spotify from CarPlay results in app freezing (happens fairly frequently)
2. Selecting playlists and tracks from CarPlay results in huge lag or becomes completely unresponsive (happens fairly frequently)
3. Music shows as playing but no sound is output. Have to close app on phone and restart. Sometimes that works, or have to shut down phone completely and restart (happens every once in awhile)
4. Most annoying and most common problem: Almost every time Spotify connects with CarPlay, it randomly starts playing music from the YourMusic playlist, instead of continuing to play from where it left off. This is beyond annoying as re-selecting the desired playlist results in many songs playing over and over again. Just make it continue playing where it left off. (Occurs 99% of the time Spotify connects with CarPlay)
5. Lastly sometimes the app just flat out crashes in the middle of tracks, and restarts the phone.
Same problem. Spotify open, plug into car play (car running, radio on) carplay opens, displays a track from spotify play button is available, pressing it changes to a pause button but no sound is played.
The only way to get sound again is to dig out my phone, unlock it, kill spotify, restart spotify, navigate to a playlist, hit play. I didn't have a similar problem with apple music when I tried it.
In fairness to spotify, I don't *usually* have any similar problems with bluetooth in my mustang (ford sync) or challenger (uconnect). Of course, those systems don't let me change playlists either. And it does still happen from time to time. 😕
Device details:
iPhone 5S & 6 (iOS 9.3.3)
Spotify 5.7.0.1055
Pioneer AVIC-5100NEX
Spotify still freezes when on carplay. I Use IoS 10 (happened als on on 9) and Spotify 5.7.0.1055 on a VW Discover Media Carplay system. I use Spotify in offline mode in the Car. When I access Spotify beforehand on my phone (online) and then get in on carplay it works fine. Carplay will play the offline playlist. But when I later that same day try again on carplay (without accessing Spotify on the phone) it will result in a frozen screen with the play and fast forward Return buttons and no sound.
Hope this helps in reproducing the problem!
Looking forward for a solution
2016 VW - iPhone 6s - latest software - all of sudden the "Artists" list that appears on the Carplay menu does not match the Artisit list i have on my Spotify app on all other devices. it's very abbreviated and is missing 90% of the list. very frustrating - what do we do to fix that?
I am also experiencing this issue.
ios 10.1 beta
Spotify premium 6.5.0 app
2016 VW Golf with Discover Media & CArplay
2016 Golf GTI SE, iOS 10.0.2, Discover Pro (I believe the software version is 613 IIRC)
All kinds of issues here:
1. Spotify simply not connecting despite strong cell signal strength (kinda happens anywhere, not just in CarPlay, but mostly CarPlay)
2. App freezing on connect (fun fact, this lead me to try Apple Music on a whim... more on that briefly)
3. SLLLOOOOWWWW loading despite strong cell connection.
4. Occasionally, if I get a call while listening to music, the music continues playing through the call. The other party can't seem to hear it, but it's there, distorted as if coming through the phone line, and louder than a conversational voice. This is very, very annoying.
5. Spotify will crash unexpectedly out of nowhere, and take CarPlay with it.
I thought at first it was just my old iPhone, but even with a new iPhone 7, completely and totally up-to-date, these issues continue.
I'm giving it 30 days, otherwise, moving to Apple Music as it's been stellar, no performance issues, no problems connecting/resuming play, and no weird hiccups outside of the car, either.
thx jzakrzeski - re: your list:
3 - slow loading - YES
4 - have the same issue with music continuing to play when receiving a phone call
i'll give it 30 days too and then move to Apple Music on your "stellar" advise.
Excellent analysis. I've been observing the exact same behavior. Could we have someone at Spotify take this serioulsy? I've been opening 2 support tickets and the only feedback I got was : engineers are working on it. I'm not sure everybody knows that migrating from one streaming platform to another is dead easy using the multiple tools that exist online. Just saying.
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