Streaming music from an iPhone to an M5 isn't easy
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Hi,
It seems to be impossible to stream music consistently from Spotify to my M5 (2013 LCI). When I get into the car the phone and the car connect over Bluetooth without any problems and I can make and receive calls. But when I then try to stream Spotify there is almost always a problem.
Sometimes it just won't play through the car's speakers - Spotify is running fine, the track looks like it's playing but there is no noise. No idea what is happening but if I don't touch the phone and switch to a radio channel, then switch back to media it can work, but most of the time it doesn't. I've gone through all the settings, re-paired the phone and car a hundred times. It's not that it doesn't work at all, it's that it only works 10% of the time.
When it does decide to work, it almost never manages to get display the correct track titles and timings. It usually displays the track title and timings from whatever was last played so it can look like you are playing the thirteenth track of a seven track album, for example.
I could go on but I won't just in case someone out there knows exactly what's wrong....? Or is just a combination of my car, my phone and me and Spotify works for everyone else without any problems?
Any help appreciated (apart from telling me to load music onto a memory stick or get a different phone).
S&C
It seems to be impossible to stream music consistently from Spotify to my M5 (2013 LCI). When I get into the car the phone and the car connect over Bluetooth without any problems and I can make and receive calls. But when I then try to stream Spotify there is almost always a problem.
Sometimes it just won't play through the car's speakers - Spotify is running fine, the track looks like it's playing but there is no noise. No idea what is happening but if I don't touch the phone and switch to a radio channel, then switch back to media it can work, but most of the time it doesn't. I've gone through all the settings, re-paired the phone and car a hundred times. It's not that it doesn't work at all, it's that it only works 10% of the time.
When it does decide to work, it almost never manages to get display the correct track titles and timings. It usually displays the track title and timings from whatever was last played so it can look like you are playing the thirteenth track of a seven track album, for example.
I could go on but I won't just in case someone out there knows exactly what's wrong....? Or is just a combination of my car, my phone and me and Spotify works for everyone else without any problems?
Any help appreciated (apart from telling me to load music onto a memory stick or get a different phone).
S&C
Edited by steakandchips on Tuesday 18th August 07:51
HoHoHo said:
I've also had this issue however it's not all the time.
To be honest I had assumed it was simply a new technology fail
That's what I thought too but the car has just been in for a service and I thought that the iDrive software might have been updated. You'd think that the number of BMW customers with both iPhone 6 and Spotify would mean that this is a known issue. I might have a moan to my local dealer although that won't do much good. These kind of forums always know much more than dealers do.To be honest I had assumed it was simply a new technology fail
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