Wireless CarPlay and Pandora

[PAndaemonium]

Just me or wireless car play sucks? I connect just fine but pandora doesn’t play music. Pressing play from the phone doesn’t work.

Is it iOS problem? Is it SYNc? Is it Pandora?

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[YellowGoat]

In my experience it's a Pandora problem. I've had it randomly lock up when playing music for months. I've found if I close the app in the phone (iOS) and then reopen it, it *usually* works again. When Pandora is broken, Apple Music works fine and if Apple was better at managing "stations" to actually match a music preference, I'd have given up on Pandora a long time ago. But something about Pandora's algorithm means it's more often playing what I want to hear than not. I blame XM buying them and just coasting on the old platform without fixing any new bugs.

 

[PAndaemonium]

In my experience it's a Pandora problem. I've had it randomly lock up when playing music for months. I've found if I close the app in the phone (iOS) and then reopen it, it *usually* works again. When Pandora is broken, Apple Music works fine and if Apple was better at managing "stations" to actually match a music preference, I'd have given up on Pandora a long time ago. But something about Pandora's algorithm means it's more often playing what I want to hear than not. I blame XM buying them and just coasting on the old platform without fixing any new bugs.

Yea, I may have to move on. Get what you pay (or not pay) for.

 

[Grease Lightning]

Yea, I may have to move on. Get what you pay (or not pay) for.

Have you tried using the Sync app drawer version?

 

[Montana Lightning]

On a similar note, I have issues with Android Auto on my 2023 Lariat. The truck has wireless AA, which is great, but it always wants to play music from my phone. I get in the truck, my sat radio starts playing, and then a few seconds later it reverts to my phone through Android Auto, and starts playing Amazon music. I reselect Sirius XM, and then a few minutes later it reverts back to Amazon music. It is very annoying that the truck will not return to the same source that was in use and automatically switches to the phone as primary.

 

[invertedspear]

In my experience you have a pandora problem. Spotify works ok, but when using wireless carplay, everything lags between input and response. I disabled wireless and only use wired carplay as responsiveness trumps that (IMO) minor convenience.

 

[PAndaemonium]

In my experience you have a pandora problem. Spotify works ok, but when using wireless carplay, everything lags between input and response. I disabled wireless and only use wired carplay as responsiveness trumps that (IMO) minor convenience.

How do you choose one over the other?

 

[invertedspear]

How do you choose one over the other?

To try it, plug your phone in before starting your truck. If it's plugged in first it should use the wired and you'll see the responsiveness is improved.

To permanently do it, go in to car play settings and forget your truck, then plug in. When it's setting the truck up as new it should prompt you to enable wireless, which you can decline. I don't see a way to toggle between wired and wireless in the settings so delete and re-add seems like the only option.

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