Anyone Try Spotify on the iDrive Yet?

aus · 11-18-2014, 07:52 PM

https://news.spotify.com/us/2014/11/...-into-the-car/

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M.A.R.C. · 11-19-2014, 03:01 PM

I have. I don't really like it. It's mighty slow and you can't search for items you don't have on your playlists. I guess it's not terrible but I preferred it not integrated.

swifty · 11-20-2014, 03:53 PM

It works well in the sense that you can save the music you like and album art is shown on the idrive etc but it sucks because you really can't use your phone if you want Spotify to continue playing.

On the other hand does anyone know how to play this through bluetooth audio with IOs8. I'm having a difficult time getting that to work.

skate0518 · 11-30-2014, 02:22 PM

Does this work on our e92 ? I have BMW APPs & Connected Drive but Can't get it to work ...

webninja · 11-30-2014, 11:54 PM

Anyone care to share steps of how they got it to work? I have BMW Apps and Connected Drive, but the car never recognizes the phone. Might be an issue with Android, but I'd be curious how others have gotten it to work.

M.A.R.C. · 12-01-2014, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by swifty

It works well in the sense that you can save the music you like and album art is shown on the idrive etc but it sucks because you really can't use your phone if you want Spotify to continue playing.

On the other hand does anyone know how to play this through bluetooth audio with IOs8. I'm having a difficult time getting that to work.

On mine I can do Bluetooth audio ONLY if the cable is not connected. You have to go to the Bluetooth settings and enable the Bluetooth audio feature/profile. If I remember correctly it's in phone->bluetooth->bluetooth options. Or something like that.

swifty · 12-01-2014, 10:01 AM

^ ok thanks for that. Will try it later today.

v1per · 12-01-2014, 02:43 PM

Spotify works for me, but I have NBT installed. Not sure if for CIC it is different.

motoridersd · 12-16-2014, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by webninja

Anyone care to share steps of how they got it to work? I have BMW Apps and Connected Drive, but the car never recognizes the phone. Might be an issue with Android, but I'd be curious how others have gotten it to work.

This is an iOS only feature. I can't get my Android LG G3 to get recognized by the car, even with BMW Connect app running.

I tried it with the BF's iPhone and got it to work. I wanted to get a cheap iOS device to leave in the armrest, but found that the music won't resume automatically after the car has been off for a while. I had to unlock the screen of the iPhone for it to recover. If I have to do that every time, it's annoying.

Having album art and steering wheel controls was nice. Can't get those with Bluetooth streaming on my Android phone. Controls only work one out of 5 times.

webninja · 01-10-2015, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by motoridersd

This is an iOS only feature. I can't get my Android LG G3 to get recognized by the car, even with BMW Connect app running.

I tried it with the BF's iPhone and got it to work. I wanted to get a cheap iOS device to leave in the armrest, but found that the music won't resume automatically after the car has been off for a while. I had to unlock the screen of the iPhone for it to recover. If I have to do that every time, it's annoying.

Having album art and steering wheel controls was nice. Can't get those with Bluetooth streaming on my Android phone. Controls only work one out of 5 times.

thanks for getting back to me. I guess I don't feel so bad about being a dumb user now

11-18-2014, 07:52 PM	#1
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