Hi,
Based on positive posts around the place I bought an ipod touch for use in the car.
I connected it to the central console USB port. It gets Internet from a separate Mifi in the car.
I use Tidal, a podcast app and TuneIn mainly on it. It has my music collection on it too but I also copied most of that into the iDrive storage so I don't need to play my own music off the iPod.
I find the behaviour weird and its actually aggravating to use.
Most often when I turn the car on it decides to start playing from the iPod music by itself. My first track is a recorded phone call actually so I hear this old phone call recording start to play back most times.
If I then open say TuneIn and try to start a radio station it will play for a couple of seconds and then pause and go back to the "music" playback. If I hit Play repeatedly in Tunein it will do the same over and over but usually it will eventually "stick". Assuming I didn't crash in the meantime.
I sometimes see some sort of artwork for what I'm listening to, other times not. In some apps the previous/next roller seems to do something useful, other times not.
So all in all for me it doesn't seem to work well. I suspect I'd have a cleaner experience just using the Aux In - but then of course no chance of any integration with the iDrive with the most practical problem being no auto-pausing when I shut down the car.
Anyone got hints for me?
Thanks,
@Elbow, Cape Town
Based on positive posts around the place I bought an ipod touch for use in the car.
I connected it to the central console USB port. It gets Internet from a separate Mifi in the car.
I use Tidal, a podcast app and TuneIn mainly on it. It has my music collection on it too but I also copied most of that into the iDrive storage so I don't need to play my own music off the iPod.
I find the behaviour weird and its actually aggravating to use.
Most often when I turn the car on it decides to start playing from the iPod music by itself. My first track is a recorded phone call actually so I hear this old phone call recording start to play back most times.
If I then open say TuneIn and try to start a radio station it will play for a couple of seconds and then pause and go back to the "music" playback. If I hit Play repeatedly in Tunein it will do the same over and over but usually it will eventually "stick". Assuming I didn't crash in the meantime.
I sometimes see some sort of artwork for what I'm listening to, other times not. In some apps the previous/next roller seems to do something useful, other times not.
So all in all for me it doesn't seem to work well. I suspect I'd have a cleaner experience just using the Aux In - but then of course no chance of any integration with the iDrive with the most practical problem being no auto-pausing when I shut down the car.
Anyone got hints for me?
Thanks,
@Elbow, Cape Town