It only takes over a part of the UI and only when the user chooses to turn it on. On a system like Tesla with a large screen, CarPlay would be just one more panel on the screen along with others controlled by Tesla.
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Hands-On With the Apple Music App for Tesla
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It may be the aspiration but that is a prototype of a custom installation integrated with the cooperation of the manufacturer. I doubt that Tesla would sign up for that degree of integration.
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I guess regular car owners don’t have to spend hours in their cars waiting for them to charge. 10 mins at the pump and till, and I’m off… 😃
Yes this. Also I’ve had weirdness with needing to select a different source and then return to Apple Music to get a previously playing album to start again. Some bugs to be fixed, but excellent first release.
Car play is just screen/audio-I/O sharing to the car display. It SHOULD not be a big deal. The advantage for the end-user is they don't have to fiddle with the phone while driving.
But a lot of the features of your phone ARE already available now in the Tesla screen. Including but not limited to, text messages, phone calls and now this solves Apple Music. The ones who complain about lack of integration generally didn’t turn the show notifications feature on, on the iPhone.
Nah, I complain about lack of CarPlay because of Tesla's poor streaming implementation. Apple Music implementation has the same problems I've run into with Spotify and Tidal. If there's limited reception, songs will stop playing after a minute or two, then they'll start skipping to the next song until the next time it gets signal. I also run into this constantly with Tunein and podcasts. It also seems to have some kind of caching so if a song wasn't loaded completely previously, it doesn't actually reload the whole song again for some time. There's no way to tell it to precache or download songs.
CarPlay solves this because I can manage all the local songs on my phone and Apple has much better automatic downloading than the web API that's available to Tesla.
Mind you this isn't necessarily limited to just Tesla. I've seen other people posting similar complaints about streaming Apple Music and Spotify in their Mercedes and Porsches.
Maybe I missed it in this string so far but these are some items I think can be worked on for the next Tesla update with Apple Music.
1) I don't think Library -> Recently added -> extends more than maybe a page or so and then stops. I know on my phone and computer etc. it just keep going.
2) If you click Library -> Sort by albums -> I was under the impression that Apple Music would sync across and show albums the way iTunes Match would and it does not. I was also under the impression that if you were a subscriber to Apple Music you didn't need to subscribe to the annual iTunes Match fee. Is this not correct? <edit> All albums are there. They are just sorted by recently added and I don’t think you can sort by “artist” for example. <edit> Something is up with iTunes Match or similar. I’m having an issue playing certain songs from my own matches albums for example.
3) Smart playlist support is not here (yet) as previously noted.
1) I don't think Library -> Recently added -> extends more than maybe a page or so and then stops. I know on my phone and computer etc. it just keep going.
2) If you click Library -> Sort by albums -> I was under the impression that Apple Music would sync across and show albums the way iTunes Match would and it does not. I was also under the impression that if you were a subscriber to Apple Music you didn't need to subscribe to the annual iTunes Match fee. Is this not correct? <edit> All albums are there. They are just sorted by recently added and I don’t think you can sort by “artist” for example. <edit> Something is up with iTunes Match or similar. I’m having an issue playing certain songs from my own matches albums for example.
3) Smart playlist support is not here (yet) as previously noted.
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as @icwhatudidthere points out, there is an issue with maintaining consistent reception of Apple Music
Carplay uses the songs in the phone so no risk of losing the signal