Spankey

I have issues with music not playing when the phone is plugged in from time to time no matter the file. I often have to pull the cable out and reinsert and everything is fine. It's one of my major frustrations with the unit and CarPlay. I'm not sure which is to blame.

See my post that I responded to you on, on Mac Rumors. Take a screen shot the same way you would take a screen shot of your phone. While in CarPlay and your phone is in sleep, press sleep and home button.

This is how I do it on an 8000 NEX. Not sure if your unit is the same.

Still annoyed that I can't shuffle artist in CarPlay since they updated the music app.

I wonder if Apple has been sitting on CarPlay approval for both Pandora and Slacker. Interesting that they just showed up recently. Pandora users should check their App updates to see if this was part of the last round of updates. Apple Radio is junk so nice to have better alternatives.

My favorite radio service is now on CarPlay. At 4 bucks a month for great sound quality and awesome stations XM is cancelled.

Except Apple maps can be updated with every OS update and are free. I wouldn't even mind a slight charge to keep all POI's and addresses stored locally.

I do wish Apple makes were less reliant on cell phone signal so I could use it wherever I am. For that reason alone I'm forced to use a head unit with on board maps. Also, there is no shuffle artist button in CarPlay now. Siri is especially annoying. Siri, shuffle artist Foo Fighters. Bitch comes back with, "Here are some popular Foo Fighters songs." Ugh. That's not what I asked!

I do wish the artwork was a tad sharper but even when it was it had that horrible black mask over it. Yes in bright sunlight it is a little hard to see but I'm fine with that. The fade made it look like half my screen was broken and I'd barely see the top third of the artwork. I even toned down my brightness and contrast settings.

Can you actually use an SD card through Carplay? I would think it has to be all sourced from the phone. Also, if you want album art through the head unit it has to be embedded into each file (song).

Sure. Here's a few of the better ones.

One remaining issue is that there is still no Shuffle Artist control. I hope they fix that for the final release. I was hoping for some more apps as well..Come on Slacker!

I have to take back what I said earlier about the Album Art implementation in iOS 9. I downloaded the beta and I think this may be the best release yet. No, you don't see a a sharp rendering of the album art, but you do get a fullscreen blur of the art that is very tasteful and "artistic". For the most part, the ugly banding is gone from Carplay trying to fade the image to black from top to bottom. The entire screen is now filled with color so it doesn't look like half your screen is broken. The brightness also seems to be much better. Yes, I am still cranking the Brightness a bit but before I

Yes, Apple is THE problem. When CarPlay launched the album art filled the screen. There was no fade around the controls. It was still dim be viewable. Someone must have thought the art was a distraction to drivers, especially if it meshed with the the onscreen controls and added the fade making it almost pointless to be there. This new "solution" is even worse.

Yeah..that doesn't look too ugly. Ugh...