I am having Avic 5000 nex with Iphone 5s running IOS 8.1. In Carplay all the album art displayed for Music related applications is very hard to see in the background. This issue started happening after upgrading to IOS 8.1.
Any one experiencing similar kind of issue?
Yes, definitely experiencing that too. I remember thinking after first using CarPlay update that the artwork was very light in the background and difficult to see. If I drove at night, however, it showed up a lot better.
With IOS 8.1, it looks like they decided to darken the whole screen so that only a small ribbon of the album art shows at the top of the screen, and barely at that. I hope they'll change this.
You can go back out to NEX and the art work is fine and the music plays fine. But then you won't see when you get new messages, but the phone will still connect fine. But then also, you are out of CarPlay.
Phil
Right, but I'd rather have both CarPlay and visible album art.
The carplay album art is terrible. We can only hope that Apple will eventually get the message, and fix it. I'm only moderately hopeful, since iTunes has been getting significantly worse with each full-version increment. The music player on the Iphone also seems to get worse with each new version of iOS, rather than better. Meh.
Yes this was a big change with iOS 8.1. Previously, the album art was full screen but dim. Not they've added a mask ove the lower third of the screen probably thinking the controls would be easier to see. It's horrible. Why even bother having album art you can't see. On top of that you have to seriously tweak the brightness and contrast controls to see it. Don't worry, the CarPlay image adjustments are different from the main unit.
I'm hoping someone does a hack for it that I can download on Cydia. Now that they've closed the jailbreak loophole, I have no intentions of upgrading to 8.1.1 or future versions.
Spankey, are you saying there's a way to adjust the brightness and contrast specifically for CarPlay? How do you do it?
Why carplay doesn't show the same iphone song screen, I only see the name of the song. In my wife's sentra the whole colorful screen shows which song its playing. Anyway to change how the screen looks?
Spankey, are you saying there's a way to adjust the brightness and contrast specifically for CarPlay? How do you do it?
I have an 8000 so YMMV. Go into CarPlay and then hit the home button and then the Settings icon. Go to Picture Adjustments and the adjustment controls will appear over CarPlay. Adjust accordingly. This will not effect the picture settings of the main unit. Be sure to do this during daylight and at night so you can adjust for each time.
I could not even see album art with the default settings. Had to crank brightness and lower contrast a bit. So the answer to your question is yes.
Excellent, I'm going to have to try playing around with that. Thanks a lot.
Just played around with the brightness/contrast settings and the artwork is MUCH more noticeable, even in the daytime. Can't wait to see what it looks like when it's not as bright outside. Thanks for the tip!
I have an 8000 so YMMV. Go into CarPlay and then hit the home button and then the Settings icon. Go to Picture Adjustments and the adjustment controls will appear over CarPlay. Adjust accordingly. This will not effect the picture settings of the main unit. Be sure to do this during daylight and at night so you can adjust for each time.
I could not even see album art with the default settings. Had to crank brightness and lower contrast a bit. So the answer to your question is yes.
I posted this in a separate thread but no one's responding, so I thought I'd ask here. Do you know what the default setting is for the Dimmer function on the NEX units for both daytime and nighttime? (The slider goes from +1 to +48.)
I wanted to compare my new settings to the original, but I forgot to record what the original settings were.
Offhand no. I would guess where the middle bar is on the slider?
Wow, I've been ignoring this thread, since I didn't think it effected me. Today, while stopped at a light, the sun was just right angle and I could see the very faint outline of John Fogerty while playing his wonderful I Wrote A Song For Everyone album. It was daytime and I have the brightness/dim set to max, so I held this month's issue of MacTech Magazine up to block reflections...and there he was. Oh just so faint, never in a thousand years would I have guessed that album art was being displayed (cough, cough).
I did the one thing that will get Apple's attention, since this is, after all, an iOS problem...I filed a bug report (18946516):
Just played around with the brightness/contrast settings and the artwork is MUCH more noticeable, even in the daytime. Can't wait to see what it looks like when it's not as bright outside. Thanks for the tip!
I'm going to try this. I can see the art work at night but not during the day. For day time where did you end up with brightness/contrast number wise. I was looking for a suggested starting point. Thank you!
I'm going to try this. I can see the art work at night but not during the day. For day time where did you end up with brightness/contrast number wise. I was looking for a suggested starting point. Thank you!
The most recent ios9 beta addresses album art per Macrumors' latest report.
Bumped the contrast and brightness all the way up and the temp all the way down and now I can see(sometimes faintly( the album art work. Hopefully, iOS 9 improves the album art next month.
Bumped the contrast and brightness all the way up and the temp all the way down and now I can see(sometimes faintly( the album art work. Hopefully, iOS 9 improves the album art next month.
Unfortunately...
I have iOS 9 Beta 5 running and I can't tell a huge difference in the clarity of the album artwork. The only change I noticed was the size of the artwork in general but not the contrast or brightness.
I have iOS 9 Beta 5 running and I can't tell a huge difference in the clarity of the album artwork. The only change I noticed was the size of the artwork in general but not the contrast or brightness.
A little birdie tells me the Map horizon issue is resolved. No chance of getting 2D North-up in iOS 9.
What do you mean? Is the art smaller, bigger, etc.?I have iOS 9 Beta 5 running and I can't tell a huge difference in the clarity of the album artwork. The only change I noticed was the size of the artwork in general but not the contrast or brightness.
What do you mean? Is the art smaller, bigger, etc.?
The album art no longer has the fade in that it has in iOS 8. So instead the album art is just slightly greyed out and also is slightly out of focus but you can definitely see it a lot better.
The album art no longer has the fade in that it has in iOS 8. So instead the album art is just slightly greyed out and also is slightly out of focus but you can definitely see it a lot better.
If it's not too much trouble could you post a picture of what it looks like in iOS 9?
9to5 has pics. https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/img_1032.png
