Comment by klausa
1 year ago
This is sorta unrelated, but in your previous comment you mentioned:
> least right now using CarPlay they aren’t getting all the data about which books or music I’m listening to.
CarPlay absolutely reports currently playing audio metadata back to the car. I've driven multiple cars that display the currently playing song, etc in the driving instruments cluster.
> currently playing audio metadata
Plain old Bluetooth has supported track/caller data for many years now (ex: AVRCP 1.3) so it should be no surprise that cars were made that read and display that information.
That said, if my car persisted that information I'd be rather suspicious.
P.S.: It's also not unknown to have a certain level of address-book contact sharing over BT, since people were making hands-free calls in their car long before CarPlay/Android-Auto came around.
Yeah, I noticed that at some point last year. This is my first vehicle with CarPlay, so I’m not sure how it works in other vehicles, but with mine the CarPlay interface completely replaces the infotainment display. The car will also show the current media in the cluster, but it’s a few clicks away and not what I had configured. I finally realized that the car was still able to see what I was listening to with CarPlay when I navigated back to the car’s default Home Screen while idling one day and saw the name of my book playing in the car’s native media app.