It’s one of the reasons I chose to try Spotify Premium… As stated in other threads, my CarPlay CUTS OUT on my normal route to work EVERY SINGLE TIME IN THE SAME SPOT… so I stopped using CarPlay to/from work. There is some setting up involved in the iDrive system to make it work, but it does. You have to have a Spotify PREMIUM account for this to work if I’m not mistaken.Ģ. While driving to/fro, I play Spotify via the iDrive App with no probs, and it remembers my 'Made for You' and 'Recently Played' playlists in Spotify.ġ. I use an archaic iPod Nano when I work out, and I don't bring my phone with me on the trips to the gym. I can play music through the Spotify app without my phone being with me in the vehicle. Just wanted to chime in here and confirm. Some songs sound really good, while others (from the same dang signal) sound worse. What I’ve learned over past few years with this system (and the Macan Bose as well), it all depends on the source.

BUT, I also did a BTB comparison (in a VERY quiet setting) with my Spotify Premium, and my Spotify sounded almost as good. Yeah - I played with it too over past few days. OP is not crazy, something interesting is going on here The sound seems to have much more depth and base where as the original instance of amazon music sounds more flat. If I select amazon music via carplay, it switches back to the other instance of amazon music and sounds different. If I have amazon music open via carplay, and then say 'alexa play amazon music', it actually opens up another instance of amazon music and the sound does seem to be improved. There is definitely something going on here. I followed the instructions from the video to enable alexa.

Amazon music on bmw idrive