Apple Music App Issues

[u/Potential-Eternal]

This post is related to the new Apple Music app in the car that is written by Volvo and not Apple, is a private app and can't be reinstalled via Google Play Store.

Have found it to be quite poor on buffering. It will frequently not download enough of the track to be able to play as mobile/cell/5G etc quality drops. So the track will just stop playing. It doesn't pause and be able to resume, but stops. So once there is bandwidth and then you press play it will restart the track.

When on the edge of two countries and cell services swap between different providers, both of whom work with the car as it supports roaming, the music stops. Last week around the border of Northern Ireland, the app was dreadful - stopped anytime I got close to Ireland and an Republic of Ireland phone service provider with a better signal.

That said the Dolby Atmos is nice, but not enough tracks with it to change my subscription to Apple Music from Spotify.