Spotify app stopped working

mindspin311 · 11-15-2018, 01:01 PM

half the time when I select Spotify I just get this...

damageprone · 11-16-2018, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by m_michael

You probably have to renew your BMW Connected Drive subscription. Not cool BMW charges for this.

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Originally Posted by GitToDeChoppah

Yes, any of the 'certified by bmw' apps in idrive requires the subscription. I just use plain old bluetooth. It works just fine, can skip songs and everything I need just fine. Even album art still shows up. Sucks you have to use the actual phone sometimes to start, but if you have recently used spotify, it'll start playing as soon as you get in the car.

This is very lame if so. I found really no value in connected drive anyway. It was so slow. The maps were terrible and the traffic on the maps looked like jumbled blobs of color in which I couldn't even read the roads.

mindspin311 · 11-26-2018, 03:21 PM

So it's been a solid 2 weeks where the Spotify app appears in my iDrive, but it doesn't actually load. What do I have to do to make this actually work?

satinghostrider · 11-26-2018, 09:11 PM

Guys,

Spotify screwed up on the last few updates!!! Specific to Connected Drive and Spotify.

Try installing Spotify version 8.4.77.779 not the latest one from the Playstore.

Here you go...click, download and install...Let me know how you get on!

Link : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkVs8gPXewomip0zO1FFkOmtQy0mwQ

It should work as it did for me.

Remember to switch off auto-updates on your Playstore prior to downloading the link otherwise it will update it to the latest one automatically and it will not work.

This is a temporary workaround until Spotify and BMW can get their thumbs out of their asses and resolve this.

mindspin311 · 11-27-2018, 02:10 PM

I think this worked, will continue to monitor.

I also found an option within one of the menus to disable Carplay. Not sure if that helps at all, but I turned it off.

mindspin311 · 11-28-2018, 02:48 PM

2 days in a row working the way it should. Thanks satinghostrider

CrossyN · 12-04-2018, 07:17 AM

Since early November, I've had the exact same problem as mindspin311 just posted above... except it was permanently broke, I just got a blank Spotify screen in iDrive for the last 5 weeks. It had worked fine for 9 months prior to that.

I rolled back my Spotify app to an APK from November 6th roughly (8.4.78), it was still broke.

I went back even further, to some time in September (8.4.70) and now the Spotify integration is back working 100%. The version 8.4.77 listed above is probably just as good, I just went back quite far as part of my own testing methodology and I'll stick to that version.

There's very little if anything different between most of these versions, a lot of these huge corporations schedule weekly updates with nothing in them just to invalidate a lot of the negative reviews they get on the app stores, because when a review is posted it ties it to the app version, so you can label these bad reviews as being out of date by simply regularly releasing new versions every week. People then see the bad reviews against old versions and assume the latest version is all singing and dancing perfect.

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mindspin311 Second Lieutenant 145 Rep 210 Posts Drives: BMW Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Atlanta iTrader: (0)	So it's been a solid 2 weeks where the Spotify app appears in my iDrive, but it doesn't actually load. What do I have to do to make this actually work? __________________ 2012 Space Grey 128i
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satinghostrider Major 178 Rep 1,432 Posts Drives: 2018 F80 M3 ZCP LCI II Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Singapore iTrader: (1)	Guys, Spotify screwed up on the last few updates!!! Specific to Connected Drive and Spotify. Try installing Spotify version 8.4.77.779 not the latest one from the Playstore. Here you go...click, download and install...Let me know how you get on! Link : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkVs8gPXewomip0zO1FFkOmtQy0mwQ It should work as it did for me. Remember to switch off auto-updates on your Playstore prior to downloading the link otherwise it will update it to the latest one automatically and it will not work. This is a temporary workaround until Spotify and BMW can get their thumbs out of their asses and resolve this. __________________ 2018 F80 LCI II ZCP ///M3 Mineral White M-DCT\| Sakhir Orange Interior\| \|M Performance Exhaust\| Last edited by satinghostrider; 11-27-2018 at 01:45 AM..
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mindspin311 Second Lieutenant 145 Rep 210 Posts Drives: BMW Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Atlanta iTrader: (0)	I think this worked, will continue to monitor. I also found an option within one of the menus to disable Carplay. Not sure if that helps at all, but I turned it off. __________________ 2012 Space Grey 128i
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11-28-2018, 02:48 PM	#28
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12-04-2018, 07:17 AM	#29
CrossyN Private First Class 81 Rep 176 Posts Drives: M4 Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: - iTrader: (0)	Since early November, I've had the exact same problem as mindspin311 just posted above... except it was permanently broke, I just got a blank Spotify screen in iDrive for the last 5 weeks. It had worked fine for 9 months prior to that. I rolled back my Spotify app to an APK from November 6th roughly (8.4.78), it was still broke. I went back even further, to some time in September (8.4.70) and now the Spotify integration is back working 100%. The version 8.4.77 listed above is probably just as good, I just went back quite far as part of my own testing methodology and I'll stick to that version. There's very little if anything different between most of these versions, a lot of these huge corporations schedule weekly updates with nothing in them just to invalidate a lot of the negative reviews they get on the app stores, because when a review is posted it ties it to the app version, so you can label these bad reviews as being out of date by simply regularly releasing new versions every week. People then see the bad reviews against old versions and assume the latest version is all singing and dancing perfect.
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