CarPlay vs. iPod

OK, so i have yet to understand how to get the audio system to recognize my older iPod. I assume I need to disable CarPlay...?

Anyone have advise?

 

Does your iPod support carplay?

 

No, she's an old one...

 

So I wanted to bump this thread to see if there are any other thoughts out there.

I realize that most are using Carplay with their phones (iPhone/Android) for music, podcasts etc. and while I do use my phone for some of that, I have an iPod nano that has a significant chunk of music on it that I would like to be able to connect to my 2023 (picking up this weekend).

Can it be done?

 

So there are a couple usb connections you can use but I think the one on the dash is the only one that does a data connection, The ones inside the center console are for charging only. Try the one on the dash.

 

Thanks @AWDDude - was just about to post for y'all to disregard. Found info in the Multimedia Manual.

 

Hopefully you can get it to work. I read the manual and still couldn't get mine to work using the dash USB. Lots of music on it I would like to hear.

 

Did that work? Following - I have an old ipod Classic 80GB with a ton of music on it, that I'd like to listen to while in the truck on long rides.

Read up on this in the multimedia manual - pages 34 and 165 cover it. - looks like it might work via that usb data port just below the lower right side of the screen - I'll have to play with it tomorrow.

 

Will let you all know tomorrow or Saturday. Picking up truck tomorrow afternoon!

 

I tried to get it to work with my 80GB ipod classic and it doesn't see it. I went into music sources and then into settings to see if I could find it there - nope ) Let us know if anyone gets this working, and how they did it.

 

Looks like I'm going to look into using a thumb drive maybe, see if that works. I'll have to play with it.

 

What’s an “IPod”?

 

Still no luck - all the docs say that it should read the iPod and it should show up as an option.

 

Might be the version/software version of the iPod. A previous BMW I owned wouldn't read ipod versions prior to version 4 when I hooked it up and wound up buying a newer version and worked fine. At some point an iPod software version isn't updated anymore as tech moves forward. Can't say I've tried it with the tundy, but I'm curious now.

 

Update: So, I used the app to format my 64G thumb drive as a fat32 drive format. Loaded a bunch of songs from my song library moved over some playlists. And tested it. It sees the usb thumb drive, and the songs. But, the Toyota head unit doesn't seem to know how to do playlists, that I could find - it does folders, artists, albums, ... so you need to manage it that way. Also, I use Android Auto and the wife Apple Carplay - and Android Auto (I'm assuming Apple is similar) doesn't seem to know how to mute the thumb/usb drive to do it's announcements.

So... back to the drawing board.

So, my Android has almost half again the storage my old ipod classic (80G) had. So, I took my songs, and playlists, and moved them to my android. Bring them up in the Samsung audio app(on the android and the app is added to Android Auto. While Android Auto is in use, Android Auto mutes the music as needed. I have moved all my songs/playlists from the old ipod and now have it all contained on the Android.

Additional win from this, is I use the Android when I'm riding on my motorcycle to listen to music(I had a small playlist there already), so it's already all set for that there, now I just have more playlists/songs, to listen to with my headset(Cardo) speakers in my helmet. And, I can also listen to the songs in the Audi while using Android Auto. I had previously loaded the music onto 2 SD cards in the Audi 5 years ago when I bought it. Android Auto there in the Audi, knows how to mute all external music sources. Go figure. So, this method makes my music much more portable across all my driving platforms.

Side note: It took a fair amount of time to move all of this out of itunes libraries/my NAS music library to the Android. I had difficulty getting the latest version of itunes to export playlists in .m3u format. A basic playlist format. So, in an earlier iteration of itunes, years ago, I'd saved off all of my playlists, some of the music locations had moved as I've moved across at least 5 laptops since then, so I had to modify some of the playlists to point to my current NAS library location to read the songs. I used notepad++ for that, and then imported the playlists into winamp to manage/clean up the playlists, then exported those and synced the songs playlists to the android using windows media. There are probably easier/cleaner ways to do this, but this is how I did it, and I'm now done. Just thought I'd put this here in case anyone else wanted to know what I found as I was going through this process.