Apple Music Cloud Sync

[Kacey3]

So it's only been a week of native Apple Music, but like a lot of folks, I am loving it.

A little background information, I have been using Apple Music under a variety of names for the better part of a decade. I use a series of smart playlists and AppleScripts to generate curated playlists that update daily by removing recently played tracks and adding less frequently played tracks. This way I have a better chance of hearing a wider selection of my library of over 50,000 songs. This works pretty reliably on my Apple Devices, and even works fairly well on my Amazon Echo devices.

After only a couple of days, I have realized that the Rivian does not sync to the cloud on a daily or even a weekly basis, so my playlists are not refreshing. I can literally pull up the same playlist on both the Rivian and my iPhone and see that the contents are completely different. I don't know if this is a bug, an oversight, or it's by design to minimize traffic, but I sure hope that there is some form of Cloud Sync and that it's cycle can be improved over time. In fact, so far, the only way I have been able to get my library to re-sync is to completely sign out and back in again.

If anyone from Rivian sees this, please consider this a request for more reliable cloud sync.

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[LittonLad]

An issue I am seeing is playback does not continue from device to device, but that is minor at this point, although it does on CarPlay between my phone and other vehicles, although I understand CarPlay is different.

My main gripe is that Apple Music resets itself every time I get back into my R1T, such that it does not pick up where it left off and continue playing. I have to manually find what I want to listen to and start again. So on a short daily commute, I end up listening to the same few songs at the start of an album, rather than playback just continuing from last time I drove.

is anyone else seeing this?

 

[Kacey3]

To your first point, I am not aware that Apple Music has any kind of feature to continue from device to device. That has been a long requested feature that simply does not exist in Apple Music in my experience.

To your second point, I haven't had this experience. It always seems to pick up wherever I left off. Though it doesn't always auto play when I get back in the truck - it seems it's about 50/50 whether the music will start back up, or I have to tap the left jog wheel to start music playing again. But regardless of whether it starts playing automatically or not, it seems to always pick up exactly where I left off when I was previously in the truck.

 

[racekarl]

My main gripe is that Apple Music resets itself every time I get back into my R1T, such that it does not pick up where it left off and continue playing. I have to manually find what I want to listen to and start again. So on a short daily commute, I end up listening to the same few songs at the start of an album, rather than playback just continuing from last time I drove.

is anyone else seeing this?

I see this sometimes, but not always. When it does happen to me it seems like it loses its place in a song, but not in playlist (at least not that I've yet noticed).

 

[Kacey3]

I did notice after a couple more days that my libraries finally updated after another couple of days. This makes me think that it does have iCloud sync, just on a much slower schedule than I am accustomed to.

 

[mikehmb]

An issue I am seeing is playback does not continue from device to device, but that is minor at this point, although it does on CarPlay between my phone and other vehicles, although I understand CarPlay is different.

My main gripe is that Apple Music resets itself every time I get back into my R1T, such that it does not pick up where it left off and continue playing. I have to manually find what I want to listen to and start again. So on a short daily commute, I end up listening to the same few songs at the start of an album, rather than playback just continuing from last time I drove.

is anyone else seeing this?

It’s even worse for me - if I switch between audio apps (say from Apple Music to Tidal, then back to Apple) it has not only forgotten what was playing, but even recent searches are gone.

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