Android Auto Vs Carplay Audio Quality

Latest with a 2018 audi a4 head unit native android auto comparability and have been experiencing music playback quality issues with android auto compared to bluetooth as many other.

Android auto vs carplay audio quality. Because android auto works via usb you ll get top quality stereo audio even if your phone doesn t support stereo bluetooth. Android auto vs apple carplay sound quality. Jump to latest follow 1 7 of 7 posts. This thread is archived.

I think the audio quality cause and fix should be relatively the same for other infotainment systems too. It is so. Carplay supports the use of google maps in addition to the built in apple maps but apple maps won t work on android auto. Discussion starter 1 apr 7 2017.

I am not sure what the data transport is with carplay or android auto but i would imagine that it is better audio quality than bluetooth. Several gps apps will work with android auto but google maps has some neat features. So you can focus on the road. Joined nov 8 2016 56 posts.

Experience the best features of your android device when driving with android auto. The types of apps used are for the most part pretty much the same though the specific apps themselves are different. To be honest i have plugged my iphone in and been forced to use carplay cause it stays connected. Hopefully this helps others out who are having the same audio quality problem with carplay connected via usb.

With bluetooth streaming your phone is re encoding the audio data into a much more compressed format and i find myself picking out all of the artifacts that the re encoding process introduces particularly on the high frequency sounds like a cymbal crash. Phone calls will still work over bluetooth so any steering wheel or dashboard phone controls will still work. Just tap your car display or get hands free help with your google assistant. 2nd gen electronics audio and lighting.