If you play Spotify in your car and notice the CarPlay dashboard screen showing the wrong track name, you are not the only one experiencing this issue. A software bug is causing a direct mismatch between the song coming through the speakers and the text shown on the screen. Drivers who rely on their vehicle display to track their daily playlists have flooded community forums to report the issue.
The company is investigating the problem
Users report that track titles, artists, and album covers get mixed up while driving. In many cases, the screen shows details from the previous song instead of the current one. Some people even encounter a totally blank interface when they try to launch the app after restarting their phone.
The timing of these bugs lines up with a recent app update from Spotify. That same update gave the app a temporary disco ball icon. The company stated it knows about the situation and has a team looking into the cause. It expects to share more details and a fix in the coming days.
For now, a quick trick to bypass the glitch is to skip forward a track and then go back again. This action sometimes forces the screen to refresh and show the right text. If you want an alternative without this specific issue, Apple Music remains a good choice since it is built directly for CarPlay. Until a permanent patch drops, drivers will have to ignore the mismatched text on their screen.
It’s not just a display issue, they’ve also borked something to do with the audio feed.
It glitches occasionally and as soon as the music gets more complicated than a quiet acoustic passage it sounds like heavy compression kicks in, to the point where it’s almost unlistenable.
Nothing in my signal chain changed except Spotify last week. I’ve even tried going back to a USB-C connection but even that doesn’t fix it.
Same issue, screen and song are not in sync. Plus while playing a song the song just quits. Really annoying! The new disco ball icon almost disappears the black background on my car play. Spotify blew this update big-time. Gotta fix it soon
Wrong song info and keeps crashing my apple car play!
It’s annoying. I hope they fix the problem!