Carplay podcast audio quickly cuts out, sporadically

Rule out other CarPlay audio sources first? Test against Apple Music and Podcasts.

Also test against non-CarPlay audio.

It could be on Spotify’s end, so it’s good to rule that out before looking at CarPlay or the audio system itself as the cause. Unreliable caching/streaming integration or audio processing in the Spotify CarPlay app are what I would start with as hypotheses if I had this issue.

 

If you have a nav app like Waze running in the background you can get a situation where it is alerting to speed but you just hear a blank on your other audio source. Been there seen that.

 

Now that I think about this, I have a possible answer:

Is this occurring when entering a highway, or when switching lanes, or other situations that could cause a lane switch or traffic alert? The audio will temporarily duck if the car needs to alert you about a safety issue. I have found that the system will start to cut out before a notification comes in, but then it appears to happen for “no reason” because the notification never has time to trigger. The lane is clear before the alert even triggers. I will be switching lanes with a car two lanes over – in the blindspot of the lane I am entering – and the car is warning me about a car in “the lane that I am entering” which is actually a lane and a half away. The audio system pauses for a half a second, and then the audio immediately resumes since the notification wasn’t necessary.