When you connect your phone to CarPlay or Android Auto, cori is available on your car's screen. There you'll find your choirs' songs under All songs and your setlists under Setlists. Pick a song, cori plays it with your usual mix, and you control playback from the car. Singing along doesn't work in the car, because it needs the microphone.
How to play a song in the car
- Connect your phone to the car
Connect your phone to CarPlay or Android Auto as usual and open the cori app on your car's screen.
- Pick a song or setlist
Under All songs you'll see your choirs. A choir opens its songs in alphabetical order. Under Setlists you'll find your personal setlists and your choirs' setlists.
- Play and control
Tap a song. Use the car's screen or the steering wheel buttons for play/pause, back, next and seeking. You can also view the queue there and pick a different song from it.
Setlist entries such as "Pause" or "Moderation" don't appear in the car. "All songs" also leaves out archived songs; in a setlist they stay, just like in the app. As in the app, private songs are only visible to the choir leadership and admins.
What plays after the song you picked
When you pick a song from a list, the remaining songs in that list go into the queue, but only the ones already downloaded to your phone. The song you picked doesn't have to be downloaded: cori loads it right then, and you'll see a loading indicator in the car in the meantime. That also happens over mobile data if you've turned off "Use cellular data" in the app.
Your voice in the car, too
In the car, a song sounds the way you mixed it in the app. If you've never mixed it, your "Voice Playback" default from the playback settings applies.
For the road there are extra buttons for the mixer's three mixes: "Own Voice", "Own Voice Louder" and "All Voices Equally Loud". In Android Auto you'll find them in the menu of the playback screen, in CarPlay as icons on the playback screen. cori saves your choice for that song, just like in the app's mixer. The two buttons with your voice only appear if your voice is set in the choir.
Otherwise, too, it's the same player as in the app: if a song is already playing when you get in, it keeps playing in the car, and with the "Jump to bookmark" setting, the buttons in the car also jump to your bookmarks first.
Singing along in the car
As long as your phone is connected to the car, cori shows "Not available in the car" when you try to sing along: singing along uses the microphone and can't be played through the car. In Android Auto, a running sing-along session pauses as soon as you connect your phone. Disconnect from the car to keep practising.
If it doesn't work
- cori doesn't appear in the car: Update the app to at least version 9.0.
- A song is missing: "All songs" doesn't include archived songs. Downloaded songs without voices, such as ones with only sheet music, aren't shown in the car either.
- A song gets skipped: It has nothing to listen to, only sheet music. cori only finds that out once it's downloaded, and then moves on to the next song.
- Nothing plays after the song you picked: The other songs in the list aren't on your phone yet. Download them beforehand.
- The "Own Voice" buttons are missing: Your voice isn't set in the choir, see Setting your voice part.
What's next?
- Setting the mix for each song: Mixing voices and stereo panning
- Personal and choir setlists: Personal and shared setlists
- Getting songs ready for the road: Using cori without internet