supratachophobia
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I just find I hardly ever use the media now.
I'm not really one for complaining about this sort of thing and tend to just get used to the interface but ..
The auto-hiding top menu means I have to press additional buttons just to get to the media which with the interface delays I really dont like
The spotify is so heavily compressed that the SQ really is poor
The UHFS is not exactly stellar in the first place
the voice commands are flaky at best and you cant switch sources or at least not that I can make work eg "Select USB/Radio etc"
my USB stick - new + newly formatted Sandisk has to be unplugged every time and replugged back in to work
not a stellar experience really. I just have to hope Tesla continue to work on this and future updates will offer improvements.
Yeah, so I really don't want to give Tesla a pass here because I think the media player needs major attention even beyond USB playback (restarting Podcasts back to the beginning just like USB audio tracks comes to mind). But for the last month, I've just had my 64GB One Plus 2 hooked up via Bluetooth that I only need to charge once per week. I'm running PowerAmp on it with auto-start playback on Bluetooth connect. 1st, here are the downsides:
- down-sampling to 256kbps so 320 and FLAC take one for the team.
- Search works great, but haven't figured out a good way to do it without running off the road.
- The Tesla reads every track with 1:30 elapsed and 2:20 remaining with no progression of the time marker. USB audio did this as well at random times so I know it's definitely the car's fault. i can still time-seek on the phone screen fairly easily.
Upsides:
- Random is totally and completely random. I've never heard the same song twice, it always works.
- Crossfade on manual Next Track, superb. Gapless playback on natural track progression, superb. I never knew how nice those features were until I actually had them working. 10 band equalizer that I can set, superb.
- Also I can choose from equalizer presets for music and audiobooks.
- The car *seems* to be taking care of album art really really well since I dont have a cellular connection to the phone. Although who knows, maybe PowerAmp downloaded everything via wifi when I wasn't looking.
- Zero scan times, fast searches