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I'm now on 2020.20.12 as of yesterday but I haven't driven the car since the update was installed. However, when I was on the prior version, 2020.20.5, the random setting was still not working as expected.Anyone checked to see if the Spotify music player playing the same few songs over and over again when listening to a playlist in random order is fixed? I'm still waiting for the 2020.20 update.
I'm now on 2020.20.12 as of yesterday but I haven't driven the car since the update was installed. However, when I was on the prior version, 2020.20.5, the random setting was still not working as expected.
One thing I noticed was that turning random off and then back on again would kind of reset the randomness. Sometimes it would randomize a lot more songs or it would only randomize a few. It was like the random function was only selecting a subset of the songs in the playlist and then just randomizing those. It also seemed like it got progressively worse after each time I parked and turned the car off. The next time I got in the car the amount of songs being randomly selected got fewer and fewer. I haven't performed any specific tests of this. Just an observation.
2017 S with the MCU2 upgrade. I have intermittent issues updating Spotify where the in-car app does not immediately load changes I've made to my playlists from other devices. It generally resolves itself in 24 hours.
A workaround is to use the phone app to drive the car app, that is I am using my iPhone to tell Spotify in the car to play a specific song (NOT streaming Spotify from my iPhone → Car via bluetooth).
I mean Tesla rolled out some kind of fix for Tune In so it’s definitely something they can fix. Not sure what the hold up is.
I just received the latest update 2020.24.6.4 and I’m noticing Spotify is working much better. When my car wakes up Spotify will load my music much faster than before. I used to have to wait about 6 minutes after waking the car up to load my music. Now within 30 seconds or so which is a vast improvement. Hopefully it continues working this good.
Yeah it makes no sense that if Elon allegedly still drives a Model-S that he can hop in the car and think Spotify or USB media controls work acceptably for a luxury flagship model. The media player on another car in our garage (a 20K Japanese car) works better, is stable and has more features than the Model-S and also has the option for CarPlay/AA if you desire as wellI'm starting to wonder if anyone in the Tesla development team listens to music given how obvious and significant the bugs are with the USB and Spotify music players
Yeah it makes no sense that if Elon allegedly still drives a Model-S that he can hop in the car and think Spotify or USB media controls work acceptably for a luxury flagship model. The media player on another car in our garage (a 20K Japanese car) works better, is stable and has more features than the Model-S and also has the option for CarPlay/AA if you desire as well
As you probably know other countries had Spotify long before the US got it, it has never been stable, never! The 'Loading Error' or spinning circle of nothingness has plagued it ever since I've had my car (a 2017 model). There was one 'update' that if you selected Spotify at least 50% of the time it would lock up the MCU and cause it to self reboot, how does that even get past software QA?Then there is the Spotify load error where it just gives up playing music altogether
How many songs in your playlist play before it repeats? I just did two 3-hour drives, using the MCU2 upgrade, and it's not repeating. Can you duplicate by skipping to the next track?
Just wondering if there is something different about my playlists or something.
fwiw in my case I also DON'T have any problem shuffling a long playlist without repeating just a handful of songs. (MCU1, 2020.24.6.11) The playlists I listed to most often are the ones Spotify automatically generates for me (Daily Mix 1,2,3..., Discover Weekly, etc), I think most of those tracks are about 50 songs long. I can listen for >1hr without unexpected repeat (haven't had a chance to do any long 3hr drives lately however)How many songs in your playlist play before it repeats? I just did two 3-hour drives, using the MCU2 upgrade, and it's not repeating. Can you duplicate by skipping to the next track?
Just wondering if there is something different about my playlists or something.
fwiw in my case I also DON'T have any problem shuffling a long playlist without repeating just a handful of songs. (MCU1, 2020.24.6.11) The playlists I listed to most often are the ones Spotify automatically generates for me (Daily Mix 1,2,3..., Discover Weekly, etc), I think most of those tracks are about 50 songs long. I can listen for >1hr without unexpected repeat (haven't had a chance to do any long 3hr drives lately however)
So like many other music player bugs, there seems to be variability of bugs/symptoms across users. OTOH until one of the previous couple software updates, Spotify would every day/several times a day suddenly stall and refuse to play again until switching audio sources to something else and back to Spotify. But lately that problem is gone and Spotify seems much more stable; still occasionally stalls (loading error?) but not every day, and will now usually resume by selecting any Spotify playlist without having to switch to another audio source like before. --knocks on wood--
ps I have no doubt others are having these or other shuffle problems with Spotify, but like the USB music player bugs after all these years I have zero confidence that Tesla has any interest or ability to fix the many longstanding music player problems. Pity, because as others keep saying, it *should* be simple to fix. zit's such a basic feature that you should be able to rely upon without the contortions everyone has to endure, just to enjoy music while driving.
well that still doesn't seem to be the case at least in my car...Try a custom playlist you created in random with over 50 songs. You'll be hearing the same 5 songs over and over and over again