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If you are an Apple person, I recommend Stitcher. It's a free podcast agreggator that's easy to use in car mode and play through your Bluetooth connection. Don't try the podcasts on TuneIn... the car will constantly lose your place in the podcast.
Use your ipad or iphone via bluetooth audio connectivity. I use that approach to listen to streaming music and books from audible.com. You can also copy CD to MP3 and put them on a USB memory stick and plug those into the Tesla.
While you can avoid these problems by converting/copying the audiobook to a USB drive - the car's software will not maintain position - and doesn't understand chapters/bookmarks, and trying to reposition back to the last heard point can be very time consuming.
So you are saying that if I have say ten MP3s (chapters 1-10), and I'm half-way through chapter 5, when I turn off my car and get back in it starts at the beginning of chapter 5? Or does it not even remember which track I was on?
Sometimes it may resume at the point where it has stopped in chapter 5 - sometimes it will start from the beginning of that chapter - and sometimes it will forget what file is being played, and you have to re-select the file.
When I used to burn audiobook CDs for my previous car - when transferring the books to CD, I would split them into 10 minute sections - so I could easily move through the book, 10 minutes at a time, in case something happened and I lost my place.
While you can do the same with the Model S and files on a USB - it's much easier to use a BT device with an audiobook app.
This sounds like a ridiculous amount of work to be able to listen to your content in your car. I know what I want to try to build. I wonder why a developer ecosystem hasn't started flourishing around the giant friggin screens in our center consoles...
So I'm probably pretty old school. I listen to some Podcasts on my iPad through iTunes and I listen to books on CD in my current car.
What is the best way on the MS to do one or both of these?
So I'm probably pretty old school. I listen to some Podcasts on my iPad through iTunes and I listen to books on CD in my current car.
What is the best way on the MS to do one or both of these?