I haven't seen anyone talking about this, apart from @greentheonly mentioning it on twitter recently. This morning I checked for myself, and I think he might be right!
For context; I stop short of claiming to be an audiophile, but I am pretty picky when it comes to music listening. I always found the in-car Spotify streaming quality to be terrible, and so have been using bluetooth instead, for the last 20 months or so. Every now and then, after the car software updates, I would check to see if there had been any improvement in the sound quality. I have a few "go-to" songs that I use for this, where I can easily pick a low bitrate stream. I will switch back and forth between the in-car Spotify and my phone bluetooth, running Spotify at "Very High" quality and "Normalize volume" turned off. Usually the difference is night and day; easily distinguishable. As I said, I'm not an audiophile; I can't pick the difference between my bluetooth stream and a 320kbps mp3 via USB, but could easily hear the low quality in-car stream.
Today, when I used my usual test method, I really struggled to pick the difference between in-car Spotify and my phone bluetooth. My 3LR is on 2021.36 and I'm located in Australia. I've setup my hotspot so I can test it for longer going forward, but at this point I think Tesla have finally allowed the full Sportify Connect bitrate! I think they've also added a little cache too.
Has anyone else had a noticed this? Has anyone managed to check the data transfer rate to verify?
For context; I stop short of claiming to be an audiophile, but I am pretty picky when it comes to music listening. I always found the in-car Spotify streaming quality to be terrible, and so have been using bluetooth instead, for the last 20 months or so. Every now and then, after the car software updates, I would check to see if there had been any improvement in the sound quality. I have a few "go-to" songs that I use for this, where I can easily pick a low bitrate stream. I will switch back and forth between the in-car Spotify and my phone bluetooth, running Spotify at "Very High" quality and "Normalize volume" turned off. Usually the difference is night and day; easily distinguishable. As I said, I'm not an audiophile; I can't pick the difference between my bluetooth stream and a 320kbps mp3 via USB, but could easily hear the low quality in-car stream.
Today, when I used my usual test method, I really struggled to pick the difference between in-car Spotify and my phone bluetooth. My 3LR is on 2021.36 and I'm located in Australia. I've setup my hotspot so I can test it for longer going forward, but at this point I think Tesla have finally allowed the full Sportify Connect bitrate! I think they've also added a little cache too.
Has anyone else had a noticed this? Has anyone managed to check the data transfer rate to verify?