How do you listen to music?

[arvindm]

Yep, as far as I understand it, the Car account that you get for free is exactly the same as a premium account minus the ability to create playlists (might be wrong on the playlists, I already had a spotify account so never used the free one)

There is a big difference between the free streaming (No streaming) vs the paid streaming account in the 2024 MY. It is definitely not the same! Yes you can pay for Spotify instead of the Tesla streaming or another streaming service but you will not get a lot of other stuff thrown in with the Tesla streaming. The services offered by premium connectivity may vary depending on the area but the following is a synopsis of what is available in the US. The biggest difference is music streaming and Sentry mode live access.

 

[schnaxxl]

External playlists created using iTunes or Mp3tag will work but need to be modified every time you add or delete a few songs from the SSD or Flash Drive. That's really besides the point here. The inability or Tesla to program in a solid media player is really a disgrace to a car company that prides itself on electronics. Elon! Take away all those stupid fart sounds and martian terrain landscapes and gives us a good media player! Is that so hard? Or you just dont want to?

car companies have usually lagged behind the tech and so they’ve never done a great job with music, and probably interfaces in general
a few cars back when I first used Carplay the difference was staggering - particularly music and maps

 

[LikesToys]

Unfortunately I have to Bluetooth music from the iPhone to the car which causes some loss in quality although I can live with it given other road noises. I use somewhat uncommon streaming sources with high res music such as Tidal, Qobos via Roon ARC which streams from home to my iPhone. Roon ARC works well so all my physical digital music files, playlists and streaming services from my home system stream to the iphone and I Bluetooth from there. I use a wireless charger connected to the Tesla screen to keep the iphone charged.

I use the iPhone for everything except the one thing it can’t do: Battery Preconditioning before arriving at a Supercharger. For that I have to route via Tesla to a Supercharger with voice guidance turned off. Everything else works better on the iPhone for me although having the large Tesla screen for maps is very useful. I use the iPhone Maps for routing most of the time as I find the Tesla routing does not give me much warning and it does not work with my Apple Watch which giggles my wrist before turns.

I am considering some type of 3rd party screen that would support Apple Car Play - perhaps with a few physical buttons to make up for other UI weaknesses in 2024 MY such as wipers and fan speed controls which I find distracting to access using the Tesla screen.

Too bad that such a sophisticated driving system has a second rate UI for everything else. Tesla - give up and give us CarPlay.