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It lets you access those services through the car screen and not the phone. If you don’t care about that or don’t prefer that then it’s not better for you and don’t use hotspot then. But other people might prefer to use the car and not the phone.So what does a hotspot give you if you don’t get satellite maps and traffic visualization. Spotify, TuneIn, etc, can all be accessed from your phone and linked via Bluetooth, and the phone Spotify app is much better than the Tesla app. How is the hotpot better than Bluetooth? Genuinely curious.
Yes.So if I don’t have premium connectivity and then use hotspot or Wi-Fi, I can use the Tesla screen Spotify app?
Totally agree about personal preference. It’s very easy to control my phone with Siri, so the Tesla screen isn’t a big advantage for me.It lets you access those services through the car screen and not the phone. If you don’t care about that or don’t prefer that then it’s not better for you and don’t use hotspot then. But other people might prefer to use the car and not the phone.
Also BT audio streaming loses quality vs directly playing the media but it’s not noticeable for most people.
You beat me to it. View Live Camera in Sentry Mode is one of the most attractive features to me.If you don't purchase Premium Connectivity you can't use Sentry Mode - View Live Camera which is a very cool feature IMHO.
You sure you have it for a year? My MYP only had a 30 day free trial.I have free Tesla Premium Connectivity for a year with my new car, so have time to figure out whether I like it enough to subscribe.
Yes. I ordered in September when the offer was for 1 year. Since then, they dropped it to 30 days.You beat me to it. View Live Camera in Sentry Mode is one of the most attractive features to me.
Even if you can utilize some of the other features through hot spot or BT, the Premium Connectivity annual plan comes out to about $8/month. I think it's totally worth it to not have to fool with your phone.
You sure you have it for a year? My MYP only had a 30 day free trial.
You got me curious with 96kbps limit on Spotify. I didn't find any solid proof but people are saying it was addressed last year. The Spotify should use 320kbps or close to it now.Interesting point about audio quality, but I’m thinking Bluetooth should provide better Spotify audio quality. Tesla connects over LTE and throttles Spotify to 96kbps. No idea if it does the same thing with a hotspot connection, but it wouldn’t surprise me. My iPhone connects to my car using Bluetooth AAC codec at 250 kbps, and I subscribe to Spotify Premium with rates up to 320 kbps. Even the free version streams at 160, higher than the Tesla app. More important question is whether I could even tell the difference, and I’m betting It would be challenging in a blind test with road noise in the background.
I can’t claim to be an authority on this, but this guy did a test and calculated 96kbps. It was a few years ago, so it is possible it streams at a higher rate now. I might just try it with my home Wi-Fi and look at the data rate streaming through my router.You got me curious with 96kbps limit on Spotify. I didn't find any solid proof but people are saying it was addressed last year. The Spotify should use 320kbps or close to it now.
Has Spotify bitrate increased??
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...teslamotorsclub.com
I was curious, so I tested it. I watched my Tesla Wi-Fi traffic on my home router using my iPad while I played about a dozen songs I hadn’t played before using Spotify. The song gets downloaded all at once, so one needs to look at the total MB of the song. For example, a 5 minute song might be 2.5 MB, equivalent to (2500*8)/(5*60) = 67 kbps. I saw that most songs had a 40-80 kbps rate, and I never saw anything reach or exceed 96. I tried the same thing on my iPhone and the file sizes were about 2x larger, and clearly exceeding 96. I never saw anything there getting anywhere close to 320 (the max I should see with my premium account). I’m guessing the density of the music affects the compression, where a fast punk rock tune would not compress as much as, say, John Cage 4’33”, even using the same 320 kbps encoding.You got me curious with 96kbps limit on Spotify. I didn't find any solid proof but people are saying it was addressed last year. The Spotify should use 320kbps or close to it now.
Has Spotify bitrate increased??
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...teslamotorsclub.com
I'm curious about how Tidal handles caching.What did I learn?