Well I just screwed myself into getting a slacker Plus's acc thinking my m3 will play a higher bitrate with it... Anyways if a person wants to test if it will play a higher bitrate, Groupon is having a 6 month $12 dollar deal for slacker plus.
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Electric Joe
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I don't understand why streaming audio isn't cached. I have wondered if this could be why Tesla was hinting at creating its own streaming audio subsidiary last year; maybe Slacker's licensing model doesn't allow Tesla to cache content. But imagine the benefits! A song is streamed once and is cached. Maybe the car could have a small amount of flash memory, even 4GB, dedicated to this. The car could check the cache and play from there whenever a requested song was present. This would eliminate a LOT of cell traffic, would make the most commonly played songs load immediately even in poor service areas, and could allow high bitrate versions to be downloaded to the cache when the car is on wi-fi.
The model 3 already comes with Plus because we get unlimited skips right? It's the premium that will get us a higher bitrate?
Plus is probably the closest equivalent but I wouldn't be surprised if there was some other variation baked into it and that it was a custom arrangement with Tesla (hence not being able to get the login info vs S/X).
Well on my plus acc I just bought I was able to adjust the bitrate through the website to 320kbps. I'm waiting to get off work to test if the adjustments will work when I login through tesla.
Electric Joe
Member
Oops! I just paid the $12 for this before realizing it's for "Plus" not "Premium". I already pay for Plus. Oops.
GuyDude
Member
I have premium and notice the difference in sounds quality on my account vs the Tesla account.
I have also noticed that premium plays a much wider and newer selection of music when i select one of the playlists such as "Today's hits" or "hip hop hits'.
I have also noticed that premium plays a much wider and newer selection of music when i select one of the playlists such as "Today's hits" or "hip hop hits'.
I’ve noticed that there is a cache, of at least a couple of songs. Driving out in the boonies the maps will go offline but the music will continue to play. If it’s out for more than a couple of songs it does drop out though.
So basically we have to wait for Tesla to update the firmware.
Main upside to paying money for plus for me is that I can create my own stations and manage them - and keep using slacker on my phone/computer.
SageBrush
REJECT Fascism
That is my conclusion too.So basically we have to wait for Tesla to update the firmware.
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
Yup, exactly what I thought...
Yes- assuming they ever intend to add it.
From one of the S threads linked earlier it appears they removed the audio quality option on the S/X when it used to have it.... (any current S/X owner who can verify if it's still gone?)
Possibly to reduce their bandwidth costs.
So basically we have to wait for Tesla to update the firmware.
Main upside to paying money for plus for me is that I can create my own stations and manage them - and keep using slacker on my phone/computer.
Yes- assuming they ever intend to add it.
From one of the S threads linked earlier it appears they removed the audio quality option on the S/X when it used to have it.... (any current S/X owner who can verify if it's still gone?)
Possibly to reduce their bandwidth costs.
Snow Drift
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I don’t have a Tesla (yet) so this is all conjecture:
Tesla wrote the slacker app that is running in the car. They also probably have a deal with slacker (they are distributing this on hundreds of thousands of cars after all) so there’s no reason to think that Tesla is actually forced to stick to what’s available with the various levels that individuals can subscribe to. Isn’t it possible that Tesla has written the app to use the same quality settings from other platforms? I would practically guarantee the slacker api has the ability to query this information.
Point being, just because the apps that slacker wrote don’t work a certain way is no reason to assume that the Tesla app can’t.
Tesla wrote the slacker app that is running in the car. They also probably have a deal with slacker (they are distributing this on hundreds of thousands of cars after all) so there’s no reason to think that Tesla is actually forced to stick to what’s available with the various levels that individuals can subscribe to. Isn’t it possible that Tesla has written the app to use the same quality settings from other platforms? I would practically guarantee the slacker api has the ability to query this information.
Point being, just because the apps that slacker wrote don’t work a certain way is no reason to assume that the Tesla app can’t.
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
No.
Because you have the way it works backward.
Slackers server checks the setting on the client platform and sends that bitrate.
The client is the Tesla app.
Which is set quite low by default. And can't currently be changed.
This is all directly stated, by slacker, who being the ones running the servers, would know.
Tesla isn't being "forced" to stick to 64 kbps. They're explicitly choosing to and not permitting you to improve it right now.
It's unclear if that will change in future software, or if they're doing it to reduce their own costs for bandwidth.
