From what I've read, Spotify premium ($10/month after 3 month trial) is required. Slacker is free.
I'm sticking with Slacker.
I can’t tell any difference in the audio quality. I just happily canceled my premium slacker subscription.
FWIW, comparing Spotify to Slacker is like comparing on-demand video to old school basic cable with no dvr...
Can you elaborate on this? I assume you're saying Spotify is superior. What is better about it/worse about Slacker?
Want to get depressed? Compare a song back to back on the streamed Spotify in the Tesal app to bluetooth from your phone...
Can you elaborate on this? I assume you're saying Spotify is superior. What is better about it/worse about Slacker?
Don't have Spotify in my car yet... But my experience as a Spotify premium user for several years and Slacker in car user since June:
With Spotify you can make your own playlists, listen to a favorite album straight through, start a song over or repeat it, listen to almost any song you want any time, and they have discover "channels" that will play music similar to what you like (not like the Slacker "favorites" channel where they just throw you different songs by artists you have liked a song for)
Spotify is on demand, listen to what you want. Slacker is basically radio.
Spotify is on demand, listen to what you want. Slacker is basically radio.
What is the car's BT "ability" (max rate)?
I searched for it and couldn't find a source for the max transfer rate a M3 is able to receive from a phone. That would help in quantifying the differences between native streaming, BT streaming from another source, and playing from a USB stick.
Only for iOSv10 added 48khz sampling via BT. That helps a ton.