TuneIn will get you CNN, Fox, local and national radio stations and thousands more. You'll lose Howard Stern though but it's not worth paying that price just for that.
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Spotify for the US coming end of Summer
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This is GREAT NEWS because I already have a Spotify Premium account and would love to access my music in the car seamlessly. Not only that, but Spotify actually has a database of music comparable to iTunes. Almost anything you could ask for is there, unlike Slacker.
I think you are missing the significance of the cell phone data bit for wanting XM. Sure Tunein is awesome, but living here in the desert, I can drive hours with zero signal. I actually drive through two cell phone "holes" every day during my commute making all streaming services annoying when they cut out. The drive through the Nevada desert or out to Phoenix all involve long hauls of no cell data.
The only potential problem I see is that Tesla's implementation of Spotify will likely NOT have local storage for music, so access to your library would be dependent on a cellular or wifi signal. However, Spotify on my phone downloads music locally to my phone. I suppose if there is no signal, I could switch to my phone via Bluetooth as backup.
Cyclone
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Interesting, I've done DC -> Charlotte, Charlotte -> Atlanta, Charlotte -> Orlando a couple times without 3G outages. However, I keep a USB stick in my car with my local library for the few times I do hit an outage (rarely happens). I also have Slacker and Pandora on my phone for Bluetooth streaming if VZW has service while AT&T does not.
Cyclone
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Slacker on my iPhone also prefetches about 5 songs ahead, so some small holes don't cause a blip (unless I wanted to skip all 5 songs). Glad to hear Spotify could do more (if you use your own account).
I can only speak to my experience, of course, but it happens frequently enough to warrant a backup. I don't even have strong coverage in parts of my neighborhood (metro Atlanta), and have had issues connecting to internet radio occasionally until I pull out of the neighborhood onto a cross street.
Cyclone
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I don't doubt you run into dead zones (I have a few I sometimes run into as well). When you do, are they seconds - up to 5 min long, or are they more than 5 minutes long? The few I run into are small enough that 20-30 seconds later I have service again, so many times I don't notice them if the whole song already was downloaded (vs. partial downloads that do NOT restart).
The one in my neighborhood won't work at all between the top of my street and the front of the neighborhood, but definitely less than 5 minutes. The outages we experienced driving from DC to Atlanta lasted over 5 minutes for sure. Likely longer, but we gave up on internet radio and turned on XM, so I can't say how long it persisted. Between Atlanta and Orlando, there were multiple instances of it cutting out for a few minutes at a time (probably none over 5 mins, but the frequency made it impossible to listen to), and eventually we gave up on it and switched to satellite.
Yes! I have been asking about this. I asked one of the tech guys at the 800 number and he was pretty curt and matter of fact about it not happening. I even mentioned that fact that when I rent a car, that Pandora is built in. When going to the apps screen in the S, it sure is a lonely looking screen!
On the US support site of Spotify they have a section for Tesla.
Tesla - Spotify
I'm curious about the journey specific music recommendations. Would be cool if they detected where you were going and started to play music from that area as you got closer.
I'm also curious about what they mean about "Connect to other devices".
Tesla - Spotify
I'm curious about the journey specific music recommendations. Would be cool if they detected where you were going and started to play music from that area as you got closer.
I'm also curious about what they mean about "Connect to other devices".
Here's my short review (so far) on 8.0: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/1735143/
Slacker and TuneIn still there. No Spotify in US spec.
Slacker and TuneIn still there. No Spotify in US spec.
*can't bring himself to dislike an Ingineer post.
Gizmotoy
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Me too. When we drove Route 66, we made a playlist of songs that mention it. Would be neat to have something like that generated automatically. If I set course for Sausalito, would I get some Otis Redding (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay?
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I'd be super excited if they just turned Spotify on without providing credentials. I can pay for my own Spotify account, I don't care, I just want it. Keep buying Slacker for everyone and make Spotify a paid option if that's what it takes.
I wouldn't freak out yet. I work in a similar industry and it's EXTREMELY hard to get music and other content services out to beta testers before an official contract date. It might even be infeasible for a lot of employees.Me too. When we drove Route 66, we made a playlist of songs that mention it. Would be neat to have something like that generated automatically. If I set course for Sausalito, would I get some Otis Redding (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay?
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I'd be super excited if they just turned Spotify on without providing credentials. I can pay for my own Spotify account, I don't care, I just want it. Keep buying Slacker for everyone and make Spotify a paid option if that's what it takes.
I would not be surprised if external beta testers are getting Slacker and the long term plan is to unveil Spotify soon after 8.0 then flip the switch for everyone....
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