I was really excited when it was announced that they would add spotify. I have the paid account and use it all the time on my phone and PC with no real problems. But in my car, it's just plain awful.
It's gone through some changes in just how crappy it is, but it has consistently been crappy from day one. Currently, if I've parked my car for more than a few hours and get in it to drive, about half the time it will come up with the "no connectivity" error. That usually goes away fairly quickly and if I had been playing spotify when I last parked it will start to play again. It will play 1-2 songs and then stop. Every time. I used to be able to switch to FM and back to Spotify to fix this, but now it locks me out of changing the audio source completely. No FM. No Slacker. No Tunein. No Bluetooth. I have to sit there in silence until it decides to start playing again. If I hit any buttons at this time (skip song, FM, Slacker, etc), it saves them up and once it comes back alive it will sequence through all the buttons that were pressed. Now this is usually 3-5 minutes, but it has remained stuck for whole drives of 20 minutes or more. After it gets back to slacker it comes back to the same song every time. Since I don't want to listen to the same song every time I drive I click it ahead and it may or may not get stuck again for a few additional minutes. Once I get past this it will play OK except it likes to repeat songs. Sometimes it will go back 3 songs and start over. Other times it is 5. Maybe even 20 or more, forcing me to click the scroll wheel ahead until I come to a new song - I swear I'm going to wear out that scroll wheel.
Now this has been so aggravating that I tried to go back to Slacker. I like Spotify better, but Slacker never gave me problems in the car - until recently. Now it will sometimes freeze up the system also.
On top of that Tunein seems to give loading errors on the regular now. It's never been perfect, but there are some channels there that I don't even try any more.
I had it in for service in early May for HW3 and asked them to look at it. They said they were on the phone with the mothership for quite a while but couldn't find an error. They told me that it would be addressed in a software update "soon", but I have yet to see any improvement. I've chatted with support and they just suggested a full reboot, which I've tried several times with no luck. I do have over 9000 songs in my account, but I've tried smaller playlists and have had them bomb out too.
So the question is, does anyone else have these kind of problems? I remember hearing some people reporting issues early on, but haven't heard anything like this in quite some time. I love the car, but this is just so frustrating.
It's gone through some changes in just how crappy it is, but it has consistently been crappy from day one. Currently, if I've parked my car for more than a few hours and get in it to drive, about half the time it will come up with the "no connectivity" error. That usually goes away fairly quickly and if I had been playing spotify when I last parked it will start to play again. It will play 1-2 songs and then stop. Every time. I used to be able to switch to FM and back to Spotify to fix this, but now it locks me out of changing the audio source completely. No FM. No Slacker. No Tunein. No Bluetooth. I have to sit there in silence until it decides to start playing again. If I hit any buttons at this time (skip song, FM, Slacker, etc), it saves them up and once it comes back alive it will sequence through all the buttons that were pressed. Now this is usually 3-5 minutes, but it has remained stuck for whole drives of 20 minutes or more. After it gets back to slacker it comes back to the same song every time. Since I don't want to listen to the same song every time I drive I click it ahead and it may or may not get stuck again for a few additional minutes. Once I get past this it will play OK except it likes to repeat songs. Sometimes it will go back 3 songs and start over. Other times it is 5. Maybe even 20 or more, forcing me to click the scroll wheel ahead until I come to a new song - I swear I'm going to wear out that scroll wheel.
Now this has been so aggravating that I tried to go back to Slacker. I like Spotify better, but Slacker never gave me problems in the car - until recently. Now it will sometimes freeze up the system also.
On top of that Tunein seems to give loading errors on the regular now. It's never been perfect, but there are some channels there that I don't even try any more.
I had it in for service in early May for HW3 and asked them to look at it. They said they were on the phone with the mothership for quite a while but couldn't find an error. They told me that it would be addressed in a software update "soon", but I have yet to see any improvement. I've chatted with support and they just suggested a full reboot, which I've tried several times with no luck. I do have over 9000 songs in my account, but I've tried smaller playlists and have had them bomb out too.
So the question is, does anyone else have these kind of problems? I remember hearing some people reporting issues early on, but haven't heard anything like this in quite some time. I love the car, but this is just so frustrating.
