Spotify question

[robl45]

With spotify in the car, can you pick a station for it to play like slacker and have it give you random songs to thumbs up and down? I know there are playlists, but I don't really like listening to the same exact songs, I can just hook my phone up and use those songs, I want a variety.

I would just use slacker for this, but the gods at tesla decided to take away my ability to login to that.

 

[nexusone]

No. why you ask? Because the tesla Spotify client is a horrible half baked attempt at a media client. Sadly, after years of waiting for a native Spotify client they gave us one, and I am still using the one on my phone because it actually works.

The lack of buffering/caching is also a major issue. I drive through dead network areas regularly and while my IOS client is smart enough to deal with this, the tesla client just craps the bed. Sometimes I have to reboot the car to get it to reconnect.

Tesla's Spotify client is like a summer code camp project. At least they are consistent.

 

[robl45]

I believe I found how to get stations. I search an artist and then click the WiFi button on it. That puts a station in

 

[nobrien1]

I believe I found how to get stations. I search an artist and then click the WiFi button on it. That puts a station in

What I discovered that enabled me to set up genre stations was to search on a representative song (not the artist), and while it is playing, press the '+' sign at the right of the display. I then have a station based off of that song. Finally!

 

[garth_angst]

What I discovered that enabled me to set up genre stations was to search on a representative song (not the artist), and while it is playing, press the '+' sign at the right of the display. I then have a station based off of that song. Finally!

Yes, that is what I was going to say. I press the right button and ask for a song. If it finds it and plays it, I hit the plus sign. If it can't find it, I ask for another song from same artist until it finds one and then hit the plus.
My musical tastes find very few matches, so I have to ask for quite a few until it finds one ;-)

 

[robl45]

Artist and WiFi like icon creates a station but it literally replays like the same list over and over.

I'm trying song now to see if it's better