Since early November a number of people are having problems with Slacker streaming (buffering and connection errors).
Tesla has acknowledged the problem and informed us that a firmware update is forthcoming.
For a couple of days now, I noticed that the problem has gone away (without a firmware update) AND that the sound quality of Slacker has deteriorated materially (the most obvious change is the loss of bass).
I logged to my Slacker account on a PC (I have a personal, premium subscription) and, long and behold, the "max audio quality" switch was turned off. In the last 12 hours, I have turned it back on again three times, only to find out a while later that it has reverted back to off.
It makes me wonder if Tesla is forcing low quality streaming to "tactically" fix the buffering and connection errors until they roll out the real fix.
Tesla has acknowledged the problem and informed us that a firmware update is forthcoming.
For a couple of days now, I noticed that the problem has gone away (without a firmware update) AND that the sound quality of Slacker has deteriorated materially (the most obvious change is the loss of bass).
I logged to my Slacker account on a PC (I have a personal, premium subscription) and, long and behold, the "max audio quality" switch was turned off. In the last 12 hours, I have turned it back on again three times, only to find out a while later that it has reverted back to off.
It makes me wonder if Tesla is forcing low quality streaming to "tactically" fix the buffering and connection errors until they roll out the real fix.