While it does seem to work with their "popular" podcasts, trying to find, then use the player with other Tune in podcasts is a new level of frustration.
Take for example "The Nerdist" podcast with Chris Hardwick. Searching for it gives you "songs" which are labeled clips, but if you search for whole episodes in "albums" All you get is the podcast label. No idea how long the podcast is or who is the guest. It is at least 50 podcasts long and not order of release.
Of course, the main podcast bug - resets to the beginning if you are away form the car for any period of time - still is a "feature"
Last, you can no longer "favorite" a podcast. While it appears you can, it is a cruel, cruel lie. Suggesting that I use podcasts on my phone is unhelpful, because that has its own problems and does not address the steaming pile of manure that the 8.0 media player is now.
I believe Tesla uses software engineers who have never used a real media player in their life. The old one may have been less aesthetically pleasing, but you could find what you were looking for and use the damn thing. I have the same problems that everyone else seems to have but this did not seem to be covered yet.
If I had to wrestle with this monstrosity when I was doing my test drives, Tesla would have gotten a much much closer look. Still probably would have bought, but maybe not for a while until they fixed it,
Take for example "The Nerdist" podcast with Chris Hardwick. Searching for it gives you "songs" which are labeled clips, but if you search for whole episodes in "albums" All you get is the podcast label. No idea how long the podcast is or who is the guest. It is at least 50 podcasts long and not order of release.
Of course, the main podcast bug - resets to the beginning if you are away form the car for any period of time - still is a "feature"
Last, you can no longer "favorite" a podcast. While it appears you can, it is a cruel, cruel lie. Suggesting that I use podcasts on my phone is unhelpful, because that has its own problems and does not address the steaming pile of manure that the 8.0 media player is now.
I believe Tesla uses software engineers who have never used a real media player in their life. The old one may have been less aesthetically pleasing, but you could find what you were looking for and use the damn thing. I have the same problems that everyone else seems to have but this did not seem to be covered yet.
If I had to wrestle with this monstrosity when I was doing my test drives, Tesla would have gotten a much much closer look. Still probably would have bought, but maybe not for a while until they fixed it,
