I would rather have Spotify as well.... we haven't seen a new "app" for the car in 3 years.... so many possibilities if Tesla would allow access to a SDK...
What about the calendar!? (Yes, I'm being facetious.)
Try "Gershwin". "Eurythmics". Pretty much anything classical.
So yes, it's catalog, catalog, catalog. Plus the curation of many of the stations.
Thanks, I'm not a classical music fan, and tend to listen to mostly Top 40 stuff (from various decades), so that probably explains why I haven't noticed any catalog gaps.
Edit: In the interest of correcting my own misinformation, I just went out to check how many times the car played the exact song I asked it for and 10 out of 10 times it did. I really thought I remember it not giving me my exact song more often than not which is why I stopped using it. So I was apparently wrong on that. Still, I don't know the names of many of the songs in my Spotify playlists which means to queue them up in the car I'd need to read them off the Spotify app, tell the car to play them and then tell it to play each subsequent song in my Spotify playlist. It seems easier to just use Spotify on my phone at that point. But as far as cool factor goes, it's nice to know the car will play pretty much anything within reason on demand.
Thanks for correcting yourself. For what it's worth, I have at times experienced Slacker seemingly refusing to play requested songs, but I've also experienced successfully requesting several individual songs in a row. In short, it's a legitimate problem, but not easily reproducible. I suspect that possibly the non-standard Slacker account that Tesla has contracted for has some soft limit of on-demand songs, and we've occasionally run into that. With that said, I've heard that with a real Slacker Premium account, you can in fact create your own playlists, and listen to them in the car, but they have to be created/managed online (or perhaps in their phone app?). Granted, it'd be nice to have more options (ideally via Android Auto), but in the meantime, that could be a manageable workaround for some.
I am not impressed with slacker. I feel like it tends to play the same songs over and over. I have used pandora and like that much better. I'm planning to try using pandora via my phone and see how that works for a little bit.
This is a legitimate complaint. I feel like Slacker does better than the terrestrial radio stations in this regard, but that said, the curated stations tend to have a narrow focus and limited playlist. I try to switch around every week or two so I don't get tired of a station. On long road trips it can get annoying, but I'm also too lazy to curate my own library and/or playlists, so I willingly accept that limitation of Slacker.
