For us leaving outside Europe, the Spötify integration for Tesla has finally arrived with V10. We’re big fans of Spotify and have been Premium users for about ten years now, so we’d like to share a trick or two.
Yes, a lifetime subscription is included on new Tesla’s that were originally ordered on or before June 30, 2018 and used Tesla’s ordered from Tesla on or before January 8, 2020. Please check the order date on the vehicle’s build sheet/Order Agreement, and confirm with the seller. Tesla, Category: Artist, Albums: Five Man London Jam (Live At Abbey Road Studios, 6/12/19), Shock, Mechanical Resonance Live, Simplicity, 10 Live!, Top Tracks: Modern Day Cowboy, What You Give, Love Song, Little Suzi, Signs - Live At The Trocadero / 1990, Biography: Although Tesla emerged during the glory days of hair metal, the band's music was equally indebted to contemporary blues and '70s. Tesla is adding free Spotify Premium to its cars outside the US By Jordan Golson Dec 21, 2015, 2:44pm EST Tesla and Spotify have hooked up to integrate the music service deep into the Model S. If you are using the free Spotify account, there is still a way to make it possible. But you need to download and install AudFree Spotify Music Converter on your computer and then convert Spotify files to USB flash drive so that you can listen to Spotify via Tesla.
First, set up the account. Tesla requires a Spotify Premium subscription (the one without ads) in order to be able to use the built-in integration in your car. If like in our case, there’s more than one person driving the car, you may want to upgrade to the Family plan. In our house, we have two cars and we both drive the Tesla. We’re very picky with our music and don’t want others messing up our recommendations and lists, and we also don’t want Disney music and other favorites of our two daughters to appear in our Daily and Weekly mixes. So the family plan is perfect for us. Why? A Spotify Premium subscription in the United States costs $9.99 / month, we were paying two of them. The Spotify Family plan costs $14.99 and includes up to 6 accounts. That means we save $5 and get 4 more accounts, which we can set up in the Tesla, the Sonos at home, or some other devices. Another very important reason to not use the same account in multiple places (e.g. car and home) is that you can’t play music with the same account on different devices at the same time (like you’d be able to do with Netflix, for example).
Once you’ve set up your Spotify account, let’s see how you perform usual actions like searching, playing, and saving music. I put together this video to show how it works:
https://newhongkong321.weebly.com/blog/spotify-tv-app-gone. As you can see, you can search and save lists, Spotify has tons of recommended lists and radio stations (ala Pandora). But you can also create your own lists. Another cool feature from Spotify is that you can connect with your Facebook friends and create and share playlists (you can also see what they are playing, but that’s another story it’s not supported in the Tesla integration for now). These shared lists can also be accessed from your Tesla.
Spotify running slow on macbook. One important thing is that apart from your “favorites” list, for now, there’s no support to create playlists from the Tesla Spotify app. But you can certainly do so from your phone and desktop (which is honestly much more convenient) and have these show in your car.
The second part of my video shows how to create a list, add songs to it, and make it appear in the car.
We’ve read about Spotify on Tesla not supporting playlists over 200 songs, but we’ve tried and it seems to work just fine. In case you need it (which seems unlikely), Spotify supports playlists up to 10,000 songs.
Another thing that is not supported on Spotify on your car is podcasts. We have a trick that Legobricke shared on Reddit which is that you add a podcast to a playlist and that will work. New episodes won’t be automatically added to the playlist though.
Using Spotify In Tesla
Another trick is to play Spotify in your car from another device, for example, your phone. Really what you’re doing is treating your Tesla speakers as another speaker which appears on your Spotify app.
After logging both in your car and your phone with the same account, you’ll see that under speakers you can connect to your car as you would for any other speaker. You should see a screen like this one.
From your phone, tap on your car’s name (Tesla Chispas in the image above) and voilà. You’re ready to play music or podcasts from your phone to your car.
This would allow you to play podcasts too since you’d be playing them from your phone (not from your Tesla) without adding them to a playlist. You’d also not see them in the car UI (at least for now).
This is not new from V10, you could technically do this via Bluetooth, but not via the integration and the sound is much better (and louder) now.
We hope this article was useful and that it helps you make the most out of Spotify in your Tesla with V10. Rock on! ?
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Although Tesla took shape in 1985 in Sacramento, California, the musicians (vocalist Jeff Keith, the underrated guitar tandem of Frank Hannon and Tommy Skeoch, bassist Brian Wheat, and drummer Troy Luccketta) had logged several years together under the name City Kidd. At their management's suggestion, the bandmates renamed their group after the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, who pioneered the radio but was given only belated credit for doing so. After playing several showcases in Los Angeles, Tesla quickly scored a deal with Geffen and released the debut album Mechanical Resonance in 1986. It produced a minor hard rock hit in 'Modern Day Cowboy,' reached the Top 40 on the album charts, and eventually went platinum. However, it was their 1989 follow-up effort, The Great Radio Controversy, that truly broke the band. The first single, 'Heaven's Trail (No Way Out),' was another hit with hard rock audiences and set the stage for the second single, a warm, comforting ballad named 'Love Song' that substituted a dash of hippie utopianism for the usual power ballad histrionics. 'Love Song' hit the pop Top Ten and pushed The Great Radio Controversy into the Top 20. Double-platinum sales figures followed as another single, 'The Way It Is,' also enjoyed some degree of airplay.
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