However, you can’t use the car’s voice controls to start a playlist or call up a specific song within a playlist … it will only create a station and start playing like usual. Play from those playlists and you can scrub through a track, repeat a track, start over, play an entire album that you’ve added from your phone.
If you have playlists, they’ll show up at the bottom of the Slacker menu in the car. The only way to create playlists is through the Slacker app or website. Now, while you can play your playlists in the Model 3, you can’t create playlists or modify them in the car. You can make your own playlists from individual songs or entire albums, and unlike the default virtual DJ “radio station” mode, you can listen to a single track over and over again. Well, with Slacker Premium, the service takes a step towards something more like Apple Music or Spotify. Ask for that same song again and it will play something similar, but not that exact song until the reset time has expired. When you request a specific song on Slacker using the cars voice control, it will create a station with that song and play that song once within a certain period (I believe it’s 24 hours, but it could be less). You don’t have control over what comes next, and you can’t backup and repeat a song again. It’s like a virtual DJ that’s using algorithms to make educated guesses as to what you like based on what song or artist you created a station with.
The core functionality of Slacker Radio is … well … radio. There was also a Slacker Premium feature that I didn’t talk about in the last video that might persuade some folks to make the jump: playlists. The Slacker debate was muddier and murkier than I realized. At this time, I still haven’t received a response from either department.īottom line: thanks Zoiks 66 for pushing me on that and forcing me to dig deeper. I reached out to Tesla customer support, as well as their PR department, to see if I could get specific information to put the debate to rest. The fact that they not only removed reference to higher bitrate Slacker streaming, but to Slacker itself is very interesting.ĭuring my testing, which involved logging in and out of Slacker and listening to a wide variety of music, I believe I could perceive a difference, albeit a minor one.
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1 They actually rewrote a pretty large portion of the internet radio section of the manual and removed all references to Slacker completely. In my followup research I found that Tesla updated the Owner’s Manual on November 12th. This inaccuracy was causing a lot of confusion with the Tesla community, myself included. In my research for my previous video I was referencing the August version of the Tesla Owner’s Manual, which stated that you can set the bitrate yourself on the Slacker login screen, however, Tesla removed the bitrate checkbox from all Tesla’s a while ago. That leads me to Zoiks second point of contention: there is no definitive answer (yet) to what bitrate Tesla is setting your Slacker account to after you log in.
Changing your bitrate on the Slacker website will only affect playback on the computer where you made that change. Slacker Radio bitrate is controlled solely on the device and not by a centralized setting, like I had seen reported in a few places. Zoiks was correct that I did get one key piece of info wrong, which I did confirm after I reached out to Slacker for more details. One piece of strong criticism came from Zoiks 66 (hope I said that right), who called me out on some of the Slacker information that I presented. Hearing back for you all whether it’s positive feedback or constructive criticism, it’s all good. One of the things I love about making YouTube videos is the dialog we have around these videos. So here’s the hotly anticipated sequel: Tesla 2 – Audio Boogaloo on the Tesla Audio system. Some called me out on issues around Slacker Radio and limitations of the USB audio input, others asked for a deeper dive into the audio settings and speaker performance. I received a lot of feedback and questions after my last video on the Tesla Audio system.
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