“This limited release is not meant to compete with the in-car infotainment systems that many cars have,” Dustee Jenkins, Spotify vp global communications and PR, said at the briefing. Users can also save their favorite music and podcasts to four available preset slots, then ask Car Thing to play them by clicking or calling out the preset by number. With voice control - which works through four microphones on Car Thing - users can ask Car Thing to play songs, albums, podcasts, playlists, genres, moods and more, as well as to “like” songs. Users can control what’s playing by using the touch screen, the two dials or Spotify’s new “Hey Spotify” voice control mode, announced on Friday. Spotify’s entire catalog of 70 million tracks, including more than 2.2 million podcast titles, is available on Car Thing. What Spotify Ratifying Ringer & Gimlet Unions Means for Music's Labor Movement It comes with three types of mounts that can attach to the car’s CD player, dashboard and air vent.

There are two dials on the right side of the screen: One large dial, which is used to scroll through and select content and a smaller dial which, when pressed, takes the user back to what’s playing.

However, during a pre-briefing with reporters Monday, the company would neither give a definitive timetable for a wider release nor confirm that the product will get one at all.Ĭar Thing is a three-centimeter thin, 4.5-inch by 2.5-inch touch-screen device where the interface looks exactly like the Spotify app. Car Thing marks Spotify’s first hardware product and is part of the company’s “ubiquity strategy” to create a frictionless listening experience wherever users may be. Premium subscribers beginning Tuesday (April 13). The streaming giant says it will begin rolling out the device, first introduced as a test product in 2019, to an invite-only group of U.S. Buckle up, because Spotify’s long-teased smart player for cars, Car Thing, is finally getting its debut.

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