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Re:GM is ditching CarPlay in all future EVs and teaming up w... by st-keller on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:48PM (#35389765)
As far as i know the tesla car has its own spotify account. So this only works, if you’re the only one driving your car. In my family up to five people drive a car - I don’t think i want one spotify-account used by five people.
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Re:GM is ditching CarPlay in all future EVs and teaming up w... by mynameisvlad on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:41PM (#35390437)
This was only the case in Europe. US cars instead come with a Slacker account, and you need to associate your Spotify account to access it, same with Apple Music.

Not sure if the associations are per-user or per-car, though. I believe there was work to move them along with some other settings to your "user profile" and would go with you across cars.

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Re:GM is ditching CarPlay in all future EVs and teaming up w... by bdcravens on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:39PM (#35390414)
It's not the same Spotify account you login to your phone with, or it only supports logging into one account?
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Re:GM is ditching CarPlay in all future EVs and teaming up w... by peoplearepeople on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:44PM (#35390502)
It used to be that way, now you can set a spotify account per driving profile
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Re:GM is ditching CarPlay in all future EVs and teaming up w... by owenwil on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:52PM (#35390615)
That was the case a few years ago—now you just associate your personal Spotify account with your Tesla driver profile. It auto-switches to the right one based on the driver, which works great!
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