The latter is key if you and your friends are trying to build a playlist via voice command for a long road trip. For example, it’s developing a Night Mode for the screen and an “Add to Queue” command is also coming. Some updates for Car Thing are coming based on Spotify’s learnings in the year-long trial period it’s gone through. The interface is a car-friendly copy of the Spotify app on your phone with big icons meant to make inputs easier than what you might get tapping away on your smartphone.
It features a touchscreen, a dial, preset buttons and voice control. It’s meant to bring deep Spotify access to older cars that don’t have today’s convenient Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity features. The little music player’s premise remains the same. Its limited-release trial periods are over, and now anyone can buy it for $89.99. Speaking of voice control, we’d also love to see Spotify widely roll out and improve its own assistant feature, which offers most of the same functionality as the best-known voice assistants.The Spotify Car Thing is officially on sale for the masses. Hopefully, this will result in fewer distractions, and we’re also hoping to see a better Google Assistant, Siri, and Amazon Alexa integration for voice control. However, Android Auto and Apple Car Play had the Spotify app available for a long time, and the discontinuation of the Car Thing makes us believe that Spotify will invest even more research, time, and money into enhancing its application and service on those platforms. The Car Mode feature hasn’t been available in all regions, and it doesn’t solve all of the problems, as it still requires either a physical or wireless connection to connect to a smartphone.
Once enabled, and the smartphone recognizes that it’s connected to a car’s audio system, it’ll display a larger UI to make it easier to navigate and use while – ideally stationary or parked up on the side of the road – driving. For those unaware, Car Mode is the successor of the discontinued Car View feature.
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