Spotify app is a mess

[ironpig]

I tried Spotify premium when it went native in the Tesla. The quality wasn't great and it's not worth paying them for any content so I cancelled it. I have used the free Spotify in the Rivian just to try it out. Works fine in mine, but still audio quality isn't great so I doubt Ill really use it.

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[Brewbud]

I tried Spotify premium when it went native in the Tesla. The quality wasn't great and it's not worth paying them for any content so I cancelled it. I have used the free Spotify in the Rivian just to try it out. Works fine in mine, but still audio quality isn't great so I doubt Ill really use it.

Set the settings in Spotify to the highest quality. It will make a difference. I dumped all my SiriusXM accounts because their compression on the channels I listened to. Spotify was like a breath of fresh air after I got it. Aside from streaming over Bluetooth as I mentioned earlier. I do stream BT to my headphones when on a plane and it is fine for that.

 

[CommodoreAmiga]

Set the settings in Spotify to the highest quality. It will make a difference. I dumped all my SiriusXM accounts because their compression on the channels I listened to. Spotify was like a breath of fresh air after I got it. Aside from streaming over Bluetooth as I mentioned earlier. I do stream BT to my headphones when on a plane and it is fine for that.

I’ve been playing around with it a lot, and Spotify quality is bad, no matter how you slice it. It is so bad, in fact, that streaming other services (Apple Music) over Bluetooth still sounds better than Spotify with “very high” setting on native Rivian app.

 

[JEV]

I played around with the free version of Spotify and was not impressed. After hearing all the issues with premium users, I will not bother to upgrade.

I tried Tunein and was pleasantly surprised to find some ad free stations with a good mix of music.

 

[rodhx]

For me Spotify remains effectively useless for podcast listening in the truck. Not only does it not sync show/episode status but it displays the shows in a completely illogical fashion. Rarely updated shows take up the limited screen real estate while shows with actual new episodes are buried in the UI. It is one of the worst podcast experiences I have ever had. My spotify music experience is similarly terrible. I especially hate the spotify habit of automatically starting some random music channel when a show ends as it's always garbage I never want to hear. This looks to happen regardless of account settings.

We have tried shifting to Amazon Music which is better on the music side but performance is odd since it isn't cooked into the UI. Frequent starts/stops and doesn't resume when you restart the truck. And since it isn't supported in the UI podcast listening near impossible by Alexa control.

The entertainment stuff is the single awful aspect of the truck. For me it's a much bigger fail than the power tonneau issues. It's a shame I have to use my phone via BT to approach the capabilities of my old Chevy Bolt.

 

[PastyPilgrim]

One problem with the Spotify integration that shocks me made it to production is that the little side window that shows playback doesn't support Unicode. So while the Spotify app supports Unicode, any non-ascii character just renders as a square.

I really wish they had the ability for us to submit bug reports.

 

[Brewbud]

I’ve been playing around with it a lot, and Spotify quality is bad, no matter how you slice it. It is so bad, in fact, that streaming other services (Apple Music) over Bluetooth still sounds better than Spotify with “very high” setting on native Rivian app.

My experience is exactly opposite of that if you are using the app on the car and not the app on the phone. I wonder what the difference is. I've tried apple music too.

 

[MNLightning]

I’ve been playing around with it a lot, and Spotify quality is bad, no matter how you slice it. It is so bad, in fact, that streaming other services (Apple Music) over Bluetooth still sounds better than Spotify with “very high” setting on native Rivian app.

I also found this to be the case. @Brewbud It's interesting that you prefer listening through Spotify, what do you have on your playlist ? I use Qobuz via my phone and find it a step up from anything native Rivian Infotainment interface. Hopefully Rivian will wake up and offer Qobuz or Tidal or even a hard connection via usb so I can feed the sound system via my DragonFly DAC

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...e-to-the-audioquest-dragonfly-products.11907/

 

[Brewbud]

I also found this to be the case. @Brewbud It's interesting that you prefer listening through Spotify, what do you have on your playlist ? I use Qobuz via my phone and find it a step up from anything native Rivian Infotainment interface. Hopefully Rivian will wake up and offer Qobuz or Tidal or even a hard connection via usb so I can feed the sound system via my DragonFly DAC

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...e-to-the-audioquest-dragonfly-products.11907/

Everything from metal - space rock- country - hip hop - even classical. I do have the mids set mostly flat. We absolutely need a hard USB connection.

 

[NY_Rob]

...We absolutely need a hard USB connection.

Couldn't agree more... w/FLAC support of course.

Rivian has an awesome sound system.. let us enjoy it from the best possible source.

 

[verchalent]

Seeing some newish behavior now. In the past it seemed to be random which service would be used to play music, but lately it seems 100% amazon music when I init from Alexa. The really annoying part is that if I'm already playing something via Spotify it acknowledges the request and says it's playing, but does nothing (sometimes it eventually starts playing the req). I haven't tested adding "on spotify" since it started doing this, but it worked in the past. Also, I have not done deep a/b testing, but I think that the base loudness is different between Spotify and Amazon Music. When I wasn't paying attention it sounded like everything sounded better in Amazon, but now I think it may just be that other sources are just louder out of the gate.

 

[waitingforrivian]

One problem with the Spotify integration that shocks me made it to production is that the little side window that shows playback doesn't support Unicode. So while the Spotify app supports Unicode, any non-ascii character just renders as a square.

I really wish they had the ability for us to submit bug reports.

This unicode bug in driver display for any audio still exists after a year, should be very easy to fix.
They really need to provide a way to report bugs.

 

[Toadkillerdog]

Wired in Spotify experience on my daughters 6 year old Subaru is pretty good. I will miss my Apple Music but be happy with spotify music if it works as well on the Rivian. Should get better and better as they update I believe and hope

 

[Alchemy8279]

At least the Spotify app in the truck will scroll your now playing list, unlike...cough...Tidal.

I mean, after a few songs you don't know what is next. That is some sorry integration by the Tidal app.

 

[harkco]

At least the Spotify app in the truck will scroll your now playing list, unlike...cough...Tidal.

I mean, after a few songs you don't know what is next. That is some sorry integration by the Tidal app.

I just cancelled Tidal for that very reason. The in car integration was horrible.

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