A device that only plays music is not really what I need while driving.
Those four buttons on top I mentioned before? They’re shortcuts that can be customized so that if there’s a playlist you update frequently—mine is called Everyday I’m Shufflin’—you can pin that. You can also pin a favorite podcast . By default, Spotify leads you to a list of playlists. I was met with playlists for a commute, but I work from home and only use my car to drive around town running errands, so those playlists aren’t for me.
Spotify does have a digital assistant of sorts. You can say, “Hey Spotify” to skip a song or queue up a particular album. To its credit, it’s been the only assistant thus far to understand when I ask it to play my “Everyday I’m Shufflin’” playlist. The Google Assistant constantly struggles with that particular task, and it was nice to see Spotify’s assistant was capable behind the wheel, which is the one place I really rely on that kind of hands-free interaction.
I use Spotify for music but not for podcasts, and unfortunately that means I can’t use Car Thing to listen to my favorites. Car Thing stays dormant if you want to pipe in podcasts from a third-party app on your phone . Since I had my phone physically tethered to the car’s speakers, I could still listen to my Pocket Casts downloads without any interruption. You’ll have to do that manually, so it’s one of those things you’d have to pull over and manage if you wanted to do that safely.
If you’re a Spotify Premium user and you’re deeply embedded in its ecosystem—I mean, you love the playlists it delivers every week, and you don’t use other apps to engage with media—then maybe Car Thing is worth a try. And to be fair, Spotify makes no promises about Car Thing—just that “But the days of single-use devices are behind us, especially when it comes to music. The iPhone made the iPod unnecessary, and it’s clear that Car Thing isn’t reinventing the wheel there.
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