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This is infuriating. I bought the CarThing for a Christmas present for someone just six months ago. I understand it was no longer supported at the time, but th
by ChildOfChaos 2y ago
This is infuriating. I bought the CarThing for a Christmas present for someone just six months ago.
I understand it was no longer supported at the time, but there is no reason why it couldn't still function as a controller, there solution is just to throw it away?
Hate the PR speak here "This decision wasn't made lightly, and we want to assure you that our commitment to providing a superior listening experience remains unchanged."
So what superior listening experience are they committed too exactly? When all they are doing is lowering the experience?
- mingus88 2y agoWhen their main competitors have been streaming high res, lossless and atmos content for a while now, it’s rough to see them claim they are committed to a superior listening experience with 320kbps ogg being the best they have in 2024. Perhaps pruning projects like this helps them deliver on higher quality streams, which they have been alluding to for years now. Spotify Hifi was announced in 2021.
- phito 2y agoThe fact is, 99% of people do not care about high quality audio (me included)
- ChildOfChaos 2y agoI'm not sure how it would. The Spotify Car thing is just a controller for your phone, it doesn't actually do the streaming of the music, that is still handled by the app on the phone. It's just a kick in the teeth for users that bought into it, I get it's a failed product but that should be the cost of business that they support it at least somewhat, it wouldn't take much, but they are killing it completely.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> I bought the CarThing for a Christmas present for someone just six months ago Depending on your jurisdiction, this may be a short enough window to warrant a refund. Or at the very least a chargeback.