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In the bathroom I use a waterproof Anker Soundcore that I can take right in the shower with me and is plenty for a small space.įor the kitchen/living room/office I use a bigger Soundcore for the bigger spaces. In the bedroom I have a tower speaker that also doubles as a charging station. Currently I'm using an extra 8" tablet I got for 'free' from my cell phone provider. For several years, my solution was to use an old phone as a dedicated Spotify player. That really ruins the hands free experience - especially in the shower. Every notification pauses play and maybe a third of the time doesn't resume. In the car I use noise cancelling headphones with my phone since when I do drive I'm usually by myself.Īround the house, I hate using Spotify on my phone. Conceived and marketed as a car dashboard-mounted streaming device for access to Spotify content, demand never really took hold, and supply chain issues didn’t help either, so Spotify has decided to end it.Even if it were a self-contained unit, at this price it's ridiculous - a solution in search of a problem. Spotify launched Car Thing in April 2021 on an invite-only basis.

If you haven’t heard of Car Thing, you aren’t alone. In addition to its overall healthy state (with the exception of the Spotify HiFi mystery), Spotify has decided to discontinue its Car Thing product. The above good news, acquisitions, and commitment to Spotify Live are positive, but the long-promised addition of Spotify HiFi, first announced in early 2021, still hasn’t materialized in 2022, and there is no official word when it will, what exact form it will take, and what the pricing if any, will be.Īs a result, Spotify is losing ground in the long term to services such as TIDAL, Qobuz, Amazon, and Apple Music which all offer higher resolution music streaming. Spotify is committing more resources to its Spotify Live service which provides users a way to interact with both fans and content creators. With this acquisition, Spotify is exploring this technology as a way to expand how users interact with Spotify content and features. Sonantic: This is an AI voice platform that creates voice from text.Findaway: It is hoped that Findaway will help Spotify accelerate its entrance into the audiobook market.Aquisitionsĭuring Q2 2022 Spotify acquired two companies that provide technology that it thinks will elevate its service. However, Spotify is far from suffering from trends experienced by other media companies, such as massive layoffs and/or subscriber decreases. Although overall revenue and subscriber news are positive, Spotify did report a $194 million dollar Q2 operating loss.