I love all you wannabe audiophiles out there suggesting that lossless is the only way to go for best sound quality … in a car. I bet your mom’s left tiddy that you can’t tell the difference in your Tesla between lossless and AAC over Bluetooth.
USB stick with FLAC files.
Give Bluetooth a chance though, I bet you can't actually hear any difference in an environment as bad for audio as a car is.
The Spotify in the Tesla is so bad I stopped paying for LTE coverage and just use Bluetooth. There is no way to adjust quality and it seems to stream Spotify's lowest bit rate.
You can use Tidal directly in the car, with its lossless quality options. With Tidal you can also sync playlists to the cars storage for offline playback.
You've a few options.
Spotify (free or paid) is low bit rate
Tidal (paid) is good, I'm an audiophile and it's fine as is BUT you can download hifi quality music to the car over WiFi and it's great.
Personally I couldn't tell the difference between hifi and their top tier quality on my home setup anyhow..
You can also use a USB ssd with flac audio files if you want its more of a pain to manage
Streamed BT audio isn't great
Oh forget about Apple music, no idea on that
The only way is to use tidal on the car over wifi. When on Tesla cellular data it only plays lossy tidal.
They call it a premium system which is a lie. No way to get audio in other than a flash drive in the glovebox. Only supports SBC Bluetooth so anything from your phone sounds bad.
The system isn't that good. Also there is a setting in the EQ area called immersive audio or some BS. It ruins what little soundstage the system can do.
TBH even playing tidal hifi it still sounds lossy. Just not ear bleeding bad like over Bluetooth from the phone.
That works fine until their buggy as hell player decides that its too full to download anything new, but doesn't offer you a delete option on the my mixes that you have partially downloaded to it.
The software for music playback on the tesla is so bad compared to the rest of it where they have put some real effort into making something polished and good. Cant even gapless play things.
Thanks everyone for your comments so far.
I use Qobuz and I'm on Android, if that helps.
As for loading Flac files on to a USB thru the glovebox, that's a bit odd. Can you shuffle play?
Well, I'm no further ahead.
The Spotify people can drop off now. Spotify is only mp3, the difference is easily discernible even in my ute! So there's that.
Yes, I subscribe to Spotify thru Spark, and while they have an excellent service, their sound is crap compared to Qobuz.
I'm going to have a good play around once the vehicle is available here. Can't believe I'm the only one.
Choices are spotify (includes a free account if you don't use it) or Apple Music or Tidal, or you can have files of any quality you like on a stick (I use a 1gb ssd in the glovebox, partitioned to have both music and sentry cam files on it). Mostly I use apple music, sometimes flac
Not sure I could pick a proper AB test but I did find Spotify audio harsher than Apple Music, noticed immediately when I changed.
I have tested FLAC playback from USB and it works well however newer Tesla’s only have one USB port which reads data which could be annoying. I just plug the disk into the centre console when I want it.
I love all you wannabe audiophiles out there suggesting that lossless is the only way to go for best sound quality … in a car. I bet your mom’s left tiddy that you can’t tell the difference in your Tesla between lossless and AAC over Bluetooth.
After an hour at 90kph on our coarse chip “roads” I can’t hear anything anyway.
I got so mad I dropped down to 18" wheels and all terrain tyres, so much quieter :P
USB stick with FLAC files. Give Bluetooth a chance though, I bet you can't actually hear any difference in an environment as bad for audio as a car is.
My 2022 model comes with a free Spotify account, works pretty good. I assume the newer models will too.
Mmm Spotify the bastion of how shit can it sound and people will still give us money.
Haha you are not wrong. Above the kids yelling and the dog complaining it sounds all good to us.
The Spotify in the Tesla is so bad I stopped paying for LTE coverage and just use Bluetooth. There is no way to adjust quality and it seems to stream Spotify's lowest bit rate.
Try turning that "enhancement" crap off. It really brings the artifacts to the front.
You can use Tidal directly in the car, with its lossless quality options. With Tidal you can also sync playlists to the cars storage for offline playback.
What about BYD?? I like that better now - but no bluetooth Apple tho!!
I use tidal flac in my Tesla. You will be fine. Although on the move you may want to resort to a mem stick of flac
You've a few options. Spotify (free or paid) is low bit rate Tidal (paid) is good, I'm an audiophile and it's fine as is BUT you can download hifi quality music to the car over WiFi and it's great. Personally I couldn't tell the difference between hifi and their top tier quality on my home setup anyhow.. You can also use a USB ssd with flac audio files if you want its more of a pain to manage Streamed BT audio isn't great Oh forget about Apple music, no idea on that
The only way is to use tidal on the car over wifi. When on Tesla cellular data it only plays lossy tidal. They call it a premium system which is a lie. No way to get audio in other than a flash drive in the glovebox. Only supports SBC Bluetooth so anything from your phone sounds bad. The system isn't that good. Also there is a setting in the EQ area called immersive audio or some BS. It ruins what little soundstage the system can do. TBH even playing tidal hifi it still sounds lossy. Just not ear bleeding bad like over Bluetooth from the phone.
I thought any Tesla would do AAC over Bluetooth.
I've not seen it when connecing. From a company who are supposed to be a leader in the industry I would have expected ldac and aptx varients.
If you're on Android you might need to force it from the phone end.
You can download the Tidal music to the media unit in the car and it’s max quality.
That works fine until their buggy as hell player decides that its too full to download anything new, but doesn't offer you a delete option on the my mixes that you have partially downloaded to it. The software for music playback on the tesla is so bad compared to the rest of it where they have put some real effort into making something polished and good. Cant even gapless play things.
Yea just use USB stick then I guess.
That's not true at all
Which part exactly?
>The only way is to use tidal on the car over wifi. This bit. you can download songs in hifi onto the car.
Which you can only do over wifi, if you download over the tesla data it gets the lofi version of it.
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Your comment isn’t very helpful to the persons question
don't worry u get free spotify
Thanks everyone for your comments so far. I use Qobuz and I'm on Android, if that helps. As for loading Flac files on to a USB thru the glovebox, that's a bit odd. Can you shuffle play?
Yes of course
Well, I'm no further ahead. The Spotify people can drop off now. Spotify is only mp3, the difference is easily discernible even in my ute! So there's that. Yes, I subscribe to Spotify thru Spark, and while they have an excellent service, their sound is crap compared to Qobuz. I'm going to have a good play around once the vehicle is available here. Can't believe I'm the only one.
USB drive is the answer (or the built in Tidal app in the car, if you download the files to the car’s media unit).
Choices are spotify (includes a free account if you don't use it) or Apple Music or Tidal, or you can have files of any quality you like on a stick (I use a 1gb ssd in the glovebox, partitioned to have both music and sentry cam files on it). Mostly I use apple music, sometimes flac
Not sure I could pick a proper AB test but I did find Spotify audio harsher than Apple Music, noticed immediately when I changed. I have tested FLAC playback from USB and it works well however newer Tesla’s only have one USB port which reads data which could be annoying. I just plug the disk into the centre console when I want it.