I might be in a particularly bad mood, having recently gotten off a flight from Denver to Toronto....but... The slacker internet audio system is about the dumbest "system" I have ever come across.
Please, don't get me wrong. If you have solutions to these issues, please chime in.
When i I do a search for a song or artist, once found, the song/artist becomes a favourite station. So, search for "hey Jude" and I now have "hey Jude radio station". Are these songs all Beatles songs? "No". Are they all similar to this one? "No". Does selecting this "favorite" result in the preferred song being played? "Sometimes but usually not". Is there a way to create favourites list? "No". Can you rewind and replay the previous song? "Hell no!" For a $100K automobile, this is unacceptable.
There also seems to be to be no relationship between flagged songs as "like" or favorite (ie clicking on the note resulting in its turning blue) and those song played but not flagged. Do they play more frequently? It doesn't seem so.
If there is a system to this miracle called "slacker", please, bring it on. If I take the sales persons words at face value, I won't even think about Sirius XM again. Sadly, this is not the case. I think Sirius does what it claims. I don't really know what slacker does.
If there isn't a specific detailed set of instructions for Slacker Radio, shame on Tesla. These are the details that make or break an end users experience. It's as if Tesla agreed to a stripped down version of Slacker, called it "Premium Audio" and stuck it into the firmware. For a car in this price bracket? Seriously? I don't think so.
Ok "Rant Mode" off.
Thanks
doug
Please, don't get me wrong. If you have solutions to these issues, please chime in.
When i I do a search for a song or artist, once found, the song/artist becomes a favourite station. So, search for "hey Jude" and I now have "hey Jude radio station". Are these songs all Beatles songs? "No". Are they all similar to this one? "No". Does selecting this "favorite" result in the preferred song being played? "Sometimes but usually not". Is there a way to create favourites list? "No". Can you rewind and replay the previous song? "Hell no!" For a $100K automobile, this is unacceptable.
There also seems to be to be no relationship between flagged songs as "like" or favorite (ie clicking on the note resulting in its turning blue) and those song played but not flagged. Do they play more frequently? It doesn't seem so.
If there is a system to this miracle called "slacker", please, bring it on. If I take the sales persons words at face value, I won't even think about Sirius XM again. Sadly, this is not the case. I think Sirius does what it claims. I don't really know what slacker does.
If there isn't a specific detailed set of instructions for Slacker Radio, shame on Tesla. These are the details that make or break an end users experience. It's as if Tesla agreed to a stripped down version of Slacker, called it "Premium Audio" and stuck it into the firmware. For a car in this price bracket? Seriously? I don't think so.
Ok "Rant Mode" off.
Thanks
doug