Playing with my thing?

I feel like that the volume indicator not disappearing when muted is an intentional feature. When you're driving it is useful to have an obvious indication that the reason music isn't playing is that it is muted. Certainly could've been implemented better.

never knew spotify made cleaning cloths :O

Still more useful than the rabbit r1

I've been advocating for people to turn it into an Android Auto/Apple Carplay device, like a car head unit. This can theoretically run some sort of software that is similar to any modern car unit and allow for wireless connections. The device has trash specs, and is slow just like any car head unit. The amount of storage is more than enough to get something like an offline maps installed and working.

The ideal thing would be a mod of the Spotify app that adds the functionality of the car thing back in

Can I just say right, this guy may be one of the most underrated tech KZfaqrs on the whole internet right now.

I've only just heard of this thing a week ago and am already disappointed it's being discontinued.

Bricking devices should be illegal. At least these are hackable.

The problem with your proposed solution is that there is a limit to how long you can have downloaded songs before having to connect to the internet to verify the upkeep of the subscription. It just lengthens the time that it is useful. This is also assuming that you can get a device that you keep offline and never connect to the internet.

YOOOOOOO new frokfrdk vid

The Car Thing runs a webpage in Chrome; it’s not loading data from the Spotify app on your phone but rather getting its data from the built-in Chrome webpage. People are calling it a hard brick because Spotify is refusing to update it. Additionally, the Car Thing doesn't have enough horsepower to run Linux or any other OS. For example, it has the same amount of RAM as an iPhone 4.

Heard of the car thing when a lot of channels were covering it, but it never made sense since I need a phone or some device to connect it with to be usable. It looked neat, but that was about it. If it was a self contained proper Spotify device with that UI and a way to get internet connection maybe it would have aged better.

Oh, I seen my name on the screen THANK YOU!

Mitski is bros workout music 😭

spotify branded car :3

pro tip: you can cut off the blue removing tab to make the plastic screen protector a real screen protector i remember finding one a few months ago on ebay for like 25€, i should have bought it :(

What's up guys it's (a sound my accent can not let me produce) your channel deserves alot more subs, the content is so cool and so is the host

i love watching frokfdk play with his (car) thing and touch its knob

1 million subs soon!

The real tragedy is how useless it is overall due to the hardware being so horrible. It's already been open sourced, so at least there will be aftermarket firmware mods. But the things you can do with it will be so absurdly limited. You really will have to be willing to waste time and money to build a project around this in the future (unless you're making a KZfaq video about it, I bet that till get some views due to the backlash to this).

u bought it on my bday :)

I agree with you frokfrdk that Spotify will just patch the software to disable but Spotify is also good at supporting older version of there app they just dropped support on ios 6 for iPhones and ipods so just have an old phone and disable auto update and should be good for a temp fix

i still use an mp3 player (hifi walker with rockbox) for my regular music needs, having a specific thing for music has saved my phone lots of battery & feeling for physical buttons while driving or cooking or taking a walk instead of having to stop and look at my phone has been better for my anxiety & safety. conceptually this would be such a cool idea, i'd love an interface like this that works with multiple streaming platforms & other inputs like mp3 players. i hope the people working on mods can keep this thing alive and open it up for everyone to play with.

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That thumbnail...

goddamit this item is actually really good for something i wanna build in a car.... i hope the community can figure out how to keep it alive later,

Sick

"members first" I WANTED IT EARLY TOO.

playing with my thing to this video

"Playing with my thing" ayo 💀

You can get devices very similar to the car thing that have full carplay/android auto compatibility and interface with your original car radio.

When I first saw the title I thought it was some unprofessional title and then I found out the actual name💀

"Playing with my thing"

Spotify should've given this UI to the phone app, so you can just use a mount to attach your phone and it will be much faster and have a better screen than this Thing

Try using it after being discontinued who knows will work

No physical mods needed. But either forcing it to accept different apps or even running a different system are the other options. And nobody wants to do that themselves.

nice

You can already modify app id's. Ofc you'd have to try and make the code the same as spotify's code when it comes to commu icating with the car thing but besides that there could be diffrences like enabling multiple file type support like flac, wav etc. I'm sure people are gonna go it since its been open sourced. People are alreadycon it

What I don’t understand is that I own a device with very similar specs to the car thing and yet it’s perfectly capable Fiio m7. Yet Spotify seems to think that those specifications are useless. And by similar, I mean,half a gig of ram and 4gb ram although the amlogic inside the car thing has four cores. And the Fiio has an old smart watch CPU. I’ve gotten the fiio to do some mighty big tasks for its specs, and I fully expect the car thing is capable of the same tasks.

I first heard of this about a week ago. I thought people were being funny. But that's the real name.

Crapify. Better use CD's and iPods again

I just love that thing. Was about to buy it from ebay and then, they announced they'll brick it... Wtf spotify. Is there something similar on the market?

Looks like when the volume is on zero the buttons will not appear, kind of an indication for "mute". Bad UI/UX

wow

Apple iD account lock is not a soft brick as you call it it’s hard coded into the motherboard

an answer in search of a problem if you ask me, not surprised its getting disposed of.

Womp Womp!

This video seems like a dankpods video

Mitski at the gym, 10/10

Knife safety my dude. Be careful you almost just cut yourself. 0:51

It sadly wont be able to be used for that much because of how underpowered it is... But i'm sure people will create at least some things for it

imagine getting sent a zip bomb on that thing

I think what it's doing is piggybacking off of your phone's internet to tell the spotify website what you're listening to as it's synced across every device iirc.

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shout out funky stuff

I didn't have that weird volume behavior on mine. I also didn't know about swiping but it probably said something about that during set up. Now don't get me wrong Software is a little buggy at times it will just freeze up or disconnect but it's been pretty good for me. I got it as a controller so I could control break music between bands. I liked it so much I ended up actually double-sided 3M sticky typing it in my car well that was a bad permanent choice. I kind of wish it acted as a line out audio device but I don't know how they would've done that without sending Audio over Bluetooth which would've had terrible delay and we were us audio quality. I originally set it up with android but almost got into an accident with it because a song came on I couldn't quite hear the lyrics I turned it up a bit and then a few seconds then it got dead quiet now I'm driving while this is happening and I'm trying to figure out why and what's going on. Turns out after you turn your volume up on android into the red it automatically turns it down after so many minutes and then you have to finish your device out from between the seats because of course that's the time it falls down there. I ended up switching to an iPhone because iPhone let you limit the volume control but it's not enabled by default with no option to disable. I really hope somebody figures out unlock the whole thing the function and fixes some of the functionality issues. Like not being able to connect 2 devices. And in some cases I think it actually makes more sense for new vehicles as it just is a dumb controller for Spotify no need to fumble around trying to find the app and switching between things it's just music control all the time. I reach over and hit some thing and it does that. I would love to see a new version of this that acts like a Internet radio connects over Wi-Fi (Home or personal hotspot) and has a selectable line out/headphone out. And just sort of worked like an appliance phone not necessarily required as long as it's able to get to the Internet. Yes why do they have to break it there's even a generic Bluetooth protocol for music control and they can't even enable that to make it function with anything on the device after they discontinue it into a brick.

rip bud 🪦

playing with my what

The car thing? Kachao???!!!

1:34 leet ar thing👍

The OS in my car has been f*cked since the upgrade to Android 12, it doesn't change the name of the song anymore (or it does completely randomly, like every 2 hours), shuffle doesn't work and it just doesn't even say a song is playing sometimes. I wanted something to make Spotify easier to use and I'm very happy I went with one of those cheap Android Auto tablet-thingy that just stick to your dashboard, the Car Thing was definitely an option I looked into and decided against. Sure, those chinese device are kinda slow and the touchscreen isn't the best, but at least, it WORKS and since it's Android Auto, it won't get abandonned in a few months.

I thought you were joking when you said Car Thing, but it is actually called car thing 😂

0:55 that's my bday lol

Well at least they made this thing (haha) open source right? R-right?

Legally. Using the car thing. Is not distinct from using a phone. Which means, a company as large as Spotify, gets to argue with the US Govt. which means brick them all or pay up. And feds cost more than you do.

imma buy one so i can sue them

most useful spotify product:

I want one :C just to find some way maybe to put linux on it and run some random stuff lol

vehicle reveal

A THING

Are we just gonna ignore that he listens to Mitski? :3

/mu/ core music taste

I don’t see why you cant just turn it into an mp3 player. its simple enough for something with those specks, and 4GB is still a lot of songs.

The hacking community is working on a super easy app for hacking the car thing for a seemless setup

Can you run Android on the Car Thing?

mitski and aphex twin hooooly based

i cannot believe you are old enough to drive

game on it

Can you flash android on it?

also what os does this thing run?

512mb ram? thats the minimum of debian 12!

Bro get yourself cheap carplay/android auto screen from China. I'm rocking it for a few months now and it's great for old shitboxes

frok a confirmed kendrick fan?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Or, someone could make it into an android auto/car play device

This sucks I wanted this but never got it I eventually saw someone use it in there gaming setup as a mini monitor below there main one wich I loved and wanted one immediately then a few days later same thing they announced the cancelation smh

12:40 you just showed a solution

man u can literally mod everything as u wish trough software its just about your skills , even if i consider this device useless, and useless is my android router too wich i will modify to be an android emulator at hardware level

Imagine you could get it to run a Linux distro 😂

Hackntosh NOW

Honestly they should just release some firmware to run Android or something on it before they discontinue it. SMH

Playing with what?!?!?!??

no way they made garbage time into a real thing

You could've just bought a Bluetooth to radio car adapter I bought one on Amazon for like $14

u didn’t go over everything in the box 😢😢

Based C418 tracks

2:25 you're with your girl in the car, you say you'll use your thing with her and then you get this out of your pocket

12:19 *you surely mean that the *left side* is the correct one ;) (No anger ofc, great Video!)

For me, the Car Thing is just disappointing. Still, I can relate to people having fun with it and it's a shame that it becomes eWaste quite soon.

How can Spotify brick this? Don't update it and be ok.