Using a Spotify Car Thing in 2024 (and why it will soon be eWaste...)

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@thatguyaadi 6 ай бұрын

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.

@Lillfot 6 ай бұрын

Just like the awful thing most TVs do, where they spam the "mute" icon somewhere on screen (some extra awful ones even move if around)

@exturkconner 6 ай бұрын

I mean in a car it's pretty useful to know. Okay so this is muted. When I unmute it this is going to be the volume level. Unmuting a tv or a computer and having it blast isn't a big deal. You aren't going to accidentally swerve your tv into oncoming traffic. You aren't going to grind your pc into a jersey barrier because you are startled.

@polocatfan 3 ай бұрын

@@Lillfotjust set the volume to 0 then.

@doffynotnoffy 6 ай бұрын

Playing with my thing?

@PCIeTeam 6 ай бұрын

nahhh you're wild for that LMAO

@WindowsXP9092 6 ай бұрын

@@PCIeTeamI find it funny

@zenvio 6 ай бұрын

playing with my thing rn

@PCIeTeam 6 ай бұрын

@@zenvio oh HELL NAW you got the guts to say that :D

@matteofo 6 ай бұрын

i’m doing it, are you?

@FaeComputing 6 ай бұрын

Still more useful than the rabbit r1

@mihkelkastehein9470 6 ай бұрын

agreed

@EnderRobber101 6 ай бұрын

@@mihkelkastehein9470somebody watched Netflix and played Minecraft on it

@yahiax 6 ай бұрын

nah rabbit r1 is a pretty good little android thingy

@FaeComputing 6 ай бұрын

@@yahiax if it was like $50? Yeah it's worth it to mess around with, not for the ai features, just to put full android on, but $200 usd is NOT worth it

@mintybudgie 6 ай бұрын

at least they wont brick the rabbit r1 in several months

@SkibidiPhotographerMan 6 ай бұрын

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.

@togoxo 6 ай бұрын

it has the specs of a low end android phone from 2012. it can run android but its just too much work for anyone to do to get it running

@sihamhamda47 6 ай бұрын

@@togoxo I'm sure newer android can't even run on it. Anything newer than Android 7 requires 1GB of RAM or more.

@oakbricks 6 ай бұрын

@@togoxo its possible to get android auto/apple carplay on it because all it needs to do is receive a video feed and give the phone user output (kinda like HDMI or AirPlay). All it would need would be a linux distro that has the appropriate software and a USB port

@togoxo 6 ай бұрын

@@sihamhamda47 why do you need android 7 so bad? android 4.4 is still a perfectly fine os

@SofaDogDog 5 ай бұрын

@@oakbricksim pretty sure that thing could only run Ubuntu 10.04 extremely slow. I mean the system software is literally just a web app. I’ll be surprised if they get it working.

@MakHoles 6 ай бұрын

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

@frokfrdk 6 ай бұрын

That's my exact pitch in thsi video, I hope this is possible

@jzrn_n0 5 ай бұрын

@@frokfrdkthsi video 🗿

@zuzzo_ 6 ай бұрын

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

@th1nXD 6 ай бұрын

never knew spotify made cleaning cloths :O

@ToxicMothBoi 6 ай бұрын

A factory makes them and spotify just commisions them to make some :D

@3doodlrestartpen13 5 ай бұрын

I thought inside of it was a condom

@confused.cat. 6 ай бұрын

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

@_t3ch 5 ай бұрын

I agree! Spotify could implement a “drive mode” when turning the phone to landscape mode as an example :D

@summerchilds 6 ай бұрын

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.

@DAN_CLERGYMAN 5 ай бұрын

It already runs a custom version of Linux though?

@SofaDogDog 5 ай бұрын

@@DAN_CLERGYMANIt won’t be able to run most distros like Ubuntu, fedora, or mint for example. It just opens chromium and goes to an html file, that’s about it.

@beni2am 4 ай бұрын

@@SofaDogDog it could run tinycore, or theoretically raspbian esque distro(as I remember running full gui raspberry pi os on the rpi zero which has 512mb of ram), or even some purpose built gentoo image or linux from scratch image made for the car thing

@montgomerymontgomery 6 ай бұрын

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.

@justanotherpxrson 6 ай бұрын

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

@fakerealgamer9368 6 ай бұрын

yeah but it has a real real bad processor so it will be bricked u cant do anything with the car thing

@lucerodj11 4 ай бұрын

its already open sourced and hackable.

@justanotherpxrson 4 ай бұрын

@@lucerodj11 has anyone done anything cool with it yet? I haven't been keeping up

@Fetidaf 4 ай бұрын

They’re giving money back and not many people had these to begin with. It’s not that big of a deal, really.

@fakerealgamer9368 4 ай бұрын

@@lucerodj11 yeah but sadly the chip inside isnt any good so u cant rly dl anything because the device would really be ran on the phone and not the device itsekf

@abunk8691 6 ай бұрын

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.

@HaveThemYellGloss 5 ай бұрын

I’ve had the car thing for about a year in my Mx-5 and it’s mostly reliable. That volume issue isn’t the knob, you just have to have the volume at 1 or more to have the bar go away. The only time I would have an issue is if I had another Bluetooth device connected prior to turning the car thing on, the car thing would not auto connect. even though it’s connected and thought the phone and bringing up Spotify automatically.

@teh_supar_hackr 6 ай бұрын

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

@movetvisrael 6 ай бұрын

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

@-fuk57 6 ай бұрын

*saw

@isaackingvideos 6 ай бұрын

Spotify should put stock Android on the “Car Thing” if Spotify cared about the environment

@yannick7230 6 ай бұрын

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

@JACKHARRINGTON 6 ай бұрын

you can also get cds at the local opp shop

@furriesinouterspaceUnited Ай бұрын

Who uses Android auto? Everyone I've known just disabled it

@gamecuber6 6 ай бұрын

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 :(

@awesomeferret 6 ай бұрын

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 KZbin video about it, I bet that till get some views due to the backlash to this).

@tobyash 6 ай бұрын

Mitski is bros workout music 😭

@bbbbraxton 6 ай бұрын

spotify branded car :3

@AmirRazan 6 ай бұрын

When your stream of ads is disrupted by 15 seconds of driving UwU

@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 6 ай бұрын

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,

@confused.cat. 6 ай бұрын

Just mount your phone instead

@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 6 ай бұрын

@@confused.cat. yes and no. This device allows you to have "multiple screens" attached your phone. Carplay/android auto is 1 screen with 1 app. The phone is 2nd screen with 2nd app. Then that car thing has the ability to be a 3rd attached screen. This is incredibly handy if you don't want to deal with swiping between apps /running 3 apps on 1 tiny screen. This works on android and iPhone

@MaximNightFury 5 ай бұрын

I would love this thing for my car if I could jailbreak it and get my own interface running on it to interact with Pulsar since I don't like Spotify

@furriesinouterspaceUnited Ай бұрын

Yo nice pfp

@MaximNightFury Ай бұрын

@@furriesinouterspaceUnited thanks

@crasht3424 6 ай бұрын

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

@Shibes770 6 ай бұрын

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.

@awesomeferret 6 ай бұрын

Spotify aren't the only ones who think it's useless. There are other KZbinrs who lament the extremely low end hardware.

@Shibes770 6 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@awesomeferret is it not capable of being forced to run android? If it is indeed stuck on something Linux based then I suppose you’re right. But if you could run android on it, a lot of the really early android hi-fi players have been able to get away with using absolute potato hardware with relatively stripped down versions of android. Regardless, it’s a shame that Spotify is doing this all hardware has a use. What would be really cool is if you could use it as an external display with some onboard controls like the knob. And my specific use you could use it as a miniature MFD so that I could have what’s appearing on head on radar without having to take my eyes off my surroundings. Or you could have it set up as a rearview mirror for when you’re in third person mode on a racing game.

@Lollllllz 6 ай бұрын

@@Shibes770 In theory it can (the Amlogic s905d2 in the carthing is related to the s905x2 which has seen duty in android 9.0 tv setup boxes and Android 10 Go technically supports Devices with 512MB ram) but whether it would be done would depend on the completeness of the available source code and the amount of developer attention the car thing will achieve.

@bandu6969 6 ай бұрын

YOOOOOOO new frokfrdk vid

@connorblack99 2 ай бұрын

It appears it’ll still be hackable post brick, at least based on the recent ota. Additionally, if you flashed it already you’re golden

@Kosta991 5 ай бұрын

Ay lexan I'm glad you actually have a sustainable channel now, I'm not sure if you like doing this but I'm sure it's worth it, keep grinding bro

@frokfrdk 5 ай бұрын

@@Kosta991 this is significantly better, more profitable, more enjoyable, more respectable than anything I ever did there

@HismumYT 6 ай бұрын

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

@mintybudgie 6 ай бұрын

fh-rock-fur-duck

@HismumYT 6 ай бұрын

@@mintybudgie you see the problem is fh from the very start I was doomed to fail

@Technikkeller 5 ай бұрын

spotify has done this in the past. I am having a pioneer DEX 7800DAB Car stereo with spotify support. just some day it stopped working. It was so nice to scroll through playlists and albums on the stereo itself. It shure would possible to sue pioneer or spotify for that in the US.

@tech_and_stuff_2022 6 ай бұрын

"members first" I WANTED IT EARLY TOO.

@bruhgamerwolf7936 6 ай бұрын

1 million subs soon!

@mmbeno 6 ай бұрын

His content is actually so enjoyable

@bruhgamerwolf7936 6 ай бұрын

Totally also reminds me of dankpods

@jace-vo2xl 6 ай бұрын

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.

@samussumas2214 5 ай бұрын

“Just make an app pretending to be spotify simple” proceeds to tell us he doesn’t know what he’s talking abt

@frokfrdk 5 ай бұрын

@@samussumas2214 Would you like to know that this has actually already been done? Soooo do I know what I'm talking about?

@lucymorrison 6 ай бұрын

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

@Callan22 6 ай бұрын

playing with my thing to this video

@PCIeTeam 6 ай бұрын

excuse me WHAT that's specific

5 ай бұрын

cant believe my thing will be bricked in 6 months... wait a minute.

@AkilJacob 4 ай бұрын

I want something exactly like this for PC, it would make a perfect stream/media controller.

@hadivong 6 ай бұрын

Try using it after being discontinued who knows will work

@valvium 6 ай бұрын

"Playing with my thing"

@shmulikeilat 6 ай бұрын

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

@ejc5million 6 ай бұрын

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

@cheezyfriez12 5 ай бұрын

It's not quite the same, but i've been using the headunit reloaded app as of late. It basically opens the android auto ui on any android phone without an external head unit. it is $4.99, but i think it is well worth the price tag compared to outright buying a proper android auto compatible headunit. It can even be set to automatically launch when your headphone jack/adapter is connected.

@johnmarshalward 4 ай бұрын

I'm leaving Spotify in December when my Car Thing is bricked. Any suggestions for an alternative music streaming service? Since I use Echo devices in my home, I'm thinking Amazon music.

@BeyondTech12 6 ай бұрын

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

@Francisepearce 6 ай бұрын

yay! cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

@f937r 5 ай бұрын

Spotify's biggest blunder. They announce the death of Car Thing and the next month announce ANOTHER price increase for the service. I dropped them and refunded my CarThing.

@idonotknowwhyyoutubeletsyo5893 6 ай бұрын

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.

@KOSMOS1701A 6 ай бұрын

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

@sherme 6 ай бұрын

most useful spotify product:

@zatwhyen 5 ай бұрын

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

@cassiuscartland 6 ай бұрын

That thumbnail...

@polocatfan 6 ай бұрын

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.

@megacap55 5 ай бұрын

A nice display for only skip music

@bradye21playsIndieHorror 6 ай бұрын

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

@jyngreen2250 5 ай бұрын

"Playing with my thing" ayo 💀

@DesertMonkies 6 ай бұрын

imagine getting sent a zip bomb on that thing

@ukraineball953 6 ай бұрын

💀💀

@ToxicMothBoi 6 ай бұрын

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

@anton_idk 6 ай бұрын

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

@krustiiik 6 ай бұрын

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?

@O.V. 6 ай бұрын

Mitski at the gym, 10/10

@Echo21230 6 ай бұрын

Sick

@bandu6969 6 ай бұрын

yo how 9 hours it came out a minute ago

@frokfrdk 6 ай бұрын

@bandu6969 I had the video out early for channel members overnight until I made the thumbnail for it this morning

@bandu6969 6 ай бұрын

@@frokfrdk oh ok hi frokfrdk

@ToastKidd 6 ай бұрын

u bought it on my bday :)

@Z_E_B_O 5 ай бұрын

Until 1:30 I assumed you just called it car thing for funsies,... no wonder it didn't catch on.

@goddammiteythan 4 ай бұрын

I love this new genre of angry australian musicians screaming at useless tech

@zan00o 6 ай бұрын

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

@0day-Ghost 5 ай бұрын

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

@MrCed122 6 ай бұрын

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.

@Space_Reptile 6 ай бұрын

would be neat to just turn it into an android auto mirror type device, the knob is a nice thing to have and if its just an android auto display, you can use any audio player you like

@Zer0_UT 5 ай бұрын

6:30 W music taste

@Callan22 6 ай бұрын

also what os does this thing run?

@frokfrdk 6 ай бұрын

Some flavour of Linux

@Callan22 6 ай бұрын

@@frokfrdk try to get normal linux running on that thing lmao

@Dingus_Tech 6 ай бұрын

1:34 leet ar thing👍

@kaktusgoreng 6 ай бұрын

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

@awesomeferret 6 ай бұрын

I think you were trying to make a joke, so in case you didn't hear, it was open sourced. He even mentions this in the video.

@TCperry 5 ай бұрын

I can not stand companies that do this. This is why I still use a old portable cd player and mp3 player. Never need a web connection for those. Jesus loves you!

@fab555trainspottingandmore 6 ай бұрын

Crapify. Better use CD's and iPods again

@eunoiiaax 4 ай бұрын

never knew he likes mitski 😮😮

@imark7777777 5 ай бұрын

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.

@jpedrothejo 6 ай бұрын

rip bud 🪦

@JoelGorostieta 6 ай бұрын

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.

@cole_tech_offical 6 ай бұрын

Can you flash android on it?

@-10 6 ай бұрын

The specs seem weak for that

@domcaixote 6 ай бұрын

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

@lukchem 6 ай бұрын

The EU when a Company uses their own charging cable: YoU cAnT dO tHaT tHaTs AnTiCoMpEtItIvE. The EU when a Company artificially destroys devices with no real reason: I’m fine.

@test113 6 ай бұрын

This Product was only officially available, sold and supported in the USA. So no, the EU does not care.

@lukchem 6 ай бұрын

@@test113 Okay then nevermind.

@Di3mondDud3 5 ай бұрын

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.

@MysticAidenAnimatez 6 ай бұрын

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

@diniconights 4 ай бұрын

It workes on my perfect its weird why yours is so slow

@Idxwhattoputhere 6 ай бұрын

This video seems like a dankpods video

@AlexOlsenpang 2 ай бұрын

Your solution would not work. And also you can sideload stuff on iPhone. The problem is that pretending like something is Spotify would be a lot harder than rewriting a couple of lines in the embedded code of an IoT device. Your carthing might not need many updates, but the phone software will.