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bigreddog

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#1299290 6-May-2015 17:40

jarledb: You are limited to streaming from one place with Spotify (well, if you do it from somewhere else, it will stop streams other places). So to be able to use Spotify at home and in the car at the same time, you would need two accounts.

This is strictly speaking true, but if you put Spotify on your phone to offline, then you can play (offline) playlists without affecting the playback on the other device.

I have around 10GB on my Windows Phone and it plays fine through Bluetooth in my Skoda. Usually have to start a playlist, but if you stop somewhere in the car and then drive off again it will normally automatically carry on playing. It does seem to depend on how much you do with your phone while disconnected from the car however.

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#1299341 6-May-2015 19:03

I have an e34 535is and my wife an e39 530i. We both have Nexus5's and both cars have Kinivo BT455 units from Amazon and cheap car docks from XE. The Kinivo can connect to two devices so whichever car I get into I slap my phone in the dock and it connects straight away. I use an app called Car Dashdroid which fires up once the BT connects which gives large icons for Spotify, Tunein radio, Pocket Casts and any contacts I want. You can chose your own icons too.

Both cars also have cheap units from Jaycar to handle the 'buzz' when the phones are charging. I need to look at these though as they aren't as good as I was hoping and if we aren't playing anything the buzz is still clearly there.

We have a joint Spotify account for $20 for us both, mainly so I don't have her play lists on my device !

I wouldn't do it any other way. We are both on rollover data plans, anything we dont have downloaded we can stream and its great.

Here's a top tip. You can make a perfectly good RCA to aux cable using the wires from an old cd-rom drive. The motherboard pins fit the e39 stereo pins perfectly !

Oh and if we are both in the same car, listening to music on mine and my wifes phone rings, the Kinivo unit will pause my music and connect to her phone so the call goes through the stereo. We've only needed it once and she didnt have her BT switched on, but an interesting feature all the same.

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#1301192 9-May-2015 15:45

networkn:
jarledb: You are limited to streaming from one place with Spotify (well, if you do it from somewhere else, it will stop streams other places). So to be able to use Spotify at home and in the car at the same time, you would need two accounts.

Hmm probably a deal breaker. Anyone know if the same applies with Pandora? Any other service equivalent to Spotify?

as stated above you can listen to spotify offline with premium - as long as you have the songs dl'd to the device

so we have spotify streaming at home - online

and at the same time i am commuting to work also listening to spotify in offline mode - which also avoids using your cell data up

i also seem to recall seeing a limit of 3,333 songs able to be downloaded to 3 different devices - so 10k all up?

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