That dial also controls your phone’s volume and play/pause when you’re on the playback screen. The big rotary dial lets you scroll through content, tapping it to select or pressing the smaller button below it to navigate back. If you don’t want to talk to your stereo, you can also navigate via the buttons and screen. That saves a little time compared to navigating to the playlist section manually. (If you’ve used Google Assistant to trigger Spotify, it's similar to that, but with actions and results understandably limited to Spotify.) One particularly convenient thing is that you can ask for Spotify to “show” you things, so if you know it won’t grab the right playlist by name, you can ask to see your playlists and then scroll to the one you want. You can also control playback or save content. There’s a home screen that shows a mix of recommended content, a “Voice” tab that shows things you’ve searched for related to recent vocal queries, and a Your Library tab where all your liked songs and playlists live.Ĭar Thing responds to “Hey Spotify” voice commands that can trigger playlists, albums, specific songs, or anything else you’d like to hear. If you’ve used the Spotify app on any platform, the interface should feel immediately familiar, with side-scrolling lists and identical commands and features.
Navigating around the Car Thing interface is surprisingly simple, and there are a few ways you can do it between the screen, voice, and buttons.
As soon as your phone connects to whatever mechanism you use for audio, playback will start wherever you last left off. Once things are correctly configured, your phone will automatically connect to the Car Thing when it’s powered on - If you’re not doing anything unusual, that means when you get into your car and start it. You can also trigger the setup process manually via the app in Settings -> Car Thing to pair an already-set-up Car Thing to a new device, but just pairing the new phone in the Bluetooth settings menu seems to do the job fine, too. The first-time steps also guide you through how to mount the phone to your car, but that should be a self-explanatory process for most people. When you plug it in for the first time, the screen displays a QR code you can scan with your phone that takes you to the app and through the process to pair it with your phone via Bluetooth.
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