Your Slacker equipped Model S gets the music over the internet via 3G connection. You can play most any song, and you can play that song pretty close to when you want it to be played, but you can definitely not play any song at any time. Your song will eventually come up, but it’s definitely not always the first one played.Įlon is on record saying that you can play any song at any time, but that doesn’t always hold true. It’s merely a station that Slacker feels is within that genre/category. What’s interesting is that selecting a result from the list doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll hear that exact song that you selected. Holding it down and speaking the name of the artist, song or both will return a list of results that matches your criteria. The Model S allows you to play songs on demand using the “push to talk” button situated on the right of the steering wheel. You can favorite stations which are either ones you’ve picked from a list or ones you’ve found via search, but you can’t favorite individual songs. This sends your preferences to the Slacker app, and in theory it should use this information to either play more songs like the one you liked, and omit the ones that you do not. Whether it’s using that information for more intelligent behavior tracking is unknown. Two other options that I enjoy on Slacker are the “I like this song” and a “I hate this song” icon. You may be able to get to a previous song with music search (more on that later) but otherwise once played it’s gone. The basic options to Pause/Play and Skip songs are all there, but what’s missing is a re-play or go back to the previous song button. But what if a song comes on that you don’t like? Slacker Controls on the Model S I find the selection to be quite rich. With Slacker you can listen to unlimited ad-free music of your preference any time you want. Slacker offers a number of playlists you can choose from that are specific to genres, popularity etc. It will be great if someday Tesla also added the lyrics and custom playlists options that Slacker is capable of. Slacker appears to have two paid versions available, and the one provided with the Model S seems to fall somewhere in the middle in terms of features:įull disclosure: this is my hack of a feature chart based on what I saw What’s great about the version of Slacker that comes equipped with the car is that it’s commercial-free. Slacker Radio is music delivered over the internet via the 3G connection within every Model S. I’ll cover the other one, TuneIn, at some other time.
Slacker is one of two internet radio options included on every Tesla Model S. At the time I sort of thought it was going to be a bit like Pandora which I had used on and off in the past.ĪLSO SEE: Playing Music from a USB Drive in the Tesla Model S I just figured it would either be useful or not, no big deal. Slacker Internet Radioīefore taking delivery of my Model S I had only heard about Slacker radio as a feature included with the Model S and even then I didn’t do any reading or research on it. Tesla got Slacker Internet Radio right in the Model S. In a previous post I slammed Tesla on the almost-there functionality of their USB music player so you might be expecting me to go off on a rant on their implementation of Slacker Internet Radio in the Model S, but you’d be wrong.
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