Spotify Car Thing gets ‘add to queue’ and call answering features

Spotify introduced Thursday it was including the power to answer telephone calls and different new options to its Automotive Factor infotainment system. House owners of the $90 machine, which went on sale in February, additionally will now have the ability to add songs and podcasts to a queue, management different media, and use voice instructions.

Automotive Factor customers will have the ability to see incoming calls and both reply them or dismiss them proper within the Automotive Factor interface. They’ll additionally have the ability to swap between Spotify and different media utilizing presets, voice, or tapping its display.

Spotify says the brand new “add to queue” characteristic is one in every of its most-requested for Automotive Factor; you are able to do it both by voice (utilizing the “hey Spotify” immediate), contact, or the machine’s dial. You may as well ask Automotive Factor to create a customized playlist by telling it what style or music kind you’re all in favour of listening to.

Designed as a extra handy approach of controlling Spotify when you’re driving, the Automotive Factor machine makes use of Bluetooth to hook up with your telephone, and you’ll both run a cable to plug it into your automotive or have your telephone hook up with your automotive by way of Bluetooth. It lacks a chargeable battery, so it wants to remain plugged into your automotive’s USB socket.

Spotify says the options will roll out for iOS customers robotically, and Android availability will roll out “at a later date.”