Announcing our new "CLUBS" section where you can join or create a Rivian club or group! You can use this new feature to conveniently plan and discuss local events, gatherings or other club/group related topics.
So we encourage you to join (or start) special-interest and regional-based Rivian clubs at: https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/group-categories/clubs-groups.1/
Apple Music isn’t that great honestly. I just canceled it. The Tidal mixes seem to be better than Apple’s are, at least for the electronic/EDM type music I listen to. I would have never known that had Rivian supported Apple Music over Tidal. Thanks Rivian.
Glad you found something you like better, but sound quality is only one part of the equation. Apple's is pretty damn good, better than Spotify for sure, but no one has anything that competes with the iTunes Music Library feature.
To be clear, the butthurt report was actually aimed at you, in agreement with @Dark-Fx. Please point to the location on the doll where the internet hurt you today.
I'm aware, because his "hurt" response to me is what kicked off this whole sub-thread. Again, seems like the two of you are the hurt ones if you can't accept a little criticism of Rivian's approach to software.
I have both Spotify for a long time and only more recently Apple Music since Spotify refuses to support the Homepod. I definitely think Spotify is the better music service, but I loathe their interaction with Apple as a corporate entity. They'd rather do battle than use existing/new APIs to advance the customer experience. But between the two services, Spotify's music discovery is far better than Apple Music.
I can see your point of view. I currently like the Rivian interface but I can see an advantage to having carplay/apple whatever it's called as an app (Inception much?). But I have never used it myself.
At a minimum it would be really nice to be able to play flac from usb...
I wouldn’t be so quick to blame Spotify, Apple are really assholes when it comes to the companies they do business with. They are one of the most valuable companies in the history of the world and they are sure to throw that weight around as much as possible.
Sure, but as much as Spotify bitches about that, Apple provided an API to enable Siri access on the HomePod without relying on the phone years ago. Pandora and several others implemented it immediately. Now several years later despite many, many pages of comments requesting it from customers in their support forum Spotify refuses to implement it. So yeah, Apple can certainly act in their own self-interest, but Spotify can fart into the wind if they're going to talk about access on Apple's platform if they aren't even going to implement access customers are demanding with freely available APIs. For that matter, they make using AirPlay from your phone more difficult than necessary because Spotify would rather do things "their way" instead of the platform-native way. From a user experience perspective doing things that go against the UI/UX standards provides a sub-par experience for the user. It's like companies that insist on developing an app using some common framework rather than native tools. Sure, it's cheaper to develop one cohesive multi-platform app, but the user experience suffers on all platforms as a result.
