Spotify's music-streaming Car Thing needed a smartphone app to run, and is now being replaced by that smartphone app. In 2022, the popular music streaming platform Spotify came out with the Car ...

Spotify has officially discontinued Car Thing, its in-car streaming device, with all units now disabled, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Spotify has officially discontinued Car Thing, its in ...

Spotify's Oddball In-Car Music Device Is Getting Bricked. Turns Out There's an App For That. Spotify's music-streaming Car Thing needed a smartphone app to run, and is now being replaced by that ...

However, at that time, Spotify also cut the device’s price from $90 to $50, which could have encouraged people to buy a device that would be useless a few years later. Car Thing's usefulness was ...

Car Thing -- a device that allowed users to access their account and play music through their car speakers -- has been discontinued, and will be unusable by Dec. 9, 2024, Spotify said.

The device — which launched in 2022 and costs $90 and enabled users to have Spotify playback in older car models — has been scrapped and will no longer be supported starting Dec. 9.

Car Thing to be Unusuable by December. According to Spotify, the Car Thing will no longer work on December 9, 2024, and the company will brick it, which would cause users to find no purpose in it.

Spotify's weird streaming gadget with an equally unusual name, Car Thing, has officially been discontinued. All of the existing devices will stop working soon.

Now, Car Thing owners can save their devices and use them in even more ways. For those unaware, the Car Thing is basically a Bluetooth-enabled Spotify player. It mounts in most cars very easily ...

The Spotify Car Thing didn’t solve the major problems I had with listening to music in my car. Here’s the device to get instead.