Sonos Five VS Car Thing

Sonos Five

The high-fidelity speaker for superior sound.

Car Thing

The smart player from Spotify that fills your car with music

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2023-08-21

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2023-07-23

Sonos Five Hands-On Review: What's New?

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Spotify Car Thing: Unboxing + Setup + Walkthrough

Category Popularity

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Car Thing

Music

39 39%

Music

61% 61

Home

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Home

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News

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News

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Home Intelligence

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Car Thing seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 55 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Sonos Five mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Sonos Five yet. Tracking of Sonos Five recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Car Thing mentions (55)

Looking for an upgrade
Spotify also has a device called a Car Thing. It's just a Spotify control panel. Source: 5 months ago
I found this small highly magnetic device thing in the back of my car, what is it???
You'll never belive this but, well, it's a car thing. Source: 10 months ago
In 2018/2019, did anybody participate in the Car Thing program?
1st Gen - https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-car-thing-photos-details-user-manual-2020-1?amp https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/17/spotify-testing-voice-controlled-car-thing-but-you-may-never-see-one/?newsletter_popup=1 2nd Gen - https://carthing.spotify.com. Source: 11 months ago
Is there a Dashboard for navidrome, which controls playback for different devices.
I fished out an old Android phone. For now it sits on my desk as a digital clock. I wonder is there a way to control playback for navidrome from here. (My navidrome is hosted on a different Ubuntu machine) Can I control the playback on my pc from the phone, and possibly display the artwork and current date time. Similar to Spotify carthing. Https://carthing.spotify.com/. Source: 11 months ago
Audio Mixer for Trivia Nights
You will definitely need a mixer. This mixer is pretty low end and limited but will work for your purpose. You can plug in the receiver of your mic into the line input on channel 1. You can then plug in your computer to the mixer with this cable on channel 2 (labeled "2/3"). I would recommend not using the same computer for both voicemod and spotify. I would recommend looking to the the Spotify Car Thing or... Source: about 1 year ago