Spotify announced earlier this year that it was decommissioning all Car Thing devices. So if you own one, be ready for it to ...

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Spotify has lost all enthusiasm for the little music devices it sold for just half a year. Firmware hackers, as usually happens, have a lot more interest and have stepped in to save, and upgrade, a ...

Spotify announced the Car Thing is discontinued and will be bricked on December 9 as the music streamer winds down support ...

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DeskThing is a free and open source application that breathes new life into Spotify ... Car Thing accessory by transforming it from a Spotify controller for cars into a desktop device that ...

For its part, Spotify said that while Car Thing “worked as intended,” it chose to halt production of the $80 device due to “product demand and supply chain issues,” among other factors.