With Car Thing, you can use Spotify’s voice search technology to quickly play specific music or podcasts. Car Thing doesn’t have a built-in speaker. You can then use Bluetooth, AUX, or a USB cable to connect to your car’s audio system.

It needs to pair with your smartphone (Spotify over Bluetooth) for a data connection. Think of Car Thing as an infotainment center, but one that plays content exclusively from the Spotify library. You can control your car’s audio through Car Thing using either “Hey Spotify” commands or the device’s dial, screen, and preset buttons.

The device itself features a physical dial on the front along with a 4-inch touchscreen, plus four microphones at the top and four preset buttons for controls. In its blog post announcing the “limited release” of Car Thing, Spotify described the device as a “smart player that fills your car with music, news, entertainment, talk, and more”.

Read more: What is Spotify and how does it work? For the initial product launch, Spotify is giving out Car Thing for free to a limited group of Premium subscribers in the US.

It’s called Car Thing and comes with support for “Hey Spotify” voice commands. Spotify has launched a smart media player for vehicles.

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