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I really feel like I'm missing something fundamental.

My music/entertainment listening falls roughly into these categories:

Good:
- Podcasts (40%) - Works fine via bluetooth and I fast-forward with the upper-right display.

Bad:
- Specific song/album/artist/podcast (20%) - Alexa got this right almost every time. Hey Lucid is is 1 out of 10. Alternative, as far as I can tell, is to type into search interface.
- Radio (20%) - No easy way to switch between favorites other than look down at the screen.
- News/weather (20%) - The first thing I did every morning since I've had my Lucid was said, "Alexa, news brief". Hey Lucid tells me to tune into a local radio station.

I can use Alexa on my phone but it tends to stop when my screen sleeps.

I read the thread about ending Alexa and how most of you all thought it was for the better.

What is the better way?
 
If you're an Android user, you're going to find this completely unhelpful. But CarPlay (with Hey, Siri) works perfectly for me.

Once Android Auto ships (soon?), you'll have a much better voice option as well.

If you are accustomed to using your voice to pick music, this is the current state of affairs. Hey Lucid is an infant. There will be growing pains, for sure. I do think it will get better though.

I generally listen to podcasts, which is super easy, since I just continue whatever I was listening to on my phone via CarPlay and run through my queue. For music, I tend to listen to complete albums, so I don't mind hunting through my collection to find an album every 40-60 minutes. If you like picking tunes as you go, yeah, the current interfaces aren't super great. I know Apple Music has a feature where you can pick one song, then start a "station" based on that song. I assume Tidal and Spotify have a similar feature? That way, the algorithm picks for you.

I know that's not super helpful.
 
Thanks. Kind of what I figured. I'm Android so I suppose I'm SOL for now (would have been nice to delay removing Alexa).

On the plus side my kids love to ask Hey Lucid to play a song and see what random thing it will play instead (usually something explicit).
 
beardad said:
I really feel like I'm missing something fundamental.

My music/entertainment listening falls roughly into these categories:

Good:
- Podcasts (40%) - Works fine via bluetooth and I fast-forward with the upper-right display.

Bad:
- Specific song/album/artist/podcast (20%) - Alexa got this right almost every time. Hey Lucid is is 1 out of 10. Alternative, as far as I can tell, is to type into search interface.
- Radio (20%) - No easy way to switch between favorites other than look down at the screen.
- News/weather (20%) - The first thing I did every morning since I've had my Lucid was said, "Alexa, news brief". Hey Lucid tells me to tune into a local radio station.

I can use Alexa on my phone but it tends to stop when my screen sleeps.

I read the thread about ending Alexa and how most of you all thought it was for the better.

What is the better way?
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Yeah same boat here and hope they fix the situation in the upcoming releases. Navigating Sirius is really confusing whether with the in car display or three app through carlink. I do miss steering wheel controls to surf channels. Also the controls don't work with carlink either which is a real shame.
 
I actually use flac files on a USB drive for most of my listening. The other 25% is via Apple Music and CarPlay
 
I've used FLAC but radio is horrible. No reception no way to organize favorites. I usually arrange preselects geographically from NYC at the bottom to Canada at the top. Lucid has them in frequency order which means I'm scrolling through a mix of stations from around the corner to 350 miles away. Reception is also quite bad.
 
Here's how I play music in my Lucid GT: Dolby Surreal Sound Pro + Tidal + ATMOS

Go out to closed garage at about 2 or 3 am. Enter car, adjust seat and climate. Turn on audio system, select Tidal, select Atmos mix. Sit in center back seat.

Much discussed in the archives here. Several members are music professionals.
 
Here's how I play music in my Lucid GT: Dolby Surreal Sound Pro (+box with 2 subs and a 1200W Amp):
  1. Tidal
  2. TuneIn
Waiting for AA
 
I use only Tidal for my music and I have a Playlist with over 3000 Dolby Atmos recordings. I use CarPlay for my audio books.
 
SaratogaLefty said:
I use only Tidal for my music and I have a Playlist with over 3000 Dolby Atmos recordings. I use CarPlay for my audio books.
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Are you able to get non-clean versions of Atmos songs? My biggest gripe with Tidal was when I was searching for Atmos albums to add to my library, it was ALWAYS the clean version and not explicit. I hate clean versions
 
JGard18 said:
Are you able to get non-clean versions of Atmos songs? My biggest gripe with Tidal was when I was searching for Atmos albums to add to my library, it was ALWAYS the clean version and not explicit. I hate clean versions
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I'm not sure what you mean by "clean" versions?? I don't listen to Rap or Hip Hop (showing my age) so most of the music I listen to is "clean" if you are referring to use of "salty" language. I have a fondness for Country Music and some of it is occasionally "salty".
 
SaratogaLefty said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "clean" versions?? I don't listen to Rap or Hip Hop (showing my age) so most of the music I listen to is "clean" if you are referring to use of "salty" language. I have a fondness for Country Music and some of it is occasionally "salty".
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Yeah, believe it or not, lots of music that isn't rap or hip hop has cursing in it. But yes, I mean music with swearing. If an artist has made something to sound a specific way, that's the way I want to hear it. I listen mostly to punk but there are pop artists in my library (Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo) who also curse in their music
 
JGard18 said:
Yeah, believe it or not, lots of music that isn't rap or hip hop has cursing in it. But yes, I mean music with swearing. If an artist has made something to sound a specific way, that's the way I want to hear it. I listen mostly to punk but there are pop artists in my library (Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo) who also curse in their music
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I haven't had a problem finding explicit content songs. Have you tried searching how I've previously described?
Post in thread 'Why does Tidal make it hard to find Dolby Atmos music' https://lucidowners.com/threads/why...rd-to-find-dolby-atmos-music.6311/post-149281
 
JGard18 said:
But yes, I mean music with swearing.
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Please, we say salty here. :p

But yeah I haven’t had any issues finding Atmos music for my potty mouth tastes

I look under the Genre usually
 

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I haven't had a problem finding explicit content songs. Have you tried searching how I've previously described?
Post in thread 'Why does Tidal make it hard to find Dolby Atmos music' https://lucidowners.com/threads/why...rd-to-find-dolby-atmos-music.6311/post-149281
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Nope, never saw that. Perhaps I'll try again later, though. I was searching and finding Atmos tracks (well, albums, I mostly listen to full albums, not singles) and there was never any designation on whether it was clean or explicit
 
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