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02-20-2022, 12:57 AM | #1 |
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Sirius XM
Is this available through the head unit without android or apple car play?
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Sirius XM is a satellite system that has nothing to do with either Carplay nor Auto.
It will however require a subscription after whatever the free trial period is.
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Cool thank you for answering. I have it on my car now I wanted to see if transferring to a GR was possible. I just wasn’t sure if it was built into the head unit
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Activate it for a month, then cancel for 2 months. You'll get about 200 flyers in that 2 months to re-enable your subscription for varying deals.
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What I can't figure out is why Sirius XM believes, exclusively, that in order to compete with things like Pandora and Spotify they have to be "different" and have absolutely inane and infuriately chatty DJ's on every channel. If I could hop in my car and, without connecting my phone, listen to randomized music from a variety of genres I'd probably pay a monthly subscription for that. Because I already pay for that with Pandora's premium service that I have to connect my phone to use, and use data (or the less-random offline feature). When we bought my wife's car a few years back it came with a Sirius XM trial. We listened for a few weeks and then just used Android Auto from then on. I see the same thing happening with the GR86. I'm already sick to death of the decades-past-relevance DJs talking about everything except "that was X, up next is Y". |
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at first, it was somewhat worthwhile, as xm music channels were commercial free, and almost no dj's either. but no station played more than 20 songs of any of their respective genre-- which is my biggest pet peeve of radio.. a 'classic rock' station that spans 30 years of music, and they can distill all that down to 20 songs?!? the dj's entered the picture around the merger, and commercials shortly after. the commercials were really bad at first-- they only signed 2 advertisers so every single commercial break only had those 2 ad's on repeat... now, the only advantage to satellite radio is the fact that one doesn't need to change the station to drive across the country. but it's still listening to the same 10 songs. of course, i gave up on pandora as well-- i've got 3 different pandora accounts, each of which i attempted different techniques to find new music. they all ended up playing the same 50 songs...
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Not sure what year you have but the 2020 has exactly that feature for Sirius. You give it a pool of stations and it randomly plays from each.
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W. T. F. Yes, I'm aware I could change the channel. I'm aware there are other stations. You don't make more money if I use more channels, so why in the FLUFF are you wasting my time trying to sell me on something I already pay for? Shut up and play the next song. FFS. Quote:
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i've been told that if i work really hard to curate a spotify playlist, it'll do that. but if i'm working hard at it, i don't need an intelligent web service.
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Not a fan of satellite, tried it in another rig and let it lapse. We did find a comedy channel at that time that had someone on that made us laugh so hard on the gravel travel we had to stop.
I just use Spotify, paid subscription, any more as I create my playlists and listen to whatever I want without any commercials. Works great with the car play systems. Our tow rig has both since we have varying phones in the house. Entirely music for my car, my commute isn't long enough for podcasts or audio books long format media. |
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That said, I'm surprised they maintain their high cost. It's just not worth it even at the $70 or so per year.
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