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Tesla doesn't either.

Tesla can read your music from USB flash drives. This is wonderful, because they have a premium audio system (used to cost $2500) and you could play high-quality music.

You could load a drive with FLAC or Apple Lossless music and play it back without MP3 lossiness and artifacts.

Yet album art? they do not care.

Here's a thread on how the USB player is a buggy unsupported mess. It recently lost the ability to display album art, but there are plenty of other problems (like no playlist support or any number of other problems)

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/comprehensive-usb-bu...

This thread has > 2000 posts going back 5 years and it is updated almost daily.

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Can you hear the difference between 320 kbit/s mp3 and lossless formats?

Even if I could I genuinely don't care.

And more specific: with car audio and on a busy road

Nope, but storage is so cheap who cares? might as well keep the lossless

I can't even hear the difference between 128 and 320 :|

I read somewhere that younger people (I guess Millenials that grew up with Napster) might prefer 128kbps to lossless in blind audio tests because it sound better to them — artifacts and all — as it's what they are used to.

Anyone has the source for this?

Probably not in a car, but playing back 320kbit MP3s on a large sound system (eg djing in a club) is noticeably different to lossless or even to better lossless formats.

Post your ABX logs.

oh probably not. (Maybe lower bitrates, especially when you're just stopped sitting in the car charging on a trip).

The comparison should really be usb vs phone+bluetooth, the radio and streaming.

A USB flash drive is: bigger, holds the music you want to play, skips and seeks instantly, and "theoretically" can be organized how you like it.

I say "theoretically" because there are plenty of other bugs with tag grouping and sorting that disorganize your music for you.

I just wrote a python script to retag all my music. As to FLAC/Apple Lossless - it's nice not to have to resample the music too.

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