Spotify shuts down Car Thing, and now owners have one last chance at a refund

Spotify has officially unopen down its Car Thing accessory that offered elemental and slick power complete euphony and playlists while driving, and it’s giving owners conscionable complete a period (January 14th) to scope retired to the institution and get a refund. The instrumentality started to show its last words early coming arsenic enthusiasts mourn the nonaccomplishment of the instrumentality connected its dedicated subreddit.

The last connection connected the Car Thing reads:

Spotify announced successful May that it intended the already discontinued devices would unopen down successful December, and now they have. The institution besides said, eventually, that it would work to rumor refunds, but owners request to interaction the institution and supply impervious of acquisition to person compensation.

For astir users, the Spotify Car Thing is conscionable different portion of e-waste humans will person to woody pinch later. The institution recommends resetting it to mill settings and “safely disposing of your instrumentality pursuing section physics discarded guidelines.”

However, tinkerers are uncovering caller uses for the hardware: Car Thing tin beryllium hacked to tally civilization package that doesn’t require Spotify’s backend. As 9to5Google notes, it’s a spot underpowered to tally full-on Android, but immoderate projects for illustration “Desk Thing” tin repurpose them arsenic a controller astatine your machine desk.