Tesla could soon support lossless content on Apple Music, according to Discord user Merk, who came across a Hi-Fi icon when listening to Apple Music over WiFi. While Apple Music isn’t the first or only Hi-Fi option, it’ll be great to see another service with high-quality streaming.
With the upcoming 2024.26 update, Tesla is adding YouTube Music and Amazon Music, so there has definitely been a recent trend to add more music services and increase Premium Connectivity usage.
Apple Hi-Fi
Given the screenshot, it seems that Tesla may support Apple Music lossless audio streaming, but this wasn’t announced in any of the release notes or anywhere else. We’re not 100% sure yet whether this is just a bug in the UI or an upcoming feature – but Merk did mention he was on WiFi when he saw it.
He also noted that it sounded clear, but it's hard to assess whether the quality is better without listening to an A:B sample of the same track – one Hi-Fi, and one regular. Apple Music as a streaming service does support a lossless high-quality streaming codec on the AAC format – Apple brought lossless music to its Android Apple Music app in 2022 for flagship Android devices that have DAC support. However, they don’t support “bit-perfect” or “true Hi-Fi” on non-Apple devices.
If you’ve seen the Apple Hi-Fi icon on your Apple Music in your Tesla, let us know on X.
What Is Hi-Fi Audio
What exactly is Hi-Fi audio you may ask? Well, here’s a short, non-audiophile rundown. There are two major types of audio – High Fidelity, and regular. High Fidelity audio is further broken down into two types – regular Hi-Fi and “bit-perfect”.
Regular Hi-Fi audio is still compressed, and some information can still be lost, but it is still higher quality than a CD or MP3 file. Meanwhile, “bit-perfect” audio is uncompressed, raw audio that should be a 1:1 match for what the studio produced and is how it is intended to be heard.
Tidal’s Hi-Fi Audio
For now, Tesla’s Hi-Fi audio choice has been limited to Tidal, a smaller, slightly lesser-known competitor to other music streaming services. While Tidal may be less known, it does bring “bit-perfect” Hi-Fi audio with it, but with some exceptions.
Hi-Fi audio on Tidal has to be downloaded in advance on WiFi and takes up space on your Tesla’s glovebox USB drive (or part of the game storage space on the internal SSD on the Models S and X). This means that while you can listen to Hi-Fi audio on Tidal, you’d have to download albums or playlists in advance, otherwise you’d get stream-quality audio.
Tesla puts a massive amount of effort into their audio engineering, so Hi-Fi music is a great benefit for Teslas.
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Tesla Investor Relations has officially confirmed that they will conduct the Robotaxi unveiling event on October 10th in Los Angeles. Event sign-up will be done using a random drawing for Tesla shareholders. The final date for entries is a week from today, on September 17th at midnight, and the selected shareholders will be announced the week of September 23rd.
Sign Up
You’ll need to own Tesla stock ($TSLA) to participate and will be required to verify your shareholder status on the Investor Relations site. The random drawing provides a better opportunity for those who hold lots of Tesla shares, as they’ll have a higher number of entries. You get one entry per confirmed share held.
At the moment, there are no details on the timing of the event, nor anything about +1 attendees. However, one item of note is that event draw winners cannot transfer their tickets to another party – which means if you get a ticket, it's for you and nobody else.
If you’re located in the United States, you can use ‘Say’ – Tesla’s Investor Relations partner – to automatically verify your shareholder status. For those outside of the United States, unless you’re trading with an American bank, you will need to provide an updated statement showing shareholder status for September 2024. Say takes about 3-5 business days to verify statements, so be sure to sign up early.
Robotaxi Event
The Robotaxi event will take place at the Warner Bros. Discovery Studios in LA, and Tesla has been pre-emptively gathering FSD data around the neighborhood. This likely means that the event will include a demonstration of Robotaxi’s capabilities and a reveal of the Robotaxi itself. We’re hoping that attendees will have the opportunity to sit in and experience Robotaxi delivering them from Point A to Point B inside of the Discovery Studios set pieces.
It’s expected to be one of Tesla’s most interesting and notable events, as this is the first reveal of the much-talked-about Robotaxi, which has been Tesla’s goal for its Full Self-Driving software since Elon Musk’s Masterplan I.
Tesla’s latest FSD update, version 2024.27.5 brings some improvements when parking your vehicle. This is another undocumented, but one we’re happy to see.
Most recently, the Cybertruck received the undocumented change for the Hands-Free Frunk opening (video below). The Cybertruck also recently received Vision Park Assist, which included steering wheel guides in the visualization showing the direction the front and rear wheels were turned. However, it turns out this isn’t just for the Cybertruck.
Update: We’ve updated this article to mention that this feature isn’t included in update 2024.32 yet.
Quick video on the auto frunk. It's literally 🧍♂️📐
Due to the Cybertruck’s unique rear-wheel steering and steer-by-wire design, Park Assist in the Cybertruck displayed the path of the front wheels, and how they would swing while reversing.
This enhancement is also coming to every Tesla vehicle in FSD 12.5.2 and later. It’s also expected to be available in a future update for non-FSD vehicles. However, it’s unclear whether it will be a later revision of update 2024.32 or the next major Tesla update. This is a neat little update, as it helps drivers better understand and predict the path their vehicle will take during a turn.
Brandon, going by @teslaflexx on X, originally spotted the new visuals recently on an AMD-based Model Y running 2024.27.5 and FSD V12.5.2.
Any vehicles who are on update 2024.27.5 or 2024.27.20 should have access to this new feature.
Looks like Cybertruck wasn’t the only vehicle to get the new guide visuals with park assist. Much better than the lines! pic.twitter.com/tF9ZsWCcWy
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