Four years after its untimely demise, Spotify Car Thing is back, for free, and with absolutely no help from the streaming giant itself

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Aug 17, 2026, 6:15 am95 ptsTrending
Car Thing display dongles are currently e-waste... ... but this new software online lets you revive them Created by fan engineers to bring back old tech It's been several years since Spotify killed off its Car Thing auto dongle, bricking devices which customers owned, and some users have never forgiven the…

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