Spotify is about to change your taxi ride experience once and for all. The digital music service company is teaming up with Uber to allow passengers a customized music experience during their ride. In case you didn’t know, Uber is a ridesharing service that connects riders with drivers by simply using an app, not requiring users to call a dispatcher or hail cabs, and allowing them to track their ride’s real-time location. Uber also calculates and transfers fare money electronically, preventing mishaps where one party may take advantage of the other.
Starting November 21st, Spotify, will allow riders to customize the music that plays in their Uber ride; when the driver shows up at your doorstep – your favorite song will already be playing through their speakers. Gone are the days of listening to foreign language talk shows on your way home from the bar with your friends – hurray!
The program launches this Friday in San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, Stockholm, London, Singapore, Sydney, Mexico City, and Nashville. More cities will be added to this list in the next few weeks, and even more in the new year.
All you need to use this service is to link your Uber profile and Spotify account, and you’re set (as long as the car has Spotify compatibility, which most will soon). Spotify representative, Daniel Ek said “The world is moving to having cars on demand, and Spotify is all about having music on demand. Having Spotify available in your Uber car, we think, takes Spotify to the next level”.
Don’t forget that Spotify is not accessible everywhere in the world, and you can click here to learn how to access the service worldwide, with no restrictions.
You can also watch the promo skit for the Uber/Spotify team up here:
Should you be able to control your taxi drivers music? No. Listen to your iPod if you don’t want to listen to their music. This is nonsense
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I could never care less what my cab driver is playing I just want to get to where I’m going quickly and in one piece. If anything this team-up is a safety concern. So a bunch of drunk college students call a cab, play obnoxious rap music or something, the cab driver is distracted… get’s into an accident, it’s havoc. This is not a good idea. They shouldn’t allow this. Even Uber itself is not that safe. I dislike this whole idea and wouldn’t want to use this service, nobody cares or should care what a cab plays.