my app-based Sirius/XM trial impressions listening to Octane & its derivatives (Deep Cuts, Test Drive, Just Music) for 30 days: The online-only channels have the added benefit of being able to skip songs, but it's still a playlist & it's still clearly using the standard corporate radio algorithm to rotate a current 50-100 songs + a few throwbacks that get overplayed for a few weeks until their play score drops enough for them to get pulled from rotation then a new group rotates in.
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Each channel has a different group of songs, but because the genre overlaps, there's duplicates between stations, and you get repeats if you listen to the same station for more than a few hours. I'm guessing this is probably an artifact of their licensing model.
I definitely discovered some new music, but I'm honestly not sure why this still exists other than inertia subscriptions, and I have no clue why Tesla added it in 2024.
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Its only application is for vehicles where the existing head unit has SXM but not Bluetooth or aux, or people traveling in fringe mobile coverage areas that also don't have music downloaded for offline play. Otherwise, it's just corporate radio with a different transport method.
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If you're using the SXM app, you still need mobile data, the I ❤️ Radio app kinda does the same thing format-wise, albeit with commercials and possibly irrelevant local stuff. Otherwise any number of paid-tier streaming services would give you most of the same curated-ish playlists for new music discovery but also better control over what you listen to.
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