Proton has announced that it will be migrating its online music streaming service to Joox Music from March 27, which is tomorrow. The outgoing Unlimited Music service will be suspended on the midnight of March 31. Both are under the Tencent umbrella.
Proton will release an over-the-air (OTA) update from tomorrow for the Proton X70, Persona Premium, Iriz Premium and Exora Premium models – more on the OTA update process below.
Joox is described as a free-to-use music streaming platform with a library containing over 30 million songs. One can log in to the Joox app on the smartphone and pair it with the car’s infotainment system. Of course, you can create playlists from the many songs on the platform.
Here’s how the OTA update process works. Upon starting the vehicle, an update prompt window will pop-up automatically within 30 seconds if there is a new GKUI software version available. Select “Go to upgrade” to download the update patch. The system will then auto download the package. Once that’s complete, select “Update now” then select “Confirm update” to install.
Once the installation is complete, the system will restart automatically. Make sure you do not switch off the engine at any point. For the final step, select the “Settings” icon on the homepage then select “Restore factory settings” to restart the head unit. Note that all stored data will be erased, including personal settings for Baidu offline maps, Bluetooth devices and radio/music preferences, among others. You’re now on Version 2.6.5 (F9).
With your car ready to pair, you’ll need to download the Joox Music app from Google Play or the App Store, register and login. Now, on your car’s infotainment unit, select the Joox icon and as this is a first time login, a QR code will appear. Scan the QR code with your phone’s Joox app and you’re good to go.
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Looking Good… thx China.
Most importantly FOC to 30mil songs, Wow! Not like Mazda & BMW that you need to pay for these kinda upgrades. Well done Proton!
RM15.00 per month for ala Spotify Premium I heard… heck I will just go with standard then. Hope the library is better.
I hope the update also comes with the patch to fix the issue whereby Proton Link is unable to get the X70 status and location on demand.
Too many problems with the QR scan process for Joox….too complicated, not user friendly, requires hp to login, not recommended since some customers dont hv a compatible hp….not a good idea to use QR code to login…password via email or whatsapp would hv been a better choice….and still cannot login bcoz QR reader has problems.
The newly introduced Joox is sucked. The apps keep asking me to subscribe their ViP package. Not user friendly.
Joox sucks… select the music not the correct song, it will shuffling itself, how to turn it off?????
Please don’t integrate such a lousy app in Proton, premium version of proton but giving such a lousy music app??