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Hi,

I was in a friends car recently and noticed on his dash in the virtual cockpit he had the current track playing on the dab in the centre. But on my a3 it doesn’t appear. I’ve looked through most the settings and cannot find anything. (Photos attached) when I’m playing music through CarPlay the track that’s currently playing appears but no on fm or dab.View attachment IMG_7110.jpegView attachment IMG_7109.jpeg

Help with be appreciated.
 
One reason is the radio station itself, not all of them broadcast the song and artist info. Some others do and they show on the dash.
 
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I recently noticed one station I was listening to didn't display the artist but most of the others I listen to did. I concluded it was an issue with that one station not transmitting the data.

Strange if none of them show artist information on yours.
 
On a slightly different (but related) note - has anyone worked out how to get album artwork onto the home screen of the MMI when using a usb stick for music ?
 
Chingy5 said:
I’ve tried multiple stations and nothing appears on the dash
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Maybe try toggling the views in MMI radio app, it affects to dash view also. You could also try what the "view" button or the roll on the steering wheel do when you got the radio playing. It looks like now you've got some favourites list showing, even though there's only one station name showing up, and that's not the view of the active station which should be the one showing the "now playing" info.
 
LesleyG said:
On a slightly different (but related) note - has anyone worked out how to get album artwork onto the home screen of the MMI when using a usb stick for music ?
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This has been discussed previously although seems it was on the 8V - It's something to do with the size of the Artwork and how it's stored in a folder - If you search Album Artwork on MMI under 8V forum you'll see lots of people who had the same issue - Assume the same problems apply to the 8Y but don't know for sure

Hope that helps
 
Fiddled my radio and display settings today. It seems I was wrong yesterday, the playing song info only seems to show on the MMI screen. I always keep the drive computer on my dash and sometimes noticed the CarPlay song info does show there if I toggle the dash tabs. Somehow I remembered seeing similar when playing radio too but couldn't get it show so maybe I just misremembered...

Did your friend have the same virtual cockpit or was it the wider version? It has wider options for what to display.
 
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JKP said:
Fiddled my radio and display settings today. It seems I was wrong yesterday, the playing song info only seems to show on the MMI screen. I always keep the drive computer on my dash and sometimes noticed the CarPlay song info does show there if I toggle the dash tabs. Somehow I remembered seeing similar when playing radio too but couldn't get it show so maybe I just misremembered...

Did your friend have the same virtual cockpit or was it the wider version? It has wider options for what to display.
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I was wrong too. I rechecked mine this morning and I get the artist info only on the MMI screen and not the cockpit view.
 
Sparks43 said:
This has been discussed previously although seems it was on the 8V - It's something to do with the size of the Artwork and how it's stored in a folder - If you search Album Artwork on MMI under 8V forum you'll see lots of people who had the same issue - Assume the same problems apply to the 8Y but don't know for sure

Hope that helps
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Thanks, i was able to get the artwork on my last 2021 8y with no issues but on my 2024 8y it just isn’t happening for some reason. When i click into the track list the artwork is all there fine, but on the homescreen nothing ! Another gremlin methinks !
 
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