MMI Album Art

[takaonna]

Hi, I have an 2015 A3. I connect through bluetooth but album art on mmi wont show but instead it shows a generic musicalnote music logo. Also tried an aux even thought I know it wont transfer album art but again it wont change. How can I see album art of the song I listen on the MMI?
Thanks!

 

[steverobertsbbc]

Not sure if it will even work over Bluetooth, but the restrictions on album art for the MMI are max 500x500 pixels and max 200kB file size. If it's from iTunes you might also find it doesn't actually have embedded art anyway, as iTunes by default keeps art separately. You would need to pull out each album's art from iTunes album info, resize it, delete the original art from album info and then drag the new back into the album info, which will actually embed it.

 

[steverobertsbbc]

Just a continuation, I just played music off my iPhone into my 2014 Audio sound System MMI and all I got was the artist, album and track text. Not even the musical note logo. All the music in my phone is fully MMI compliant with regards to artwork, so I guess it's a non-starter.

My solution was the make all my iTunes content MMI compliant and then copy the entirety of the iTunes Music folder onto a 128GB SD card and insert that into the slot in the glovebox, which works perfectly.

 

[takaonna]

Just a continuation, I just played music off my iPhone into my 2014 Audio sound System MMI and all I got was the artist, album and track text. Not even the musical note logo. All the music in my phone is fully MMI compliant with regards to artwork, so I guess it's a non-starter.

My solution was the make all my iTunes content MMI compliant and then copy the entirety of the iTunes Music folder onto a 128GB SD card and insert that into the slot in the glovebox, which works perfectly.

Just relaized that I dont even have the musical note logo. Only the name, artist

 

[JohnM100]

When I had my PFL I rarely used Bluetooth for music as the Apple Bluetooth audio codecs of the time weren’t great.

I did put tracks from my iTunes library onto SD card with artwork embedded in the track metadata/exif and the MMI displayed artwork within the image size limitations stated previously.

 

[MattDC]

I noticed on my PFL, when I had MIB1, I was only getting album art for some but not all my music, and some of it had different artwork than was in my music. Seems artwork is not transmitted over Bluetooth at all, but because I had the MIB High system, the Harman headunit had a Gracenote database in it. So it matched saved album art to song/artist/album data of my music. The reason it didn't display artwork for all my music was the database had only been updated to 2014 - any music after that date didn't have anything to match to. And the reason some artwork was different was because of what the Gracenote database was programmed with.

I switched to MIB2 now, and only use CarPlay for music playback anyway.

 

[Wibbly]

I only get artwork if I play music via the SD card. Never seen it work over Bluetooth.

 

[steverobertsbbc]

SD card is a good way to go, IMO. mp3tag is a really useful program, as it allows you to go through all your albums one by one just clicking on a track randomly within the album to see if there is artwork embedded. If there wasn't, I'd drag that album's artwork out of iTunes onto my desktop, delete the artwork from the album and drag it back in again from the desktop - this is the bit that actually embeds the art into the tracks, rather than pull it from iTunes artwork folder. Once you have art for every album, you can select every track in the library in mp3tag and use Actions > Actions (Quick) > Adjust Cover to automatically apply the MMI size limits and resize every track's artwork to be a maximum of 500x500.