03-08-2023, 08:00 AM | #1 |
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Album artwork and reindexing in iDrive 8
Some of my album artwork was not showing in id8 even after I spent hours with the mp3tag app making sure they are all there.
After some experimenting I found that a max pixel size under 1000 for the longest edge (I used 950) for the artwork will always work. Previously I had some artwork at 1200 pixels - for whatever reason. (some legit, some not...) Also - I found that changing the volume label of the USB device would force a re-index and that is the only way the new art will come up. Otherwise Idrive will just use the cached metadata and not show the resized artwork. Hope this saves some time and frustration for somebody
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03-08-2023, 01:43 PM | #2 |
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Do you know how to get artwork on radio stations?
Out of 30 stations only 1 one is showing artwork for the station logo and the cd cover when playing. The rest are just bmw geometric graphics. In Mercedes all the stations have graphics so it is not the station fault. |
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Same with the BMW. I get some.
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I never run the media player full screen - so not an issue. An album artwork provides no "useful information" and I just like to see as many things as possible on that nice big screen
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I attempted to update the album art for about 30 songs, 3 times (using 1500 pixels, 900 pixels, 500 pixels) and was unsuccessful each time. Tried different pixels and my BMW wouldn’t recognize any changes. (I used Windows Media Player to update the album art - no other software) I finally read your post and tried to rename the USB key. That seems to have done the trick. I ended up using 1000 pixels to be safe. Thanks again as it took me a couple hours making new photos/updating the usb and going in and out of the car. Appreciate it 👍 |
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Pro tip: For any of you guys with a Mac and your music stored in iTunes, I highly recommend a nice little cheap ($5 IIRC) app in the App Store called Export for iTunes. It will resize your artwork as well as do a ton of other useful stuff, like exporting playlists.
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