[Demetrius Joel]

Can someone please explain how I can get album art to show in my iDrive screen. Simplify this for me please. I have tried and to no avail. I have tech package, but no enhanced Bluetooth. Thanks in advance.

[bimmermeupscoty]

Originally Posted by Demetrius Joel

I have tech package, but no enhanced Bluetooth.

Enhance Bluetooth is part of the Tech Package, unless that was not true for the 2012 model.

Are you using the USB in the armrest? If you use Bluetooth (maybe USB too), the album art must be embedded in the song file for the iDrive to read and display it. Itunes does this using the Info tab for each song.

[OC40]

Originally Posted by Demetrius Joel

Can someone please explain how I can get album art to show in my iDrive screen. Simplify this for me please. I have tried and to no avail. I have tech package, but no enhanced Bluetooth. Thanks in advance.

USB in armrest

[Demetrius Joel]

Ok nice, next question now....how do I embed pics to the song file.

[KT_F31_EBII]

in itunes, select the songs from the whole album, Get Info and you will see a blank album art on the lower right area together with the artists and other info . go to google search for the album art, try getting a bigger pixel file, copy/drag and drop to the album art info area.

synchronise with your iphone.

I am not sure iTunes built-in album art update will be copied over but should if you use your iphone.

[Demetrius Joel]

Originally Posted by KT_F31_EBII

in itunes, select the songs from the whole album, Get Info and you will see a blank album art on the lower right area together with the artists and other info . go to google search for the album art, try getting a bigger pixel file, copy/drag and drop to the album art info area.

synchronise with your iphone.

I am not sure iTunes built-in album art update will be copied over but should if you use your iphone.

im not trying to get the album art to work with an iphone but with a usb stick in the glove box. it just doesnt seem to be working for some reason. quite frustrating.

[bimmermeupscoty]

Originally Posted by Demetrius Joel

im not trying to get the album art to work with an iphone but with a usb stick in the glove box. it just doesnt seem to be working for some reason. quite frustrating.

Are you getting music to play from the USB in the glove box? Because it is for software updates and transferring music from USB drive to built in hard drive in iDrive. I suspect you are playing music that has transferred from the USB drive to your internal hard drive. I am pretty sure that art will not display from the hard drive.

The USB in the arm rest will act like a mp3 player and allow music and display art if configured correctly.

[Demetrius Joel]

Originally Posted by bimmermeupscoty

Are you getting music to play from the USB in the glove box? Because it is for software updates and transferring music from USB drive to built in hard drive in iDrive. I suspect you are playing music that has transferred from the USB drive to your internal hard drive. I am pretty sure that art will not display from the hard drive.

The USB in the arm rest will act like a mp3 player and allow music and display art if configured correctly.

Oh ok. Yeah I upload the music from the stick to the hard drive. Now if I understand you correctly your saying if I play it straight from the stick the art will show?

[bimmermeupscoty]

Originally Posted by Demetrius Joel

Oh ok. Yeah I upload the music from the stick to the hard drive. Now if I understand you correctly your saying if I play it straight from the stick the art will show?

Yes, again if the mp3 files you use on the USB have the art embedded in the file. iTunes can do this, as I suspect many of the song management apps can do, as well.

[TonyS]

Originally Posted by Demetrius Joel

im not trying to get the album art to work with an iphone but with a usb stick in the glove box. it just doesnt seem to be working for some reason. quite frustrating.

I've been using Media Monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) for embedding the album art into the MP3 files. It's free and works a treat. This is with a USB stick plugged into the centre armrest socket like yourself.

[hanizh]

If you are using USB , it is better not to use iTunes but simpler music file editors , search for "MP3 Rename" in google and get a free trial copy of such software, you will select the files in the USB and make sure art album pictures ate attached to your files..

[free2d]

How do i delete or remove the playlists or songs in the harddisk?

[Frogman]

Originally Posted by free2d

How do i delete or remove the playlists or songs in the harddisk?

Be in the album and push the Option Button. You can rename or delete he album, or if a track is playing, you can delete the track.

Unfortunately, there is no way to edit the play list or add tracks to an existing album.

[Pauleebe]

From how I understood it, if you don't have the tech package or navigation, and thus the standard iDrive and NOT the widescreen variant, you will NOT have album art functionality.