Playing from USB (flash drive) and folder icons

FlightSoftware · 02-14-2016, 08:46 AM

I can't get my folder.jpg images to display when playing music. They're currently 200x200 JPEGs. Anyone else see album art? If so, what size / name are your album art images?

Tridon · 06-20-2017, 10:14 AM

Were you able to figure this out? I'd like to know as well so I can have the album art displayed instead of the music note icon.

SuperSound · 06-20-2017, 10:56 AM

You have to embed the album art into the mp3. I do not believe it will use a folder containing them. I use a free program called mp3tag to do so. It will even help you find some album art by using Amazon's database.

danomar · 06-20-2017, 03:10 PM

AFAIK album art is drawn from the Gracenote database, accessed (I think) via OnStar. I am fairly certain that metadata from a USB folder will not display.

SuperSound · 06-20-2017, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by danomar

AFAIK album art is drawn from the Gracenote database, accessed (I think) via OnStar. I am fairly certain that metadata from a USB folder will not display.

Partially correct. Gracenote is used (not sure if it uses OnStar LTE connection but I suspect so) if it doesn't find embedded album art. But it will look to the file itself first. I did have some issues with it not wanting to use my embedded artwork when my OnStar data was active but not since (which tells me they are related). But I also dumped my XM around the same time. Most of the music I listen to is not in Gracenote and my embedded artwork definitely shows up. So at least it will work that way. Just not heard any success with linking it to a folder containing the artwork.

Tridon · 06-20-2017, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperSound

You have to embed the album art into the mp3. I do not believe it will use a folder containing them. I use a free program called mp3tag to do so. It will even help you find some album art by using Amazon's database.

Downloaded MP3TAG and it's a great little program and easy to use. Since all my ripped music is in separate album folders, I can just select those songs and add the album art to all of them at the same time. It will even embed album art into lossless files which is what I want. I want to use lossless so I can have great sound on my home system, and still use my USB drive in my car.

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Tridon Drives: 2017 2LT RS Hyper Blue Metallic V6 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 92 View My Garage	Were you able to figure this out? I'd like to know as well so I can have the album art displayed instead of the music note icon.

06-20-2017, 03:10 PM	#4
danomar Drives: 2017 2LT V6 Join Date: Nov 2016 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 97	AFAIK album art is drawn from the Gracenote database, accessed (I think) via OnStar. I am fairly certain that metadata from a USB folder will not display.

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