Discover media - contacts photos and music album art?

[mcmaddy]

George how many cables are supplied from the factory? just the wrong blue one or blue one and USB?

[allycat45]

Just got my red one from Amazon today from the link posted on page 18. As discussed it works properly and shows the cover art.

I did ask the salesman about them letting me have one when he called on Monday to check everything was ok with the car after i collected on Friday. He called me yesterday and left a message saying:

"that he had checked with parts and they knew about it and i was correct in that the red collar one would show cover art and possibly also play mp4 videos. The lead comes in the car from the factory and the dealer can't control if it is red or blue. If i want one it will be about £26-ish. However parts are unable to obtain one at the moment because the part number is not available for ordering."     Go figure.

Oh how I wanted to ring them when i got home tonight and say "well the guy on Amazon must have them all then ...".

NB also discovered tonight that you can change track forwards and backwards by swiping across the screen over the track info and covert art. That's pretty cool.

[George k]

George how many cables are supplied from the factory? just the wrong blue one or blue one and USB?

Just the blue one

[Aidey]

i should keep my usb cable from my mk6 then?

[SF-GTD]

I collected my GTD on Wednesday and spoke to the salesman about the iPod cable.  He said that the blue cable was coming through with cars as standard, but the Pro Nav cars were arriving with red and blue cables.  I asked if he would swap my blue one for the red and he did that no problem.

[CraigW]

I collected my GTD on Wednesday and spoke to the salesman about the iPod cable.  He said that the blue cable was coming through with cars as standard, but the Pro Nav cars were arriving with red and blue cables.  I asked if he would swap my blue one for the red and he did that no problem.

That sounds about right 

[SF-GTD]

I should mention that I have attached the red lead to my iPhone 5 using the Apple lightning adapter and it works perfectly.  I can play my music and podcasts through the stereo complete with artwork.  I can't play any videos though, but I believe that's a limitation of the Apple connector that causes that.

[MM087]

Does the Artwork show on Screen or do you need the Pro Nav for this ?

[allycat45]

Does the Artwork show on Screen or do you need the Pro Nav for this ?

You don't need Nav or Nav Pro. It shows the cover art on the main infotainment screen along with track, album and artist names on the standard Composition Media system as well as on the Discover Nav and Discover Nav Pro systems. This is with a red collared cable and an iphone or ipod. It does not show cover art through a blue collared lead, nor through bluetooth connection to an iphone. It will show cover art from mp3 files on an SD card as long as the cover art has been embedded at the right size in the mp3 file - read earlier parts of this topic for the details on that.

[mcmaddy]

I collected my GTD on Wednesday and spoke to the salesman about the iPod cable.  He said that the blue cable was coming through with cars as standard, but the Pro Nav cars were arriving with red and blue cables.  I asked if he would swap my blue one for the red and he did that no problem.

must be certain garages then because mine only came with the blue one and I've got nav pro. got one no problem from the salesman but he wants the blue one back.