Discover media - contacts photos and music album art?

[JoeGTI]

I realise that not many here have got their car yet, but for anyone that has - have you tried the phone / bluetooth setup?

I can't get my contacts photos to appear on the screen at all. It's not a big deal obviously but I'd be curious to see it work at least!

The bluetooth audio is far more sophisticated than it was in my GTD (the display shows artist/track names and you can skip tracks via the steering wheel controls), but again,  the album art isn't appearing for bluetooth audio tracks either. This is mostly iTunes bought music I've tried, so the album art should be "ok"?

This is with an iPhone 5 by the way. I haven't tried the SD card yet.

[Bill_the_Bear]

Joe,

I know there was a post about album art before.  I'll try searching for it in a bit.  The gist was that you need to have everything in a specific format, I think it was the m4p format that caused a problem but m4a was fine.

Bear.

EDIT:
Dammit, I know I've seen a post or maybe a video somewhere explaining the solution to this but I can't find it now.  I'll keep looking!

[JoeGTI]

Don't worry about it Bill, but thanks anyway!

[Bill_the_Bear]

Don't worry about it Bill, but thanks anyway!

Well I want the method for myself as well! hehe

This might help, but it isn't the one I was thinking of which I recall being much better:
http://www.haydnwilliams.com/blog/vw-golf-mk7-sd-cards-and-album-art

Guys, I swear there was a video posted where someone used a program convert all his music to a useful format and then to add all the artwork.  Can't find it now, can anyone help?

[p3asa]

Contact photos as in contacts from your phone?
Does it actually do this?
Now that would be really cool.

Reason I ask is my Audi has the album art and phone prep high and there is no way the photos would go from the phone to the car via RSAP. I know its a different system but I would imagine the architecture is much the same.

It would be fantastic if it could and I hope the MK7 has that capability.

[mcmaddy]

This was mentioned on another forum and its something to do with the cable that vw supply. Cable has coloured collar on it and vw one doesnt work with iphone 5 i think

[Bill_the_Bear]

Contact photos as in contacts from your phone?
Does it actually do this?
Now that would be really cool.

Reason I ask is my Audi has the album art and phone prep high and there is no way the photos would go from the phone to the car via RSAP. I know its a different system but I would imagine the architecture is much the same.

It would be fantastic if it could and I hope the MK7 has that capability.

p3asa you are a GENIUS!

I was looking for "Golf missing album art problem" but the video I am thinking of is "AUDI missing album art problem":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak6qlrbZ8PM

Ok I know this is SD cards he is talking about but I can easily see how the same problem would occur with BT or a cable if the file formats mean the media unit can't read the album art properly.

[JoeGTI]

Contact photos as in contacts from your phone?
Does it actually do this?
Now that would be really cool.

Reason I ask is my Audi has the album art and phone prep high and there is no way the photos would go from the phone to the car via RSAP. I know its a different system but I would imagine the architecture is much the same.

It would be fantastic if it could and I hope the MK7 has that capability.

It is supposed to yes! The manual specifically mentions it and in my 4 pre-saved speed dial phone favourites on the radio screen, there is a match-stick man (!!) in place of where the actual photo should be.

[JoeGTI]

This was mentioned on another forum and its something to do with the cable that vw supply. Cable has coloured collar on it and vw one doesnt work with iphone 5 i think

Yes, for the MDI maybe but I'm talking about BT audio, hence no cables at all. Track/Album/Artist names do appear, but there's just a blank generic icon in place of where the album art would be.

[Bill_the_Bear]

This was mentioned on another forum and its something to do with the cable that vw supply. Cable has coloured collar on it and vw one doesnt work with iphone 5 i think

Yes, for the MDI maybe but I'm talking about BT audio, hence no cables at all. Track/Album/Artist names do appear, but there's just a blank generic icon in place of where the album art would be.

Check that video I just posted.  I think converting itunes music from m4p into mp3 is a good place to start.  According to the video itunes doesn't embed the artwork, so you have to do that first.  Then convert to mp3.