Question on Bluetooth streaming

[Sootchucker]

Hi all, we recently got back from a Florida holiday where we were really lucky and got a free car upgrade from our booked Santa-Fa SUV (or similar), to a brand new Range Rover Sport 3.0L.

One thing I quickly noticed about the RR was that after I’d paired my phone (either my personal Samsung Galaxy S9 or my works Apple IPhone XR that I’d taken with me) with the car, when streaming via Bluetooth from say Spotify, within a second or so of music starting, all the cover art showed up on the cars infotainment screen.

However on my 2018 GTI (MK7.5), when I stream via bluetooth, I get no album art at all. Obviously both phones are capable of sending the information (as it displayed in the RR), but nothing in the Golf ? Is this a hardware limitation of the Bluetooth module in the car or the streaming protocols that VW uses ?

[fredgroves]

Just be something VW haven't bothered to write.

The Mk9 Golf will have it :-)

[Brenbo]

Without checking the specs of the golf and Range Rover, it could even be that the Range Rover has a later version of Bluetooth i.e. 5.0 rather than 4.0 and later versions of the codecs that go with it, for example; AptX, AptX HD, Ldac etc,.

[DaveA]

It could also be that the RR is running some form of connected services and is pulling artwork down from the internet...

[Catnapper]

I was going to mention if you have WLAN connected, maybe it can download then.

[Sootchucker]

ASAIK, the RR was internet connected (I never established an WLAN connection with my phone, and the "On-Line services" were off line in the car.)

I guess it's as others have said, VW (as usual) implemented an older version of the Bluetooth standard ?