snagitseven

The first post of this thread will guide you as to which iDevices and AMI cables can provide album art.

Janello

Question for anyone who might know- I have a 1 tera-bite external hard drive that is formatted for a mac. Can I use this to play music through the MMI?

snagitseven

I believe the drive has to be formatted in FAT32.

Janello

That's what I figured

I have a ton of music on it that I use for DJ'n. Mac will play files from fat32 but spotlight can't index them in that format. Guess I need to buy another TB hard drive to use it in the Audi.

titou43

Hello

I have read the first post and so I have understand this :
For video and so album cover it needeed this cable Ipod 4F0 051 510 R
The software of the MMI must be 0467

BUT my MMI 3G + HDD (with AMI MOST ???) have only this informations :

Version train : K0257
MU : 0187
Firmware : HNav_EU_K0257_5_D1

Could you explain where I could found the software of MMI like 0467 ?

John Simcox

Are you certain you have AMI? It is not a default if you have 3G+. Easy check is that it has the AMI socket in the rear of the storage area under the front armrest whilst non-AMI spec cars have a 3.5mm jack.

A 2012 European spec car should have a version of the firmware recent enough to support Album artwork. My own car is a May 2012 build and it is fine with artwork via AMI.

titou43

Hello it sure that I have AMI because I have a cable 4F0 051 510 K for my ipod...And I can read the album but not the cover
For the cover it needeed an 4F0 051 510 R.....

But my MMI is 3G with HDD (and not a 3G+)

So this is my question : it is possible to have the cover with MMI3G ?

John Simcox

By definition if you have the Hard Disk Navigation then you have 3G+, 3g is the SD card based navigation system. That said you can have Album Art with either system

Jerry_Maguire

I struck a new glitch with the MMI on my new 2014 A6 Prestige that it took me a while to solve.

I buy most of my music on iTunes and then copy the files to a SD card and play it from there. This always worked great for purchases until late last week when cover art stopped displaying for most new purchases. I could see the art embedded in the tags of the music files but they wouldn't display on the cars screen.

It turns out that the issue is that much new music in iTunes is being released with 1400 x 1400 pixel cover art, which is outside the specs for the car. My solution has been to copy the art from one file to Paint, reduce pixel size to 600 x 600, then select all tracks of the album, right click and "get info" then paste in the new (smaller) image. It works, but is a pain!

subterFUSE

There are programs that will scan your music files and scale down the artwork for you.