Album artwork selection is still hilariously bad

[cmal]

Tesla automatically picks album artwork for music/podcasts/audiobooks that are playing over bluetooth. Whatever algorithm they use to do this is completely nuts, even after the V9 update.

I'm listening to an audiobook about the fall of the Roman republic, and it displays the cover art from some obscure compilation of cheesy love songs. I guess one of the songs on that album has a title loosely matching the name of the audiobook.

Does anyone else have any examples of ridiculous album artwork showing up?

 

[drklain]

I listen to MLB games via the MLB app bluetoothed to the Tesla. Those are just hilarious as far as album artwork goes. Closest is when listening to any game the Yankees are playing...the artwork is invariably "Damn Yankees"....

 

[renambot]

Yes, Album art for podcast over Bluetooth is still ridiculously bad.
It is supported in the bluetooth protocol specification (AVRCP 1.6). Tesla would have to implement it.

 

[ironwaffle]

Tesla automatically picks album artwork for music/podcasts/audiobooks that are playing over bluetooth. Whatever algorithm they use to do this is completely nuts, even after the V9 update.

I'm listening to an audiobook about the fall of the Roman republic, and it displays the cover art from some obscure compilation of cheesy love songs. I guess one of the songs on that album has a title loosely matching the name of the audiobook.

Does anyone else have any examples of ridiculous album artwork showing up?
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Minor as this is, it boggles my mind that they don’t have a line of code to check file artwork before going to “album art r us” to display the wrong artwork. It’s my number one non-safety/non-workflow desire that they fix this.

It’s particularly frustrating since I put significant effort into tagging my music (including but not limited to artwork). Sometimes the artwork even changes between songs on the same album. But, yes, podcasts are particularly bad — and funny in the process.

Aesthetics aside, it’s a shame since I believe that the “art” is actually a valuable visual cue that can help in peripheral view when driving a death chariot at high speeds or in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

 

[f-stop]

Tesla automatically picks album artwork for music/podcasts/audiobooks that are playing over bluetooth. Whatever algorithm they use to do this is completely nuts, even after the V9 update.

I'm listening to an audiobook about the fall of the Roman republic, and it displays the cover art from some obscure compilation of cheesy love songs. I guess one of the songs on that album has a title loosely matching the name of the audiobook.

Does anyone else have any examples of ridiculous album artwork showing up?
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not surprising but looks like no progress on this very old bug, some other examples in this thread started a few years ago
Humorous Album Art

 

[Tim-in-CA]

I didn't realize that they did this for BT audio, kinda wish that they "picked" album art for Sirius XM music. The metadata is all there and should be a trivial task. Better than looking at a gray square!

 

[jjanov79]

For the first time V9 consistently displays the correct art from Spotify using an iPhone XS max on iOS 12. I have not tested with other streaming services or podcasts.

 

[emmz0r]

When it comes to bluetooth, I believe even the appropriate cover art is sent over as an image as well. So there should be no problem to actually use the correct one.

Specifying Cover Art Over Bluetooth | Tesla

 

[f205v]

I made an (involuntary) test this morning.
Yesterday night I was listening to one of my MP3s from the USB stick, the cover art displayed was NOT the one embedded in the file. I parked in an underground parking space 2 floors below street level where there is no cellular connection or wi-fi of any kind.
This morning I got to the car, my mobile phone was off, so the car was completely isolated from any connection. Started the car and BOOM the cover art embedded in the file was displayed!
Drove out of the parking lot, and a new song starts as I'm getting into the street, again embedded cover art is displayed! (cellular connection was not yet re-established)
After a few minutes of driving a third song starts playing and BOOOHO the cover art displayed is NOT the one embedded in the file.
So the car is clearly getting the cover arts from the internet whenever there is connection, and reading the embedded one only when connection is missing.

 

[f205v]

To add some more info to the previous post.
I made another experiment: removed the USB stick with the MP3s, and copied them with my home PC from the USB stick to my phone (android).
Went to the car, connect the phone to the car via bluetooth, NO USB stick, and start playing music from the phone.
First thing I notice is that, despite having on the phone the same exact collection of file as it was on the USB stick, the functions available are even less then before: i.e. no selection per album / folder / singer etc. and no possibility to play them sequentially/random/repeat. It plays random and that's it.
Second thing about the art covers: it clearly gets the covers from the web, because my phone was displaying the embedded cover, and at the same time Tesla screen was showing a different art cover (sometime a cover completely out of context, like it was playing "Kiss" by Price (*) and the car was showing a cover art from a '90s disco mix!!!)
Not only, but if for whatever reason it could not find a cover on the web (connection was good, it was really a problem of finding a match) it was displaying an empty rectangle, instead of the embedded cover.
This is a further confirmation that the embedded artworks ONLY gets displayed when connection is missing. If a connection is available it will always retrive from the web, and if it can not find a match it will display an empty space.

Sorry tesla, I love your cars, but in the media player you badly suck!

(*) comments on my music taste will be directed to dev/null.

 

[Naekuh]

Well the title of the song and the album art cover share a interesting cross point...

lol... the best of love is the storm before the storm, and it is the end of what normal in your life was. lol....

 

[Lex]

I've previously asked for one simple thing here, to at least let us tap the image to turn it off, to at least temporarily switch that one (crazy) auto selection to a generic (safe) image. They're too busy working on the next set of icon designs lol

 

[f205v]

First thing I notice is that, despite having on the phone the same exact collection of file as it was on the USB stick, the functions available are even less then before: i.e. no selection per album / folder / singer etc. and no possibility to play them sequentially/random/repeat. It plays random and that's it.

I stand partially corrected.
After fiddling a little more with the media player, I found out that the above functions are still available, but they have to be controlled by the PHONE media player, not by car's one! Basically, when playing MP3s from the phone memory it is really the phone playing them, not the car.
The car is just a gigantic bluetooth external speaker with the bare minimum controls: back / forward / play pause
All the rest is done with the phone mediaplayer.

 

[renambot]

The car is just a gigantic bluetooth external speaker with the bare minimum controls: back / forward / play pause
All the rest is done with the phone mediaplayer.

Yes, but the bluetooth protocol allows for media exchange: see List of Bluetooth profiles - Wikipedia

 

[cmal]

Looks like someone on Reddit found an even funnier example. Sort of NSFW:
It would be so much simpler for Tesla to just grab the album art from my iPhone... but it chooses to do this! Family in the car was not amused. • r/teslamotors

 

[PhilDavid]

Does anyone know the bit-rate for Tesla Bluetooth audio?

 

[Altes]

Does anyone know the bit-rate for Tesla Bluetooth audio?

If you ask tesla support they will send you your slacker login for tesla. You can then go online and up the bitrate for slacker to 320kbps

 

[cmal]

If you ask tesla support they will send you your slacker login for tesla. You can then go online and up the bitrate for slacker to 320kbps

I don't think the Slacker bitrate has anything to do with the bluetooth bitrate.

 

[Altes]

Well apparently this is not true...
strava | July 25, 2018
I did turn on the Max Audio Quality as described by @TeslaTap.com but didn't notice much difference. According to Slacker's reply, Tesla doesn't play higher bitrate audio no matter plus or premium membership.

 

[PhilDavid]

If you ask tesla support they will send you your slacker login for tesla. You can then go online and up the bitrate for slacker to 320kbps

That's good to know. Is the default 160?