Humorous Album Art

[SoTX_WestTX]

 

[MGMDaware]

Here's a common one I see when listening to Audible books.

 

[SoTX_WestTX]

The photo is boring enough...the funny part is that it showed up because my phone still had Netflix pulled up to an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

 

[⚡️ELECTROMAN⚡️]

Is there no way to just turn off the album art?

 

[HankLloydRight]

Boy oh boy, for a mod, I'd think you'd know how to search for existing threads.

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/funny-model-s-album-art.37960

Feel free to merge.

 

[ohmman]

Boy oh boy, for a mod, I'd think you'd know how to search for existing threads.

Funny Model S Album Art

Feel free to merge.

I started it over a year and a half ago! I wasn't a mod then.

Also, I don't moderate Model S, so I just post all willy-nilly around these Wild West parts.

 

[HankLloydRight]

Excuses, excuses....

 

[Tysto]

I'm surprised there still isn't a fix for this another year later. I listen to podcasts all the time, and the randomness of the album art is embarrassing, especially because a Google search for "Slate Money" brings up the correct art right at the top, while even searching specifically for "Black Slate reggae album" still doesn't bring up the wild guess the Model S console displays for the Slate Money podcast.

 

[HankLloydRight]

Thanks for the thread bump, been meaning to post this gem.. I was listening to Alex Baldwin's "Here's the Thing" podcast with Jon Anderson of Yes.

The title of the podcast was: "Yes, Jon Anderson's Musical Adventure Isn't Over"

How it selected this, I'll never figure out:

Yes, my iPhone's name is HankLloydRight.

 

[HankLloydRight]

And if I google "Yes, Jon Anderson's Musical Adventure Isn't Over"

Any of the first six images would have not only been better, but accurate!

(ok, that fifth pic is Chris Squire -- but even that's 1000% better than what was displayed!)

 

[Dr. J]

I'm surprised only the two most recent comments have any ratings AT ALL, 'cause this is the funniest thing I've seen on the internets in weeks, if not months! Three thumbs up, people!

 

[Tysto]

Well, it clearly keys off the title "Here's the Thing" to find "Here I am to Worship for Kids", just like "Slate Money" gets connected to "Black Slate". So those must be in the meta data as "album title". I guess there's a cache of musical album art somewhere, and it just grabs whichever is first in the search results. It's not googling or anything.

But what's baffling is that most podcasts have album art embedded in the metadata. Every podcast player displays it! In fact, when the delivery guy was showing me the functions, we pulled up The Dana Gould Hour directly in the music function (rather than streaming from my phone), and it displayed the correct album art there on the center display...

 

[HankLloydRight]

So it does a match on the first word or two and nothing else? How freaking brain dead is that? My dog could write a better algorithm than that. And he eats his own poop.

I'm pretty sure dBase III had a SOUNDEX function that would work better. And that was 30 years ago.

 

[thecloud]

Thanks for the thread bump, been meaning to post this gem.. I was listening to Alex Baldwin's "Here's the Thing" podcast with Jon Anderson of Yes.

The title of the podcast was: "Yes, Jon Anderson's Musical Adventure Isn't Over"

Yes, my iPhone's name is HankLloydRight.

As someone whose status line is a Jon Anderson lyric, thank you for pointing out that podcast episode.
Edit: as a kid, I worshipped his music. So it's not entirely wrong.

 

[HankLloydRight]

Alex Baldwin's "Here's the Thing" is a really great podcast. He asks all the right questions that other interviewers don't ask. Sometimes he takes really odd buy very interesting deep dives into his guest's life, career, childhood, etc.

 

[GlmnAlyAirCar]

Alex Baldwin's "Here's the Thing" is a really great podcast. He asks all the right questions that other interviewers don't ask. Sometimes he takes really odd buy very interesting deep dives into his guest's life, career, childhood, etc.

Yes I have heard its a good podcast. I'll check it out...

 

[f-stop]

I'm surprised there still isn't a fix for this another year later. I listen to podcasts all the time, and the randomness of the album art is embarrassing, especially because a Google search for "Slate Money" brings up the correct art right at the top, while even searching specifically for "Black Slate reggae album" still doesn't bring up the wild guess the Model S console displays for the Slate Money podcast.

actually, I'm not surprised at all it's still not fixed, considering the general lack of attention Tesla pays to the audio player with its long list of other unresolved bugs... I agree that whatever it's doing, it's ridiculously brain dead especially considering all other podcast players correctly grab the embedded album art

sometimes it seems pretty obvious how it lazily grabs album art based on simply one or two words or numbers in the podcast's title or description, e.g. this one keyed off the numbers in the date of the New York Times' "The Daily" podcast:

but in other cases there seems to be no rhyme nor reason; I find a lot of podcasts get displayed with album art from seemingly random classical pieces:

then there's also things like this (maybe Tesla is just showing us it knows who's ahead in the current TV ratings):

 

[⚡️ELECTROMAN⚡️]

 

[SoTX_WestTX]

 

[⚡️ELECTROMAN⚡️]

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How does that get only one funny since April?