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USB Music - cover art

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Funny that the cover art is the flaw that gets all the attention. At least that has a plausible explanation in that it was disabled to reduce the type of eMMC NAND flash memory writes that were causing failures.

What about the fact that it doesn't scroll to the right letter? And when you go "back" from an artist it goes back to A instead of going back to the artist you were browsing? So you have to scroll to the wrong letter all over again. And then even if you do find the artist you're looking for, you can't even play by artist - only by album.

Not being able to play the band you want to play is by far the worst flaw in Tesla's pathetic attempt to reinvent the MP3 music selection technology that was perfected in the 1990's. Is the intern in charge of this really that dumb? If so, why do they keep getting brought back every summer?

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The latest update (2021.12.25.6 for me) broke something else.

I leave the mini player up on the screen (still leaves plenty of visual for the map but lets you see what track is playing). You USED to be able to tap where the cover art should be and it would bring the viewer to about half screen (with more info available), tap again and it brought up full screen, and finally tap again to go back to mini.

That functionality is now gone.
 
Here is a dumb question, why can it display cover art when streaming a song and not affect the eMMC, and yet displaying the USB cover art apparently writes to the eMMC, if that is the explanation for disabling USB cover art? Why can't it display USB cover art without writing to the eMMC? Sorry if this is too stupid.
 
Here is a dumb question, why can it display cover art when streaming a song and not affect the eMMC, and yet displaying the USB cover art apparently writes to the eMMC, if that is the explanation for disabling USB cover art? Why can't it display USB cover art without writing to the eMMC? Sorry if this is too stupid.
Concerns over eMMC is just speculation. People are trying to find a reason why Tesla could have done this on purpose. I will just throw out some other speculative reasons:
#1: Copyright concerns over cover art?
#2: Tesla doesn't want people to be able to display arbitrary images on their Tesla screen?
#3: Some random "bug" they haven't had time to fix?
 
Pure speculation:
1. When you insert a USB drive, the software “indexes” it - looks at each individual file to learn title, artist, genre, cover art, etc so it can provide a list of music sorted the way you’d like to see it.
2. When the computer goes to sleep, they need to store this information some place so they don’t have to re-index every time you get in the car. Tesla for some reason doesn’t want to write to your USB music drive, so they were storing that information on eMMC or some other internal storage medium.
3. To reduce the space needed on that internal storage, they choose to eliminate the cover art, which likely takes 100 times more space to store than all the other info.
4. Now, there are much more logical and simple) ways that they could solve this issue if the USB music Player was of any priority to them. Obviously it isn’t, so don’t expect any solution to this problem any time in the near future.
 
Pure speculation:
1. When you insert a USB drive, the software “indexes” it - looks at each individual file to learn title, artist, genre, cover art, etc so it can provide a list of music sorted the way you’d like to see it.
2. When the computer goes to sleep, they need to store this information some place so they don’t have to re-index every time you get in the car. Tesla for some reason doesn’t want to write to your USB music drive, so they were storing that information on eMMC or some other internal storage medium.
3. To reduce the space needed on that internal storage, they choose to eliminate the cover art, which likely takes 100 times more space to store than all the other info.
4. Now, there are much more logical and simple) ways that they could solve this issue if the USB music Player was of any priority to them. Obviously it isn’t, so don’t expect any solution to this problem any time in the near future.

Nah, it's simply BAD programming on Tesla's part. :mad:
Every other portable music player on the market does just fine with less memory and far less processing power.