With Bluetooth, shouldn't the head unit control the BT source?

Freiheit · 12-26-2018, 09:02 PM

My car has Bluetooth phone as well as audio. However I have to select the music "manually" by going through the Music app on my iPhone X. The sound is great, but I thought I'd be able to navigate my music library using the iDrive and/or steering wheel controls. That doesn't work. My song and artist info is up there, but no album art. I thought I remembered people here talking about album art getting displayed on their info screen.

Is my car missing some coding, or some kind of more advanced BT module?

6ixSpd · 01-01-2019, 11:06 AM

Album art is not possible on our cars with audio streaming. Only via USB or the y-cable for iPhones.

Steering wheel controls still work. Browsing/changing playlists not available.

Freiheit · 01-01-2019, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by 6ixSpd

Album art is not possible on our cars with audio streaming. Only via USB or the y-cable for iPhones.

Steering wheel controls still work. Browsing/changing playlists not available.

Interesting. I plugged the USB cable in and got nothing on the dash.

What is a "y-cable"?

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Freiheit Captain 492 Rep 675 Posts Drives: 2011 Competition Coupe Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Southeast iTrader: (0)	With Bluetooth, shouldn't the head unit control the BT source? My car has Bluetooth phone as well as audio. However I have to select the music "manually" by going through the Music app on my iPhone X. The sound is great, but I thought I'd be able to navigate my music library using the iDrive and/or steering wheel controls. That doesn't work. My song and artist info is up there, but no album art. I thought I remembered people here talking about album art getting displayed on their info screen. Is my car missing some coding, or some kind of more advanced BT module?
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