Dogger_Dog

The update didn't work for me.

Thanks briandoc! I'll give this a try over the weekend. I doubt it will fix anything, but it's worth a shot. Also, I'm going to try one last thing for my USB drive (again, a 128 GB about half full). Currently inside each album folder I have the cover art saved as two files: "cover.jpg" and "folder.jpg." Sometimes even that doesn't work. HOWEVER, I noticed the other day I was listening to a song where the song name and the album name were identical, and just for that one song only, the album art pulled from my USB drive properly, and not from the Gracenote database. So my theory is this. Change your actual mp3 file name to look like this: "Album Name - Track# - Song Name.mp3" My theory is as long as the actual album name is the first part of the song's filename, it will pull in the album art properly. I discovered this because that's how bandcamp.com's downloads are formatted, and it worked like a charm for an album that is only sold on bandcamp and there isn't a snowball's chance in hell Gracenote would ever know about it (it's from a band my realtor plays in). I'll circle back here if it works.

Gotcha. Also, I finally checked "Display album art," and it it enables/disables all album art, whether from the ID3 tag or from Gracenote. Maybe my USB drive is too large (128 GBs, but only about 66 GBs full), but do you guys have latency issues with your USB source? It takes mine anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes before the full drive is available to browse or listen to. What that means to me is that my Subie indexes the drive every time I power the car on, and not saving an index file somewhere on the drive itself or wherever. It can be a bit aggravating to have to wait, especially if I'm just going a few blocks or whatever. I also notice that I cannot power off the audio while the rear camera is in operation. If I need to kill the audio while it is on (only in reverse), I have to turn the volume knob down to "0" which isn't the same thing as powering it off. A minor nitpick, but I'm curious if others have noticed the same thing, or if it's just my car. Tks.

Yeah, I feel the same way. In fact, not a week goes by that I don't learn something new about it. I also find myself noodling through the settings at long stoplights. Yesterday I saw a checkbox somewhere in the menus that was for enabling or disabling album art. I was tempted to disable album art, wondering if perhaps they mean disabling GRACENOTE's attempts to access album art, but the light turned green before I could make the change, and it won't let me change anything once in motion. So I'll try that, and if it works, repost the results. Also, what's that little micro-SD card slot for above the tuner knob? I'm afraid if I open it, it will seriously mess things up. Is that where downloaded map data for the sat-nav system is stored or something?

Do any of you know how to disable the car's attempts to use the Gracenote database? Here's why... A). It does not work over Bluetooth, which I use the most (Spotify). Okay, that's not entirely true - sometimes it imports the artist picture (not the album picture) for very, very, very, very popular music, but I pretty much only listen to esoteric progressive rock, so it never works. B). I bought a 128 GB USB stick, and converted all my FLAC files to mp3, and while doing that, I put all album covers into each album's folder as both "cover.jpg" and "folder.jpg" (just to be sure) and I also used MediaMonkey to load the album cover into the each file's ID3 tag. (So, I'm triple-covered). It works pretty well about 90% of the time, but there are instances where the Gracenote DB overrides my personal album cover that I loaded into the file's directory/ID3 tag, and it ticks me off royally. I looked around inside my car's vehicle, audio, and general settings but I can't find a place where I can disable all Gracenote access attempts, because I want to be able to control the album art myself (for example: it might go looking for Gazpacho's "Tick Tock" album cover from its original release in 2009, but the band changed the album cover for the 2016 remaster, so I loaded up the remaster album cover into my directory/ID3 tag, so I don't want it to go looking for the old album cover in the Gracenote DB, if that makes sense). Info: I have the 2016 Legacy 2.5i Limited w/ the 7" screen, sat-nav, and H/K audio system Thanks!