(Tip) Displaying Bluetooth Audio Album Art

[northernstar]

One day, I got annoyed by how the album cover suddenly disappeared when I was playing Bluetooth-connected music (Youtube Music).

It turned out that the Bluetooth AVRCP 1.6 and up supports the album art, and my phone (Google Pixel Pro 8)'s AVRCP was set at 1.5 as default.

In Android devices, the AVRCP setting is hidden inside the developer options.
To enable the Developer Option on Android devices, go to the settings, find the Build number, and tap it seven times.

 

[Nitemist]

I'm reading that v1.6 is very meta data heavy and could degrade audio quality due to less bandwidth availability or something like that. Curious if you notice any audio degradation by switching to v1.6 that could make it not worthwhile.

 

[patmac]

Wow! Had no idea this option was in there. Thanks for sharing!

 

[northernstar]

I'm reading that v1.6 is very meta data heavy and could degrade audio quality due to less bandwidth availability or something like that. Curious if you notice any audio degradation by switching to v1.6 that could make it not worthwhile.

Hmm... Not really.
This is how my phone adjusts when connected to Air.

Standard AAC bitrate format...
Don't really have high expectations as we all know Bluetooth audio is lossless format to begin with.

I am however intrigued to try my other phone, Xperia 1ii as it supports Dolby Atmos and LDAC.

 

[newlucidguy]

dude - P8P new lucid right here. TY for this, will check it out!

 

[newlucidguy]

thanks .. unfortunately didn't work for me .. I changed the setting and still no album art from YT Music. Not sure why, I disconnected and reconnected and also rebooted the car infotainment but no luck. not sure why, maybe it'll come through next time.

 

[northernstar]

thanks .. unfortunately didn't work for me .. I changed the setting and still no album art from YT Music. Not sure why, I disconnected and reconnected and also rebooted the car infotainment but no luck. not sure why, maybe it'll come through next time.

I see you've reset the vehicle and disconnected/reconnected the Bluetooth.

If you haven't done it yet, may I suggest you reboot the phone device completely, remove the phone from the vehicle (Bluetooth:forget), and re-add it?