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ok_woei

Reputation: 103

Does AVRCP 1.3 support album art?

Does AVRCP 1.3 support album art? Based on list of media attributes, album art is not included in the list. If AVRCP 1.3 do support album art, how do the information pass?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4539

Answers (3)

KonJarek
KonJarek

Reputation: 1

"A great many autos are actually getting the cover art via some form of onboard CDDB database like gracenote. This is NOT sent over Bluetooth." My 2013 year car (Toyota RAV4) is getting cover art from MP3 files over bluetooth, at least it was getting cover art before my phone's system has been upgraded. I don't know what version of AVRCP was using before, now only version 1.3 is working and no cover art is available anymore.

Upvotes: 0

Maxfli
Maxfli

Reputation: 41

Album Art is supported in AVRCP 1.6 and up. A great many autos are actually getting the cover art via some form of onboard CDDB database like gracenote. This is NOT sent over Bluetooth.

Upvotes: 4

D. Josefsson
D. Josefsson

Reputation: 1052

The short answer is no, it does not support album art. As you mentioned, AVRCP 1.3 does not support album art. As you mention, Appendix E: List of media attributes in AVRCP 1.3 is the source. Neiter does the latter versions.

In theory, you could use one of the reserved bytes to define your own album art metadata field. How well this would work practically would depend on a bunch of factors, e.g.

  • Both the sender and the receiver are able to interpret the new information,
  • The Bluetooth stacks on both sides allows the actual extention.

And of course, if you extend the protocol, you are not conforming with the standard anymore.

Upvotes: 3

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