sgroer

The concerning part is that this is exactly the way Android phones have always performed - native music player sends the song info, but external apps don't. Without knowing too much about it, I am concerned there is a newer protocol for sending this information from the apps that Audi does not support.

I don't know if it's related to our iOS issue, but many cars can receive Pandora track information from an Android phone, but Audi has never been able to do this. Now iOS behaves exactly the same way.

PhatBoyG

Yes, likely an API flag the application developer needs to set, Apple does this all the time with their API versioning.

organizedchaos

So this IS a known issue... I came on here hoping to inquire and found this thread which is both a relief (because I would have spent countless hours tomorrow trying to mess with settings and such), and also a disappointment at the same time.
I use Spotify on a regular basis. I can concur with the other users, that previously both track artist name, and album, both appeared while playing. Play time had never been a factor. This has definitely changed. I did just download a Spotify update on my phone this evening, but not sure how old it was and haven't had a chance to try it out, but judging by the fact that it's not working for anyone, probably won't fix anything. I seriously hope this gets fixed. I only stream music via BT, and this was one of my favorite conveniences of my car.

weth

Long story short, the music info metadata was gone after going to ios6. MMI acting funny, so I rebooted it while stopped at red light. When it came back, the metadata started showing again for iTunes music, Pandora, and podcasts on Stitcher. I'll see if it lasts.

I lost the metadata like everyone else when I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 6. Got the iPhone 5 Friday, still no metadata. Rebooted today with car running and it works for now. I'll see what happens on next restart.

lg47904

Weth,

did you do a hard reset or simply turned it off and back on?

manishaudi

Looks like everything, both Wired & Bluetooth, work in the BMW 5 Series (F30)...

check out my testing results in this thread: https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sho...7&postcount=26

weth

On the MMI I did the 3 button reset and reboot
I didn't do anything on the iPhone.

Sorry, I was not clear on what I rebooted.

billmac

So rebooting the MMI fixes the iOS 6 Bluetooth metadata issue for Pandora, etc...? Can someone confirm this? I am several hundred miles and a few days away from my A6 to try this.

Notorious Tech

I have an iPhone 5, so I tried the MMI reboot (3 buttons) and metadata is still not displayed from Pandora, or video.
I wanted to check this out for others on this forum, hope it helps. I rarely, if ever, have the MMI screen set to media while I'm driving, it's usually set to Nav so this really isn't an issue for me.

sgroer

I tried the reboot when I first came across this and it did not fix it for me. I will try an iPhone 5 tomorrow.