02-24-2012, 12:00 AM | #1 |
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Gracenote Media upgrade for entertainment system
I have a 2011 X-6 5.0i with premium sound. When I load newer CD's it will not pick up the album title or individual song track names. I can load the same artist and record company CD that is older and it picks up all the data. Someone told me I need to get a software update from Gracenote Media which will capture this data. My dealer claims he loaded an update but nothing changed.
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02-24-2012, 08:06 PM | #2 |
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As I understand it, Gracenote updates are not retroactive; in other words, an update will not change or add information to music that is already on the car's hard drive (the database is only accessed at the time the CD is ripped to the car's hard drive). So, in order for the update to apply, you have to delete the music from the car's hard drive and then re-rip it to the car. If it still doesn't work, then it is possible that the CD is newer than the dealer's update, in which case you'd have to wait for yet another update that hopefully has the CD's information in it.
A work around is to use a computer ripping program to make non-protected WMA, AAC, or MP3 files of the new audio CD, include the genre/song/album/artist data with those files, and then upload the files to the car's hard drive. Importing those kinds of files, as opposed to CDs, isn't dependent upon the Gracenote database, so the data should be there. Hope this helps! |
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Thanks for your feedback. I'll give that a try over the weekend. I corresponeded with Gracemedia today and they also said it depends how oftern the OEM updates their software with Gracemedia. Different auto companies do it at different intervals according to their individual contracts. They did not know the plan BMW had with Gracenote.
I'll post any new information I receive. I also went to the BMW software update site and it said no updates available. However my X-6 is a 2011 model and was built in March 2010. The site said updates were for cars built after March 2010 so I may have missed that cut off. |
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