by bkenobi69 » Thu Aug 18, 2016 11:11 am
I have a 2016 Ram pickup that came with Uconnect. The vehicle can connect to media in various ways, but the 2 things I find appealing are the Bluetooth and SD/USB connections. When I connect my Android (GS5) to the truck it will generally start MMA and start playing a track (whatever I was listening to last I think) if I select play on the bluetooth media panel. I have not yet tried the SD card or USB stick interfaces, but apparently they are designed to have media installed and left without the need for a phone.
Bluetooth is great, except that it requires me to plug the phone in or it will drain the battery. This kinda defeats wireless IMO. Anyway, the issue I'm seeing is that it never shows album artwork. I have MMW set to put the artwork in tags, but the truck never seems to find the art. It sounds as though the art may need to be shrunk a bit for it to work, so I'm wondering if there's a way to do that with the MMW->MMA conversion step. The following thread indicates a pretty small pixel count (240x158).
http://jeepcherokeeclub.com/65-electron ... nnect.html
The other question is about using an SD card or USB stick. I haven't synced music to a drive/stick/card in a very long time. Is there a way to specify conversion when this is done? I need to change the album artwork to a smaller size, embed it, and transcode everything to mp3 for it to be read by the truck. I'm also not yet clear if playlists work, so it may not be ideal to go this route anyway.
I have a 2016 Ram pickup that came with Uconnect. The vehicle can connect to media in various ways, but the 2 things I find appealing are the Bluetooth and SD/USB connections. When I connect my Android (GS5) to the truck it will generally start MMA and start playing a track (whatever I was listening to last I think) if I select play on the bluetooth media panel. I have not yet tried the SD card or USB stick interfaces, but apparently they are designed to have media installed and left without the need for a phone.
Bluetooth is great, except that it requires me to plug the phone in or it will drain the battery. This kinda defeats wireless IMO. Anyway, the issue I'm seeing is that it never shows album artwork. I have MMW set to put the artwork in tags, but the truck never seems to find the art. It sounds as though the art may need to be shrunk a bit for it to work, so I'm wondering if there's a way to do that with the MMW->MMA conversion step. The following thread indicates a pretty small pixel count (240x158).
http://jeepcherokeeclub.com/65-electronics-audio-lighting/94025-sd-card-recommendations-uconnect.html
The other question is about using an SD card or USB stick. I haven't synced music to a drive/stick/card in a very long time. Is there a way to specify conversion when this is done? I need to change the album artwork to a smaller size, embed it, and transcode everything to mp3 for it to be read by the truck. I'm also not yet clear if playlists work, so it may not be ideal to go this route anyway.
