Album art should appear. I have a DAP and put it in USB drive mode and all my music showed up fine. It even has a cover flow mode like the good ol iPhones and iPods haha.
All the album art show fine in 4runnerlimited, but no album art showing on supra. The names of album, artist, and song names show up in supra. But no album art.
It sounds like the image isn't in the tag... or that there is some other issue with it if it is. While it's technically possible to embed an image of any size, it's rare for them to be too large. I did test that when I was messing around with the formats a couple years ago - but I forget what the limit was. I'd say smaller than 800X800 is plenty. It's more a matter of total image size than resolution, so bit depth matters IIRC. I think folder images will work, but must be named exactly "Folder.jpg" to work? I'm not sure if the filesystem is case-aware, but it probably is.
I'm still having a hard time figuring out. The same usb stick works fine in the 2018 4runner limited, but not in the supra. Thanks for the suggestions.It sounds like the image isn't in the tag... or that there is some other issue with it if it is. While it's technically possible to embed an image of any size, it's rare for them to be too large. I did test that when I was messing around with the formats a couple years ago - but I forget what the limit was. I'd say smaller than 800X800 is plenty. It's more a matter of total image size than resolution, so bit depth matters IIRC. I think folder images will work, but must be named exactly "Folder.jpg" to work? I'm not sure if the filesystem is case-aware, but it probably is.
You could pick up a free ID3 tag editor online (or depending on what you used to rip CDs it may have one). I've used dBPoweramp Music Converter for ~20 years now. It's not free, but it's fantastic as far as batch processing, converting, ripping, etc. - bit perfect every time. They have a trial period if you wanted to just see if they're in there (it registers an "Edit ID3 tag..." in context menu for all audio file types).
Also not sure on the 4Runner, but in my wife's RX350 there was weirdness involving folder structures... like they had to be numeric only or something (been awhile and the new one doesn't require this).
You can also probably find some help looking on BMW support forums or blogs under "iDrive 6.0 media formats" or similar searches. I spent many hours down that rat-hole... hopefully, this will save you some of the headache.
Yeah, Toyota is usually about 5 years behind BMW in technology... which should make it easier, but often does not. When I used my thumbdrive from my '16 RC-F - I didn't have artwork either... it would download generic pictures on some (just like satellite radio does) but not load from the folders. I know embedding the images works, but can't remember if renaming to "Folder.jpg" (in the root) did as well or not.
While searching Google, it seems newer toyotas did some changes on album art, and SiriusXM's art. My SiriusXM's art never shows song art, just band name and song playing. Just a SiriusXM's art banner. So who knows wtf is going on.Yeah, Toyota is usually about 5 years behind BMW in technology... which should make it easier, but often does not. When I used my thumbdrive from my '16 RC-F - I didn't have artwork either... it would download generic pictures on some (just like satellite radio does) but not load from the folders. I know embedding the images works, but can't remember if renaming to "Folder.jpg" (in the root) did as well or not.
Will that allow embedding of artwork in the tag (if not already present)? I'm pretty sure that's why mine works flawlessly now. Everything I ripped has both revisions of ID3 tagging but it still had problems until I downscaled and embedded in cover art field IIRC.
I think the downscaled photos are it. For my DAP, there's a mix of MP3s and FLACs some with the album art as a separate cover.jpg or embedded. I also had a problem seeing the album art in the player and found out that it didn't support large photos so they're all 600x600. Figuring that out probably helped the Supra display the album art additionally lol.
While there is precious little official information on the specifics of the indexing system - my guess is that it's related to the allocated space for storing data internally. Without going too far into the weeds technologically, I think the covers are actually stored as a blob and therefore have a size limit.
