Does your Gracenote work?

[Jon7190]

Not a 50 Years specific issue, but I figured I'd ask this here first, since everyone has a 2015 model (the only year with MFT system). The system settings has a Gracenote on/off setting. My wife's 2016 Toyota Highlander has Gracenote, which I believe is the gadget that identifies what artist/song/album is playing and even supplies a relevant picture, and does so whether you're playing a CD or bluetooth.

My question is: does your car do this? Mine does not, and I can't tell any change whether the Gracenote is set to on or off. I'm wondering if I have something set wrong or if it just doesn't work. I did update the system with the download from Ford.

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[Mike Pfeifer]

Not a 50 Years specific issue, but I figured I'd ask this here first, since everyone has a 2015 model (the only year with MFT system). The system settings has a Gracenote on/off setting. My wife's 2016 Toyota Highlander has Gracenote, which I believe is the gadget that identifies what artist/song/album is playing and even supplies a relevant picture, and does so whether you're playing a CD or bluetooth.

My question is: does your car do this? Mine does not, and I can't tell any change whether the Gracenote is set to on or off. I'm wondering if I have something set wrong or if it just doesn't work. I did update the system with the download from Ford.

I’m not sure how the ford one worked from 2015, but BMW did that for a few years and it had a few updates during that time, but not many. So essentially, you are probably limited to the database the car came with. So new re-releases (like the endless remasters that keep coming out), obscure releases, and of course anything released after the car was, is probably not going to work. Also, not sure on the ford, but the Bluetooth stuff should all just be in the metadata and pull the info that way.

 

[MD18EcoStang]

My 2013 Fusion had it and my 14 Fusion does, too. It never seemed to do a damn thing. Maybe I just listen to weird music.

 

[Unbridled5.0]

Grace??

She passed away 30 years ago..

 

[Jon7190]

I’m not sure how the ford one worked from 2015, but BMW did that for a few years and it had a few updates during that time, but not many. So essentially, you are probably limited to the database the car came with. So new re-releases (like the endless remasters that keep coming out), obscure releases, and of course anything released after the car was, is probably not going to work. Also, not sure on the ford, but the Bluetooth stuff should all just be in the metadata and pull the info that way.

I don't think it's an update issue because I've listened to lots of mainstream CDs from 2015 or earlier and it's never populated any info with them.

On Bluetooth it does populate all the info in the file, and it also does on CDs that have their own labeling. On the Toyota, it seems to be internet powered because it will label and picture anything, no matter how new. Even obscure stuff, if it is commercially released (i.e. has a bar code), it can identify it.

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