NX450h+ Gracenote Album Art Lookup

[Marc Jolly]

Hi all, does anyone know what connection is used in the NX to do album art lookups when listening to DAB radio?  I know that the car has an internal cellular connection for things such as the LexusLink app functions but does it use that for the GraceNote lookups or does it use the primary connected device (ie: iPhone) internet connection?  Trying to assist in solving an issue where DAB radio isn't showing track art.

[Al D-Much]

Didn't think DAB radio showed track art anyway.
Gracenote was always for CD's in my experience.
And that data was locally stored, and had to be updated once in a while

[Marc Jolly]

36 minutes ago, Al D-Much said:

Didn't think DAB radio showed track art anyway.
Gracenote was always for CD's in my experience.
And that data was locally stored, and had to be updated once in a while

Hi Alex,

In the new NX GraceNote's new MusicID service is linked into the car so when listening to a track on DAB it shows the track details and album art.  I believe this has now moved from local DB to Cloud connection.  Just trying to ascertain how the connection is delivered.

[Marc Jolly]

Panic over, have worked it out.  The car has two choices for connectivity for GraceNote lookup.  It can either use its internal DCM unit or if available, WiFi.  For the lookup to actually work you need to have a strong enough DAB signal to get the RDS data back, this is then used over the DCM unit (or WiFi) to lookup and download album art.  If you don't have both the strong RDS signal and also a connection over either DCM or WiFi, album art lookup will fail and it will just show the Radio Station logo.