monkeydust

I haven't been able to figure out how to get Radio Text that displays song/artist information on the Presets view for regular radio stations. If I go into the manual tuning view for one of those stations, I can see the song/artist but can't figure out how to display this the same way Sirius Radio Text is displayed on the Presets view? (I'm guessing it is a bug and I'm out of luck)

mirekmal

You can't. Plain radio stations use RDS that is only capable to display whatever station transmits. And it is up to them to choose what it is, not necessarily artist/title/album data...

monkeydust

But I can see that information just fine on the manual tuning view of the station but I can't see it when I'm viewing that same station as a preset.

JGA5Cab

You will not see all that stuff the same way as the Sirius. You may see it scrolling on the station line as long as you aren't using PRESETS.

Kaitlyn2004

I noticed this problem as well - it seems as if the "station text spot" has stuck at whatever point when I added it to presets - so it is basically garbage and never been updated.

Even if I select a station from the station, it does not update.

Going out of presets I DO see this. I'm talking about FM.

This is surely an issue or something I'm misunderstanding, no?

monkeydust

Yes, that is exactly what I am talking about.

mirekmal

I believe this is 'overengineered' feature that uses current RDS data as station name while storing in presets.
Not 100% sure, but I think that while presets list on MMI is static, DIS displays in top of the screen line the real-time/dynamic RDS data. But I could be mistaken, as I use mix of presets and ad-hoc tuning to different stations.

monkeydust

Yeah, apart from the original problem that I described, it can be a bit of a pain adding a FM station to your presets because you have to time it right so you get the station name to display in your preset list and not part of the song/artist name. Took me about 5-6 tries when I was adding a new station last week.

Highpark

Talk about over engineered, on my A3 all I had to do to change the fan speed was press a button,, on the Q5 i have to press a button, turn a **** and then press a button.

JGA5Cab

I am finding that when I start the car, for awhile the station that I am actually on is not highlighted on the screen. Another goofy trait.

Another one is that when I use bluetooth streaming on my iphone, the time counter doesn't work. It works on my 2014 A5. I told the service department about it. They made some calls. No fix.