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"radio station in the Seattle area sent image files" If that's not a sign that people are making the simplest things Way More Complicated Than Necessary(tm) I
by throwaway3kmv9 5y ago
"radio station in the Seattle area sent image files"
If that's not a sign that people are making the simplest things Way More Complicated Than Necessary(tm) I don't know what is.
- noahtallen 5y agoI mean, yes, but at the same time, album art is a pretty normal thing to have along with music. And actual cellular data is just radios, but on different wavelengths and whatnot. So it’s not really a stretch to imagine sending arbitrary data along with music over a radio wave. And some of that data is actually very useful, like the track name or artist name.
- prmoustache 5y agoYou are supposed to look at the road when driving, not a screen full of album arts.
- akira2501 5y agoMy car has four seats. Sometimes there are people in the other ones.
- austhrow743 5y agoMy car not only has four seats like this commenters, it also allows you to be in it while stationary.
- pjerem 5y agoHow lucky you are. Mine requires me to leave before stopping itself in a tree.
- Dylan16807 5y agoI'll let the inventors of television know they were making a mistake. And ID3.
- akira2501 5y agoIronically.. HD-Radio PSD (Program Services Data) is just a set of ID3 tags injected into the stream.
- consp 5y agoI don't know if that is true. Considering one of the issues with Mazda is text parsing. My ford doesn't transfer all the epg data from the radio module to the media unit and it requires a several hundred mb update when radio stations change their logo as people now expect radio station images since it is part of the dab standard.
- JohnBooty 5y agoWait, what? The station logos are preloaded as part of software updates, not transferred over the air?
- JohnBooty 5y agoMy wife's car has the HD Radio stuff, and it's pretty neat to see album art for songs playing over the radio. I don't find it distracting. I treat it like everything else on the dashboard and I don't look at it unless I'm at a stoplight or whatever.