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      05-07-2017, 01:14 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by beyondtheabyss View Post
I noticed that whenever I plug the phone in physically to the car, I get a pop up on the phone that asks if I want to allow the iDrive to have access to media files and I press allow. I've also noticed that I'm able to change what it has access to. Like I'm about to give it access to media files or image files or whichever. I have it set to media files but I'm not sure if that's supposed to be like that. Any insight on this?
It should not ask each time you connect device, but the first time.

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Originally Posted by larryn View Post
iDrive uses the ID3 metadata and pulls the album art from the cloud, not the device. It does teh same when listening to radio stations that provide artist/title info.
IDrive uses a combination of embedded details as well as Gracenote.
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