Didn't know the radio can display song titles

TwinPowerF30 · 02-12-2010, 01:04 AM

I always knew that it displays the title of the station but today I noticed it showed the song title.

OwnAge · 02-12-2010, 02:08 AM

veightkiller · 02-12-2010, 02:38 AM

yup

2kaccordocoupe · 02-12-2010, 05:43 AM

I'm sure you will find out alot of other things you didn't know as well.

who's ur daddy? · 02-12-2010, 06:09 AM

Hey, I didn't know our cars had radio. Gonna check mine!

Edit: yup, I've got a radio too! Wahooo! Made my day.

samej · 02-12-2010, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by who's ur daddy?

Hey, I didn't know our cars had radio. Gonna check mine!

Edit: yup, I've got a radio too! Wahooo! Made my day.

LOL. The radio also displays the weather if your stations broadcast it.

pdude · 02-12-2010, 09:47 AM

Does the radio display time elapsed on an MP3 song? Especially when doing a FFWD?

mimik · 02-12-2010, 09:56 AM

It depends on the radio station. Not all stations display that information.

DESI4life10 · 02-12-2010, 10:19 AM

I noticed this too the other day. I know for a fact that z103.5 didn't have this a couple weeks back but found out during my long drives this week, that it displays the song title.

Good find for sure. Thanks

SilverEmu · 02-12-2010, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by mimik

It depends on the radio station. Not all stations display that information.

I think it's true, it's called RDS (Radio Data System) and it has to be broadcasted by the radio station. The car radio has to be RDS enabled - which it is. Nice little feature.

ians · 02-12-2010, 11:07 AM

I wish the idrive screen able to display unicode character! I hate all my song become ???????? on the display!

BimmerDom · 02-12-2010, 01:11 PM

1990 calling weiweiwei!!

BTW: if you press the left and right arrow together, this enables the little known Teleport feature... very handy when I'm running late

pdude · 02-12-2010, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by BimmerDom

1990 calling weiweiwei!!

BTW: if you press the left and right arrow together, this enables the little known Teleport feature... very handy when I'm running late

I'm going to try this... but how do I get the MP3 track time?

discoboy1 · 02-12-2010, 02:23 PM

Is that a dealer programmed option?

Quote:

Originally Posted by SilverEmu

I think it's true, it's called RDS (Radio Data System) and it has to be broadcasted by the radio station. The car radio has to be RDS enabled - which it is. Nice little feature.

SilverEmu · 02-12-2010, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by discoboy1

Is that a dealer programmed option?

It's a built-in feature of the radio, as far as I know. But it only works if the information is being broadcasted by the specific radio station you are listening to.

2kaccordocoupe · 02-12-2010, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SilverEmu

It's a built-in feature of the radio, as far as I know. But it only works if the information is being broadcasted by the specific radio station you are listening to.

Correct

Taryon · 02-12-2010, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by DESI4life10

I noticed this too the other day. I know for a fact that z103.5 didn't have this a couple weeks back but found out during my long drives this week, that it displays the song title.

Good find for sure. Thanks

Yeah. I noticed this too. For the longest time, 103.5 didn't have any text show up but in the last week or so, I've seen the "Press Your Luck" text and song titles.

Hedges · 02-12-2010, 06:52 PM

Welcome to the future of technology

Oulixes · 02-12-2010, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by weiweiwei

I always knew that it displays the title of the station but today I noticed it showed the song title.

The song title display is standard on cars with steptronics.

wrickem · 02-12-2010, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Oulixes

The song title display is standard on cars with steptronics.

But you have to be sure that your headlight switch is set to "auto"

JHFW89225 · 02-12-2010, 09:50 PM

i just realized that yesterday too lol

driftdriven · 02-12-2010, 10:08 PM

Just for all you people that are not from Vancouver, we never had the title display till recently....but thanks for being jackasses!

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