[Silverage2]

No matter how I setup the media widget to display the radio information I can’t get it to display all the RDS / radio text information for the station and it cuts it off rather than scrolling it or moving the rest of it onto a new line.

This is worst with music stations that have radio text for the currently playing track and at least half of it will be cut off. Am I missing something in the setup or is it just poor design?

[srbs73]

I will take a look tomorrow. Does it happen if its a full sized widget?

[Burnzie’s BM]

Yeah, this has been one of my pet peeves since receiving my car.

If a title of a song is over so many letters we only Partially see the playing song title.

I’ve been in cars half the cost of the new 3 series and all the info scrolls across the screen.

As above, if I’m missing something so I can see all the track detail I’d love to know.

Note: this happens on the main screen and the screen through the steering wheel.

[Silverage2]

Originally Posted by srbs73

I will take a look tomorrow. Does it happen if its a full sized widget?

I reckon if you could set the widget to take up the entire width of the screen it would display correctly, but once again as far as I can see this is not possible. Even away from the widget screens using the radio display in media, the best you can do is get the station info (truncated) on the left and a list of other stations on the right.

Interestingly, when I’ve seen pictures of this with US versions of the car, it looks to be displaying correctly. Maybe their system is different.

[srbs73]

You're right, it doesn't scroll across. Not helped by some stations prefixing the song with "Now Playing on XYZ:"!

You would have thought this would be fixed in newer software releases.

[Silverage2]

So it’s not possible to set either the widget or the radio station display to use the full width of the screen? That would solve the problem.

[Silverage2]

I’m not sure how well I’m explaining this so hopefully here’s a couple of examples of the problem.

[mofomat]

There are so many things wrong with iDrive 7 and the LIVE COCKPIT, this should be added on to a long, long list.

[danorman777]

And can you stop the pop up for the volume when you change it? I have stopped the gesture control one but cannot turn off the media volume one? Any ideas?

[Tam the Bam]

Originally Posted by danorman777

And can you stop the pop up for the volume when you change it? I have stopped the gesture control one but cannot turn off the media volume one? Any ideas?

I think it needs to be coded.

Bimmercode do it..

[danorman777]

Thanks Tam. It is looking like I am going to have to invest in Bimmercode and an OBD adapter. Which one do you use to access as many options as possible please?

[MNMN]

Hey Peeps. Has anyone found a fix for this please? If not how do I register this as an issue? (Newbie obviously )

[mhk1058]

Originally Posted by Silverage2

No matter how I setup the media widget to display the radio information I can’t get it to display all the RDS / radio text information for the station and it cuts it off rather than scrolling it or moving the rest of it onto a new line.

This is worst with music stations that have radio text for the currently playing track and at least half of it will be cut off. Am I missing something in the setup or is it just poor design?

Is this what you mean? I find this very frustrating. So much space on that screen and someone missed this, crazy! My last car, a 2018 BMW 320i Touring had a problem where DAB radio wouldn't display radio text at all, yet it did on FM, equal nonsense that was never sorted. I was looking forward to a fix on the new car. No such luck, seeing part of it is no better than seeing non of it.

[Rhino at Work]

I'm surprised they don't have it like the map view where the right hand options bar disappears when you don't need it. That would surely help a bit.

[P-ToK72]

I also find it frustrating that the BMW system doesn’t display the DAB radio station logos for many of the stations.

With a previous Mk7 Golf GTD all were displayed so why can’t BMW do that too?

[Timurhan]

I realise that this is an old post, but the fact is the problem still exists! I have the software version 11/2022.58. It is very annoying as there does not appear any configuration setting that can help. Unfortunately iDrive will not allow full screen configurations. My Alfa Romeo Giulia used a marquee type of sideway scrolling to show the full singer and song title! You would think that someone in BMW would notice this and surely, the fix cannot be hard...

[thescouselander]

Yes, this is very annoying but idrive has been this way for a long time. I can only assume BMW think we don't need to see all the RDS info. Very poor though - the radio display in my wife's Fiesta puts the BMW one to shame.

[paulockenden]

Same with song titles in the Spotify app. I’m guessing the idrive coding libraries don’t have a scrolling text function.

[CarsAndGuitars]

I have a 22 M240i with idrive 7 and also am frustrated by this issue. My wife has a 2023 330i with idrive 8. The Media screen is like a billboard, with practically enough room to scroll the lyrics if they wanted too. I don't need this kind of screen real estate, but certain they could extend or wrap the space for the song title in idrive 7. Kind of baffling why it is like this.