No album art Naim Star

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Hi everyone,

Who can tell me why the album art doesn’t appear on my Unity Star’s display when playing a CD?

Spotify does display the artwork on the display and in the Naim app.

Internet radio only shows the radio station on the Star display, but the artwork does appear in the Naim app?!

There’s something on the forum about this happening after an update. Will Naim fix this?

Who can tell me?

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CDs do not contain metadata or album art, so the Star has no idea what CD it is playing and therefore cannot show any art. Spotify streams include album art, and there is something in the iRadio streams too. Therefore everything is working as intended.

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Then an update won’t help…. I thought the Star would also connect to this data, just like playing a cd on my PC.

Could you also tell me why the album art is displayed in the Naim app on my phone when I’m listening to the radio, but not in the Star display?

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I’ve no idea, sorry.

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Interesting. I have a Core which looks like one half of the Star. It does not function as a CD player but I’ve ripped my CD collection in it and in that process it has obtained the album art for most (but not quite all) of the CDs. I has had to access an external database to do that but something must trigger that action.

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The act of ripping a CD does make the UnitiCore look for the cover artwork. It has three databases (Rovi, MusicBrainz and Free db) that it consults and often for reasons unknown by us users, it cannot find cover artwork and/or metadata. In principle it will keep looking for both if they are missing, but if you edit the metadata/cover art for a rip, then that CD is taken from the lookup schedule.

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Thanks everyone, the CD story is clear.

What I still don’t understand is the following when listening to the radio:
a picture of the radio station appears on the Naim Star’s display. At the same time,
the art album does appear on the Naim app on my iPhone. Why not on the Naim Star display?
Does anyone recognize this?

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Yes I have the same problem. This is something new as I never had this problem before