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FM radio has track/album art, as does DAB+, but not DAB? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org to c/dabradio@feddit.uk

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I just had a quick look at how album art on a per-track basis reaches tuners. In the US, analog FM radio gets it through a side-channel.. a separate signal called HD radio.

And apparently DAB+ incorporates album art into the signal. This seems to be the difference between DAB and DAB+. I guess the question is, does the HD radio side channel approach ever happen with DAB (non-plus)?

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Plain DAB and DAB+ are identical - DAB+ just uses AAC instead of MP2. So whatever works on DAB+ will on DAB too.

I've never seen album art on any station, although I'm aware there is a slideshow (I'm not sure if that's the correct name) feature for images. I've not seen it used.