Broadcasting image/logo through FM RDS

[alcyone]

Sorry for all the questions. I'm glad this forum exists. Just wondering if anyone knows if there's any PC software that can broadcast a station logo via RDS. I noticed on commercial radio stations they have their logo appear on a capable radio. I would like to do the same thing.

[Slim Jim]

Curious. Which country are you in?

You actually saw this? Don't know which RDS encoder can send a picture nor which FM receiver can display one.

[alcyone]

I'm in the US. I saw this on a friend's car radio several years ago! It actually came up with the station logo and everything. Perhaps the logos were pre programmed into flash memory or it was getting the logo through cell data via bluetooth connection. Not sure.... I guess I was mistaken for thinking it was done through RDS.

[Slim Jim]

Ok but I wasn't saying it's impossible, just that I've never seen it.

Could be pre-programmed into the radio I suppose. Or could it have been satellite radio? That would make more sense.

[alcyone]

It definitely wasn't satellite radio. I'm guessing it was pre-programmed and downloaded into the radio.

[Slim Jim]

You piqued my curiosity so had to research this.

You're right. Some car radios (definitely those fitted to newer VW and Audi cars) have built-in station logo libraries.

There's a menu option to find logos by country and region which can either be switched on or off.

Default is off but some dealers switch them on pre delivery and others don't. It's confusing a lot of owners!

Interesting, thanks.

[chanito]

image and or logo distribution is part of the "Station Logo" functionality of HD radio. It is not an RDS/RBDS function. Other HD radio services include "Artist Experience" which displays album art, etc.

[mcgyver5]

This subject just got more interesting due to jalopnik.com/a-weird-radio-glitch-has-mazda-owners-stuck-listening-t-1848506850 in which a radio station sent an image file with malformed filename and it caused car radios to become stuck or worse. Based on this thread, I think the glitch was in HD radio rather than RDS, right? I bet there will be more of these now.