Not sure if this is the right place to post this so please feel free to direct me to a more appropriate subreddit, I was gonna post in r/askreddit or r/cars but neither one lets you post photos.

Basically it’s kind of a random question but something I’m just curious about. When I use Bluetooth in my car to play music, it will show an image on the screen depending on what the song is. Most of the time it shows the album cover from the song I’m listening to, but for some songs it will show something different. Sometimes it will show a picture of the band, a slightly different album cover, or sometimes a completely different cover art all together. For a select few songs it just shows a stock image of a musician or instrument depending on the genre, pop/rock/country etc.

Some of the times when it shows an image that’s different than the album art from Spotify, it’s an image I can’t even find on the artists Spotify account. Which begs the question, where do these pictures come from? And why don’t they just use the album cover that’s shown when you play the song on Spotify?

I attached some pics from a few songs to show what I mean. If you look you’ll see the picture that is shown on Spotify versus the pics that are on my car screen. You’ll notice in the first one it’s just the same album cover but the other ones are all different to some extent.

To be honest I have no idea why I’m curious about this, but I’d love to see if anyone knows how this stuff works and could explain it to me a bit.