[Q] enable a2dp metadata? - Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
today I bought a bluetooth module (Alpine KCE-400BT) for my in-car Headunit (Alpine CDE-9882Ri). The device, which apparently uses "parrot" technology is A2DP and AVRCP compatible, streaming music and controlling playback is possible from the Headunit and working fine. However, the phone seems not to transmit metadata to the bluetooth module as the headunit always displays "ARTIST" "ALBUM" or "SONG". I have noticed the same issue in a few of my friends cars, whereas their phones (Sony Erricson, iPhone) transmitted the metadata just fine.
Is there some registry key that enables transmission of metadata? WP7 apparently has support for AVRCP v1.3 (according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2449475/de) which has this feature, as does the Bluetooth module, but why is this disabled?

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