11-28-2020, 10:36 PM | #1 |
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NO MUSIC COLLECTION Hard Drive?? WTF
I am awaiting my 2021 M340 and watching lots of videos on the car and the IDrive 7. Tonight I find out that it has NO hard drive to store a music collection.
Look, I KNOW I am am old school but W T F!?!?! I saved my collection from my last car on a stick so I could transfer it over and now I hear the 21 MY cars have no hard drive to store my music. That blows. MB
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Yossi can I do that? Just leave the stick plugged in and play music off of that? Please tell me that will work!
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11-29-2020, 12:58 PM | #7 |
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Sure! I have an 128GB usb pendrive plugged in and I just select it like any other audio source. Works exactly like playing files from the music collection, which now I don't use at all.
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11-29-2020, 01:36 PM | #8 |
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Definitely works, super easy to do, leave it there permanently. The placement of the USB connector does leave the thumbdrive sticking out in a very vulnerable position. I would recommend a short USB extension cable so you can leave the thumbdrive sitting low in the armrest storage area.
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I love all you guys LMAO. I was pissed about this but now not as much. Will try your recommendations when I get the car shortly and let you know how it works.
THANKS.
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11-30-2020, 03:40 AM | #11 |
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A small USB stick works great for me, I happen to use SAMSUNG Fit Plus 256GB. BMW can play MP3, FLAC and probably some more formats.
You can also check threads: USB stick size and file format? USB port for music |
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12-07-2020, 06:58 AM | #13 |
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You can get a USB-C HDD and format it I think exFAT or FAT32 and store your music on there and plug it into the port in the center storage. Hard storage of music is basically dead. Most use cloud music service now or at least load them on their phone HDD and play over bluetooth.
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Why would they put an assistant in the car so I can talk to it -- the reason apparently is so that I DO NOT have to take my hands or eyes off the road, except when I need to pick up my phone to play a song?? That makes sense, errr, oh wait.
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In some EU countries and I would imagine in many other non US countries, the apps section does not even list any streaming section. And i do not believe BMW reduced the price when omitting the HD |
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Yes I mean for the usb playback. All of the functionality is there, it is exactly the same as for hard drive which is actually useless as it's only 30GB of storage space...
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Copy all. Thanks. Will give it a try this evening. Appreciate the info.
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12-09-2020, 05:58 AM | #20 |
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The ONLY USB port in my car is in the center console near the car power port.
In the armrest I only have a Type C Port. How are you guys plugging in a USB drive into the C-Port?
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It still sucks, as the files extracted from my F30 hard drive (over 100 CD's) are in not usable format, and cannot run directly from USB, I feel lucky that my 2020 still has HD to transfer music from one car to another.
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