[MBM340]

Originally Posted by Aero7000

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.
I do have USB stick with newer music, but restoring old collection would be pain in the A'.
Not cool

I resemble that remark...

[greekcs]

did they just eliminate the music partition on the hard drive?

[MBM340]

[QUOTE=greekcs;27010451]did they just eliminate the music partition on the hard drive?[/QUOT

I was told no one used or asked for it anymore so they eliminatied the hard drive. I don't believe that. I know there are enough of us old people who drive these things that having somewhere to store music can't be that difficult to provide, and I wonder if all the other 5, 6, and 7 series have it eliminated as well. Does anyone know?

[yaholez]

I don't understand what's so hard about buying either an external HD or a high capacity USB stick and plugging it into one of the many USB ports?

That also allows you to upgrade capacity in 5 years or as required incredibly easily.

A previous car I owned had a hard drive that held 128MB (yes megabytes). If it was an external drive connected by USB it could have easily been upgraded, but because it was built in there was no ability to add more space and it was pretty much redundant.

[MBM340]

Originally Posted by yaholez

I don't understand what's so hard about buying either an external HD or a high capacity USB stick and plugging it into one of the many USB ports?

That also allows you to upgrade capacity in 5 years or as required incredibly easily.

A previous car I owned had a hard drive that held 128MB (yes megabytes). If it was an external drive connected by USB it could have easily been upgraded, but because it was built in there was no ability to add more space and it was pretty much redundant.

I am burning all of my music to USB Sticks from CDs but I was told earlier in this thread and in a few other threads that I can't control what song I am playing...haven't tried it yet but are you saying you can just pick a song off of the USB and play it?

[Aero7000]

Originally Posted by yaholez

I don't understand what's so hard about buying either an external HD or a high capacity USB stick and plugging it into one of the many USB ports?
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It is not hard...it is the fact that when you extract over 100 CD's to the USB from your previous BMW HD, it is extracted in a useless format that cannot be played, but it can be downloaded on the HD in you next car.
It worked perfectly in my 2020 M340i, but it will be lost in the next one, unless BMW provide the way to extract them as usable files.

[blazesquall]

Well that sucks.

I use it on my 2020. Does reading from a USB have any issues? Does it scale well? Can it index gigabytes of audio for voice search? Cover art?

[SBS Slamm SBS Shorty\]

I have been trying to play high rez but will not read the drives and the ones it does read i do not see my folders if i play them on other media players no issues

cd always worked fine

whats the biggest dr i can use i stream shows and would like to listen to them but cant

[G22b58]

For audio I only use MP3. (The UM says it can play MP3, MP4, M4A, M4B, AAC, WMA, FLAC). Don't know the maximum bit rate.
Video plays (MP4) which according to file properties use 2Mbps and a total file size of 1.5GByte. The UM is a bit cryptic what it means with "maximum 128GB".
Perhaps that is maximum drive size?
I use a 64GB stick formatted in NTFS.
The UM is however clear about the information that can be stored in the system: 16000 titles per drive and 40000 in total.

[ramparts]

A good option might be a used iPhone with decent capacity and CarPlay support.

Then you can basically keep it in the car like an "ipod"

[Trex]

Dare I ask if an iPod can be plugged in?

[ramparts]

You can yes ! But they won't support CarPlay, only the idrive management

[Rawhide]

Originally Posted by SBS Slamm SBS Shorty\

he ones it does read i do not see my folders

This. It reads the flash drive fine, but the folders are gone. It's just one giant unmanaged list of hundreds of songs. I traded in a 2018 Charger that was able to read these folders just fine. Very annoying.

[G22b58]

Originally Posted by Rawhide

This. It reads the flash drive fine, but the folders are gone. It's just one giant unmanaged list of hundreds of songs. ,,,.

Do you access the USB menmory via the "Folder" function? Note that there are several ways to filter in iDrive. E.g.:

Titles: You get all music from the drive in one list, disregarding the folder structure. This is the way to play it all (shuffled or not).

Folders: You get a list of titles from the folder you opened. At least this works in my 2021 Cockpit Pro. I use folder names including spaces and drives formatted in NTFS.

Playlist: If you put an "m3u" (simple text file "nnn.m3u" will do) on the drive (I have it at the root level), with relative paths to the files, the menu choice "Playlists" will be shown under "Search".

[Rawhide]

Originally Posted by G22b58

Do you access the USB menmory via the "Folder" function? Note that there are several ways to filter in iDrive.

No folder option:

[G22b58]

Originally Posted by Rawhide

No folder option:

Press "Search" and scroll down.

[Rawhide]

Originally Posted by G22b58

Press "Search" and scroll down.

THANK YOU!

Did not see that. Still learning my new toy.