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Hi,
when you plug you iPod into your Computer it also gets mounted as a removeable USB-Drive. You can copy some documents onto your iPod and carry them to your friends - as you would do with a normal usb stick.
When you look at the folder structure on your iPod, you'll notice some crazy filenames, wich actually are your mp3s. The filenmaes get scrambled by iTunes, but the meta-information (id3 Tags etc) is preserved within the mp3-file.
When you plug your iPod now to the USB-Connector in your BMW, it's like connecting a USB-Stick or 1,8" Harddrive. The CIC (Navsystem Computer) indexes the contents and saves the meta(!) information on a special partition on your CIC's Harddrive (as it would do with an USB-Stick).
To really copy the music onto the CIC you need to connect the USB-Device to the Port in the glove compartment.
So when you connect your iPod (FAT-Filesystem must be used on the iPod) to the front-USB-Port with the default apple cable you _only_ get the music. The Apple-Folder-Structure, like Audio-Books, Podcasts [...] is not preserved. For the real deal I strongly adivse the usage of the BMW-iPod-y-calbe.
From September onwards, BMW will install a new device into it's cars. It's called the "Combox" this unit has added office-functionality (appointments, e-mails etc. from your PDA-Phone) and more multimedia features (displays album covers on the nav-screen if embedded in the id3-tag). The combox also uses the standard appla-usb-cable to fully integrate the iPod. But again, this device will only be installed from September 2010 onwards!
bye
Darky
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