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      07-29-2014, 07:01 AM   #1
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Usb Port And Music Capacity M4

Hi guys and one know ,the capacity for the music storage ,and also i cant make my USB port work ,i tried 2 MP3 and 2 phones and no one works ,any ideas would be appreciate
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Hi guys and one know ,the capacity for the music storage ,and also i cant make my USB port work ,i tried 2 MP3 and 2 phones and no one works ,any ideas would be appreciate

My CA told me 20 GB, but you want to leave little spare capacity. I did ED and am still waiting for final delivery back here. So I have not had a chance to verify. I am expecting delivery this week and will let you know.
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      08-04-2014, 10:43 PM   #3
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Thank you ,i just got an email from my sales person ,its 14 gig and comes handy ,lots of music
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      08-05-2014, 12:35 PM   #4
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I plugged in my USB Stick (32gb) and it works. I'm not sure how full it is, but it displays all the music i have in there.
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I plugged in my USB Stick (32gb) and it works. I'm not sure how full it is, but it displays all the music i have in there.
Good to know, I guess it depends whether you want to download onto the car's harddrive or keep a thumb drive plugged in all the time.
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i found it better to download because two of the MP3s i plug wont work in the USB ,so i just use the storage for many many songs
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may be i should try a stick to see
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      08-06-2014, 07:28 AM   #8
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Good to know, I guess it depends whether you want to download onto the car's harddrive or keep a thumb drive plugged in all the time.
True. I just keep it on the external drive. It reads fast anyway (no lag) so it doesnt bother me. It also reads FLAC which is pretty great.
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True. I just keep it on the external drive. It reads fast anyway (no lag) so it doesnt bother me. It also reads FLAC which is pretty great.
Wow... it reads FLAC files! Is this on an actual external HD or a USB stick?
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True. I just keep it on the external drive. It reads fast anyway (no lag) so it doesnt bother me. It also reads FLAC which is pretty great.
What do you mean by "external drive" exactly? An actual external HDD or a USB stick? I was told never to use an external HDD in there and so this is why I'm asking.
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It also reads FLAC which is pretty great.
Fuck. I was afraid of that. It means I am even more tempted to spend (waste) quite a bit of time re-ripping my CD collection to FLAC, which are now at 320 kpbs mp3's.

Ugg.
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The iDrive system in all MY2014+ cars with the touchpad iDrive controller have 20GB of storage for music. Anything prior to that has 12.5GB of storage. BMWs never came with anything but 12.5GB or 20GB of storage. Also, filling that storage all the way shouldn't be a concern because it's not a descrete hard drive, it's just a part of the 200GB iDrive hard drive.

As for playing music, you can either load music on to a USB stick and plug that into the USB port, or you can plug in an iPhone/iPod touch/iPod or Samsung Galaxy into the USB port. If you have some other brand MP3 player, it will almost certainly NOT work if you plug it into the USB port.
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I plugged in my USB Stick (32gb) and it works. I'm not sure how full it is, but it displays all the music i have in there.
Same here. 32GB and full in 2011 335i
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What do you mean by "external drive" exactly? An actual external HDD or a USB stick? I was told never to use an external HDD in there and so this is why I'm asking.

Technically its a MicroSD card plugged into an adapter plugged into the USB slot lol.... So its essentially a USB stick.
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I've finally gotten around to testing the USB port's capabilities and it is capable of reading my 128Gb USB stick as well as all the files stored on it.
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I've finally gotten around to testing the USB port's capabilities and it is capable of reading my 128Gb USB stick as well as all the files stored on it.
MP3s? Have you tried FLAC (lossless compression)? I need to try MP3s. My FLACs don't work on my M.
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I've finally gotten around to testing the USB port's capabilities and it is capable of reading my 128Gb USB stick as well as all the files stored on it.
MP3s? Have you tried FLAC (lossless compression)? I need to try MP3s. My FLACs don't work on my M.
MP3s only. I've yet to try a video file but I'm told it'll play almost anything including mp4's so that will work for me!
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question ,is there a way to transform the mp3s to the flac files ?
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question ,is there a way to transform the mp3s to the flac files ?
Yes, but MP3 files has already been lossy-ly compressed. Turning it to FLAC will not make the sound quality better. It will only make it 15 to 20 times larger.
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Yes i understand also you cant find every type of music in Flac files
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