Jun 13, 2013 Due to the format differences from the IPOD/itunes and BMW hard drive there is now way to directly download in either direction from or to an IPOD to the BMW hardrive. I believe on your model this depends on production of the vehicle the hard drive is only able to download and can not upload.
07-16-2009, 05:10 PM
Managing music. BMW X3 / BMW X3 iDrive Owners Manual / Entertainment / CD/multimedia / Music collection / Managing music. Renaming an album. The name of the album, if available, is automatically entered when the album is stored. Drive-off assistant This system supports driving away on gradients. The parking brake is not required. Nov 07, 2013 I just got a new laptop with a solid-state drive that's much smaller than my old computer's hard drive, so I'll have to move my music and movies to an external hard drive. Can I still play them in. Copy music from the external drive to music folder and make sure that folder is set to monitor by Windows Media player. To add or remove folders follow the below steps: b. Click Tools in Windows Media player. Then select Options. Click the Library tab. Oct 04, 2009 How to transfer ipod music into bmw x5? Once you find it in the iDrive, the system will then transfer all the files into a folder on the hard drive in the car. They can be WMA, MP3, or AAC. However, it will not play back protected files, like M4P you buy off iTunes, only store them. But it will play back M4A files.
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At first I had a hard time figuring this out even with the cars manual, but eventually learned how to do it.
I know a lot of people on here that has this feature that couldn't understand how so this post is to help them.
(Picture numbering sequence is left to right.)
1. First you obviously turn on your car and take the flash drive (pic 1)
2. MP3 music on it installed to the flash drive plug it in the USB slot located in the glove box (pic 2).
NOTE: make sure you insert the flash drive up-side down since this is the way BMW made the port, at least on mine.
3. Move your idrive to the main menu and select the CD / Multimedia and click it (pic 3).
4. Move your idrive knob to External Device and click it (pic 4).
5. Move your idrive knob to the USB symbol ( it will be greyed out, so don't worry ) and use the shortcut button 'option' click it (pic 5).
6. Move your idrive knob to Import/export and click it (pic 6).
7. Move the idrive knob to Import Music (USB) and click it (pic 7).
8. The Transfer should start and when your done it will show 100% and you click the 'ok' on the screen (pic 8).
9. Now hit menu button again and go to CD / Multimedia > Music collection and you will see your transfer called USB 1 (pic 9).
I know a lot of people on here that has this feature that couldn't understand how so this post is to help them.
(Picture numbering sequence is left to right.)
1. First you obviously turn on your car and take the flash drive (pic 1)
2. MP3 music on it installed to the flash drive plug it in the USB slot located in the glove box (pic 2).
NOTE: make sure you insert the flash drive up-side down since this is the way BMW made the port, at least on mine.
3. Move your idrive to the main menu and select the CD / Multimedia and click it (pic 3).
4. Move your idrive knob to External Device and click it (pic 4).
5. Move your idrive knob to the USB symbol ( it will be greyed out, so don't worry ) and use the shortcut button 'option' click it (pic 5).
6. Move your idrive knob to Import/export and click it (pic 6).
7. Move the idrive knob to Import Music (USB) and click it (pic 7).
8. The Transfer should start and when your done it will show 100% and you click the 'ok' on the screen (pic 8).
9. Now hit menu button again and go to CD / Multimedia > Music collection and you will see your transfer called USB 1 (pic 9).