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The new iDrive, in pictures.
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10-20-2008, 08:25 AM | #23 |
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oh my god... this makes my iDrive look something from the 60's.
I hate my iDrive... i can never seem to find anything in the categories. It works alright if I have the complete address.
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10-20-2008, 09:23 AM | #24 |
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Very nice.
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10-20-2008, 09:42 AM | #25 |
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Great post.
I've already the new iDrive System in my E92 and I'm really happy about it. It has a lot of functions but it's still very easy and clear to use. It's nearly a perfect system... |
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10-21-2008, 01:32 AM | #31 |
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nice features; now it is an option worth buying. I've gotten frustrated with the current idrive many times. Oh well...
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10-21-2008, 02:06 AM | #32 |
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I can confirm that a bus-powered USB hard drive functions both as an audio source for live play as well as for import into the onboard Music Collection. There are a few caveats, however. The drive must be formatted as FAT32; the system apparently cannot read Mac-formatted (HFS+) or NTFS drives. iDrive is not terribly speedy about indexing the drive--it took well over a minute for my 60Gb USB hard drive with about 5 Gb of music to be recognized and indexed. Once it started indexing, I was able to access and play what it had found so far. A folder structure is provided for you to navigate, with the music appearing within the folders you set up on the drive just as with a USB flash drive. The indexing is apparently not cached by the system; it took as long to come up the second time I plugged it in as the first. This is not unexpected--if the structure of the drive was cached tightly, iDrive would run into problems if that structure was changed. Note that using a USB hard drive (or flash drive, for that matter) as an audio source directly seems to require the 6FL iPod/USB Adapter option (or perhaps its dealer-installed counterpart). There is a USB port in the glovebox, but a drive plugged into that port is not usable directly as an audio source--the glovebox port is exclusively for music import/export. One should also note that the music import/export is not finely controllable. There is no provision to select only certain folders to import from the drive, merely a single mode that imports all song files found on the drive into the Music Collection. --LR
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10-21-2008, 02:11 AM | #33 |
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I'm afraid that the MyInfo/Google Search features require the BMW Assist option, and my car does not have it. Perhaps another who has both Nav and Bluetooth/Assist will be kind enough to post a few pics.
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wow, i wish i can upgrade my idrive
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This is great news! I have a few questions. What are the specs of your usb hard drive - RPM? sata or pata? Model number would be great if you know it. You said that indexing took just as long the second time you plugged it in. Does it have to index the drive every time you start the car or only when you unplug/plug in the drive? Once it has indexed the drive is there any delay when you browse or switch songs? Lastly, how did you know that it only reads FAT32? trail and error? FAT32 is just fine for this use anyway. Thanks |
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10-21-2008, 04:34 AM | #36 |
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COOL!
i should have just got a car with no idrive... this navi makes my current idrive obsolete. and it probably would have made me feel better if i didnt have idrive from the beginning. this makes me want to trade in my o7 for an o9, but i dont know about the new back (blacklines ftw still) and the progman software... but trading in is kind of a ripoff at this point. |
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10-21-2008, 05:01 AM | #37 |
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Thanks for the great writeup, seems it was definitely worth waiting on!
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Wait, a minute, I don't understand. So you're saying there's TWO USB ports? One somewhere, that you connected your hard drive to, and it will index and search what's on there and let you play Mp3s. While the other one is in the glove box, and that one ONLY allows you to import/export , in other worlds, upload/download to the iDrive internal hard drive?? thanks. |
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10-21-2008, 01:05 PM | #42 |
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The new Idrive looks great, and I'm glad my E91 will have it. But, don't be envious - you've still got a nice and very underrated system. They'll always been something newer and more fancy down the line. The point is that what you got was top notch for the time you bought it.
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