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I have the standard DAB radio, ie not Professional nor Nav
I have the standard bluetooth too, so the iPhone works fine as a telephone. I cannot play music off my iPhone using bluetooth...why not? If I connect using the BMW Y-Cable, I can play the iPhone's music...but it snot convenient...I'd much prefer to use bluetooth. Any information would be useful.
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Thanks for the info
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I brought a y cable from amazon which someone on here reccomended however sometimes it loses connection from my iPhone and then finds it again a few seconds later which then I have to select my iPhone on the idrive again and it will continue to play from where it stopped, doesn't happen often but often enough to be annoying anyone had same problem??
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What confuses me about all this is that I have had 4 BMW's since they introduced the th USB option and evertime they have given me a Y cable. They even threw one in with the MINI we have too. So I assumed they were part of the deal.
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Mine was given for free, but I was quoted £40+ initially by the parts department!
It just seems strange that while you connect the phone using bluetooth, you can't connect the music.
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What are my options?
Having read through this thread, it seems I don't have a lot of options. I have hands-free Bluetooth phone functionality with USB and aux-in inputs. I don't have the extended Bluetooth package.
I want to play audiobooks stored on my iPhone through the USB cable but I don't think that will work directly. The Y-cable is not ideal because I'm planning to get a new phone soon. It seems I have 2 options: 1) Either put the audiobooks on a USB thumb drive 2) But the darn Y-cable. Anyway to play audiobooks/podcasts stored on an iPhone (3GS) through the USB connector? This should not be so difficult BMW, come on! Thanks in advance. |
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I have the extended bluetooth, but I use the standard apple usb cable to connect my iPod nano to te idrive, as sort of a permanent music library. I have full functionality with this cable, no need for the Y-cable. |
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Was using iPhone with Y cable but switching to USB stick loaded with WAV files. I noticed the difference with USB through the HK system in my car. Can't go back now! It just sucks that wave doesn't carry much info in its files, album and artist now always unknown but song name is there, which will do.
It's also a shame BM doesn't support apple lossless files as I could have had quality and details. Yes 320k AAC is good but it's still not as smooth as WAV |
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After researching for a long time, I've deduced a few things (from a non-gps standpoint at least). Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
I know my old iPod can be read without a y-cable and songs get displayed but I think it's so old that songs show up as 1XY4L, just a random assortment of letters/numbers. If this is the case, I'm seriously about to just go buy an iPod. Thanks for your help & clarification!
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If an iPod can work with via Apple USB cord and not require the y-cable, I can find one for relatively cheap! And it'll be convenient
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But if I put it on a USB it wouldn't sort by how it is in a manual configured playlist like on an iPod/iPhone or what have you. I don't know if iDrive is any different than the business radio I have.
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this is annoying, my car can't be changed now and i listen to a lot of internet radio via the TuneIn Pro app on my phone..
gah, should have specced extended BT |
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Like exporting it via iTunes?
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