Hey all its been awhile since ive commented here i had a big move recently back to the states from good ole gemania....anyways ill cut to the point last night i burned a cd...an MP3 cd to be exact and for some stupid reason i took it out to my 5er and put it in the dash slot well low and behold it played! Why it played i dont know but it seems now my 5er will read MP3's in the dash slot...I have V15.2 Software i wonder if it helped somehow..

 

Soup

 

DaveBoy,

How do we check the software version ?

Thanks,

Ching-Ho Cheng

 

DAVEYBOY, have you used Nero?
If you burn it with Nero it converts it into wav if you say it is an audio CD...


It can't play MP3's yet, that's for sure!
How many tracks are on the disc?

 

So why would we need/want MP3 in the CD Changer?

- Song capacity increases 7-fold. (from 1 disc full of MP3 to 7 discs)
So if a single disc holds 100 MP3 songs (7Meg average), then the whole system with CD changer would hold 700 songs. I could get by without having to get the $250 AUX input to connect my iPod...

 

Thank you alohalc for your friendly welcome.

Iceman is correct. It is highly probable that Daveboy's CD is a cda file (audio cd) if you burn it as an audio cd in nero. To come up with an mp3 disc I would convert cda & wav files to mp3 first and burn it as data file. The out come is a disc with more than one hundred songs.... again who needs a cd changer.

Diego

 

You're right.

And Steve Job's iPod was a stupid idea. Who would pay all that money to store 1000's of songs in a small device?

And that was stupid of Creative and Dell and iRiver and and Nuvo and Rio and and Sandisk and Lexar and Samsung and Olympus and RCA and Sony and Archos and GoVideo and ... to go after a multibillion market of MP3 players that could hold more than a 100 songs.

They should have all realized that 100 songs was enough.



Who needs a CD Changer?!?!?

 

you are welcome .

i have the same thought as well. and that's the reason why i didn't order cd changer for my car . i'd rather use the money for a dvd changer .

 

A brilliant idea that my son would also love to have. I dropped the cd changer from my options list. I also dont like it in the glove compartment.

At the end of the day I think I still have to see for myself if this MP3 really works in the latest 530i. One thing for sure though is this capability is available in the Professional Radio of the 330i.

Again thanks much for your replies, cheers

 

Hi, I have business nav in may car, and I wait for the new soft which will can

play MP3.

But I have a question: If the player will lay the mp3 and it will show and control

from I drive, will the menu write the files name text like sunshinemix(sunshinemix.mp3)?

Will write out the track name text? Or like the audio cd just the track number?????


Thanks