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Old 03-20-2008, 03:43 AM
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I'm currently waiting ........... and waiting .............and waiting ............and you guessed it still waiting for delivery of my new 520d touring. It has a cd multichanger and I now understand that this can read MP3s. I therefore want to start burning some discs for when the car eventually arrives (next week).

Could anyone who uses MP3s in the CD player tell me how it is displayed on the idrive. Can you have folders or does it just have to be a straight list of tracks? Any photos of your idrive displaying an MP3 disc would be much appreciated.
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Originally Posted by timbob' post='548009' date='Mar 20 2008, 07:43 PM
I'm currently waiting ........... and waiting .............and waiting ............and you guessed it still waiting for delivery of my new 520d touring. It has a cd multichanger and I now understand that this can read MP3s. I therefore want to start burning some discs for when the car eventually arrives (next week).

Could anyone who uses MP3s in the CD player tell me how it is displayed on the idrive. Can you have folders or does it just have to be a straight list of tracks? Any photos of your idrive displaying an MP3 disc would be much appreciated.
It displays the same way it displays IPod tracks, but it won't have the search functions by artist/genre etc as the IPod. see here... http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=52253

it'll look like something like this...and yes, you can have folders...it'll make life easier by putting the songs acording to artist/album/genre accordingly...like i said, you don't have the search function, but you search by folders...

hope this helped.
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Originally Posted by timbob' post='548009' date='Mar 20 2008, 07:43 AM
I'm currently waiting ........... and waiting .............and waiting ............and you guessed it still waiting for delivery of my new 520d touring. It has a cd multichanger and I now understand that this can read MP3s. I therefore want to start burning some discs for when the car eventually arrives (next week).
You do understand that only the slot CD plays MP3s and not the CD changer?
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Originally Posted by timbob' post='548009' date='Mar 20 2008, 07:43 AM
Could anyone who uses MP3s in the CD player tell me how it is displayed on the idrive. Can you have folders or does it just have to be a straight list of tracks? Any photos of your idrive displaying an MP3 disc would be much appreciated.
Take a look at the third picture in this thread -- that's exactly how it'll look if you follow the proper burning procedure...
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=24018
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