[Sirrus]

Originally Posted by RPM90

This thread reminded me that I do have a USB input.
Now I'm going to load up some .wav files.

Your system should support Lossless WMA. I've been using those on my e92 for a while and they also worked on the HK system I test drove last week. The only gotcha is to make sure they don't have a bunch of extraneous metadata / tags.

[RPM90]

Originally Posted by Sirrus

Your system should support Lossless WMA. I've been using those on my e92 for a while and they also worked on the HK system I test drove last week. The only gotcha is to make sure they don't have a bunch of extraneous metadata / tags.

Cool. Thanks.

[zibawal]

Originally Posted by Dabaitu

Your issue with the car's HDD is that it doesn't rip from a CD at a decent bit rate AFAIK.

You're better off doing what the OP and I do, which is RIP to a WMA lossless or 320 rated file and store it on a USB. It will pick up album art too if done correctly, and the 32GB Sandisk I use is about half the size of a thumb.

What is the best software to rip WMA lossless?

[MikeVictor]

Originally Posted by zibawal

What is the best software to rip WMA lossless?

Windows Media Player (WMA = Windows Media Audio)

[Sirrus]

Originally Posted by zibawal

What is the best software to rip WMA lossless?

I like dBpoweramp.

[Mamasgotkids]

Does anyone have tips for getting ALL iTunes - Apple purchased music uploaded? That's all we have. I could never get it to load onto my VW hard drive. VW even told me it wasn't supported (which sucked). Since this car is only 2 days old I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

[RPM90]

Originally Posted by Mamasgotkids

Does anyone have tips for getting ALL iTunes - Apple purchased music uploaded? That's all we have. I could never get it to load onto my VW hard drive. VW even told me it wasn't supported (which sucked). Since this car is only 2 days old I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

I can't help you with the iTunes question. I don't like using iTunes for that very reason, Apple is much too restrictive in allowing people to use the music they paid for in any manner they want to use it.

My suggestion is simply to use your ipod device and plug it in via USB or use the audio cable supplied by BMW that goes from your ipod to a stereo plug. The plug then plugs into the input inside the center armrest.
It sounds just as good.

Sorry I couldn't answer your question. Hopefully someone will chime in and tell you how to do it. IIRC there is 3rd party software that may let you do what you want, which is getting the audio files off you iTunes and onto your HDD.
This may or may not work, but what if you created a CD using iTunes and then put that CD in the CD player, then see if he audio system will rip the audio files from the CD and onto your HDD, just as it would with a regular audio CD.
Just make sure to create an actual audio CD and just use the CD as a file transport, IOW, burn an actual audio CD with your iTunes music.

[RichardM]

Originally Posted by Mamasgotkids

Does anyone have tips for getting ALL iTunes - Apple purchased music uploaded? That's all we have. I could never get it to load onto my VW hard drive. VW even told me it wasn't supported (which sucked). Since this car is only 2 days old I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

Can you not just copy the files from the iTunes music folder on your PC to the USB stick? That's all I did.

[yepeztroncoso]

I noticed i cant save the files frmo my USB to the car HDD. It seems tracks can only be recorded via CD.

[TonyS]

Originally Posted by yepeztroncoso

I noticed i cant save the files frmo my USB to the car HDD. It seems tracks can only be recorded via CD.

Yes you can. You need to plug your USB stick into the socket in the glove box for it to work. However, the whole implementation is completely b*ggered and useless as far as I'm concerned, to the extent that I've given up using it and just have all my music on a tiny USB stick in the centre console, which works so much better.

[Micleg]

Have any of you guys any problems with the playlists on the USB stick?

I got a USB3 Kingston Hyper-X, yeah I know, total overkill, but I wanted it to be fast when transferring from a PC.

The first batch of music files and playlist files worked fine although sorted from Z to A.

Then I added some more music and playlists only to see most of them not appear on the display! And the ones that showed up were put on top of the last one, listed before Z, Y, X... but in random order.

It's all crazy. By the way, I have an F31 with the new prof nav system and HK audio.

[RichardM]

Originally Posted by TonyS

Yes you can. You need to plug your USB stick into the socket in the glove box for it to work.

That's only for the old Nav. The new Nav doesn't have the USB socket in the glovebox any more, it's all done through the centre console socket.

[TonyS]

Originally Posted by RichardM

That's only for the old Nav. The new Nav doesn't have the USB socket in the glovebox any more, it's all done through the centre console socket.

Ah - wasn't aware of that difference.

[RichardM]

I spent a while looking for it to load music

[Jeffersontp]

Good to know. I wasn't having much luck transferring music to the harddrive.

[DJHakim]

Originally Posted by Sirrus

Your system should support Lossless WMA. I've been using those on my e92 for a while and they also worked on the HK system I test drove last week. The only gotcha is to make sure they don't have a bunch of extraneous metadata / tags.

Does the 2013 F30 iDrive manual (can't find e-version) specify what formats are supported? I wonder if WMA lossless support is official.

[zibawal]

Some one suggested to use WMA but it was no go

[Sirrus]

Originally Posted by DJHakim

Does the 2013 F30 iDrive manual (can't find e-version) specify what formats are supported? I wonder if WMA lossless support is official.

I don't know if it's official, but I'm using it. If having trouble, remove as much tagging info as you can.

[momo3605]

I'm trying to use wma lossless as well but it says file not supported. It works fine in my e9x 3series though

[dzaborn]

Originally Posted by momo3605

I'm trying to use wma lossless as well but it says file not supported. It works fine in my e9x 3series though

I ripped direct from CD to WMA lossless using WMP12 in Windows 7 and had no issues playing from a USB drive in my F30.

My disappointment is that the F30 playback is not gapless (as should be the case with lossless formats). The abilty to achieve gapless playback was my main reason for trying out a lossless format (as opposed to sound quality).

[zibawal]

Originally Posted by dzaborn

I ripped direct from CD to WMA lossless using WMP12 in Windows 7 and had no issues playing from a USB drive in my F30.

My disappointment is that the F30 playback is not gapless (as should be the case with lossless formats). The abilty to achieve gapless playback was my main reason for trying out a lossless format (as opposed to sound quality).

my tracks play in m3 not in f30?

[DJHakim]

Originally Posted by dzaborn

I ripped direct from CD to WMA lossless using WMP12 in Windows 7 and had no issues playing from a USB drive in my F30.

My disappointment is that the F30 playback is not gapless (as should be the case with lossless formats). The abilty to achieve gapless playback was my main reason for trying out a lossless format (as opposed to sound quality).

I have Lossless WMA files that BMW sees, but does not play. It skips them. Media rights are not set for them. They do have a bit rate of >1 Mbps. Other lossless WMA files play fine. All were ripped from CD in WMP.

In the printed F30 Navigation/Entertainment manual (p. 51, top/right), BMW states that playback cannot be guaranteed for bit rates >256 kbit/s. This sux BIG TIME if I have to batch transcode my files to 256 kbit/s!!!