[bizzyqu]

Originally Posted by zibawal

What version and how?
I have a fat32 USB, used WMP to convert both wave and WMA. Is there any defect in my stereo or any settings not activated???

I rip Lossless WMA from Cd's with Zune software, put it in a 32gb usb, and it plays. 2013 model f30

[dzaborn]

Originally Posted by bizzyqu

I have lossless on a bunch of my albums, next time I'm in the car I'll check for you. (perks of never buying my music online)

Well I did my own testing today. I ripped a CD in which track 1 and track 2 are seemless (run together as one song) to WMA Lossless format using WMP. When I played the resulting .wma from the comptuer via WMP, playback was indeed seemless/gapless as is to be expected with a lossless format,

BUT...

...to my disappointment, when I played the tracks via my Scandisk 32GB Cruzer Fit USB drive in my F30, the tracks played with gaps. I assume it has to do with the way the BMW stereo processes/plays the files.

Totally discouraging. So I guess gapless playback in a digital format is unattainable. I think since I can't attain seemless/gapless playback even with a lossless format, I am just going to rip my CD's to high quality mp3's using VBR -V0 using the LAME encoder. I think the quality will be good enough for me and I will be able to fit about 300 albums on my drive as opposed to only 60 or so if they were WMA lossless.

When I want to listen to a CD that has tracks that run together, I will either just have to live with the gaps, or pop in the CD.

I did notice that when you go into External Devices->USB, it starts playing whatever you last had playing. Is there a way to STOP playing, or is your only option to you use the mute/volume button? What if I would like to be able to search for an album/music to silence instead of listening to something that I no longer want to listen to?

[DJHakim]

Some of my lossless WMA tracks are listed, but immediately skipped when played. Seems to happens with entire albums. Some do play, though. Annoying.

[RobertaZ]

I have the same issue with my 2013 F30. The car stereo will play my WAV files from my 64GB USB flash drive and it recognizes all of the songs contained within separate folders, however it does not play the tracks without momentary pauses between each. This is VERY annoying when listening to live recordings!

[Ray2]

Suggest using iTunes Playlists. Strikes me as much easier and has more functionality with BMW. Format in FAT32, copy musc files from iTunes Playlist to folder on card (drag and drop the Playlist), use VLC to build playlist mpu file.