Matteeboy

I have a USB stick on order for the car; it works via idrive.
What's the best way of transferring lots of music to the stick? Via iTunes or some other way? I find iTunes quite clunky!

ScoobyDoo555

Where-ever your music is, (if in itunes, navigate from the desktop to your music folder and look in the itunes foler - itunes media)
Drag n drop onto memory stick - depends how idrive works: does it want an alphabetical folder architecture or just one folder, or jsut throw the mp3s into the stick?

Of course, this also depends on if (a) you've ripped your music to itunes in MP3 format, & (b) does idrive read other formats?

Lots of variables here tbf.

DAn

Matteeboy

Cheers Dan and...


...uh oh...!

Ant

does the idrive not support audio bluetooth?

Matteeboy

You need "enhanced bluetooth" (which is a £400ish option but can be coded in for free if you have the know how - I don't!) for streaming but I generally find BT quality is pretty poor anyway.

Galifrey

iTrader: (3)

Bluetooth A2DP is generally higher quality than the MP3's you are playing, however, the compression and decompression to fit the available bandwidth can highlight shortfalls in the quality of your MP3's. Play a FLAC file over BT and it really does do a very good job.

I always use A2DP now as I have FLAC's and very high quality VBR MP3's so it works extremely well.

Ant

i Was going to say bluetooth streaming has always sounded good to me

Matteeboy

I have a little portable BT speaker (Soundfreq Soundkick) and the sound is great but other car audio BT systems I've used have been poor. Maybe this would be better?
I was very anti idrive/old BMW satnav because it was so cack but the system and nav on the new car really is impressive; almost instant boot up, very quick connection with the phone, very intuitive; a huge improvement!!

Ant

I still can't believe they want to charge £400 for it

Matteeboy

Especially when it can be coded for nowt!

Matteeboy

It worked!
My entire CD collection on a tiny £10 USB stick!

ScoobyDoo555

Good to hear

Matteeboy

Cheers for the help - I hadn't realised it was the iTunes Media file you used (I assumed it was the Music one)!