09-29-2012, 01:19 PM | #23 | |
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"BMW spokespeople made it emphatically clear that owners will still be able to listen to music, podcasts and other audio over the built-in stereo, along with accessing BMW Apps and Mini Connected features using the combination of the new Lightning adaptor fitted to the existing 30-pin connector and the duo of USB and 1/8-inch audio jack supplied by both BMW and Mini. So yes, the tunes will continue to flow, but the automaker's PlugIn feature – enabling video playback while stationary and the mirrored Apple interface – is officially out." |
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09-29-2012, 03:12 PM | #25 | |
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I leave an iPod classic (the one with a 160 GB drive) permanently in the car. It contains my entire music collection and lives in the center console attached with a USB cable with the old style Apple connector. It works great for listening to tunes in the car, complete with album art. My iPhone I connect via Bluetooth and it works perfectly well for streaming audio podcasts, or the new music tracks I just bought or whatever. It's easy to switch between the iPod and the iPhone using iDrive. In other words, you can manage quite well without ever connecting your iPHone (5) with a wire, thus avoiding your connector concerns. I'm not suggesting this solves your exact requirement, just suggesting an alternative approach. |
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09-29-2012, 11:11 PM | #26 | |
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So, I checked all the audio apps... Web Radio, MOG, and Pandora - and they all work great now! So I can just bypass the Y-cable and plug lightning to USB console port, and headphone jack to 1/8" console jack, and it's works just fine. I'm fricken thrilled now. lol Anyway, an interesting observation - when I have the iPhone5 plugged into the USB port, it will disable the iPhone5 bluetooth audio connection which is fine for me. Like I said earlier, the iPhone "plugin" feature no longer works but the iPhone5 will show up as an external device that you can access and get the album art too. Since I have a 64gb model, I might start loading up new songs on there because I have maxed out my 12gb drive in the car. Maybe I'll keep the essential stuff on the car, and extended stuff in the iPhone. No video from iPhone5. Anyway, I don't see a reason for the adaptor now unless I want to have a cleaner setup with less wires - but I don't even know if it was going to work and since I have my iPhone in a case, not sure if the adaptor was going to work with it... I prob would need to get the wire adaptor instead. So, I'm happy now.... |
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09-29-2012, 11:21 PM | #27 | |
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Using the lightning cable my iPhone5 does seem to charge and it does show up as an external device (and bmw apps, etc). But if I have it paired for bluetooth audio, it will get disabled once I connect it to the usb port. Not sure if these results are because the port was retrofitted. I don't believe it affects the bluetooth telephone connection, but I got a message on the screen telling me that the bluetooth audio function was being disconnected due to the USB audio connect (which doesn't fully make sense to me since the audio is delivered by my iPhone to the car via the 1/8" jack (as I describe below). Since I use a different phone for the bluetooth phone feature, this didn't pose an issue for me. Btw, I was able to resolve the audio issue of coming out of the iPhone instead of the sound system by connecting the headphone jack to the console 1/8" jack. Those BMW Apps that have audio now come over the car sound system so I am very happy now. Last edited by JSY; 09-29-2012 at 11:34 PM.. |
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09-30-2012, 03:46 PM | #30 | |
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Re. BT Audio and notifications. This is all works as well as it does with my iPhone 4 so you always get new mail icon in iDrive for new SMS and also for new email (providing you toggle one of the notification alert settings each time you get in the car - see the other thread on this http://x3.xbimmers.com/forums/showth...=747076&page=2). All new email and SMS can then be viewed in Office - Messages Some things to bear in mind when setting up BMW Office for an iPhone 4/5: 1. make sure you have notifications setup on the iPhone Bluetooth connection (click the arrow to the right of the BMW Bluetooth connection and check notifications is switched on) 2. make sure you have setup iPhone notifications as per thread above 3. make sure your iPhone is still paired for Bluetooth audio as this gets lost each time you plug in the USB
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This is a good point. Further to this, I use a non-media cradle and keep a permanent USB flash drive in the USB socket. Having a non-media cradle means you can charge the iPhone without disabling the BT audio - I'm assuming here that the media cradle has the same problem as the USB
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I will take a look at music and 6NR later if I have time. The wife doesn't use any of this stuff but I need to know because I may upgrade my iPhone 4 as well
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Yeah it's about as exciting as waiting for the car to arrive in the first place! I don't use the cradle for anything so won't miss video or iPod screen layout, fingers crossed...
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ings, when you browse your library via the iPod Classic, is it pretty fast? The reason I ask is because I decided to try something similar except I opted to buy a massive USB flash drive for storing my entire library and leaving it connected to the USB port. The problem was that it took forever to initialize and slowed down any kind of track navigation. I would click the 'next track' button and then it took several seconds before it did that... Even more problematic was that as long as the flash drive was connected, it also slowed down browsing my iPhone (which always contained my more new acquisitions) and made loading album art a very sketchy thing.
I'm guessing that iDrive is trying to index the contents of the flash drive and when you have 60+ gigs of tracks loaded this may take longer than my entire trip to complete. I have been considering the iPod classic route myself but haven't pulled the trigger on it quite yet. I bet that iDrive just relies on the iPod to handle the data management and just squirts out API calls so it wouldn't suffer from the lag issues. |
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There are some other posts complaining about how slow and sometimes unreliable large capacity iPod classics are. Worth a search
It shouldn't need to re-index every time you switch on unless you have used up the index space - I think it can index 26,000 songs across 4 remembered USB devices. Not sure on the exact details but there is something in the user manual about it I have about 26GB on a 32GB USB flash drive and no problems or delay - it stays plugged in most of the time
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