MP3 Data CD in Bimmer

[bmw046series]

Can you take a data CD loaded with MP3's and play it in your BMW Business CD player, I'd love to do this because I hate loading 20 tracks on one cd.

 

[Section_8]

Nope, won't work. you need a aftermarket cd player or if you have a new ride, you might have (or can get) the aux plug which goes in (comes out) of your glovebox. This will let you plug in any device via RCA stereo jack (ipod, laptop, cdplayer, mp3player, Ipaq, etc etc).

 

[frolf]

i was thinking today, wouldn't it be great if Clarion, or Alpine, or some other decent deck manufactorer made a nice MP3 deck that would work in conjuction with BMW's stock 6 disc?

 

[bmw046series]

Or if you could take a Compact flash card and stick it into the onboard computer.

 

[Section_8]

I surely wish so.. Putting a CF or SD card into a dash player isn't that far out of the question, they're getting pretty big in storage these days, very easy way to move mass music into the car. (I used to do it with my laptop in my old car, travelling jukebox).

 

[salvo]

Wait...I burn music on CD-R's all the time and play them in my stock deck!????

 

[frolf]

yeah, you burn them to .wav, not .mp3 mp3 is a compressed wav file.

 

[salvo]

gotcha!

 

[Epi330]

i was thinking today, wouldn't it be great if Clarion, or Alpine, or some other decent deck manufactorer made a nice MP3 deck that would work in conjuction with BMW's stock 6 disc?

It does! Except that it is the other way around - Alpine CHA-S634 changer plays MP3 and works with BMW stock receiver. You'll need an adapter though. See http://www.bmw325i.net/inst_mp3cd.shtml for details.