[MEL2272]

Hi guys I have a 328i M sport on order , I just wanted to know if the iDrive system comes with hard drive to store music??

[snowghost]

Originally Posted by melvinf

Hi guys I have a 328i M sport on order , I just wanted to know if the iDrive system comes with hard drive to store music??

Never used it, but mine does which let's you rip CDs to or record Sirius.

[Frogman]

You have an HDD if you have navigation.

no nav = no HDD.

[MEL2272]

Originally Posted by Frogman

You have an HDD if you have navigation.

no nav = no HDD.

Yea I have the Nav but I don't see the hdd in the specs anywhere so I was just wondering

[listerone]

Originally Posted by melvinf

Yea I have the Nav but I don't see the hdd in the specs anywhere so I was just wondering

IIRC the HD in my new "d" has 12GB available for music storage.

[AHB900]

Originally Posted by snowghost

Never used it, but mine does which let's you rip CDs to or record Sirius.

WHAT?! we can record sirius radio? How?

[Frogman]

Originally Posted by AHB900

WHAT?! we can record sirius radio? How?

Music storage is via ripping CD's or copying from USB sticks only.

You can't store radio streams.

[snowghost]

Originally Posted by Frogman

Music storage is via ripping CD's or copying from USB sticks only.

You can't store radio streams.

You can record Sirius on the hard drive--like a one hour buffer or something like that. Maybe because of my options, but it's in the manual.

[Frogman]

Originally Posted by snowghost

You can record Sirius on the hard drive--like a one hour buffer or something like that. Maybe because of my options, but it's in the manual.

Agreed:

Timeshift
Approx. one hour of the program being broad‐
cast on the channel currently being listened to
is stored in a buffer. Prerequisite: the signal must
be available.
The stored audio track can be played with a de‐
lay following the live broadcast. When the buffer
is full, the older tracks are overwritten. The buf‐
fer is cleared when a new channel is selected.


I don't consider this really "storing" Sirius to the HDD; it's just a delay buffer.

It's not like you can create a catalog of recorded Sirius media that is stored on the HDD like you can by ripping a CD or copying a USB stick of audio.

[snowghost]

Originally Posted by Frogman

Agreed:

Timeshift
Approx. one hour of the program being broad‐
cast on the channel currently being listened to
is stored in a buffer. Prerequisite: the signal must
be available.
The stored audio track can be played with a de‐
lay following the live broadcast. When the buffer
is full, the older tracks are overwritten. The buf‐
fer is cleared when a new channel is selected.


I don't consider this really "storing" Sirius to the HDD; it's just a delay buffer.

It's not like you can create a catalog of recorded Sirius media that is stored on the HDD like you can by ripping a CD or copying a USB stick of audio.

True. Like a TiVo buffer that goes away when you switch channels. I think the CD ripping would be useless since they're .wmv files and you can't copy them to anything else IIRC.

[mattfh]

The hdd is 80gb generally with 12gb set aside for music storage. I've always wondered if that could be upgraded to a larger hdd?

[Frogman]

The HDD in the CIC has a PATA interface which you really can't find anymore.

The 80GB HDD is a special model built explicitly for use in cars. It's the largest one they make with a PATA interface.

http://storage.toshiba.eu/cms/en/hdd...?productid=225

I think the NBT HDD is SATA, so there may be more options there.

Rather than storing your music on the HDD, just use a big USB stick. You have access to much larger storage and they are easily swapped.

Or just stream from your phone.

[snowghost]

Originally Posted by Frogman

The HDD in the CIC has a PATA interface which you really can't find anymore.

The 80GB HDD is a special model built explicitly for use in cars. It's the largest one they make with a PATA interface.

http://storage.toshiba.eu/cms/en/hdd...?productid=225

I think the NBT HDD is SATA, so there may be more options there.

Rather than storing your music on the HDD, just use a big USB stick. You have access to much larger storage and they are easily swapped.

Or just stream from your phone.

+1 USB drives are ridiculously cheap for the amount of space. I just got a Kingston with 128GB capacity, and it's smaller than most older 1GB drives.

[Frogman]

Originally Posted by snowghost

+1 USB drives are ridiculously cheap for the amount of space. I just got a Kingston with 128GB capacity, and it's smaller than most older 1GB drives.

I like the SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33.

http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/drives/cruzer-fit/

They are the size of a thumbnail and available in sizes up to 64GB.

[clinton.white]

I use one of the SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 as well and just simply copied all of my iTunes library folder onto it and all working fine!!

A great bit of kit and so cheap as well!!

[PABrian]

MY2014+ cars with Nav use a 200GB hard drive with 20GB of music storage, as opposed to the aforementioned 80GB hard drive with 12.5GB of storage.

Non-nav iDrive cars still use a hard drive, there's just no ability to store music as it clearly has much less capacity.

[M.barnes]

Was going to say, my m235i has 20 gig for music storage