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      10-10-2014, 11:43 AM   #23
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Matt, just to let you know, I renamed all of the genres to me and my wife's name, so that way she just plays all of her songs on her name and I play all of mine on mine. That way we can both scroll down to the specific name and play those songs in that name!
That is a great solution. I am guessing your library is not huge, say more than 5k songs. The approach gets tougher when you have larger libraries.

One draw back of all M3U files and iDrive are that they cannot handle nested playlists. in iTunes I can have "Matt's List", and within, more sub lists. There is a desktop/laptop solution for what you want in iTunes, but it is not portable, except to your phone/ipod touch.
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Yes, yes and yes!

The first playlist that shows up (cut off from the top of my pictures) on the left is "entire library" you can highlight that along with playlist. The app creates a "music" directory in which you can manual add/copy/transfer additional music. All of those songs that are not in playlists, will always be accessible in iDrive.

Essentially, this is what this solution does: it turns a USB into an iPod.

Save your profile transfer name, if you will NOT copy the entire library. If you are transferring everything, just boot up the app. Export the library again or in the app modify what you exported using the profile name you created, and modify. My profile is shown in the steps above as "Bimmerpost demo". It can always add songs, but unlike an iPod this sync does not remove songs. Subsequent amendments to libraries and playlists are easy as only the new songs are transferred to the USB.

Other hidden benefits:

• You can change a playlist name in the USB as you would change a file name in your computer. No app needed. Just look at your file browser / finder / file explorer

• You can add more music to the library without using the app. They won't be in playlists, but will be in your iDrive for album/artist/composer/genre sorts.

• You can change the song order in playlists without the app. Just open the M3U files with a text editor and move the songs around, or delete a song from playlist, and save the file with the text editor you are using.
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Matt you're a Star!
Thank you. You are new here, as am I. I am merely trying to do a 1/5th as much as what others do in this forum. Be prepared to very impressed, especially by those who are coding specialists, sharing information and knowledge that almost everyone charges for.
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This is very similar to the app I used. Nice find! The app I use basically does the same. Yours has the drag/drop feature which is cool. Mine reads off of iTunes playlists you already have, and unlocks DRM (password protected purchased music) files that you have already unlocked -otherwise those files only play in iTunes.

Yours looks simpler. Nice post.
Hi MattBianco I just purchased the app from the app store, but when I exported my music following your tutorial, the files are still drm protected and can't be read by the vehicle...any help?
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Hi MattBianco I just purchased the app from the app store, but when I exported my music following your tutorial, the files are still drm protected and can't be read by the vehicle...any help?
Sorry about this. It has worked for me without any issues. In the bottom of the screen shots see "Music Files to Include. Select that and in there select DRM files as well. Unfortunately my house is under construction and I cannot access the app myself for several more weeks. I know for a fact that one of the options allows this and just today I listened to DRM file on the thumb drive I made with the app, and I am pretty sure it was under the Music File to Include section. Let me know.
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Which hub are you using? I've bought 2 from micro center and neither worked
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Which hub are you using? I've bought 2 from micro center and neither worked
Amazon's own brand. I use the powered hub, without using its power cable (as if non-powered). All the ports work for charging, but only one is recognized by iDrive -whichever connects first.
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Hi MattBianco I just purchased the app from the app store, but when I exported my music following your tutorial, the files are still drm protected and can't be read by the vehicle...any help?
Sorry about this. It has worked for me without any issues. In the bottom of the screen shots see "Music Files to Include. Select that and in there select DRM files as well. Unfortunately my house is under construction and I cannot access the app myself for several more weeks. I know for a fact that one of the options allows this and just today I listened to DRM file on the thumb drive I made with the app, and I am pretty sure it was under the Music File to Include section. Let me know.
DRM'd files from iTunes didn't work for me either, but I used iTunes Match to upgrade the songs to the DRM free versions and that fixed the problem.
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Hi MattBianco I just purchased the app from the app store, but when I exported my music following your tutorial, the files are still drm protected and can't be read by the vehicle...any help?
Sorry about this. It has worked for me without any issues. In the bottom of the screen shots see "Music Files to Include. Select that and in there select DRM files as well. Unfortunately my house is under construction and I cannot access the app myself for several more weeks. I know for a fact that one of the options allows this and just today I listened to DRM file on the thumb drive I made with the app, and I am pretty sure it was under the Music File to Include section. Let me know.
DRM'd files from iTunes didn't work for me either, but I used iTunes Match to upgrade the songs to the DRM free versions and that fixed the problem.
I am on Match. Perhaps that's why it had worked for me. Thanks for posting how you figured it out.
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I am trying out Apple Music where the playlists are easy to navigate with the iDrive. This also seems not to use much data. I doubt the Apple streaming music will copy to a USB stick but so far I like what I see.
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I am trying out Apple Music where the playlists are easy to navigate with the iDrive. This also seems not to use much data. I doubt the Apple streaming music will copy to a USB stick but so far I like what I see.
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If you created a list in your iPhone, you can download all your songs to your phone, so you can listen to your music without spending any data....
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I've only had Apple Music for two days and apparently the music that I had not purchased but put in my playlists is saved to my phone. Thanks for reminding me to check this.
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MattBianco you da man! bringing this thread up for any other new x5 owners like me. one of my few annoyances so far has been figuring out how to get my playlists to play in the car. i loaded a bunch music to the hd, but i couldnt get the playlists to play how i wanted. when i connected my phone (which i hate doing anyway) the sound was too low, so i did some searching found this thread pretty quickly. got the $5 app, exported my playlists to to a 64g flash drive, plugged it in and bam! works like a charm thanks
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