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Originally Posted by Closer01
Much appreciated! I just ordered a 256GB short/stumpy Sandisk USB 3.1.
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Do you have an iphone? you may like CarPlay better than a USB stick and here's why: Siri. I have a 256gb iphone X and I meticulously loaded all of my music from my CDs onto my phone because I wanted to have it at all times. But with a large collection it can get pretty unwieldy.
But with CarPlay its so convenient to just yell at siri to find some obscure song title or album and have it play. I just keep saying some variation of whatever I can remember the song name or artist is until Siri finds it and plays it. It usually works quite well. or the best feature: 'hey siri play the rest of this album'. Because CarPlay works over wifi, the fidelity of a wired connection is still there for the B&W system.
I know this version of idrive has a voice assistant but in my experience it's slower than Siri. it works, but maybe not as quickly, I havent tested BMW voice search to find and play music. I think CarPlay just works better than the build in player, but by all means try both.