Music Hard Disk Size?

kschac · 01-13-2019, 01:02 PM

The X5 has an internal hard disk for music storage and playback. Anyone know how large (in GB) it is? The manual doesn't say. Thanks.

Tlon · 01-13-2019, 01:08 PM

I am not in my car right now, but I am pretty sure it's 30gig now. I believe you can find the size in the in car manual or by following these instructions from the manual:

Displaying free disk space

Display free disk space on the music hard disk.

"MEDIA"

"Music collection"

Press the Option button.

"Manage music collection"

"Available memory"

lumpydog · 01-13-2019, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by kschac

The X5 has an internal hard disk for music storage and playback. Anyone know how large (in GB) it is? The manual doesn't say. Thanks.

20GB

MystroX5 · 01-13-2019, 01:26 PM

It has 32768MB or 32GB. I have my music library on it now with plenty of room left.

kschac · 01-13-2019, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by MystroX5

It has 32768MB or 32GB. I have my music library on it now with plenty of room left.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MystroX5

It has 32768MB or 32GB. I have my music library on it now with plenty of room left.

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Thanks.

lumpydog · 01-13-2019, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by MystroX5

It has 32768MB or 32GB. I have my music library on it now with plenty of room left.

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Nice! Published numbers I have seen = 20GB. Looks like BMW was generous with the actual storage.

Xeno · 01-13-2019, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Tlon

I am not in my car right now, but I am pretty sure it's 30gig now. I believe you can find the size in the in car manual or by following these instructions from the manual:

Displaying free disk space

Display free disk space on the music hard disk.

"MEDIA"

"Music collection"

Press the Option button.

"Manage music collection"

"Available memory"

I have not had an opportunity to investigate this feature so I take it that copying music follows a similar trail? Are stipulations about what is available to be so used?

MystroX5 · 01-13-2019, 01:55 PM

Yea, first thing I did was import my music library when I took delivery. No one gave me any hard numbers with all my pre delivery research. It was important to me. No need for sd cards or drives with the way BMW has a internal drive for music. I do use a thumb drive for my movie playback.

agzx517 · 01-13-2019, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by MystroX5

It has 32768MB or 32GB. I have my music library on it now with plenty of room left.

How did you get your music onto the hard drive?

JayPichardo · 01-13-2019, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by agzx517

How did you get your music onto the hard drive?

plug in a USB Stick and you will see the option to download

MystroX5 · 01-13-2019, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by NH_F36

plug in a USB Stick and you will see the option to download

Yup, I downloaded my entire 17g from usb stick in a very fast amount of time into the iDrive 7.

brimp · 01-16-2019, 05:38 PM

can you record videos on the hard disk?

MystroX5 · 01-16-2019, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by brimp

can you record videos on the hard disk?

No

TK421BMW · 01-16-2019, 07:43 PM

Seriously? Only 32g? Considering how cheap HDD's and SSD's are, on a $70k+ car they could only come up with 32g?

MystroX5 · 01-16-2019, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by TK421BMW

Seriously? Only 32g? Considering how cheap HDD's and SSD's are, on a $70k+ car they could only come up with 32g?

What manufacture has a bigger internal hard drive for music? Most manufactures just leave you a SD slot for your music. I agree outside the automotive industry, memory is cheap (except for Apple).
If 32gb is not enough then plug in a usb stick or stream from your phone or even combo all three. There is lots of options if 32gb isn’t enough.

Bills Oil Company · 01-20-2019, 06:33 PM

I'm not a super tech savvy guy. I still use Itunes...not streaming.

I copied a few song files from my pc to an old usb stick to see if I could upload music to the internal hard drive. The Idrive is not even recognizing the usb stick.

Thoughts on what I may be missing?

MystroX5 · 01-20-2019, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Bills Oil Company

I'm not a super tech savvy guy. I still use Itunes...not streaming.

I copied a few song files from my pc to an old usb stick to see if I could upload music to the internal hard drive. The Idrive is not even recognizing the usb stick.

Thoughts on what I may be missing?

Before you copied your music to the USB drive, did you format the USB stick it to Fat32? If so, are you plugging it in to the front USB port by the cupholders. The manual goes through all these steps.

I use these usb flash drives. They seem to work in all my cars.
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruze...sb+flash+drive

Bills Oil Company · 01-20-2019, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MystroX5

Before you copied your music to the USB drive, did you format the USB stick it to Fat32? If so, are you plugging it in to the front USB port by the cupholders. The manual goes through all these steps.

I use these usb flash drives. They seem to work in all my cars.
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruze...sb+flash+drive

Thanks - I had no idea what FAT32 is, but I do now after googling it.

I'll try it and see if it works.

thomas_Rp · 02-10-2019, 10:37 AM

Is it possible to increase the capacity of the internal storage drive?

goenkar · 02-10-2019, 10:44 AM

For those that feel 32GB space is not enough, the system can play music directly from the USB thumb drive. This maybe one way to get around the space limitation.

doctorttt · 07-16-2019, 10:08 PM

Is this 32gb internal storage space dedicated for music files only? Where are the idrive system files stored?

TurtleBoy · 07-17-2019, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by doctorttt

Is this 32gb internal storage space dedicated for music files only? Where are the idrive system files stored?

That 32GB is just for the media that you can load, there is separate storage for the iDrive system.

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