BMW 7 Owners & Service Manuals

BMW 7 Series: CD/Multimedia Overview

The CD/DVD, external devices and sound sub-menus are listed under CD/Multimedia in a similar configuration to the iDrive "Entertainment" menu of the CCC.

This Product Information mainly deals with the Music collection sub-menu.

An innovative feature of this system is that video DVD can be played in the front CID. This function is only available with the vehicle stationary (Parking Brake on) and is enabled in the corresponding vehicle order. It provides the control option with which the video function is activated.

Music Collection

For the first time in a BMW vehicle, a music collection can be saved on an internal hard disk drive and accessed through its own sub-menu. The music collection feature is found under the CD/Multimedia menu of the CIC.

A music search function has been implemented, which searches for information (metadata) on the individual music tracks (artist, album, etc.). A hard drive-based track database (Gracenote) provides further information to the music track (metadata).

NOTE: Metadata storage is a separate function to the conversion process from Digital Audio CD to a WMA file format which allows the system to perform a music search.

Principles Of Operation
Fig. 31: CD/Multimedia Sub-Menu With "Music Collection" Checked

Storing Music Data on the HDD

The music collection is stored in a partition on the internal hard disk drive (HDD) of the CIC. This device makes it possible to store a large selection of music data in the vehicle, while allowing the option to retrieve it when necessary.

Up to 12 GB of the total 80 GB hard drive is set aside for the music collection.

The following three options can be used to store music data on the hard disk:

  • Rip function from Compact Disc Audio format
  • Copying data via the CD/DVD drive
  • Copying data from the USB

Principles Of Operation
Fig. 32: Storing Music Data On HDD

HDD EXPLANATION CHART

  1. Hard disk (HDD)
  2. Commercially available audio CDs (Compact Disk Digital Audio CDA)
  3. DVD/CD ROM with compressed audio data (WMA, CDA, MP3, AAC)
  4. USB stick

Rip Function

This function rips commercially available audio CDs (marked with the Compact Disk Digital Audio logo) and converts them to compressed music files.

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