11-09-2019, 02:54 AM | #1 |
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Best way to listen to lossless music on G20
What would be the best way to listen to lossless music on the G20? (To take full advantage of the HK sound system.)
- Would using lossless streaming (Tidal, other) be able to play lossless in the car? I doubt it, since I guess it'd have to connect via bluetooth, but I'm not sure. Does it even use AptX? - What about playing FLAC from a usb-attached drive? * 1st: Does it play FLAC? * 2nd:Would the car recognize a 1TB drive formatted, probably, in NTFS? * 3rd: How does it read the metadata? Does it use the tags or it uses the file names / folder structures?
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Yes FLAC is fine. I use a micro USB drive in the cup area so that the lid can close.
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I presume there's a list of supported formats somewhere.
Is it true the internal storage adds compression?
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FLAC has been supportd since 2013 (NBT) according to the above site (nice history of iDrive). |
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Having FLAC support was one of my car requirements.
I've Samsung FIT Plus 256 GB with nothing but FLACs and it works OK. It reads meta data properly and picks album covers if present. Few notes:
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Thanks guys for the responses. One thing: Are the files actually transferred to the car or are they read from the USB drive? The manual is confusing on this respect and it seems the files are actually transferred to the car.
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As for a single big flac + cue - BMW cannot split such files into tracks. Today I've also discovered it's possible to browse folders as they exist on a USB drive. In "Search" menu there is "Browse folder" option at the very bottom. |
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