Principals of Operation: CD/Multimedia: Notes

In terms of their functionality, the CD/DVD, external devices and sound submenus located under CD/Multimedia are similarly configured as the iDrive "Entertainment" menu of the CCC.

This training material mainly deals with the Music collection  selection menu. The other selection menus are described in detail in the Vehicle Owner's Manual.

With the music collection, it is possible to store music data within the CIC on an 80GB hard disk. A total of 12 GB is reserved for the music collection, corresponding to about 3700 music tracks.

A music search  function has been implemented, which searches for information (metadata) on the individual music tracks (artist, album, etc.).

A music track database (Gracenote®) provides further information to the music track (metadata). This takes place as a supplementary function to the conversion process from Digital Audio CD to a WMA file. A storage space of 4 GB is reserved for this purpose on the CIC-internal hard disk.