BMW Nav IV help please

[paul08]

Having just bought a new LC with BMW Nav IV, I have spent an evening setting it up etc etc. All went well (I think) and I have eventually downloaded all the various updates etc. And I have both my new BMW nav IV and my existing Garmin navi for my car showing in Garmin Express.

I have, however, hit a couple of snags, and would appreciate some advice;

1. I have a route from Via Michelin that I wanted to download to the navi. from the owner's manual, it appears that I just need to copy the .GPX file from my computer to my Nav IV. I have tried doing this both to my installed SD card and to the "Garmin Folder" on the SD card. However, when I then search for the route ("Where to"/"Custom Routes") I can find no trace of it. or should I be looking for it elsewhere?
- can someone give me some step by step instructions?

2. Music.
i have iTunes running on my Apple Mac and would like to have some music on the Nav IV. Again, can someone tell me how I go about this, as the Garmin manual is very vague. Do I need some sort of media player on my Nav IV, or do I just need to download music files from iTunes to the Nav IV? And, if the latter, how do I go about downloading in a suitable format (mp3?) from iTunes to the Nav IV. And where, on the Nav IV do I actually place the music files.

Many thanks for any help that you can offer

 

[Magnon]

I'm also in need to a tutoring in the ways of 660/itunes/music

Thanks in advance or any hand holding offered

 

[Bumpkin]

1. I have a route from Via Michelin that I wanted to download to the navi. from the owner's manual, it appears that I just need to copy the .GPX file from my computer to my Nav IV. I have tried doing this both to my installed SD card and to the "Garmin Folder" on the SD card. However, when I then search for the route ("Where to"/"Custom Routes") I can find no trace of it. or should I be looking for it elsewhere?
- can someone give me some step by step instructions?

Have you tried putting it in a folder, within the Garmin folder, named GPX. If that folder doesn't exist then create one. If the GPX file is directly from viaMichelin then I would be inclined to import that into Basecamp and recalculate it first, the route may vary from how it appeared in viaMichelin.

2. Music.
i have iTunes running on my Apple Mac and would like to have some music on the Nav IV. Again, can someone tell me how I go about this, as the Garmin manual is very vague. Do I need some sort of media player on my Nav IV, or do I just need to download music files from iTunes to the Nav IV? And, if the latter, how do I go about downloading in a suitable format (mp3?) from iTunes to the Nav IV. And where, on the Nav IV do I actually place the music files.

The Garmin has an MP3 player built in, it can't play music from iTunes without conversion to MP3. I don't do Macs, they maybe pretty but have a feking awful tied-in proprietary business model to drive you to buy everything from Apple. A brilliant money spinner for them...

 

[DJ GSA]

Have you tried putting it in a folder, within the Garmin folder, named GPX. If that folder doesn't exist then create one. If the GPX file is directly from viaMichelin then I would be inclined to import that into Basecamp and recalculate it first, the route may vary from how it appeared in viaMichelin.



The Garmin has an MP3 player built in, it can't play music from iTunes without conversion to MP3. I don't do Macs, they maybe pretty but have a feking awful tied-in proprietary business model to drive you to buy everything from Apple. A brilliant money spinner for them...

The 660/IV has a built in player but you need to convert to MP3's. Just copy to the memory card and the Zumo will do the rest.

I have heard that some itunes formats you can just rename to .MP3 but I don't use I tunes so I dont know. There are loads of free converters if you google

 

[paul08]

The 660/IV has a built in player but you need to convert to MP3's. Just copy to the memory card and the Zumo will do the rest.

I have heard that some itunes formats you can just rename to .MP3 but I don't use I tunes so I dont know. There are loads of free converters if you google

On the SD card, do you put the music files in the Root directory, or in the "Garmin" folder, or to a sub-folder in the Garmin folder (if you understand what I am getting at!). And does the folder holding the music have to be called something specific?

 

[Bumpkin]

I have mine in a folder, on the root of the card, named 'Music'. Playlists are in a folder, again off the root, called 'MP3' and in a folder within that called 'Playlists'. Not sure why it's that way buit it works for me.

The music is in a directory structure of artists and within those folders of albums (which actually have the tracks in) plus a few extra folders named '_Misc', '_Singles', '_Soundtracks' (gotta keep The Sound of Music somewhere ) and '_Various' (compilations etc..). The underscores ensure that these are listed at the top in explorer.

It's important to not have too many tracks in a folder, can't exactly remember the limit but my singles folder has 105 and that works OK.

 

[AberdeenAngus]

When you put the mp3 tracks on the sd card, make sure you populate the album and file property fields else the Zumo won't sort them for you. You can also have album artwork.....isn't that nice?