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Audio Streaming

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:14 pm
by Shez1878
Afternoon All!

Hope you are well. Sooooooo I have sold my BMW 730D and am in the process of purchasing a 2008 BMW X5 M-sport. It has most extras however does not have audio streaming (from your iphone for example).

What is the most cost effective way to achieve this on an E70?

By complete accident I discovered that music can be heard using in-car speakers using the Parrot bluetooth telephone kit however I dont want to stall this as the X5 will have the factory fitted bluetooth phone already.

So....what should I be doing? Helpppppppppppp!!

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:54 pm
by kjb1
a cheap fix would be to buy a blackberry a2dp music gateway ( about £20 on ebay ) then a car charger for it to plug into cig lighter, airport could plug into the aux in within glovebox.  Then maybe take power off the 12v cig lighter in rear ( hide it ) and feed it into glovebox.  All in £25, and a cheap solution. 


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Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:48 pm
by Shez1878
Thanks mate!

Thats certainly a very cheap option and good as a plan B. Ideally I was looking a bit more 'professional' and with less wires etc. etc?

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:00 pm
by X5Sport
There is no factory option for it.  That didn't arrive until 2010.

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:50 pm
by Shez1878
Thanks chaps. Could I just get a parrot system purely for the streaming? I would want to use the BMW system for calls etc?

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:51 pm
by kjb1
[quote="Shez1878"]
Thanks mate!

Thats certainly a very cheap option and good as a plan B. Ideally I was looking a bit more 'professional' and with less wires etc. etc?
[/quote]

It would be totally hidden in glove box, pick up 12v going to cig rear lighter in rear, could easily make it look neat with no wires etc. 


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Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:53 pm
by Shez1878
[quote="kjb1"]

[quote="Shez1878"]
Thanks mate!

Thats certainly a very cheap option and good as a plan B. Ideally I was looking a bit more 'professional' and with less wires etc. etc?
[/quote]

It would be totally hidden in glove box, pick up 12v going to cig rear lighter in rear, could easily make it look neat with no wires etc. 


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[/quote]Appreciate the advice mate, will take a look!


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Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:26 pm
by Rik
Ive just looked into the same problem, want to stream music as well as use the inbuilt phone kit. being a 2007 E70, there is no inbuilt system, but picked this little adapter up on ebay for £4.59 inc postage. Works a treat, charge it up, plug into the AUX socket and connect your phone up. It does have a call option too, so you need to de-select this on your phone so its audio only, then phone works thro car bluetooth as normal, and music streams to adapter.Image

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 11:04 am
by mikesmith2939
Do you have a link for this?

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 11:52 am
by Horizon
[quote="mikesmith2939"]
Do you have a link for this?
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Loads of similar items on EBay, most post from China, but this is a UK one I think

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... ID=EBAY-GB

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 1:53 pm
by mikesmith2939
Thanks

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:08 pm
by R100ERS
I cant connect my phone to my E53 will this support an IPhone 5 ??

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:09 pm
by X5Sport
Have you deleted all existing pairings first?  Only 4 entries permitted then needs clearing out.

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:27 pm
by R100ERS
In fairness Im not sure how to do that so bought this to see if it would support connection

Re: Audio Streaming

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:22 pm
by X5Sport
It's in the manual...

"The pairing procedure must first be activated, and then the send/receive
button on the installed eject-box or the pairing button located at the rear of the center console must again be depressed for an additional 10 seconds after the “Bluetooth Pairing” message is displayed on the radio in order to clear the list of paired devices from the control module and the message “paired devices deleted” is displayed."