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rkw · Mar 9th, 2008, 07:49 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by brett (original)

so , I have an Ipod with Itunes. If I was to save the Itunes My music folder to an external hard drive, I could plug it in and work. MY external hard drive has a external power point I was going to use a power invertor

Some people have experimented but not been successful at using an external hard drive. However, it has been reported that for a BMW (which should have the same or similar USB system), a hard drive works if reformatted using a special utility:
http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80270
As Stiggy says, whatever music files you want to play must be unprotected. But if you already have an iPod, why not simply use it and bypass all these issues?

Mar 9th, 2008, 07:49 AM	#6
rkw MINI2 Senior Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Francisco, CA Local Time: 03:28 PM Posts: 589 Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by brett (original) so , I have an Ipod with Itunes. If I was to save the Itunes My music folder to an external hard drive, I could plug it in and work. MY external hard drive has a external power point I was going to use a power invertor Some people have experimented but not been successful at using an external hard drive. However, it has been reported that for a BMW (which should have the same or similar USB system), a hard drive works if reformatted using a special utility: http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80270 As Stiggy says, whatever music files you want to play must be unprotected. But if you already have an iPod, why not simply use it and bypass all these issues?