E46 m3 USB interface

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After much looking around I have managed to buy an E46 M3 which I hopefully pick up tomorrow.
I threw my perfect spec out the window and bought on condition.

The car doesn't have Nav but does have Harman Kardon with a tape player in the front and a 6cd in the boot.

It has Bluetooth already but i would like a way to plug my galaxy S3 into it for music.

Has anybody done this?
 
Na it's the other way around tbh.

That Yatour subsitutes your cd changer.

I'm thinking that either you put all your music on a pen drive or hard drive or sd card, and plug it into the yatour, then you just navigate through your steering wheel, stereo etc.

Or you plug in the the galaxy 3 into the yatour with usb, then turn on the hard drive function and navigate the music on your phone with your car stereo etc.

I don't think there is a way to stream your S3 music via BT easily in the E46.

The best way IMO is SD card/USB pen drive it.

Fiitting is like 10 seconds, just plug and play, unplug cd changer, plug in yatour..
 
There is a very straightforward and cheap way to connect audio to a phone which I use in my e46. I have a bluetooth A2DP adapter bought from the purple shirt place for £20 and this goes into the aux in of my e46 radio (you might need an adapter/newer headunit for aux in). The bluetooth adapter is powered via USB so I used a USB cigarette lighter. As I have nav this is all completely hidden in the boot, for a normal headunit it would just fit nicely behind there.

Works fine with my Galaxy Note - it even loads up Tune In radio as soon as I turn the car on and starts playing the last stream I was on (you could do with with any media player though).

Video of the setup I use here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4n2OQLSMQE&list=UUhfleHXHqrYyeQk6Qnc8-6g&index=3&feature=plcp

(Disclaimer: Please don't get butthurt with the rest of the video if you have an Apple device and say its not fair having a passcode -we require them for work email/calendar and the Android phone has one as well but the a2dp app works in the background without needing to unlock. The video is just explaining one of the benefits of tasking in Android - connecting audio to an A2DP adapter is not normally automatic on either Android or iOS for obvious reasons so you save a lot of presses here in a situation where you would want to swap the audio over automatically. It connects to my standard 'headset' car kit first and then that is the trigger for outputting the 'normal' stereo audio to the A2DP adapter as well.)
 
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Em3bbs said:
There is a very straightforward and cheap way to connect audio to a phone which I use in my e46. I have a bluetooth A2DP adapter bought from the purple shirt place for £20 and this goes into the aux in of my e46 radio (you might need an adapter/newer headunit for aux in). The bluetooth adapter is powered via USB so I used a USB cigarette lighter. As I have nav this is all completely hidden in the boot, for a normal headunit it would just fit nicely behind there.

Works fine with my Galaxy Note - it even loads up Tune In radio as soon as I turn the car on and starts playing the last stream I was on (you could do with with any media player though).

Video of the setup I use here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4n2OQLSMQE&list=UUhfleHXHqrYyeQk6Qnc8-6g&index=3&feature=plcp

(Disclaimer: Please don't get butthurt with the rest of the video if you have an Apple device and say its not fair having a passcode -we require them for work email/calendar and the Android phone has one as well but the a2dp app works in the background without needing to unlock. The video is just explaining one of the benefits of tasking in Android - connecting audio to an A2DP adapter is not normally automatic on either Android or iOS for obvious reasons so you save a lot of presses here in a situation where you would want to swap the audio over automatically. It connects to my standard 'headset' car kit first and then that is the trigger for outputting the 'normal' stereo audio to the A2DP adapter as well.)
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So With this I have to disconnect my CD Changer and use the wire for this to plug into this interface?

Where is the best place to buy this from?

I'm not actually that bothered about playing music through bluetooth. A USB connection to my phone would be fine.
 
Does it have Nav?

If so, buy a cheap iPod from Ebay and get an Intravee. Perfect ipod integration on your Nav screen - fast, efficient, looks and feels OEM to use. The absolute best solution for the E46 bar none.

Leave the ipod in the boot for ever with all your music on and you don't need to faff about every time you get in the car.
 
No Nav, just the normal head unit. It doesn't have to connect to my phone I could do it with one of my iPods or just USB stick I suppose.
 
Looking at the Ad2p adapter and I don't have an aux in so can't fit this.

Any other options? Or should I buy a new head unit?
 
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