Apple car play is just a phone connection. It’s not a streaming platform. Apple Music is a streaming service.rdm05z4 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:23 pmOri while I agree with your comment for most people. Their are still a few of us that may have a older phone 1. Doesn't have the storage for all the music we have. 2. Possible don't use carplay etc. 3. Have music that is no longer available to download or in my case many concerts recorded back in the day when there was actually DJ's on the radio and stations would broadcast full concerts from groups. (yes am that old). Don't get me wrong technology has come a long way. And for those who chose to use it carplay, pandora, sirisxm etc great enjoy!!! Not trying to disrespect thos that do. I am just I guess old fashion and set in my ways. Nick I hope you find an answer to your issue. I have a 05 so it was easy to install a USB (not c) cable.
So yeah if you had enough storage on iPhone you could play your music through that.
Or you could just transfer the music into the bmw internal storage system. Or just out the music on a USB stick and use that instead of an iPod. You would need to separate albums into folders for organisations although from memory the bmw sorts it out sometimes.