[PooLBoYJc]

I keep getting the error that the thumb drive ran out of space, but I'm putting in a 64 gb thumbdrive. Any solutions?

[iwantaw335]

hello. I downloaded the bmwconv.exe file and I get an error when trying to launch it. MIssing cygwin1.dll I"m on windows 7 x64. any advice?

[junb112706]

lucho1970, could you please share with me your BR-Converter? Here is my email: junb112706@yahoo.com. I am anticipating my thanks....

[MaitreyaBuddha]

Hi everyone,
I have recently stumbled upon this post - in response to another BMW user's job post on another completely different site - and so decided to write a wee program to convert BR5 files to .WMV.

Its a simple 32-bit WIndows command-line application. SHould run on ALL version of Windows(XP, Vista, Win7, Win 8) 32-bit AND .. 64-bit.
If you want to convert 100s of files, and would like me to help you, let me know. Or, you this program and process one file at a time.

Download link:
http://snk.to/f-cdt8o5mu

usage is simple:
After unzipping the single .exe file in to any folder, open a Windows command-prompt and change to that folder. Then type:

BR5_to_WMV_Convertor.exe your_chosen_BR5_filename.BR5

it will output the converted .WMV file as :
your_chosen_BR5_filename.WMV

Simple! enJOy!

[Flavia88]

Hello everyone! I have the same problem with converting the BR files into mp3 and I couldn't find any program to do that . Lucho or anyone else who has that converting program please, can you send it to me? If no, my music is gone (((. Although I am working at BMW in Romania, no one knows how to convert BR Files . My e-mail address is : flavia.curutiu@yahoo.com

[iwantaw335]

You have to run the program in dos.

[Sam210703]

HI

can't open this programm can someone send me a link i can use.Lucho or anyone else who has that converting program please, can you send it to me?

my email adress is amir_ghanim@hotmail.com

thanx

[Sam210703]

MaitreyaBuddha i have like 200 tracks i would like to backup, and your help will be more than welcome.

i ve tried ur batch but it doesnt open my files anyway, any help, thx

[kafeend]

I know this post is a little old, but the bmwconv.exe app helped me out. This is what I did to get it to work on a Windows 7 computer.

To get bmwconv.exe to work (Windows 7) correctly please follow the steps below:

install x86 and x64 versions of Cygwin if you are on a 64 bit OS
https://cygwin.com/install.html

add C:\cygwin\bin\;C:\cygwin64\bin\ to your Path under advanced System properties>Environment variables (see link below)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...in-eclipse-cdt

Once you have cygwin installed, run the powershell script below which utilizes the bmwconv.exe to convert your music. This script should be ran in the folder where your music is stored via Powershell.

ls | format-list Name > music.txt #pipes the names of the files out to a text file. you will need to remove "Name : " from in front of every line with replace.
$music = gc "music.txt" #creates an array of the music file names
foreach ($song in $music) { #parses through each file
cmd /c "C:\DirectoryOfConverter\bmwconv.exe" $song #executes bmwconv.exe for each song in the array,
}

There will be some file not found errors due to the extra carriage returns, those can be safely ignored or you can delete each one, line by line or with some utility. I did't have the time or patience to do it last night. If you have any questions please feel free to ask, this worked successfully for me last night on my windows 7 machine converting 500+ songs.

[vseven]

I registered simply to re-repost the conversion program (as people still are having issues finding it) and to post a modified batch file. The problem with the original is it wouldn't convert a file with a space in the name. The new batch file will not only convert a file with a space in it but if you run it in the root of your USB drive or whatnot it will go through each directory and convert all the BR5's to WMAs.


Here is the new batch file that's in the zip so you can see the changes:

for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir *.br5 /b /s') do bmwconv "%%a"


Hopefully it helps someone out. I take no credit for the conversion program, just the modified batch file.

-Allan

[baye92m3]

bmwconv worked great, and vseven, your batch file worked perfectly (after I changed it to BR4 from BR5, given that I have MP3s, not WMAs). Thanks!

[bmwcone]

Thanks vseven (and everyone else who contributed), bmwconv worked fantastically for me.

I did however, noticed a small glitch/bug with it.

I had over 500 files to convert, and about 30 of them didn't for some reason.

Upon further investigation, I found that if the filenames had any apostrophes ( ' ) in them, the script would give me an error for that file.

I know this is a common thing in PHP/Javascript/SQL, so I'm guessing something in the script doesn't account for this.

I simply renamed the files and removed all apostrophes, and then they converted perfectly.

Hopefully this helps someone else in the future.

Thanks again for this script! It worked great!!

[runbyu1]

I got this to work:
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?for...or-windows.zip

I had to drag and drop each file in to the BMWConv program one at a time though but the conversion is instant so it didn't take very long.

[centurix]

Hopefully this is of help to someone who stumbles across this thread looking for a way to unpack/re-pack BMW iDrive music backups.

Wife asked me to decipher the contents of her series 4 music backup so she can make some changes, fix metadata and add album covers to music. Got to work and deciphered the contents (I wish I'd found this post before I started, would've given me a good head start) worked through to understand every byte in a backup, enough to not just be able to convert a backup to regular files, but also to take a collection of regular files and re-make the backup that can be restored back into the car. Wrote up what I found about the contents in a wiki and created Python scripts:

bmwunpack - Convert from backup to files
bmwpack - Convet from unpacked files to a backup
bmwcreatenewbackup - Create a folder structure expected for a backup
bmwconvert - Take a folder just full of music and create a new backup to restore

There's a bunch of instructions in the repository. It is a terminal/command line tool.

Usual disclaimer about risk. I've only tested this on an up to date BMW 435i iDrive system. Look forward to any feedback. It's on github so you can make PR's or raise issues if you want and I can fix if needed.

Open to suggestions.
https://github.com/Centurix/idrivetools

Here's a bunch of information about the backup format specification. As of the version we run, the specification covers 100% of the bytes: https://github.com/Centurix/idriveto...-Specification

[jamie72]

Hello,

Please can you send me the BR4 file converter to jamieruthven@hotmail.com

Regards Jamie

[opjose]

It is right in the post above yours.

[nutsofamily]

Originally Posted by lucho1970

I couldn't find this file to download as it seems to have been deleted.
So I created my own version and I just ran it through a backup that I created and it worked perfectly.
I made it this morning and wouldn't be surprised if it has some issues, but I converted 200 files in a couple of minutes.
If anyone is interested, send me a note and I'll send you the file. If enough people want it, I'll post it somewhere.

Yes please