I receive my car on Friday, so have not seen the Ipod/USB adapter yet. But it is supposed to let other types of MP3/music players plug-in. If these other types of music players playlists, albums etc. show up correctly in the IDrive, nobody knows. All new stuff just come out. I wish BMW would give a list of compatible music players that will work correctly with the IDrive display, similar to what they do with bluetooth phones. Then we would know what we can go out and buy. Maybe some of us do not want to buy an Ipod!!