EAS installed new DICE Silverline in my X5

[Kewl X5]

Kudos to Tom....he saved me the latest version of the DICE Silverline and within a few minutes swapped my original DICE from last year with the new DICE Silverline.

Tom has his own shop now where he can do installs (congrats again Tom) and it is close to Crevier BMW. So EAS now has a brick-and-motar shop as well!!

The DICE Silverline does it all and much faster and more reliable than my original DICE unit.

You can search through songs and yes the text still is displayed and scrolls, but I find advancing through the songs is still fast.

The kicker is now you can search through your iPod's PLAYLIST and the name of the PLAYLIST shows up and scrolls & also, you browse through the playlists much faster....You can hit the forward or backward arrow keys really fast and you'll see the names of the playlist show up and when you get to the playlist you want, it basically starts playing....The old DICE allowed you to "browse" through Playlists, but it was not too fast nor was it accurate.

You can browse through Artists within your playlist or Artists within the whole iPod.

Once you find the artist you want, you can even browse through different albums within your artist's selection.

The only thing I find a little quirky is that I have created some of my own mixed playlist...for example, there is one playlist called my "Chill Mix" and it has several different artists within the playlist....for some reason, the DICE Silverline will play all the songs in my "Chill Mix" but I observe it plays it in alphabetical order based on the artist's album title and not by the original order of the playlist.

I plugged in my iPod to iTunes and find that my "Chill Mix" is set in iTunes to play in my original order of the playlist and not by order of the albumns....

However, if I have let say One Republic's new album on the playlist, it will play it in the exact original order of the album.

Well, I'll show you some pics of the MID Text display, but it is better to see it in person.

This is installed in a 2001 X5 with DSP (I already installed the DSP convertor last year) it has updated 2004 OEM Alpine radio module, BMW OEM Sirius, and the latest version of DICE Silverline. I have a 5G (Video) 60 GB iPod and it is running firmware 1.2.3

[X5Dawg]

Check your settings in your pod and see if you have it set to shuffle - that might solve your issue of the songs playing in alphabetical order.

[Kewl X5]

First thing Tom and I did was check the iPod's setting and shuffle is off.

Originally Posted by X5Dawg

Check your settings in your pod and see if you have it set to shuffle - that might solve your issue of the songs playing in alphabetical order.

[Go_Fast]

shuffle is what i want with the dice. will it shuffle like the ipod does?

[acitydweller]

was this installed behind the head unit or in the trunk. i understand there is the option for both available..

[rastaFarai]

think i'll upgrade, believe they have a $99 upgrade price for just the Dice Silverline unit.. If i were to sell my old dice, or give it to my cousin (540i) can I purchase just the harness? the one with the 3 and 6 pin connectors?

[Go_Fast]

Originally Posted by acitydweller

was this installed behind the head unit or in the trunk. i understand there is the option for both available..

the dice module is in the center console under the parking brake lever. the cable to connect the ipod comes up through the hinge hole for the center console compartment ("bucket") lift door and the ipod resides there loosely with enough cable to pull it out and disconnect/check it. i wasn't sure if i wanted the ipod to be in the "bucket" or have it in the glove compartment so i let them install it this way and i actually like there.

[Kewl X5]

DICE installed in the glovebox area, but it is the trunk version because I have DSP and there are lots of wiring done that was done last year.

Check out this link: http://www.xoutpost.com/x5-e53-forum/...sirius+install

Originally Posted by acitydweller

was this installed behind the head unit or in the trunk. i understand there is the option for both available..

[Mau]

Originally Posted by Go_Fast

shuffle is what i want with the dice. will it shuffle like the ipod does?

Same for me. Anyone have the answer?

[Go_Fast]

Shuffle - can be done...it will not handled by the DICE but by the head unit.

1. Ipod playing through DICE
2. Press CD2 and choose a playlist
3. Press CD1 to put the DICE in song selection mode so the head unit can choose the songs within the playlist
4. Press the "Select" button to enter the Select menu (Music Select, Scan, Random, FF/Reverse)
5. Turn the right hand knob and highlight "Random"
6. Press the knob to choose "Random"
7. Press the Mode button to return to the normal screen or wait for the menu to timeout back to the normal screen
8. Notice "RND" in the upper right of the screen

Random is engaged and will play the songs within the playlist randomly. You may advance to the next random song with the control button (< >) or the steering wheel control up/down buttons.

However, if you press another CD button to change to playlist or artist or album, Random will be turned off and you will have to go back into the Select menu and activate it. Same holds true if you power off the X5 and power back on.