Bluetooth music with iphone 7

[Phild73]

Hi all!

I bought a z4 e85 recently ... and love it! But I miss music that I want to play which is all on my iPhone 7 these days.

It's got a business CD installed. How can I get music to play via bluetooth (no 3.5mm jack on an iphone 7)?

I think these might be some of my options:

* Have an aux jack installed and then put one of the cheap bluetooth to 3.5mm jack adapters. Possibly this will be the cheapest option, but as I'd be getting someone else to do it (honestly, if I try, I'll just break something), it might be more expensive than I think. Not sure how much..

* Have a Parrot installed. This will give me phone too, but I don't know how well I'd be able to be heard most of the time since I use it mostly when I can have the top down. Maybe £200 installed

* There seems to be a few kits which are cheaper than a parrot, but basically do the same thing. Maybe £150 installed.

Have I missed anything?

Any thoughts?

 

[ronk]

Will the E85 play Mp3 format disks?

 

[Phild73]

Will the E85 play Mp3 format disks?

I believe so .. but I don't actually own any of my music any more It's all via Deezer (like spotify)

 

[ronk]

What happens in poor signal areas tho?
Sorry if that's a dumb question!

 

[Rusky]

I have a media bridge. Bluetooth phone and audio streaming. Mic works well with the roof down.

 

[heavymetalthunder]

You could get something like this bluetooth receiver for £15:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TeckNet-Bluetooth-Receiver-Control-Calling/dp/B00QKQC3K8

Plugs into the 3.5mm aux socket and cigarette lighter, gives you bluetooth music streaming and handsfree calls. For a neater install you could hard wire in a USB port (tap into the fuse box behind the glovebox) and use that for power instead of having a cable hanging out (but if you are not too keen on things like this as you mentioned it's not really necessary).

 

[Magicarcher]

I can thoroughly recommend this on amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01HXKU4YQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I wrote a review on it on Amazon, you can work out which one the review is quite easy

I originally only bought it as a stop gap as I have a digital radio/amp/sub to fit over winter (not going for a straightforward installation I intend to fit in the rear cubbybox which is a fair size job)

Then all you need to do is buy a £7 third party aux cable which take s a grand 15 minutes to fit and you will have very good performance.

The performance for £15 is outstanding and to be honest I am in no rush to fit my expensive hifi.