CD Player....
The built in CD player mechanism in the Toronto seems to be pretty robust so far. It has not skipped yet and does not seen finicky about scratched CDs or CD-Rs. The mechanism itself is a little noisy and a little slow, but does not seem to be a problem. There is an indicator to show that a disc is loaded into the CD mechanism. An interesting feature of the CD mechanism is that if you eject the disk and fail to remove it, in about 30 seconds the unit will suck it back in! CD controls are pretty standard, you can move from track to track or scan forward or backwards. The display will show the track number in small print and the larger display text will show elapsed time. There does not seem to be a setting to show time remaining. An interesting feature is that when you move from track to track, the audio for that track seems to start immediately and then do a fast fade up. I am not sure how this is being done, but I kind of like it. You can also have the player scan the intro of the tracks for up to 30 seconds. This time is adjustable under the DSC menu. There is a Mix function that plays tracks in random order. The CD player also has a feature called Track Program Memory (TPM). This allows you memorize you favorite tracks on that particular disk. With TPM switched on, only the tracks added to the TPM memory for that disk will be played. This information can be stored for up to 30 disks. TPM works with intro scanning and mix. It also can be edited or deleted for each disk. Another very nice feature is the ability to name up to 30 disks. Once you have named a disk through the DSC menu (easy as pie), you can press the Dis button and have the disk title displayed. This kind of nice if you can not remember what disk is in the player, or if you want everybody in the car to know what disk is playing. My only complaint is that the every time the unit is powered on, the display goes back to the time display. It would be nice if you could leave the display in the NAME mode all the time. The manual says this can be done when using the changer. Maybe I just missed something. Speaking of changers, the Toronto will support Blaupunkt’ changer line. It will do disk naming and TPM for up to 99 disks. Disk naming makes a lot of sense to me when you are carrying around a changer full of ten disks. There are several additional Mix modes available by using the changer also.
Security....
This is where Blaupunkt has decided to take a different path.
Most aftermarket receivers use a removable faceplate to
discourage the unit from being stolen. This in theory works great
if you take the faceplate with you. The faceplate and its
carrying case is kind of bulky. So a lot of people, if they even
bothered to remove them, would throw them in the glove box or
under a seat therefore defeating the whole purpose. My other
complaint with this system is that I would have problems with the
contacts between the radio body and the face plate getting
oxidized. This would cause the radio to behave erratically. I
even had two radios fall apart on me because of this setup.
Blaupunkt’ approach to security is by the use of a removable
keycard. The card is the size of a credit card and can be removed
very easily from the radio. 
The card can then be dropped
in a wallet, purse, pocket etc. Without the card, the radio is a
useless hunk of junk. In the BMW, the Toronto looks so much like
the stock system, it does not draw much attention to itself.
However with the card removed, a bright orange tongue sticks out
of the radio and flashes. That bright tongue sticking out and
flashing certainly screams "DON’T MESS WITH ME"
!!! The blinking light can be turned off. With the card system,
it makes it very easy to use the security feature of this radio.
The radio even beeps twice at you to remind you to take the card
when it is turned off. You also get two warning decals to stick
on the windows. Blau also gives you two keycards. Another nice
feature of this system, is that each keycard can save different
settings for station presets, tone controls, DSC settings, etc.
This allows two users to have their own settings for the radio.
Another neat use of the cards would be if you travel between a
couple of locations frequently, you could have a card programmed
for one cities station presets and the other card set up for the
second city.