COMAND CD problems

[Dazzler]

It is very slow to read and start to use a disc.
It will also sometimes freeze whilst playing.
It also sometimes will not eject the disc.

Do i take it my COMAND is up the creak

 

[verytalldave]

Not at all.
The COMAND unit is quite a fussy beast and can take a dislike to some CD's,
Usually commercially produced muisc CD's are OK, but home burnt ones can play up. Specially if you stick labels on.
My COMAND is fine providing I use good quality CD-R's. All I do is write on the disk with a CD pen. Never stick a label or anything else on the disk. And keep them clean.
Of course your unit may need a clean, specially if the car has at some point been used by a smoker. Smoking around any type of laser device does it no favours as it coats the lens with a microscopic film. In which case use a good quality CD lens cleaning disk.
Ejecting CD's is a common problem and seems to get worse on a hot sunny day or if the unit has been used for several hours.
A tip is to GENTLY tap the COMAND unit near to the cd slot just after you have pressed the eject button. Only use your fingertip and do it in quick repeats but GENTLY.

 

[Dazzler]

Not at all.
The COMAND unit is quite a fussy beast and can take a dislike to some CD's,
Usually commercially produced muisc CD's are OK, but home burnt ones can play up. Specially if you stick labels on.
My COMAND is fine providing I use good quality CD-R's. All I do is write on the disk with a CD pen. Never stick a label or anything else on the disk. And keep them clean.
Of course your unit may need a clean, specially if the car has at some point been used by a smoker. Smoking around any type of laser device does it no favours as it coats the lens with a microscopic film. In which case use a good quality CD lens cleaning disk.
Ejecting CD's is a common problem and seems to get worse on a hot sunny day or if the unit has been used for several hours.
A tip is to GENTLY tap the COMAND unit near to the cd slot just after you have pressed the eject button. Only use your fingertip and do it in quick repeats but GENTLY.

Ok, will give that a try, its a normal music CD that im using. Didn't know you could play CD-R's in it.
Cheers

 

[verytalldave]

Ok, will give that a try, its a normal music CD that im using. Didn't know you could play CD-R's in it.
Cheers

Only CD-R's burnt with audio files.
Unfortunately MP3's don't work (at least they don't in my car mores the pity)

 

[Nibbo]

Only CD-R's burnt with audio files.(

Little hijack... Dave, what software do you burn your CD's with?
I have tried to play them in mine but no joy.

 

[verytalldave]

Nothing fancy. Just the standard media player that come bundled with Windows.
Just before you burn you get the option to burn the files selected as either DIGITAL files (MP3) or AUDIO files.
Click on Audio files and away you go.

Depending on the sizes of the music files to be burnt, very approximately you can get about 16 audio files OR 150 digital MP3 files on a single CD-R.