How to turn off audio on Comand

[DrNick]

I think I've got the Comand NTG1 (single slot CD/DVD player with nav processor in the boot) in my 56 plate E class.

I can't find a way to sensibly turn off audio and yet still have nav running. I can't help feeling that the option to not have the audio section running independently of the nav is a reasonable request?

My current solution is to select the aux input with nothing attached, but this is a bodge and it takes a fair few button presses to achieve.

I've done a search but its either not causing anyone else a problem, or its so obvious no-one else has had to ask the question!

 

[whitenemesis]

Just select 'Mute', it will mute the radio/CD but not Nav announcements.

 

[Ted]

Or turn the sound down when there are no nav announcements. Nav announcements should still work at the volume they are set at.

 

[DrNick]

But that doesn't help if I just want to turn off the CD (without ejecting it) so it doesn't lose its place.
Normally if the Nav and audio are different units it wouldn't be a problem. I'd just push the off button on the audio unit.
With these new fangled combined units, the functions are not separated.

Its obviously not causing anybody else an issue though!

 

[scottydee]

When the voice is saying something press and hold the mute button, and it should then mute the voice but nothing else.

 

[whitenemesis]

But that doesn't help if I just want to turn off the CD (without ejecting it) so it doesn't lose its place.
Normally if the Nav and audio are different units it wouldn't be a problem. I'd just push the off button on the audio unit.
With these new fangled combined units, the functions are not separated.

Its obviously not causing anybody else an issue though!

Switch to Radio, the CD will stop at the current position, then press Mute.

 

[scottydee]

When the voice is saying something press and hold the mute button, and it should then mute the voice but nothing else.

Just realised I read the question the wrong way round!

 

[DrNick]

Switch to Radio, the CD will stop at the current position, then press Mute.

Thanks for that - it does work, but its quicker to just switch to "Aux" as I have nothing connected to aux at the moment. I still think its a bodge. Surely it would have been straightforward to program one of the spare soft keys under the audio menu to be "Off".

I think the replies so far indicate there is no straightforward answer that I've missed, but its not an issue for anyone else except me!

Thanks anyway

 

[Diesel Benz]

Switch to Radio, the CD will stop at the current position, then press Mute.

Wouldn't it still be sufficient to just press "mute", the CD should stop in this case too.

 

[Diesel Benz]

Thanks for that - it does work, but its quicker to just switch to "Aux" as I have nothing connected to aux at the moment. I still think its a bodge. Surely it would have been straightforward to program one of the spare soft keys under the audio menu to be "Off".

I think the replies so far indicate there is no straightforward answer that I've missed, but its not an issue for anyone else except me!

Thanks anyway

Somehow owners want to turn the device off when they want to turn the volume completely off. Mute does it for the different audio sources even if they come from the same device, why is so difficult to turn audio off with "mute" instead of "turning lights off from the audio device"?

I still believe the solution from the post #2 is the simplest one for the desired functionality.

 

[DrNick]

Somehow owners want to turn the device off when they want to turn the volume completely off. Mute does it for the different audio sources even if they come from the same device, why is so difficult to turn audio off with "mute" instead of "turning lights off from the audio device"?

I still believe the solution from the post #2 is the simplest one for the desired functionality.

I don't really understand all of this post. I'm not trying to turn any lights off. I want to turn off the audio section of Comand. That's all.

I will check the "Mute" functionality. To me "Mute" is different to "Off". "Mute" implies that the sound output is stopped, not that necessarily the CD is off. More like "Pause". The difference is that the disc is still spinning and all kinds of other things will be active (maybe the laser) thus contributing to wear and tear and shortening its life. We all know that these Comand things aren't cheap!
It may not even pause the CD, just "Mute" the output, in which case its useless for my purpose.

I will check it tonight. Hopefully it does do what I want, in which case, niggle solved

 

[DrNick]

So pressing "Mute" does pause the CD, so will do the job (annoyingly close to "Eject" though!), so thanks to Whitenemesis for that suggestion up at post 2.
I still find it surprising that "off" has to be bodged.

 

[Diesel Benz]

So pressing "Mute" does pause the CD, so will do the job (annoyingly close to "Eject" though!), so thanks to Whitenemesis for that suggestion up at post 2.
I still find it surprising that "off" has to be bodged.

I don't really understand all of this post, sorry.

You want to switch off the current audio source but want the rest of the head unit features to remain on. Assuming I understood right, mute does exactly what you want and with a single button press.

Should the mute button have "audio off" written on it or just "off" but with the same functionality? I would find "off" very misleading. Is "off" further from "eject" than "mute" is? I thought neither one could be considered as "eject" at any rate.

 

[DrNick]

I don't really understand all of this post, sorry.

You want to switch off the current audio source but want the rest of the head unit features to remain on. Assuming I understood right, mute does exactly what you want and with a single button press.

Should the mute button have "audio off" written on it or just "off" but with the same functionality? I would find "off" very misleading. Is "off" further from "eject" than "mute" is? I thought neither one could be considered as "eject" at any rate.

On my head unit, the "Mute" button is physically next to "Eject". So its easy to press eject rather than Mute by mistake. Hence, its closer.
Mute does exactly what it says. It stops the audio output and helpfully keeps the CD spinning and the laser tracking at the same point. Thus when you press mute again, the CD carries on from where it left off.
In terms of making everything go quiet, this is what I want, so you are correct in that regard. (Intuitively, Mute would also mute nav instructions. I understand it doesn't do that, thanks to this discussion, but that was my assumption based on my interpretation of the word Mute.)

This is different from "Off". Off would turn off the disc and laser etc.
You might think this is an irrelevant detail and I'm being pedantic. I obviously would disagree. I think Audio Off and Mute are two separate, although in this case similar, functions.
On other head units I've used in the past, Mute has just muted the audio but the CD has carried on progressing. However, they have just been audio units (no nav) so a quick push of the off button stops everything and it remembers where it was.

So in summary, I can use Mute to pause the CD and reduce the volume to nothing. That will do, and thanks to those who suggested this. I have to accept that "Off" as I've described it is not a feature that anyone else has a requirement for, so it must be me that is out of step with the rest of the world - I can accept this as its happened before.

I still don't understand your previous post about lights being turned off though!