Playing MP3 in COMAND

[Charles.Y]

I have burnt 50ish CDs onto a DVD+RW as MP3s and folders as others advised. I only manged to get half the albums burned working. Some of the albums burnt on the DVD just just refused to play.

I used the same s/w and hw/ and settings to convert the CDs to MP3s and burn the DVD. Some of the CDs are cme from the same case (i.e. vol1 and vol2) where in some case vol1 works but not vol2.

I just gave up now and put some of the (refused) MP3 CDs in the CD changer. Why MB have to make this device so fussy to use!

 

[corned]

Yay!

Success!!!!

I did everything the same as before except for one thing - I used a Memorex DVD+R disc, written at the default write (8x) speed (it was 4x last time), so I didn't even have to slow that down.

Well chuffed indeed - full COMAND album navigation/track selection/cluster display/steering wheel controls.



My thanks to all contributors in this thread.

 

[corned]

OK - sorry to resurrect an old thread, but...

I have put together a couple of DVD disc compilations now, finalised and not, and they seem to work OK most of the time. COMAND, however, stumbles sometimes and fails to read the finalised disc - I thought that was supposed to make it easier to read??!!

Well, the problem now is that I have attempted to append to the non-finalised disc, which has had some unintended/unexpected consequences.

The disc had two folders of music files - two albums - and all was going well. Yesterday I decided to add several more albums using the same file structure, but the appended folders were the only ones visible from the PC afterwards. The session 1 folders did not appear in the file structure - only the session 2 files. Oh well.

Now the strange bit: I put the disc in the car, with only the new folders visible, and all COMAND can see and play is the old folders from session 1!!

Help!!!!

 

[azaman]

OK - sorry to resurrect an old thread, but...

I have put together a couple of DVD disc compilations now, finalised and not, and they seem to work OK most of the time. COMAND, however, stumbles sometimes and fails to read the finalised disc - I thought that was supposed to make it easier to read??!!

Well, the problem now is that I have attempted to append to the non-finalised disc, which has had some unintended/unexpected consequences.

The disc had two folders of music files - two albums - and all was going well. Yesterday I decided to add several more albums using the same file structure, but the appended folders were the only ones visible from the PC afterwards. The session 1 folders did not appear in the file structure - only the session 2 files. Oh well.

Now the strange bit: I put the disc in the car, with only the new folders visible, and all COMAND can see and play is the old folders from session 1!!

Help!!!!

Sounds like you started a new session rather than continuing the current session on the disc. I'm guessing the COMAND unit is not capable of reading multiple sessions and so it just gives you what it finds on the first tracks.

 

[corned]

Ah - that explains it. Thanks, Azaman!

I might have been continuing the disc, but certainly not the session. Doh!

It's still interesting how each system only sees one session though.

Thanks again.

 

[redbaron]

Sorry to revive an extremely old thread :

NTG1 DVD (hidden in headunit) mp3 playback
Will it play mp3 from CD only or can it play from DVD... if so what is the magic combo of burning as cant seem to get either to go.. verbatim DVD+R or CD-R ?

 

[John]

I'm not sure what mine is but I have a W211 with slot above the COMAND display and that only plays DVDs - if someone can say what 'NTG' this would be - maybe the following will be relevant...

I then have the multi-changer below and that only plays CDs.

In both cases, I use CD-R and DVD-R, from Verbatim, recorded at the slowest possible speed in Roxio, and recorded as a list of files underneath a 1 deep folder structure which is the artist/band/disc name (so you are copying a list of files to a disc, not 'burning an audio disc').

If you inserted the recorded CD into a PC, you should just see a load of files or folders with a .mp3 extension, not a list of files only with a .cda extension...

 

[redbaron]

I'm not sure what mine is but I have a W211 with slot above the COMAND display and that only plays DVDs - if someone can say what 'NTG' this would be - maybe the following will be relevant...

I then have the multi-changer below and that only plays CDs.

In both cases, I use CD-R and DVD-R, from Verbatim, recorded at the slowest possible speed in Roxio, and recorded as a list of files underneath a 1 deep folder structure which is the artist/band/disc name (so you are copying a list of files to a disc, not 'burning an audio disc').

If you inserted the recorded CD into a PC, you should just see a load of files or folders with a .mp3 extension, not a list of files only with a .cda extension...

that is what i am doing but the unit refuses to play them.

NTG1 DVD is in W211/C219 W220/C215 that i know of. In the E/CLS it has a visible dvd slot and nav processor in the boot in the S/CL it has hidden DVD and cassette! slots and nav processor in the boot.

 

[clk208]

I have DVDs packed full of mp3s and it works a charm in my ntg1.
Can't remember the exact settings I used in windows when I burnt the discs but it was fairly obvious- data DVD and finalised format - ie can only be written once.

 

[redbaron]

i will try finalising it... earlier in the thread the advice was NOT to

 

[John]

I could be wrong but I very much doubt these players support multi-session.

I always close mine off and don't really know why you'd want to leave them open anyway - just burn another disc if you have to.

 

[clk208]

i could be wrong but i very much doubt these players support multi-session.

I always close mine off and don't really know why you'd want to leave them open anyway - just burn another disc if you have to.

+1

 

[redbaron]

doesnt work either way for me.

 

[John]

If you've done all that, and assuming the lense is not dirty (i.e. try a lense cleaner), I would have thought it doesn't play them then.

The only thing that sticks in the back of my head is that early W211s need some sort of upgrade to be able to play MP3 from DVD so I wonder if there could be something in that...

 

[PaoloT]

I'm adding my hat to the ring.

I have a collection of albums - no more than 25 - and each has tracks in it, normal numbers for albums, i.e. anywhere between 12 and 30 tracks in each.

I am using a DVD-R and have written the suggested flat data file structure, i.e:

DVD (root)
- Album 1
- Track 1
- Track 2
- etc
-Album 2
- Track 1
... and so on.

I put the DVD into COMAND and after cogitating for a short while it displays a 'DVD ERROR' message.

The drive has previously been happy to play MP3 CD's with all the info nicely displayed in the cluster.

Is COMAND fussy about DVD format? I.e. should I be using DVD+R instead?

Does the DVD have to be finalised? Or does this not matter?

Any pointers gratefully received!

Thanks,


Corned

 

[PaoloT]

I realise this is very old post as my car after all! However I thought NTG2 wanted only Dvd +R ? Or each comand NTg2 can can be different and prefer sometimes dvd-r?

 

[Diesel Benz]

I realise this is very old post as my car after all! However I thought NTG2 wanted only Dvd +R ? Or each comand NTg2 can can be different and prefer sometimes dvd-r?

This discussion was about NTG1 COMAND, are you sure NTG2 plays MP3 from any DVD?