motoracer

Ok this is infuriating.. ive been trying to burn an MP3 CD and cant get it to work. now i know my comand will play them cause the other day i burnt a tes disc and that worked great. now i cant get it to work for the life of me.

ive been using the data format when i burn the discs. im using roxio creator classic number 6..

can someone tell me exactly how to burn an MP3 cd step by step. what format to use if there is a folder limit or song limit and if there are limits on the file names or the structure.

Thanks in advance.

rory breaker

I am trying to burn CD's and use them in my 06 C55 and having the same problem...figured Id bump the original post.

Can someone explain how they do this? I am burning the cd as an "MP3 CD" rather than an "Audio CD" and say I put 100 songs on the CD, it only will display a random #, maybe 50 of them, when I put the CD in and play it. Shows the track information, thats all good, but for some reason not all the tracks are showing up. I think I am just burning the CD incorrectly.

What are you guys using, and what "type" of CD are you creating?

whoover

Are you sure all the tracks are .mp3? Most computer-based systems, like Itunes, can play several formats so you could have a mix. The COMAND will only recognize .mp3.

rory breaker

Good call, I will check to make sure they are all mp3's, but Im 99% sure they all are. Maybe 1 or 2 wma or something odd here and there, but certainly not 70% of them.

Assuming they are all mp3's, any other ideas? Should I be creating just a standard data cd rather than an "mp3 cd"?

ags

I had trouble getting this to work in my 07 E320. I tried all the top end CD burners. Then I tried iTunes. Went to Edit, preferences, advanced, burning. I set it to burn "MP3 CD". Now the disks consistently play in the car (I don't have as any with more than 35 tracks on the disk (I have the iPod connection, so why bother). I am not sure why I could not get the others to work when I thought they should produce the same thing, but there you go.

whoover

I burn them from ITunes also. It also converts to .mp3 as needed. I burn DVDs, which read fine in the S COMAND (but not C). I think you should be burning data disks, not mp3 disks.

ohlord

Works fine for me also,on cd's,just build a playlist,open it and in the lower right hand corner it says burn cd.put in disc hit burn,enjoy.When I do them they play in all of my players,Bose,pioneer,monsoon,etc. with no problems.
ohlord

vraa

CD's are a standard. Burn them to the standard and they will play in (excluding bad quality media) all players.

ohlord

CD's are a standard,however if you have an older player,i.e. the head units in 1998-02 benz,it may not play a cd burned with mp3 format,so I correct you on that point.If you rip music or have a lot of downloaded songs,
not purchased cd's,
they won't play,unless burned in a format the player understands. Easier to burn on itunes and others that make them compatible than it is to buy a new player.
ohlord
"GOT CODES?"

vraa

I meant, CD-DA is a standard.

That's Audio not burned as MP3's, but as the .cda's or whatever the extension is called.

If you use iTunes to burn a CD, it SHOULD work unless you burned the mp3s AS mp3s.

murman

Some MB CD changers will play wma files.

my06clk

You can only have a maximum of 99 files or folders on a CD. this is the big issue.
You can burn them as Data or MP3 CD it doesn;t matter if you follow the file limitations rule.
All files must be Mp3. AND they must be at least 128kpbs The 64's will freeze.
Remember the total combination of files AND folders can not exceed 99 if you want it to be read in your car.

murman

Low bit rate files do not seem to play on our COMAND unit, but will play in our OEM 6-disc changer. Seems really strange that the COMAND unit's drive is limited in that regard.

Also, our changer is limited to 99 files, but our COMAND unit will play well in excess of 100 files. I think that the newer COMAND units will permit > 99 files.

lkchris

But, there's more than one standard.

I'm able to copy MP3s to a CD that WILL play in our E-class (Becker I think) and NOT play in our GL (Alpine I think).

Good fortune had it that my GL salesman was an IT professional in his prior life and he researched my problem and discovered two methods for file structures on CDs.

On my IBM desktop there is the ability to drag/drop files to CDs, and this is the method that creates files structures that won't play on the GL Command. But the computer also came with a very basic "burn" software and using that I can make CDs that work.

Again, it's not how MP3s are created, it's how they're written to CD.

Sorry I can't remember the names of the two file structure conventions, but they're real.

rory breaker

Well I found my problem out...for sure, you need to burn a DATA CD. NOT an MP3 CD. 3 types...data, mp3 cd, and regular audio cd. Burn a data cd and all the folders will be there, all mp3's, etc.