seanvree

Can the files be MP3? Also, does the card have to be formatted with exFAT?

Anything else I need to know?

Thanks,

jkyriakou

Yes.

Fat 32 should work.

Sarge,CD

I have MP3's and yes they work fine

davidmcr

All I would add is that if you a large collection of music on the card, it can take some time to index itself before you can use it. It appears to do this every time you remove the card.

I also spotted that if you have music on a USB stick as well it combines to the two sources for searching and play back. Pretty neat idea.

trustoryson

I have successfully used a USB 3.0 stick (FAT32), a USB 2.0 stick (FAT32), and have been able to stream various audio files AND Video formats (.mkv, .m4v, .mov) in 1080P and 720P.

See this little demo I did with Top Gear from the USB 3.0 stick, NOT DVD
http://1drv.ms/1BQ6Ttn

Jchungster

That's awesome! I didn't even know we could watch movies on it... Lol

Mr Enigma

I believe .mp4 (& possibly .avi) files will also work.

jkyriakou

Ok that's cool. One thing I could not do tonite however is transfer my Audio cd to the register.

It will do SD card but not CD. That's odd cause the w204 would almost always do an audio CD transfer.

Any one for any advice?

alkam2

Does movie files play if car is in motion?

pirlouit21

No, in motion you can just listen to the soundtrack of the movie

Mr Enigma

There is a 3rd party solution that you can install on the car that enables this feature.

merC400

that's really cool! didn't know like others (don't feel all that embarrassed now ) that we could play videos!
I never even bothered connecting USB stick since was streaming from my phone most times... if not listening to radio.

merC400

Mr Enigma, what tool/app is that? and how to install apps on the car? should check out more... also, does that void warranty?

I wish I could take the system atleast into my house to play around more with it... or possibly have a remote connection to it and play around from my room

Mr Enigma

Please see this thread for more information: https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...eo-motion.html

I'm not sure about the warranty implications...

Chickenwinglim

Hello, can anyone tell me what is the maximum capacity of an sd card the vehicle will read. I wanted to buy a 128gb sd card to put all my music, podcasts and a few films on but I'm worried the system won't be able to read it. Has anyone experimented with different sizes?

notabenex

Hi I am using 128gb USB 3.0 flash stick without problem :-)

angeloxnet

anyone try a hard drive yet :P

jolt8631

I connected a 220 GB hard drive (2.5" USB powered) to the loaner I had out, just to try it. All worked fine. I wanted to try separate partitions on the drive.

ManiacGT

I have also but my car refuses to read it? It just times out so I'm using my 120GB iPod classic instead.

smudge

For video playback it requires the bigger screen with COMMAND Online optional, or just the Audio 20 with touchpad does the trick?

Thanks

davidmcr

I was using a 128 gb SD card without any problems. Recently swapped over to a 1 tb hard disk drive, again working without any issues.

syswei

What happened re the separate drive partitions?

jolt8631

Yes' it read the partitions OK - but this was an Audio 20 version, not COMAND, so I'm not entirely certain it will work when I get mine.

What I didn't get around to trying was whether it read music off both partitions, or not (I only had the car for a week's test drive and, of course, didn't think about trying this until the night before it had to go back).

MessingWithMerC

Has anyone tried 256GB SD card? Also (probably a long shot, but...) any idea if it plays FLAC/lossless audi files?

Mike5215

As long as the sampling rate doesn't exceed 44,100 and the bit depth is 16 or less FLAC should play via USB/SD. Maximum file partition is 32GB (I think. 32 is safe, might be more)