SD Memory Card
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SD Memory Card
The SD slot in the console appears to take an extremely large card that I first used more than 20 years ago. Does anyone know the specs for the SD Memory card and any capacity limits? I couldn't find the information in the online user manual. My SA said "what's an SD Memory card?" He knows about cars and sells many, but knows very little about the embedded software. 
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The SD slot in the console appears to take an extremely large card that I first used more than 20 years ago. Does anyone know the specs for the SD Memory card and any capacity limits? I couldn't find the information in the online user manual. My SA said "what's an SD Memory card?" He knows about cars and sells many, but knows very little about the embedded software.
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Should work fine. Since its for music files, Id buy the cheapest card with the largest capacity. You can buy a 256g card for less than 150 bucks which should store 100's of CD's without compression. If you use MP3s at highest quality you can have thousands of songs! In a car, the best rate MP3 bit rate is more than plenty good.
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I use a 64GB SDXC card with no issue. It's loaded up with FLAC, AAC, MP3, MP4 files. The E300 plays them all - The lossless files sound pretty nice.
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2017 E300 Sport, 2017 GLC300 Sport/Night
Should work fine. Since its for music files, Id buy the cheapest card with the largest capacity. You can buy a 256g card for less than 150 bucks which should store 100's of CD's without compression. If you use MP3s at highest quality you can have thousands of songs! In a car, the best rate MP3 bit rate is more than plenty good.
File structure of a data carrier
When you create a disc with compressed music
files, the tracks can be organized in folders. A
folder may also contain subfolders. The disc
may contain no more than eight directory levels.
Files beyond the eighth level will not be recognized
by the system.
i The multimedia system supports data carriers
with up to 50,000 files.
In the case of a data carrier with more than
64 GB of stored data, only files in folders with
the following names are supported: Music,
Pictures, Video.
I'm away from home and can't check the COMAND manual for my wife's E300, and I couldn't find a PDF online.
When you create a disc with compressed music
files, the tracks can be organized in folders. A
folder may also contain subfolders. The disc
may contain no more than eight directory levels.
Files beyond the eighth level will not be recognized
by the system.
i The multimedia system supports data carriers
with up to 50,000 files.
In the case of a data carrier with more than
64 GB of stored data, only files in folders with
the following names are supported: Music,
Pictures, Video.
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E300 2017
I'm guessing they stayed with a standard SD card as micros are ridiculously small & easily lost. Most micro cards come with an adaptor that makes them standard.
I think any format & any size card is fine (in later models that is).
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Good to hear your car plays flac files. Mine does not. It lists in the manual it does not support flac. I wonder how yours can?
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An annoying quirk with media (SD or USB). I initially used MP3s that had (scrambled) tags mostly reversed artist song or album. I used a tag editor to correct these tags but they will just not update when the source is reused. Instead the system insists on reading the cached data!
Does anyone know how to clear the cache, I've swapped cards, drives, added files - nothing works!
Okay I figured it out!!!
Because most MP3 tags either have no Album information of if they do it's incorrect I decided to delete this tag by delete! The album tag is the third line on the display, the fix was not to delete but use a line of spaces on each track. This then deleted the cached data & gets rid of it! Maybe this will help someone else who is pedantic or nit-picking as I am!
Does anyone know how to clear the cache, I've swapped cards, drives, added files - nothing works!
Okay I figured it out!!!
Because most MP3 tags either have no Album information of if they do it's incorrect I decided to delete this tag by delete! The album tag is the third line on the display, the fix was not to delete but use a line of spaces on each track. This then deleted the cached data & gets rid of it! Maybe this will help someone else who is pedantic or nit-picking as I am!
Last edited by Boofhead; Apr 29, 2017 at 05:35 PM. Reason: Issue resolved.
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MP3
WMA
AAC formats
Does W213 really support FLAC?
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2017 E400 Coupe
An annoying quirk with media (SD or USB). I initially used MP3s that had (scrambled) tags mostly reversed artist song or album. I used a tag editor to correct these tags but they will just not update when the source is reused. Instead the system insists on reading the cached data!
Does anyone know how to clear the cache, I've swapped cards, drives, added files - nothing works!
Does anyone know how to clear the cache, I've swapped cards, drives, added files - nothing works!
About playing flac... Some w213's can, some can't. It goes by VIN number. Don't shoot the messenger. My car can't (has upgraded audio in it - is that the Performance Package?), my current W213 loaner can (is a basic package car, no upgrades.). Don't shoot the messenger, just exposing Mercedes practices.
