Music Play Order in Mercedes COMAND
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From what I've read about Gracenote in the COMAND manual, Gracenote is only used to identity CDs put in the CD slot of your car - according to my version of COMAND. The Gracenote database is on the hard drive of your car and is updated in conjunction with navigation maps update performed by the MB dealer. The idea being that your COMAND display will show album art, track name, artist, etc, as this info is not contained on the actual CD.
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as grossmsj mentioned we have swapped copies of our exile albums,
but in his car they don't play in right order and in mine they do.
so all points indeed to the system, not the files itself
the only good thing about all this is that we get to spin Exile; possibly the best rock album ever made!
but in his car they don't play in right order and in mine they do.
so all points indeed to the system, not the files itself
the only good thing about all this is that we get to spin Exile; possibly the best rock album ever made!
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What version of Comand are you using, Egonvdv? I'll check my own tonight.
By the way, I wonder if the reason for the issue is a hidden field inside the tracknumber that makes it look like '1/10'. The slash probably causes the Mercedes Comand to read the number as text instead of an integer. There more on it here:
https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-d...number/13822/3
By the way, I wonder if the reason for the issue is a hidden field inside the tracknumber that makes it look like '1/10'. The slash probably causes the Mercedes Comand to read the number as text instead of an integer. There more on it here:
https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-d...number/13822/3
"Note that MP3Tag will only show you the TRACKNUMBER field via the internal %track% value, since the above mapping makes it impossible to use %tracknumber% anymore. That value will return only the track number portion of the data, and if you're only using MP3Tag to view your FLAC tags, you'd never know any better.
However using a tool that actually shows the accurate tag name and values will reveal that your TRACKNUMBER tags actually contain the full track#/totaltracks string as is part of the ID3 spec for TRCK."
However using a tool that actually shows the accurate tag name and values will reveal that your TRACKNUMBER tags actually contain the full track#/totaltracks string as is part of the ID3 spec for TRCK."
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I just received my E300de estate (2019) and have my music library in FLAC on USB and have the same problem as described in this thread. The sort order of tracks in albums is alphabetical.
I ended up using https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ to
- replace artist with albumartist
- add track number as prefix to title
- add year as prefix to album name
It really is a great tool to manage your FLAC music library. Here is the tagger script I used:
https://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/scripting/
$set(artist,%albumartist%)
$set(title,$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%)
$set(album,%originalyear% - %album%)
Now albums and tracks are in correct order in my car. Sometimes the track number is displayed twice because the COMAND interface shows track number in FLAC file next to title (that is already prefixed with track number) but so be it...
I ended up using https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ to
- replace artist with albumartist
- add track number as prefix to title
- add year as prefix to album name
It really is a great tool to manage your FLAC music library. Here is the tagger script I used:
https://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/scripting/
$set(artist,%albumartist%)
$set(title,$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%)
$set(album,%originalyear% - %album%)
Now albums and tracks are in correct order in my car. Sometimes the track number is displayed twice because the COMAND interface shows track number in FLAC file next to title (that is already prefixed with track number) but so be it...
