I just got this email from Mercedes. It was useless anyway and I only tried it to see what it was like. I won't miss it, but this is a good reminder that some features of your car can be removed pretty much whenever they want without much of a notice. In this case, just 2 days notice.

I just got this a few minutes ago here in Sweden. I will miss it.
I admit, I was probably not using Sound Drive for what MB had originally intended, but I was still looking forward to more songs coming that take full advantage of the sound system in my car. The quality of the overall sound experience is much better than what I get from, say, Spotify.

And I agree with you -- two days' notice is amazingly abrupt. So, I too, wonder what the back story is on this. Probably some legal / licensing issue.

I received an email on July 31st that Sound Drive was available for my car but it never showed up in my MBUX. Still not there..

Problem solved now! (MB-Style)

Thanks for the heads up OP, interesting decision I thought they advertised it a lot, they even got Lewis if I recalled correctly to advertise this feature for them. On the forums, it was intensively discussed and people were excited for the latest MBUX version just to get this feature.

Got same note and had same thoughts. It was a really dumb feature.

They may have been excited just because it was a new shiny thing but after experiencing it myself, it's pretty worthless. At best, it's a demo of the 4D Atmos sound system but unless you like the music they offer (I didn't) and you like to listen to a very limited set of music (I don't) then it's not likely something you would use. I have my own rather large collection of music and some of it is in Atmos or 5.1 Dolby which sounds just as good and much better music IMO. I wish they put their energy into making a better built in USB based media player with more advanced features than what they have now. I doubt they will though since there is an intentional push by all companies to get people away from owning things such as their own music media and move to renting such as streaming media.

I think the only person who was truly excited about this was will.i.am who created it in collaboration with AMG. I watched the unveiling. He was super excited, because it was his music, but other people were just mostly politely nodding. I didn't follow it to see if any other artist signed up for this. It seemed to be a pet project of will.i.am that wasn't gonna go anywhere.

I see, makes sense thank you both.

I always saw this more as a gimmick than any other feature; I don't believe I will miss anything by Sound Drive being discontinued here in the States.

I scrolled through the selections for about 45 seconds and thought “I hope they remove this and don’t tell me.” I got half my wish.

Well, it's the 17th and the day Mercedes-Benz discontinues SoundDrive in MBUX. I thought I heard a collective sigh from all the MB owners that will surely miss this feature. Then I realized it was just my dog passing gas.💩💨

Driving yesterday and I see a truck ahead that is swerving back and forth like a formula one driver warming up the tires and pumping the brakes on and off... like, what the heck is this yahoo doing? Then at the stoplight I was alongside and could see that it was him and his two buddies that were rocking the truck to the music. All good fun... or just stupid and dangerous?

I hadn't been aware of sound drive (yeah, yeah... I gotta get out more!) but am thinking the last thing we need is some feature that encourages unpredictable driving.