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Old Jul 6, 2019 | 02:37 PM
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Infotainment System help

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New to MB and to the forum. I've been doing some searching but im not finding answers to these exact items. Since we purchased the 2017 GLS 450, we’ve been struggling with the infotainment system. Couple of questions?

· 1. Generally is there a software update for the infotainment system? It’s not intuitive at all. Wondering if Mercedes tried to address this.

· 2, Is it possible to have an iphone plugged in and be using carplay (we would be using the phone for nav) and ALSO play a CD at the same time?

· 3. The memory appears to be very small for CD recording. Can the car really only hold 6 CDs? Is there a way to expand the storage memory? I see that you can load music onto an SD card and then play it, but we want to have CDs in the car, record them while driving, and then have them stored.

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Old Jul 6, 2019 | 07:01 PM
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Yes, 6 CD’s, but there is a way to copy the CD’s onto the hard drive. Can’t recall from memory, so have to look through the menu to refresh my memory.
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Old Jul 7, 2019 | 07:50 PM
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Thanks for the reply. I think what you're saying is that the CD changer holds 6 CD's. The question I'm asking is slightly different which is - does the hard drive of the car have the ability to hold more than 6 CD's? Can it be expanded?
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the hard drive is very small (only 10 gig maybe) and nobody seems to know how to copy files to it. Get a SD card or flash drive load the MP3 files problem solved.
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