jph99

Playing lossless music files (flac files) - SOLVED!

(W222 S Class 2015 NTG5/NTG5.5 Build Burmester Standard UK)I have CD changer Burmester system which is pretty good. I have now found a way to put flac files from my CD collection on to a USB stick and get them to play.
I use the DbPoweramp program to get the flac files from the CD’s. (They sound identical to the CD’s as the digital information is identical, ie lossless).

There is a load of stuff on forums about this – but there is a simple solution:

Unbelievably this is really easy as all you need to do (once you have you flac files on say a laptop), is to change the .flac extension to .mp3

Mercedes programming just looks at the extension to see if it is a music file – if its .mp3 then it plays, it does not seem to understand the .flac extension (which is just a programming omission I expect). The system does not seem to care what the actual format of the files are, it just plays them anyway!

To do this change easily, on say a laptop with Windows op system, put the files into a specific folder (eg flacfiles folder on the C: drive) and run the command line, eg:

C:/flacfiles>ren *.flac *.mp3

This renames all the extensions from flac to mp3. Just copy these files to your USB and plug it in to the merc USB in the central armrest compartment.
JP
see other info also:
http://www.commonsensethinking.co.uk/sclassw222.html

ihbond

do you loose any of the metadata converting to mp3 from FLAC, cant remember ?

joeyb1000

Just FYI, the 2018+ cars recognize flac files.
I use Easy CD DA converter from Poikosoft to rip the CD to uncompressed files. About 100 CDs fit on a 64 gig card. I now go to second-hand stores to find CDs for about $1 each.

Mitch Alsup

He did not convert the data in the file, he merely changed the extension "name" of the file.