attained with up-to-date Gracenote
®
music
recognition technology. Information about
new versions can be obtained from an author-
ized Mercedes-Benz Center.
You can have your music recognition soft-
ware updated there with a DVD, or you can
update it yourself.
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The Gracenote Media Database is upda-
ted in conjunction with the navigation sys-
tem's digital map (
Y
page 377).
Displaying the track and album
X
Press the
z
button.
The current track and album are displayed
in a window.
Displaying metadata (MP3 mode)
COMAND can also display the album name
and artist (metadata) during playback if this
information has been entered into the sys-
tem.
For all media that contain MP3 data (e.g. MP3
CD, SD memory card, MUSIC REGISTER), you
can determine whether:
R
the metadata contained in the tags of the
encoded music data should be displayed
R
the file and directory names should be dis-
played during playback
X
To display the album and artist name:
select
MP3
or
USB
in the basic display by
sliding
V
Æ
and turning
cVd
the COMAND
controller and press
W
to confirm.
X
Select
Display track information
and
press
W
to confirm.
Selecting an active partition (USB mass
storage devices only)
You can select this function for USB mass
storage devices when the storage device is
partitioned. Up to 5 partitions (primary or log-
ical, FAT, FAT32 and NTFS) are supported.
X
Select
MP3
in the basic display by sliding
V
Æ
and turning
cVd
the COMAND con-
troller and press
W
to confirm.
X
Select
Select active partition
and
press
W
to confirm.
Playback options
X
To select options: switch on audio CD or
MP3 mode (
Y
page 448).
X
Select
CD
or
MP3
mode by sliding
V
Æ
and
turning
cVd
the COMAND controller and
then pressing
W
to confirm.
The options list appears. The
#
dot indi-
cates the option selected.
X
Select an option by turning
cVd
and press
W
to confirm.
The option is switched on. For all options
except
Normal track sequence
, you will
see a corresponding display in the display/
selection window.
The following options are available to you:
R
Normal track sequence
The tracks are played in the normal order
(e.g. track 1, 2, 3, etc.).
In MP3 mode, the track order is determined
by the order in which the tracks are written
to the MP3 data carrier when it is created.
Alphabetical order is the most common.
Once all the tracks in a folder have been
played, the tracks in the next folder are
played.
R
Random media
All the tracks on the medium are played in
random order (e.g. track 3, 8, 5 etc.).
R
Random track list
(MP3 mode only)
You will hear the tracks in the current play-
list or currently active folder (including all
subfolders) in random order.
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The
Normal track sequence
option is
automatically selected when you change
the disc you are currently listening to or
when you select a different medium. If an
option is selected, it remains selected after
COMAND is switched on or off.
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Audio
COMAND
