2010 Mercedes S-Class Owner's Manual - Page 180
2010 Mercedes S-Class Manual
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178 COMAND audio CD/audio DVD/MP3 loss of sound quality. This applies in particular when you have switched on 3-D sound. Please note the following information about CDs/DVDs and pay special attention to the notes on copied and/or self-written CDs/ DVDs. Notes on copyright The music tracks that you create and play back in the MP3 or WMA format are generally subject to copyright protection in accordance with the applicable international and national regulations. In many countries, reproductions are not permitted without the prior consent of the copyright holder, not even for private use. Make sure that you know the applicable copyright regulations and that you comply with these. If you own these rights yourself, e.g. for your own compositions and recordings, or the copyright holder has granted you permission, these restrictions do not apply. Control systems i The last track on many audio DVDs does not contain audio data. COMAND will then change to the next medium. This behavior is system-induced and does not indicate a system malfunction. Notes about CDs/DVDs i Audio CDs with copy protection are not compatible with the CD audio standard and therefore may not be able to be played by COMAND. There may be playback problems when playing copied discs. There is a large variety of discs, disc-writing software and writers available. This variety means that there is no guarantee that the system will be able to play discs that you have written/copied yourself. There may be playback problems if you use CD-R or CD-RW type discs you have copied yourself with a storage capacity of more than 700 MB. These CDs are not compatible with currently applicable standards. ! Do not affix stickers or labels to the discs. These could peel away and damage COMAND. COMAND is designed to hold discs which comply with the IEC 60908 standard. You can therefore only use discs with a maximum thickness of 1.3 mm. If you insert thicker discs, e.g. those that contain data on both sides (DVD on one side and audio data on the other), they cannot be ejected and can damage COMAND. Do not use CDs with a diameter of 8 cm. Attempting to play discs with a diameter of 8 cm or playing such discs with an adapter may cause damage COMAND. Notes about audio DVD operation COMAND can playback commercially available, prerecorded audio DVDs that bear the following label. You will usually find the label on the DVD booklet, the inlay, or the DVD itself. i Audio DVDs differ from recordable DVDR and DVD-RW discs. Data on audio DVDs are stored either in uncompressed format or in lossless compressed format. The sound quality on audio DVDs is therefore better than on recordable DVDs that contain MP3 data because the MP3 format uses a lossy type of compression. You cannot delete data from or record additional data to commercially available, prerecorded audio DVDs.