Can't see album art in Mercedes Benz Comand audio system

I have a 2011 MB with Comand audio system and Media Interface that connects and works perfectly with my iPod Classic except for one thing: album artwork. Playing some albums the cover art appears and others don't for example AAC songs bought in the iTunes Store. I have tried exporting to mp3 and Apple Lossless and embed manually the picture with no results, seems not something related with the audio type but the picture type or size, but I don't know how to check the embedded picture information of the working ones to try putting the same kind to all the rest. Any idea?

Glad to read that. What I do is repeat the complete process every time, copy all the iTunes library and also resync the iPod. I change the drive name to insure it will ask to import the art every time. But it's possible you can do it copying only the changes I just try to ensure not to risk to go the the parking and do all the job for nothing.
Holpe you help me try the misteryous 10% that resists to show the cover. I suspect that it makes a string with artist name and album title in order to chain the picture, but it's a short one of about 30 chars so when you have albums divided in 2 discs it fails because it finds 2 matches. Example:
Marc AlmondA Virgin's tale Vol..|..ume 1
Marc AlmondA Virgin's tale Vol..|..ume 2
I solved this merging both in one and specifying the disc using the disk number field embeded in the audio files.
I also mistrust special characters like quote (') but I'm not sure. In any case the mentioned Almond's album seems impossible to solve...

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I found this in another discussion about iTunes 11:
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-E

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I just bought a nano, and I've got album art for
pretty much all of my songs. When I play a song that
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screen. Could I have too many songs on the nano? I
freed up 477 MB, and still there isn't even a hint
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Is it true that apple i phone 5 does not allow third party tethering ie connection to my mercedes benz comand online system

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I'm having the same issue with a Porsche Cayenne at work.
I have 5 devices paired with it, 2 iPhones of unknown type and OS, an iPhone 5 running the latest iOS, a Samsung Galaxy S II running ICS and a Blackberry 9700. The SGS2 is mine, the iPhone 5 belongs to my boss, the BB 9700 is his boss's phone and the unknown iPhones belong to our customer and his wife who test drove the car and now want to buy it complete with the Online Services function with syncs Emails and SMS. It falls to me to get this working.
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iPhone supports MAP (Messaging Access Profile) since iOS 6.0 but not SIM-Acess profile.
I understand that syncing SMS and Email only works when pairing is initiated from the car, not the phone. Pairing initiated from the phone gives priority to HFP (Handsfree Profile) which locks out syncing messages.
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