Musical Musings From The Wild...Bring the F*@!& CD Players Back in Cars!
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 6. 07. 2024
- Pete sounds off on car manufacturers taking CD players out of newer vehicles...and how he's dealing with a new one himself.
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I hate streaming & digital. Physical Media Forever!
I agree, bring back car CD players!
agree! BRING BACK CD PLAYERS!!!!
I feel your pain, Pete. I'm like that too. I'm 100% with you on this. "Bring back the CD players in cars!" "BOYCOTT STREAMING!!!!" Streaming is destroying our culture. I'm a physical media person too.
Streaming is the death of music and movies.. I hate everything about it as i'm a huge physical media guy.
@@DavidMander-rs4uk Me too. I love 8 track tapes as my favorite platform. CDs are my second favorite.
â@@AaronC143I'm a reel to reel tape guy, myself
@@BlindArthurBlake I've seen reel to reel tapes. It's like reels in a movie theater before theaters went digital with their projectors.
I bought a new Suburu last year and it has a CD player. One of few car makers that still include .
My car is 15 years old ( and going strong), it has a cd player, I dread the day I have to replace it.
90% of my cd's I've listened in my car. I started buying them because my car has cd player. I cannot imagine a car without it.
Unless you're willing to: A) Pay to have one installed aftermarket (however long that will continue) or B) use an external player with a USB adapter you should start imagining it...đ€·ââ
Start imagining it. Several years ago I bought a fully loaded 2017 Honda Accord that had everything, including a single-disc CD player. I was told when I bought the car that that was the last year Hondas would come with a CD player. Mayber other car makers were still installing CD players, but I'm sure they will all eliminate CD players at some point, if they haven't already.
I am lucky I bought a used car that happens to have one. I get to listen to my Sabbath and Maiden in my car!
If that's not bad enough Pete, just wait til Mr Reid and Mr Bray notice that your steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car!!
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For us music lovers, a car is basically a stereo that we can drive around in.
I love the good old days of walking out of a music store with a new CD (or 3 or 4), getting in, unwrapping the CD, inhaling that new CD smell, and sliding in the CD in anticipation. I miss that. The plus is I donât have a million CD cases cluttering up my car now.
I have CD wallets that I rotate through in my car. Currently, I have a Heavy Metal/Rock, a Prog Favorites, & a Current Upcoming Concerts trio of CD wallets to choose from.
I was hit by a guy who ran a red light a couple of years ago and my Acura was totaled. I then purchased a new Civic Hatchback and was upset to learn I had no option to have a CD player. It really sucks and I can't tell you how much I've complained about this because I don't enjoy much of what is played on the radio and I refuse to pay for a service such as XM. I have a great CD collection that I could be listening to- very frustrating!!!
They donât want you talking or texting on your phone while driving so you can focus on the road yet they take out CD players so you have to search on you PHONE WHILE DRIVING!!!!!!!! Idiots! Put CD PLAYERS BACK IN VEHICLES! I donât want to search for music while I drive. I want to pop in a disc or 5 and drive. Iâm still focusing on the road. Iâm one that hates streaming. Iâm a physical media guy all around.
Great point!
Me too!! Streaming sucks.
I disagree. Selecting an album on your screen is not much different than changing a radio station. Diddling around with cdâs is way worse
"Hey Siri. Play album Moving Pictures by Rush". If you're invested in the process you don't have to do everything manually. It just takes time to get it set up.
That works too đ
I totally agree with your rant. I don't want to lose my cd player. I'm keeping my old car longer!
You mean a car salesman lied? I'm shocked!
lol
Just makes ya sick!!! To them it is all about the sale. When I bought my Toyota used, there was a bloch of black on the hood. I stipulated that they FIX it before I drove it off the lot and they did. You really have to play hardball with these dealerships.
@@allornadaaccordingtojack7601 Yip. Like the ZZ Top album says : Delguello. No Quarter given!
Not to defend car salesman but I highly doubt too many are going to know whether or not the iPod classic is compatible with the newer systems. It never wouldâve occurred to me either until I saw this video
@@user-zq5eb2hj9o But the salesman didn't say, I don't know or I'll check. He said yes.
They should've kept the CD players in the newer vehicles as well, along with a place to plug in your ipod, phone, etc. Let people have the option of doing what they want!!
Agreed! This Anti-CD bullshit crap is part of the " Climate Change " agenda to Save The Planet!!!
Fucking joke!
All about them saving money.
Lol. I feel your pain Pete. I hold on to my relic automobile because it has a CD player still. My daughters laugh but are thankful because if we need a new car, one of them will get it. I do have the new smartphone with music on it, but still hold on to my precious CDs. Yeah I'm another dinosaur.
I drive a car with a cassette deck and I love it lol.
I had one up until about 2 years ago. Now Iâve got a van with a CD player. Iâve gotta have it. Iâm old.
What year is the vehicle?
@@tomp8463 98 Chevy lumina lol
@@ZMsoloman5000 cruiser
@@ZMsoloman5000 , nice! I have a 2016 honda accord with one disc player but I use my ipod too esp for mixed playlists.
Iâm with you on this .
I do have USB sticks with music files , but with an album that runs songs together , like Abbey Road , there is a break between all of the songs .
Bring the CD players back !
Yeah...Captain Beyond's debut gets broken up like that, too.
Get a boombox with a CD Player in it, place it in the passenger seat and go! Old school, baby!
When I was hitchhiking in Spain I had a lift from a young couple who did this and I was put in charge of the music - such fun!
I'm getting late 70's/early 80's flashbacks to carrying a boom box down the streets of Old Orchard Beach with my friends on our way to the beach - cranking Van Halen & ZZ Top! Only problem is the 6 D batteries always died shortly after noonđ
@@wolf1977 As someone raised in rainy 1970s England, your image is the stuff of my ultimate fantasies, notwithstanding the battery issue!
@@DarkSideOfTheMoule They now have solar powered boom boxes...?đ€·ââ
@@wolf1977 Good for you in the States, not so useful in cloudy England...
I've been reading & hearing so much "vinyl fever" around me and thought I was maybe the only person in the world who still holds a candle for CDs!
That was until SOT came into my view and I discovered a lot of like-minded fans of the compact disc.
So glad that there are some out there (I hope many) who maintain sizeable CD collections.
Big thanks!!
And have you ever tried to play a vinyl record in a car? No, neither have I. đ
I am a CD guy as well. I have a newer vehicle (2019 Toyota RAV4) with no CD player. What I do is import the CDs into my Itunes library, sync Itunes to my phone, and then sync my phone to my car so I can play my music anytime. I never listen to anything on the radio ever. I never play Spotify or Apple Music. I have everything I have on CD on my phone and play it every time I am in the car. The songs, bands, and albums appear on the dash. I never have any issues with connecting. It connects automatically when I start the car. I would recommend this for anyone who has a new car and has CDs.
Do you have to pay for Apple Music in order to sync what you import from your Itunes library to your Itunes App on your phone?
@@anthonyhowell5117Nope!
@@anthonyhowell5117 No
I do the same and have done for almost 20 years. I have an iTunes library of almost 400 GB from all the CDs Iâve ripped to iTunes.
I started doing the same thing itâs really easy. Actually ITUNES has a built in CD ripper, makes things a lot easier.
Got a CD player in my 19 Murano, and 3 stereos in the house with CD players. They ain't going nowhere!đ€đ
When I bought a new 2016 Range Rover Evoque the salesman told me it would be the last model year with a CD player, I donât know if that was true or not but the new models donât have one. I still have the same car and Iâm dreading buying a new one, all because of the CD player ! đŹđ§
This is why I hate modern technology, nothing works simply anymore. Everything has to be an f'n chore!
Pete - I'm fifty seven. I have a couple of thousand CD's of music that I have curated for me over my lifetime. I don't stream. I will do digital versions of the CD's on my laptop but that is no good to me in my car. I end up listening to a classic rock station on the radio (which is great) but not everything is to my taste. I miss not having a CD player in the car as you can really listen to albums when you are not being disturbed by other people or devices. My message to the car industry is give us the option - don't just say 'Well, that's what everyone does these days' because I'm not everyone and if you want my cash - then bloody well sort it!
When my current car that does have a CD player in it dies, OR when I finally give in and trade it in for something "better" (per my wife's constant suggestionđ), this is, coincidentally, the day I stop driving. "Oh, but Aaron, how will you get to work?" I will not. "Oh, but Aaron, how will you go out and get the groceries?" I will not. "Oh, but Aaron, how will you drive yourself to the hospital when you accidentally chop your entire finger off whilst preparing an all-egg breakfast?" You get the point. No CD player, no Aaron. Goodbye, cruel CD-playerless world, there is no place for me here now.
Bro....thank you so much for bringing this up....I've got thousands of CD's and this Bluetooth shit is the bane of my existence!!!!
I just bought a 2024 Suburu crosstrek great small SUV and has CD player. My favorite way to enjoy music.
Totally agree again.
Got a 2004 Corolla and it now has 196,000 miles. I was so happy it had a CD player, though it doesn't play burned CDs for a reason.
I was in the process of buying a 2018 Rav 4 and was told by one dealer they no longer have CD players. Luckily, we went to another dealer for the same car, bought it, and lol and behold, it had one!! So I've been able to listen to them.
But now, I need to replace the Corolla and face the daunting reality that whatever car I get will likely not have one.
Seeing you struggle with the iPods and other things makes me even more blue. đą
Yeah...don't struggle with an iPod. Use a USB drive (if possible).
â@@jazzpunkmy Toyota came with a USB port for flashdrives and I love it!
I tried the portable CD players too! I finally went to a shop and paid much more than expected to have a CD player installed. It doesn't solve the music ID problem, but I can burn CDs on my Laptop & play them on my CD player. I print the iTunes track list to fold & keep them in. It was WORTH every penny that I paid to have a CD Player in my car!
I completely agree that itâs stupid that new cars donât have built in CD Players. I still prefer playing a CD over streaming music, mainly because I can own a CD but I canât really own music from a subscription service. So my workaround for all that is that I have ripped most of my CDs onto my computer and imported them into my phone. Then I just hook my phone up to the carâs bluetooth, go into my music app and play the albums from there. And if the drive is long enough, I add multiple albums to the play queue so I donât need to worry about the album ending before the drive is over. Itâs not as fun as loading a disc, but itâs my solution for both the lack of a CD Player and my distaste for streaming services and radio.
You can also own downloaded music that you buy (as mp3 music files) & save on your pc. After all that's basically the same as the music files on a cd minus the packaging, and in compressed format. Then stream that music to your car via your phone
Honestly Dude! This is the main reason I stream these days. I just don't have the time to upload countless CD's to my ipod anymore. You may consider purchasing an ipod touch which works great in my 2023 vehicle via the USB. I save the physically media for when I'm home.
I haven't watched the video yet, but please bring back CD players in the car. I hate this revolving door technology... it's ruining everything. The industry got me to spend thousands of dollars on CDs only to NOT being able to use them in cars.
I do feel your pain Pete. I'm now on my second car that has no CD player. In the end I had to go out and buy a lap top and meticulously begin the process of ripping my entire, huge CD collection into the laptop. Once it's on the laptop I import the albums I want to a usb stick and that's now got thousands of albums on it and stays permanently plugged in. Of course, every time I buy a new album it means I have to fire up the laptop and rip the album into my collection first before I sync it to the usb stick.
Im an outsider here. Im a vinyl nut, and stopped buying cds 20 years ago. All my vinyl is digitized on blank cd, and then uploaded to the cloud, for this phone. I have a million high quality wav files on this phone. I put it on random, bluetooth it to whatever ( car stereo / work stereo) and im in heaven
Thatâs ridiculous they actually took CD players out of cars? Unreal man unreal.
My new Camry doesnât have a CD player either. I was pissed. Btw, I drove a 1997 4Runner until I bought this Camry a year ago. I loved that SUV! Great vehicle - never broke down.
It's never too late, Pete! I'm 60 and I made the transition to full digital a few years ago. I haven't touched a CD since then (they're in my sttic). But if I were a music reviewer like Pete I think a CD player would be essential. Ironically enough, the Sony replacement stereo I put into my old F-150 has a CD slot (my daily-driver GTI has no CD player). In both vehicles I almost always stream either Sirius or Amazon Unlimited through my phone via Bluetooth. I also have a thumbdrive with all my albums and MP3s in each vehicle.
Itâs a new way of life and new way of thinking. I did it many years ago and also have not touched a cd since and never will again. I get the whole âI need to hold it in my hand and I like to read the bookletâ crowd but I couldnât care less about that anymore. Plus I think cd is a crappy format in general. I had a lot of copies that I burned from trading with friends and they were bronzing and changing colors and some of them went bad and lost sound quality over time. CDâs cheaply made from small record labels too went bad on me. But digital files you never have to worry about that. The only thing is backing up your music properly.
Like you, I fought with this for years. Ultimately, I sprung the $10 a month for a Spotify subscription. All you have to do is plug your phone into the USB port, open the Spotify appâŠboom. Every album ever recorded (well almost) at your fingertips. I still buy records to play in the house, but I, like the rest of the modern free world, streams on the go.
Doesnât that eat up all of your cellular data and greatly reduce the life of your phone? I have been struggling with this while idea of switching to streaming but I just hate the idea of having to use my phone for it.
@@user-zq5eb2hj9oI stream any time Iâm in the car. In fact, until I started working from home recently, I used to stream for over 9 hours a day. Never once had a data issue. I have an affordable Verizon plan. No issues with phone performance.
@@user-zq5eb2hj9o nope, it doesn't, provided you have a more or less standard plan.
@@user-zq5eb2hj9o Streaming is absolutely a data hog (when away from home wi fi & using your carrier's roaming data) - that's why you need to make sure you have a truly unlimited phone data plan. I check my data usage periodically & frankly I don't even drive that much any longer but I'm still using up many gigs per month (on Verizon). Without our unlimited plan this would be a killer financially speaking
Iâve been reading up a little bit and it seems that it is a huge battery drainer for your phone if you stream a lot of Spotify. So that would be a hard pass for me personally. Though the idea of having access to that many albums for a small flat fee is appealing to me.
Time to get Spotify. Youâll love it and never go back.
New Vehicles : 1) Better- Rear View Back Up Camera. 2) Worse - No CD players.
My newest car purchase was in 2018. One of the BIG reasons I chose the car I did was b/c it still had a CD player (I bought a 2016 Certified pre-owned, & the 2019 model didn't have a CD). One cool aspect is that, in addition to the CD player, is that it stores the CD into the car's hard-drive, so I only need to have each CD one time.
That's really cool what model car?
@@ziggyzagzi8017 Acura RDX (their small-SUV, similar in size to a Honda CRV). CD players got phased out with the 2019 models.
My wife's car is the same way -- no CD player. I ripped my entire CD collection (flac = lossless). I built a thumb drive with all of her favorite music. She just leaves the thumb drive plugged into the dash. When she turns the car on it goes right to the last track that was played. She keeps it on shuffle, but you can play an entire album if you want. Thumb drive has 4000+ songs, so she'll never run out of options. THX!
What car do u have?
Not enough music management control (most likely) for me using a thumb drive - if the head unit even accepted/read it. My wife recently switched over from using a BT-enabled iPod to Apple Music (of course a subsription costs $'s - ours is 'free' as part of our phone plan with Verizon). I even uploaded all of her iPod music to Apple so it can be streamed down to her car via her iPhone
@wolf1977 The thumb drive works great in my 2017 Ford Edge. You can search by artist, album or song either using voice commands or touch screen. I use a 512gb drive for my CDs. I haven't tried anything bigger than that.
This is what I do. Works great. Every bit as easy as the old days when I had a 6 CD changer, only better.
@@ijeff2005 No thumb drive access in our new Kia's, they won't recognize them...Do you have playlist capabilities? Or how about searching by music Genre? That's big for me
Itâs the harsh reality: music has become background stuff, unimportant sounds we âallâ take for granted.. only we, the musicânerdsâ, the people that sort of donât fit in this world anymore, are appreciating music for the incredible art and value that it is⊠weâre the last of the Mohicans.. But it just takes time⊠time to prove the rest of the world has become numb to the value of real music that is created from the heart.. I hope weâll still be here when that day comesâŠ
Anything that encourages more physical media music sales can only be a good thing, and my car is old enough to have a CD player that I never use anyway.
I do buy a lot of CDs, but the moment I get them I rip them myself to my own music server (nothing to do with Apple) in lossless FLAC format - and then just download to phones and music players doing a real-time "copy and convert" to a suitable MP3 format.
Then I just use Bluetooth in my car to connect a phone, and probably have immediate access to 1000+ albums right there and then.
What's the process for ripping CD's into FLAC files?
@@JohnBarrow1961 I haven't used Microsoft Windows since support for Windows 7 ended, but I was ripping CDs back then and I used to use free Exact Audio Copy with great success.
I combined that with Tag&Rename to organise file tags, it handles FLAC, MP3 and other formats.
These days, I only use Linux and, in normal circumstances, you'd need to use several tools to rip a CD because of the Linux "do one job and do it well" philosophy when it comes to applications - so one tool would rip the CD to WAV format files, another would convert WAV to FLAC, and a third would go to the public music databases to get track names and artists for tags.
The great thing in Linux ia a package called "abcde" ("a better cd encoder") which allows you to stick a CD in the drive, type "abcde" in the command line, and it does everything for you - it spits out FLAC and/or MP3 files with reasonably good file tags - this is what I have been using for years. abcde is a "wrapper" program that runs those other applications in the background as required but doesn't expose the user to all the command line stuff - type "abcde" at the command line and maybe 10 minutes later, you have your ripped files.
I still use Tag&Rename in Linux to do file tagging because I like proper and correct file tags, sometimes the artist names and titles are wrong when retreived from the Musicbrainz database.
I have no idea if you use Windows or Linux, but in Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) there will be graphical tools that do the same thing, I just don't use them.
Good luck, I hope this helps.
@@JohnBarrow1961 Did you get my response to your question yesterday? I replied at some length but it's looking like the comment may have been shadow banned by the YT algorithm, for some crazy reason.
I have a 2013 Subaru Legacy. The stock CD player stopped working. I went to Best Buy, bought a car CD player for a pretty reasonable price and had them install it. I CANNOT listen to the radio!! Best purchase I made in a long time đđŒđ€đŒ
i had an '07 legacy, then upgraded to a '17 legacy. when i went to the dealership in '16 i told the salesman, "i want another white legacy with a full size spare, a moonroof, and a cd player, or i don't want anything." he called me 3 days later and told me he had what i wanted.
The last time I had a car with no CD player in itâŠ.was when a cassette player was standard! Iâll forever buy and drive older cars just for the CD player.
My head was exploding by the end⊠needlessly complicated for something as simple as listening to music!
I recently got stuck with a car without a CD player for the first time in many years. And I currently have a long daily commute. I'm about at the point where I would trade my steering wheel for a CD player.
I think what you need might be something called an aftermarket head unit.
@@thephoenixhasflown Thanks for the tip.
I kept all my stuff, records, cassettes and CDs. My favourite player in the car was a cassette. Mix tapes were great on long journeys.
I feel your frustration Pete. I'm hanging on to my car that has a CD player for as long as I can. I have a 30 minute commute each way to work and that's when I do a lot of album listening. They'll have to pry my physical media from my cold dead fingers!
100% in agreement! Thankfully when I bought my new Ram 1500 in 2019 it came equipped with a cd player. I know this will sound foolish to some but I am in no hurry to upgrade my vehicle, and my compact disc player is one of the primary reasons. Of course being retired and not using the truck on the daily helps eliminate the need to buy anything else. Anyhoo...I , like you Sir, love cd's. Physical content, ease of use and storage. Coupled with the fact I love playing them in my truck, works for me.
I agree with you, Pete !!
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One of the main reasons I buy CDs (aside from liking physical media) are to listen to them in cars!
Pete, my work around is to buy a 100-500 gig external hard drive with a USB connection. The Pilot will index the hard drive and display the content on the vehicle display. You can then search by artist, album, etc. for the music you want to hear. You will need to add/delete albums to the drive but the system will reminder the drive. Good luck!!!
YES. A thousand times yes. When my car was totaled in an accident, I went to great pains to locate a 2016 replacement that had a CD player. I can and do stream music (and audiobooks) from my phone often, but I have to make sure to download them to the device beforehand so as not to use up my data plan with streaming. And I own lots of CDs that are not available on Apple Music (my streamer of choice), and getting them on my phone would be too cumbersome and time-consuming. Much easier to just put a CD in the slot.
I feel your pain, Pete. I have an android system. Tried multiple portable CD players, and the players were never recognized by my vehicles audio system. I ended up burning all my CDs to a jump drive. A little time consuming but worth it. Can fit hundreds of tunes on one drive and no CD clutter in the car.
I have a CD player in my car. Sometimes if the music is boring on the radio, then I switch to the CD player.
To think, back in 2001 when Feeder recorded 'Buck Rogers', having a CD player in the car was the height of chic!!!
I`ve got a 2012 Nissan with a CD player and aux port for my I-Pod. I`m putting off buying a new car for very same reasons you talked about.
Pete, When i first bought my Toyota Corolla , ill admit i was a bit disappointed that it didnt come with a cd player but it does have a USB port where ive loaded hundreds of albums on flashdrive and it is so convenient . Between that and streaming , ive actually gotten to where i prefer this set up. I keep my cds at home now and dont have to worry about them getting scratched or lost.
What file format do you use? And what software do you use on your PC to transfer?
@@bjrnsjohnsen1278 If I'm not mistaken , they are mp3 , which sound fine to me butI'm not an audiophile. The Corolla came with a JBL system and the files sound good. I'm sure it could sound better with better files but again, I'm happy with the sound.A friend of mine put them on the drive for me because I didn't have a computer at the time so I'm not sure about the software used
I also use Amazon music for what I don't have on my flashdrive and they use Atmos / hd.
At first , I was seriously looking into adding a CD player to my car but I really don't feel like I need one. You may be better organized than I am but I found that a lot of my CDs were getting scratched by taking them to the car. No longer worried about that since they are played only at home now.
As much as I wanted a Honda, I ended up with a Subaru. Since rates were low, I bought during the pandemic. Honda wouldn't allow special orders, but Subaru would.
I wasn't disappointed to find that the Subaru had a CD player.
I still buy cds from record stores and listen to them once I'm back in my car. And I hope that never has to change.
Agree, plus the quality was better. No internet required, no data usage... they've got us good and proper. It's back to the radio for me, fuckin Sweet Child of Mine forever.
Right? Itâs the same 10 or 20 songs on repeat.. god forbid they play a different Sabbath song than Paranoid.
@@bjrnsjohnsen1278 Yeah, here in the UK we have Planet Rock which tries to branch out a bit. BUT in work it's the utterly abysmal Greatest Hits Radio. It's making me dislike songs that I liked... "we have a classic from Journey coming up" ...go on surprise me I dare you!! Surprise me!!!!
Take your time in the car to contemplate life and your blessings! đ
Thanks, Pete! Good to know I'm not the only one....Compactdiscophiles unite!!
Thanks Pete!! I have a CD player in my 2015 Camry that I still use! and also iPod Nano
The Nanos were pretty cool in their day (but small capacity), especially the 7th Gen ones that added Bluetooth. We still have a couple floating around here somewhere. BT plays pretty well with most modern car head units. Some complain about sound quality via BT but sounds totally fine to me in the car.
The only issue is ability to pair more than one BT-enabled device (like a phone or iPod) to a given head unit at the same time. Some don't allow more than one. My wife's 2021 Subaru Outback for example did, and would keep her iPhone functioning normally/hands-free even when streaming music from the iPod to the head unit via BT. Just needed to pair each device separately one time...
uploaded all my cdâs, albums and cassettes to my ipod. connect via a blue tooth receiver in the aux port. my entire collection at my fingertips. no more stacks of cds , no more melted cds , no streaming of any kind, and nothing to plug in. hard to beat in a car.
Big streaming is responsible for this
AMEN!! The industry doesn't want us to own anything. All touchscreen and streaming, I want dash buttons and physical media!! đĄ
it's one way out--- convert your albums into MP3 , transfer files in usb flash and listen to them by your car player
It's even more frustrating when, you go into a shop and they tell you that they are not importing cd players anymore due to lack of sales or that the company they import from are not making them anymore. And on a small island, like where I live this is becoming a common thing:(
I feel that. I traded in my 2012 Jetta last year, which still had a cd player, for a 2023 Equinox. Mine does at least have the auxiliary hookup, but I still miss popping cds in.
Amen! We bought a Honda Passport last year and no CD player. Great vehicle but major bummer.
Several years ago I went through all of my CD's and ripped them to mp3, or WAV and put them on my phone. Android Auto and Pulsar+ gets the job done.
Now granted, I don't have thousands of albums on there, more like 3000 or so songs, but It's not like on a road trip I need to access some obscure album.
I can pretty much just put the app on shuffle and skip stuff I am not feeling at the moment.
If I have hours to waste, I might consider taking one of my old phones and rip all of the boots I have and use that phone as the Boot Player.
But yeah, I miss CD players.
Iâm about to enter the same world. I have 14 year old VW Golf with a CD player and itâs the only place I play my CDs. Iâm changing my car this year and know it wonât have a CD player. Although I have succumbed to streaming as a means of accessing my music I am coming to terms with the fact that I probably wonât be buying any more CDs.
They wonât be rethinking this for us dinosaurs Pete because we are slowly becoming extinct!
I feel your pain pal. When I got my new car back in 2018, also no CD player. So I started using my home computer and started putting cds on to USB sticks. I made some compilations as well.
Hi Pete i don't drive but phew that sounds like a nightmare.
Glad you still can listen to music in your car.
They never think of us older guys I'm 66 lol
I'm with ya, my fellow starting-to-age lover of Classic Rock. I"ve been through a lot of this kinda stuff also. Incredibly frustrating. I do sorely miss the LP days. CDs not quite as much but I still do. Loved the packging that you used to get, especially with artists like Elton and McCartney (lots of posters, booklets, stickers, etc...). However, I do love me my itunes/iPod. The Apple Lossless Format cannot be beaten (I've owned multiple copies of Physical Graffiti on every format imaginable, and on the Lossless version I can hear stuff I never noticed before (on In My Time of Dying)).
Pete I feel your pain. Earlier this year it was time for a newer truck so I checked out the Ford and Ram which were nice but when they pulled up the GMC Sierra it was so much nicer then I noticed it had a CD player which the other two did not have so I turned to the girl and said sold. Plus it also has the Auxiliary Jack for my Zune Player if you guys remember those. Now I jam everyday love it đ
Great point Pete. I am driving a 12 year old Hyundai for this reason!
Look at Suburu they have a few models with CD players. I have a 2022 Forester with one. Also, Suburu are great cars.Love music CDs.
Pete, right with you on this topic. Still have my almost 8 year old car that has a CD player and it certainly has gotten a lot of use during that time. Yes, listening in the car includes using streaming on the phone and some radio but CDs just sound better. Hoping to not buy another car for a few years and perhaps this will sort itself out but not really counting on the return of the CD player. The only cautionary note to add is that often when a sales person tells you "No problem", ask for proof. Reminds me of when the person who sold me my car asked me for my phone so he could link it to the car and I handed him my old Motorola Razor flip-phone which had no bluetooth capability. He was speechless. Thanks for sharing/venting.
I have a 2022 Tacoma with no CD player like your vehicle. It does have a media USB and I did have success with an OAUW USB CD player off of Amazon. Once you put in a CD, it takes several seconds for it to build out the CD contents to trick the car stereo into thinking it is an iPod. It turns itself off when I turn off the car and the song will pick up once I fire it up again and pick USB media as the audio source. So far it has been working for me two years.
Why make it so complicated. Subscribe to a streaming service and youâre good to go. Cost is like a CD a month.
I have a tablet I use as a giant MP3 player. I keep a 256GB microSD card in it, which currently has around 100GB of music on it (a mix of ripped CDs and legal downloads). The tablet connects to my car by Bluetooth (or can be connected by a cord), and I just put on whatever album I want to play. It stops whwn I turn my car off, and resumes when I start it again. I run the music via PowerAmp, and changing albums in PowerAmp, on my tablet, takes about as long as changing out CDs used to.
I feel your pain. My car is a 2013 which has a CD player and an AUX jack for my MP3 so I am fine. But my wife's car is a 2020 which has nothing but Bluetooth which she does not have. She was complaining about this the other day.
I still buy CDs and have a CD player in my car (2017 Maxima) but you know what, I only use it when I buy a new CD. Otherwise, I donât have the time to stand in front of my large CD collection before going out to try to figure out which CDs to bring or which to swap out (when I used to keep a bunch in the car). However, my entire collection is burned to my computer and uploaded to iTunes Match ($25/year). Through my phone I can access ANYTHING from my own collection. Itâs great and so much better than having to handle CDs every day, yet I still own the physical media. Every new CD I get I rip to my hard drive via iTunes and it automatically becomes available on my phone. You should try it!
I love playing cd s in my car. Old school but sounds great to me.
Drive a classic car!
I have a CD player in my car but never use it. I have well over 2000 albums on my hard drives though. I typically copy 100 albums at a time to a USB drive and swap it out occasionally.
I played around with using external hard drives in the car - the main issue (besides compatibility with my car head units) is music management & hands-free operation. Didn't like the lack of control over the music even when the head unit did recognize the drive, and some head units have weird limitations on the total size of the data, number of files/folders/directories/etc. Just seemed like a real PITA...FYI I have well over 20k albums - no need to ever copy anything to a drive. I stream from my pc's Plex database to my phone's Plexamp app & then from there to the car's head unit via BT
I use CDs and an ipod.
This is what I. mentioned years ago, these newer cars do not have CD players. It sucks and I was concerned about this nightmare.
I know this is a dirty word on this channel, but that is why I have Spotify. Can't live without it now for my 4.5 hour drives from downstate to upstate and back. Have you thought about going to a car stereo specialist and having a CD player put in?
I agree with you fella. I use Spotify in the car and have discovered a mountain of new music via that service. Still listen to CDs n tapes etc. Nothings beats word of mouth recommendations. Keep doing your thang fella.
Feel your pain Pete. Have had to adapt without car CD players. I use my Itouch the past few years that is loaded with 32k songs in ripped onto my laptop. A few years ago , my other two old iPods died and my wife gave me an itouch which is blue tooth enabled. Also a few years ago my external hard drive crashed and lost all,the songs so I had to go through the ripping cd process again. Another solution is to bring an external Bose speaker in the car w you. Ugh it sucks.
I guess I won't have that problem as I can't afford a new car and will keep listening to CDs in my old bomber. CDs are the only media I buy for music -- no streaming, Ipods, etc.
That is why I donât want to get rid of my vehicle. I have the last model that came with a CD player. Like yourself, I still like the physical media.
I had a similar experience. I just purchased an all electric Mustang mock E in 2023 no longer had the CD player like my previous car. Fortunately, my phone Bluetooth hooked directly up to the screen and I ended up downloading a lot of my favorite CDs to my computer and then, downloaded them to my phone and I just use my phone as the player .With mine when the car stops or I get a phone call or I get out of the car then I get back in it starts to play exactly where it stopped so thatâs a good feature .The Car has a giant screen, I can manipulate the songs on so itâs really not that bad. I just had to learn a new learning curve how to download music into my phone. From my physical media.
If we stop streaming, how are new bands going to be heard? Not everyone can afford to take a chance on new bands because some magazine has recommended them. I have Spotify, and I buy cd and vinyl, and a lot of the bands/artists I've bought records of, i discovered on Spotify. Also, I've saved money on bands that people/magazines have pushed and told me they were the 2nd coming, and i just wasn't into them. I agree, cd players back in cars, but get rid of streaming, no.
My 2018 Camry is the last year that still had a CD player. Hopefully I can keep that car going until I die. :) Sirius XM is ok, but sometimes you just want to pop in a CD and listen to what you want, not the randomness of some radio station.
When I was a teenager I had hundreds of CD's strewn all over my car, now when I get in the car, it automatically connects to Bluetooth and my phone just starts playing something so even less thinking, I like it! đ
Our 2011 Rav 4 has an in dash 6 cd changer. with a few thousand CDs I love it
that car is getting old and the wife is looking for something new. The perk is I have a 256gb card in my phone full of music so connecting it to Bluetooth shouldn't be a problem.
Both my cars still have CD players, but they're both getting older so not feeling good about the trade-in. I grab a couple discs every morning when I head out and continually swap them out. My previous car was so old (2001), that it had both CD & cassette.