CD Player in 2019 ?

[youra6]

Uncompressed FTW.

Just kidding, this is car audio we are talking about, not some high end audio.

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[Chef jpd]

The only time I used the CD was to tune my sub amplifier.
I think it was a 60 tone to set the output.

 

[320guy]

Spotify, no need to buy CDs, or rip them in MP3s and USB drives.

 

[Silver Bullitt]

I'm guessing most of you guys probably never had 8 tracks either. Nothing more enjoyable than your tune getting interrupted right in the middle of that favorite guitar solo while it switched tracks. Cassettes were a God send. CD's opened up a whole new level of listening pleasure.

 

[autobahnGT350]

I'm guessing most of you guys probably never had 8 tracks either. Nothing more enjoyable than your tune getting interrupted right in the middle of that favorite guitar solo while it switched tracks. Cassettes were a God send. CD's opened up a whole new level of listening pleasure.

I still listen to records too....but those 8 tracks were the bomb back in the day. My first was Aerosmith Rocks. The satellite streams suck, my Amazon or any other streaming source sounds better than Sirius XM. Have a play list for cruising or just select death metal or whatever for genre on the stream, or favorite group and let her roll.

 

[Chef jpd]

Here is your solution

 

[Spork3245]

I've done all that my friend. But, there are times I like to listen to varied music of certain style that could be found in different genres. That's when I grab a CD with the type I'm in the mood for. It's hard to get that from a USB with 800 songs. I hope I explained it in a way that makes sense.

I think you can sort/shuffle by genre via the ID3 tags. At least, I'm 99% sure the gen1 Sync on my 2013 GT could.

 

[Silver Bullitt]

Here is your solution

Maybe, but it only plays 45's. It needs to play 33's also. That is cool though.

 

[Silver Bullitt]

I still listen to records too....but those 8 tracks were the bomb back in the day. My first was Aerosmith Rocks. The satellite streams suck, my Amazon or any other streaming source sounds better than Sirius XM. Have a play list for cruising or just select death metal or whatever for genre on the stream, or favorite group and let her roll.

Aerosmith Rocks. That brings back some memories. Last Child was probably my favorite tune on that album.

Makes me think about my first car. '74 Vega hatchback with a badass stereo and BIC Venturi box speakers laying in the back. I had 50' of speaker wire running to them so we could take them out of the car.

 

[nicktechla]

What is a CD?

 

[Silver Bullitt]

What is a CD?

Duh! Cocoa/cookie dispenser.

 

[Mustang1260]

God how I just love mental midgets who can't see beyond their own noses ( no one here of course).

I have hundreds of books on cds I use on long road trips and the library loans even more. Those are a supreme pain to rip because book cds have hundreds of tracks..... I'm guessing many may not be aware of what a book is.

A retired friend and his wife do charity work- driving cancer patients to chemo therapy treatments. Tbey have a huge audio library..major classical and opera fans who also spend thousands of $$ to get pit tickets whenever the Rolling Stones come to California. Their catalogue of music is huge.

Off their bedroom is a walk in closet they call the black hole--totally shelved holding over 8000 CDs at their last count. Yeah like they are gonna rip all of those.. . One of their kindnesses in driving "their" cancer patients is asking what music the person would like to listen to (country, rock, opera, jazz, classical) and grabbing the appropriate CD.

Just because you don't have a use for something doesn't mean others have the same mental limitation.

So yeah, having a cd player in their car still has value to some.

 

[nrc]

God how I just love mental midgets who can't see beyond their own noses ( no one here of course).

Kind of like then mental midgets who think the world should revolve around their antediluvian choice in music media (likewise, I'm sure).

A lot of kindly souls also had libraries full of music cassettes and books on tape. It's an economics question. Once your music media of choice falls a certain distance outside the mainstream it's not worth it for the manufacturer to put one in a car. Too bad, so sad.

Audiobooks are no big deal. 8000 CDs is a lot but I have 4000. All ripped, now in crates in the basement. The time spent ripping is nothing compared to the time and effort of dealing with that much physical media. Do your friends a favor and tell them to rip the stupid things so they can stop wasting their lives managing all that.

Think how much more of their time they can spend doing kind things when they can just say "Play playlist John Doe" or "Play genre Rock" instead of shuffling all those CDs.

 

[Bullitt]

Duh! Cocoa/cookie dispenser.

I see what you did there ;)

I will say in my opinion, the uncompressed CD audio does sound better even in the Mustang than an MP3 or Bluetooth audio does. My iTunes m4a files directly wired into CarPlay sounds just about as good as CD though to me.

 

[Infidex]

Maybe, but it only plays 45's. It needs to play 33's also. That is cool though.

Bet that baby skips on every expansion joint driving down the highway.

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