CD Player in 2019 ?

[HoosierDaddy]

Not sure, but it's about that time to phase that out. ;)

Hah. Ford will include a CD player as long as Cadillac still includes this:

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[Timeless]

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

Does not help for those that already have the CDs as they certainly don't want to pay monthly for what they already own.

Ripping the CDs into 320k MP3s is not difficult and makes the most sense.

 

[Infidex]

CD players will eventually die out in cars, my wife's Jeep Grand Cherokee doesn't have one and it's going 5 years old now (2014 model). I don't think I've used on in a car since 2008 or so, it has value to some, others not so much.

I had thousands of CDs at one point and thousands of dvds and blu-rays, I finally ripped them all on a NAS box I built and purged the physical copies, and now i rarely use those, mostly use streaming services for music while in my car and even around the house.

 

[Spork3245]

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.

The majority of audio ripping software auto-populates track names, even for audiobooks, based on various database listings. I fail to see how this could be any more of a pain than putting in your cd, opening the program, and hitting "start"... I'm guessing many may not be aware of what modern audio ripping software is.
I've never counted how many audio CDs I own, I don't actually care to as I've been purchasing/collecting CDs since I was about 10 years of age - I've ripped them all to an HDD (and backed up to several others) at 365kbps, which is indecipherable to uncompressed CD audio quality (if you can tell the difference, especially in a car, you are either lying or falling victim to placebo, plain and simple). In total, I have roughly 1.2 terabytes of audio files including music, comedy routines, and audio books.
You do not need to sit at your computer and micromanage the rip, you hit start, go do whatever, check back later and start the next or do another whenever you feel like it.

 

[wanted33]

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.

You can my friend. But, it's hard to get the SYNC lady to understand I want to hear a song by the Supreme's, and after that one by Jason Aldean. :cheers:

You know, I wonder if any of the youngsters here even know who The Supreme's were.

 

[Spork3245]

You can my friend. But, it's hard to get the SYNC lady to understand I want to hear a song by the Supreme's, and after that one by Jason Aldean. :cheers:

You know, I wonder if any of the youngsters here even know who The Supreme's were.

Run the voice recognition set-up - it helps sync understand you better. The set-up definitely takes a bit of time, though. I ran it for my Sync1 system in my 2013 GT, huge improvement - my Sync3 in my 2016 has been great for me from day one, so I never bothered on this one. Give it a shot.

 

[wanted33]

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.

Run the voice recognition set-up - it helps sync understand you better. The set-up definitely takes a bit of time, though. I ran it for my Sync1 system in my 2013 GT, huge improvement - my Sync3 in my 2016 has been great for me from day one, so I never bothered on this one. Give it a shot.

Oh Lord bud, I'm a good old southern boy. Neither the SYNC lady, or the gracious woman in my Corvette can understand me. The manufacturers really need to make a southern version along with one for the rest of the country. :lol:

And that right there's the God's honest truth.

 

[Spork3245]

Oh Lord bud, I'm a good old southern boy. Neither the SYNC lady, or the gracious woman in my Corvette can understand me. The manufacturers really need to make a southern version along with one for the rest of the country. :lol:

And that right there's the God's honest truth.

Have you done it, though? It's worth a shot - accents are literally what the set-up is meant to account for, it gets the Sync "used to" your voice. :cheers:

 

[Fatguy]

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.

Funny. I will probably pick up a shipment of CDs from the plant tomorrow or Monday. A traditional one with tray card and 4 page insert. Only a 250 run when it used to be 500! Just promotional runs now as hardly anyone but Walmart seems to sell them anymore. They are 16 bit PCM so you get the full, fat mastered sound as originally intended. To me MP3s sound crappy with M4a/Mp4 somewhat better. Quality standards in music have gone to hell and a quality sound system should still keep a CD player. You can go higher bitrate files but who buys those anyway...

 

[sy1462]

Funny. I will probably pick up a shipment of CDs from the plant tomorrow or Monday. A traditional one with tray card and 4 page insert. Only a 250 run when it used to be 500! Just promotional runs now as hardly anyone but Walmart seems to sell them anymore. They are 16 bit PCM so you get the full, fat mastered sound as originally intended. To me MP3s sound crappy with M4a/Mp4 somewhat better. Quality standards in music have gone to hell and a quality sound system should still keep a CD player. You can go higher bitrate files but who buys those anyway...

I spent many years of my life in the optical disc industry in various engineering and leadership roles... including some time at a plant in Toronto Fatguy. We started up many of the formats that defined the optical industry. In the early 90's it was hard to understand that we would be in a time today where many kids don't know (or care) what a CD even is. That's technology though... physical media going from records, then magnetics... exiting with optical. Quality standards in music have definitely gone to hell but then again the voice of the customer, both content providers and end users, has steered us in this direction. Security threats making physical media are tough to manage, and end users seem less and less interested in having anything tangible to manage except a smartphone.

I guess us "old guys" just roll with it! And while I'll always proudly maintain my CD collection, I no longer roll with a visor-wallet.

:lol:

 

[5.Oh Crush]

will There be a CD player in the base model for 2019 ? Anyone know ?

The same question for GPS needs to be asked/answered. :cheers:

 

[Rickycardo]

I still have the same CD in my player since I bought the car. I've played it maybe 3 times. I use Spotify for music, Stitcher for podcasts and regular AM hater talk radio for morning commutes.

 

[Fatguy]

I spent many years of my life in the optical disc industry in various engineering and leadership roles... including some time at a plant in Toronto Fatguy. We started up many of the formats that defined the optical industry. In the early 90's it was hard to understand that we would be in a time today where many kids don't know (or care) what a CD even is. That's technology though... physical media going from records, then magnetics... exiting with optical. Quality standards in music have definitely gone to hell but then again the voice of the customer, both content providers and end users, has steered us in this direction. Security threats making physical media are tough to manage, and end users seem less and less interested in having anything tangible to manage except a smartphone.

I guess us "old guys" just roll with it! And while I'll always proudly maintain my CD collection, I no longer roll with a visor-wallet.

:lol:

Well I still try to help prop up the music industry by making music and airing music documentaries to help pay for it. So far I aired two shows on CTV and Global Television up here in Canada. We held one big ass concert in Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square a few years ago on the choicest holiday in summer (thanks Rob Ford). We made a documentary out of it but it still cost me 30 grand in the end. The second longest day of my life and what an experience! If our series gets distributed we may do it again.

 

[Earlsays]

I have a laserdisc player mounted in the trunk, sending video to my in dash screen and audio to the speakers...(I wish)

 

[D24112]

Rofl... If I could put a cassette/CD player in my 2018 without removing the Bluetooth I would hella do that. Just to mess with my passengers. But i would also love a functioning cassette player too, kinda brings me back to the late 90s/early 00s with my 1988 Honda Accord.

You could always bolt an 8 track under the dash...

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