music CD's to digital....millennials step in
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You may have a usb port so you could burn the cd's to your computer and then transfer to a usb stick.
LOLOL, you actually want a CD player? Why? They suck.
Use any one of about a million programs to 'rip' your CD's into MP3 or MP4 format. Then load about a thousand songs onto one little USB stick and plug it into your system. You will never look back. In fact, you'll be ecstatic about the ease and convenience of digital music files.
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Use any one of about a million programs to 'rip' your CD's into MP3 or MP4 format. Then load about a thousand songs onto one little USB stick and plug it into your system. You will never look back. In fact, you'll be ecstatic about the ease and convenience of digital music files.
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I ripped mine with either iTunes or WMP at the highest bit rate possible as an MP3. Then I load them on a USB stick and play them that way.
The best quality mp3 is almost 3x bigger than the worst quality. I ripped a CD in both sizes to see if I can hear a difference in the truck. I should of picked up that 10TB hard drive from Costco the other day
Or do like I do - use my phone as the source of my music.
Pick a subscription: I have Google Play Music that comes with with my YouTube Premium subscription. There are even free ones, they just have ads and don't allow you custom playlists.
Using whatever app streams your account, stream it via Bluetooth to your car, which most newer cars are capable of, or if not, you can choose from many BT adapter units for sale nowadays.
In my case, GPM allows me to create custom playlists from literally millions of songs. I have yet to not find music I want to listen to on it.
Even better, I can pick a song I particularly like, and create a "radio station" out of it, where it basically tries to conform to the type of the song and play music that Google feels I'd like based on the song the "station" is originated from. It's awesome in that I get to hear songs I like from bands I've never even heard of.
Of course the above mostly requires that you have either unlimited data or a lot of it.
EDIT: Also, you can choose to download the music files of your playlists (not the stations) so you can play them even if you don't have data or a signal on your phone. You can save data by doing this on WiFi.
I've done this for long trips where I know I'll lose signal at some point.
You can also choose the quality of both the stream and the file downloads.
Pick a subscription: I have Google Play Music that comes with with my YouTube Premium subscription. There are even free ones, they just have ads and don't allow you custom playlists.
Using whatever app streams your account, stream it via Bluetooth to your car, which most newer cars are capable of, or if not, you can choose from many BT adapter units for sale nowadays.
In my case, GPM allows me to create custom playlists from literally millions of songs. I have yet to not find music I want to listen to on it.
Even better, I can pick a song I particularly like, and create a "radio station" out of it, where it basically tries to conform to the type of the song and play music that Google feels I'd like based on the song the "station" is originated from. It's awesome in that I get to hear songs I like from bands I've never even heard of.
Of course the above mostly requires that you have either unlimited data or a lot of it.
EDIT: Also, you can choose to download the music files of your playlists (not the stations) so you can play them even if you don't have data or a signal on your phone. You can save data by doing this on WiFi.
I've done this for long trips where I know I'll lose signal at some point.
You can also choose the quality of both the stream and the file downloads.
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A ripped a lot of my cds back in the day now I just pay for iTunes every month. If I add a song to my library it auto downloads next time the phone is on WiFi so you can listen on a plane and such
I'm pissed that Ford ditched the AUX port too!!!
Guess even a 3.5mm cable is even low tech now...
I have several ZUNE players loaded with tunes that I can't connect to the Ford factory radio via the USB ports... "Device Not Recognized" or "Unknown Device"
Except for the GT500 since it still has the old Microsoft/Sync headunit. The only one I can connect via the USB port & play tunes off my ZUNE players.
Guess even a 3.5mm cable is even low tech now...
I have several ZUNE players loaded with tunes that I can't connect to the Ford factory radio via the USB ports... "Device Not Recognized" or "Unknown Device"
Except for the GT500 since it still has the old Microsoft/Sync headunit. The only one I can connect via the USB port & play tunes off my ZUNE players.
Non Bluetooth devices are basically tape players at this point. Does Microsoft even support the zune anymore? If not it might be more that than ford
What year is this again?
Unless you burn the files to a lossless file type, you're only trading convenience for quality. I understand a great many people can't tell their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to a 128-320 bit mp3 and a lossless file type (ogg, mp4, flac, etc...), but that doesnt mean that digital is better than physical media for sound quality. I'm not even an elitist snob when it comes to audio. It just amazes me peoples ears are bad enough that they can't tell, especially the trash streaming audio lots of people listen to.
It's certainly more convenient, and that's all most people care about.
iTunes (gross, I'm sorry you have to use this trash) will rip CDs to alac, which is apples version of flac, because of course they have their own version with which to control you with. Btw, it's not even truly lossless, it still compresses music (because **** you that's why) but it works better than mp3.
It's certainly more convenient, and that's all most people care about.
iTunes (gross, I'm sorry you have to use this trash) will rip CDs to alac, which is apples version of flac, because of course they have their own version with which to control you with. Btw, it's not even truly lossless, it still compresses music (because **** you that's why) but it works better than mp3.
I have a modified version of YouTube on my phone. I just get in my car, and I want to hear a CD, quick search, hit play, select bluetooth on my car's screen and it plays the CD, ad free. I have unlimited data so I don't care that the video or whatever is playing on the phone's screen.
My 2020 GT has a B&O CD player, I absolutely love it!
I rip as many CD's as I can from the local library, ****'em.
I rip as many CD's as I can from the local library, ****'em.
Claims not to be an elitist snob then proceeds to bust out the monocle.
If you think that's elitist, you have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes for lossless music playback.
Like I said earlier, streaming and digital music has its place, and that's convenience rather than quality. You can have quality too but you're not gonna get it unless it's a lossless file type. It's not gonna happen with any streaming service or most file types.
What's most sad is that people accept/pay for "good enough" when "exceptional" is just as easy to get. This wasn't the case for a long time, you either had trash mp3 or giant ass flac/wav files, and storage wasn't as plentiful as it is now. Now, storage space is basically unlimited but people are still stuck on thinking that a 128kb mp3 file is "good enough". These usually end up being the same people who think beats headphones and Bose headphones are the best there is.
My untrained ears didn't notice a difference in sound quality between the 2 sizes. The songs were organized alphabetically by song title automatically by the B&O system...which is a bit annoying. Fast forward a month and I have 1000 songs organized by title...meh. I like them in the order they were on the disc. I'll mess around with it and see if i can organize by artist.
Thanks for the help
Thanks for the help
Microsoft created a special file download for what ever the latest Windows Operating program [Windows 10? Windows 11?]....
So ancient people, like me, can still use the ZUNE program to maintain our music library.
I'm up to 19,800+ songs in total! That breaks down to:
3343 Albums
146 Genres
1740 Different Artists
174 Custom Playlists
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I have so much vested in ZUNE that I can't simply "drop it"....
I tried Apple/Itunes back in 2012-13 & it would NOT recognize HALF of my music collection when I tried "their" program/file-conversion back then.
Haha, that's an understatement.
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