Anonymous wrote:You can buy a CD player with a USB cord for the car. Then you just plug your USB in but you can put the CDs in and out of the CD player.

This is the best current solution.

I was going to buy one until a younger friend mocked me so I didn't bother. Result is I don't listen to music in the car anymore. My commute is short so I've never made time to rip all my CDs to digital form.

Ironically, we once had a portable car player that we got rid of because it was supposedly obsolete.

CD players came out of cars because they are easily broken and add weight. Meantime the smartphone revolution did ourcompete them for users/listeners. So on balance the car companies needed to spend the money elsewhere in the product. A lot of expensive custom software programming goes into making vehicle infotainment.

The true survivors are AM and FM radio. AM radio is vulnerable.

You can buy a CD player with a USB cord for the car. Then you just plug your USB in but you can put the CDs in and out of the CD player.

My 2020 Acura has a CD player. I didn't even realize until I'd driven it for a couple months, and then I was super excited.

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Anonymous wrote:No one uses CD's. Don't you have a phone with music? I have not had a CD player in my last 3 cars.

No, I don’t like to use my phone and have no music apps or music streaming. I still have a CD player in my house.

I read a substack from a music critic and he was just talking about how much better the sound is on CDs versus streaming. I've still got mine.

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Anonymous wrote:How old are you?

40

Is this a joke?

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Anonymous wrote:You are old. What I did was "rip' the CDs to a USB stick as my car will take one of those. I leave it in my car.

That's a great idea. I'm tired of paying for music over and over again.

I prefer CDs. It’s interesting how the music industry changed to extract yet more money from people.

I can listen to my CDs for free.

My 2022 Forester Touring has one.

Anonymous wrote:I really wish there were CD players in cars as well. Now that our computers don’t have CD-roms, I can’t even rip my CD onto a USB. And it would take a long time to rebuild my music collection on a streaming platform. It’s super annoying.

You can get a portable CD player for your laptop.

I agree and also want a car with a DVD player that works.

Get a used car and you will be able to find a CD player.

Anonymous wrote:Just switch to Spotify. It’s worth it. I have old CDs and iTunes files I’ll never use again. It’s okay. Media changes.

This. Just explore Apple Music or Spotify and choose one. Suck up paying the monthly fee and move on. You can download as many albums are your phone can hold, make you own play lists (just like burning a mix cd!) and all of that. It's not random music that pops up, you can just listen to albums then if you want.

Some of the comments on here make it so clear that some Millenials/Gen X don't understand how streaming works.

They also don't have cassette or 8-track players anymore. Technology changes.

You can use a portable one for the car:
https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Anti-Skip-Protection-Rechargeable-Headphone/dp/B0CB197ZDN/ref=asc_df_B0CB197ZDN/

I really wish there were CD players in cars as well. Now that our computers don’t have CD-roms, I can’t even rip my CD onto a USB. And it would take a long time to rebuild my music collection on a streaming platform. It’s super annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:Lololol. You’re not old, you are ancient. CD players have been obsolete for like the last 20+ years.

Why don’t they sell VCRs at Bestbuy!?

STFU. MY 2018 Nissan has a CD player.

That doesn’t mean CDs weren’t obsolete by then, dimwit. The first iPod came out in 2001. CDs were obsolete then.

Best Buy didn't stop selling CD's until 2018.

Again, you mistake availability for lack of obsolescence. CDs were made obsolete by 2001 with the invention of the iPod. Hell, I remember using a radio adapter for the iPod so that you could get your tunes on the radio as early as the 2000s.

Typewriters were still sold all throughout the 90s and up to 2009ish when the last major maker of typewriters closed. That doesn’t mean typewriters were long obsolete before the 90s and 2000s (they were). What garbage logic you have.

Off course CD's were on the way out. But if stores were still selling them up to 2018, and cars still had CD players installed in them in 2018, then they were not obsolete in 2001.

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Anonymous wrote:Lololol. You’re not old, you are ancient. CD players have been obsolete for like the last 20+ years.

Why don’t they sell VCRs at Bestbuy!?

STFU. MY 2018 Nissan has a CD player.

That doesn’t mean CDs weren’t obsolete by then, dimwit. The first iPod came out in 2001. CDs were obsolete then.

Best Buy didn't stop selling CD's until 2018.

Again, you mistake availability for lack of obsolescence. CDs were made obsolete by 2001 with the invention of the iPod. Hell, I remember using a radio adapter for the iPod so that you could get your tunes on the radio as early as the 2000s.

Typewriters were still sold all throughout the 90s and up to 2009ish when the last major maker of typewriters closed. That doesn’t mean typewriters were long obsolete before the 90s and 2000s (they were). What garbage logic you have.

Just switch to Spotify. It’s worth it. I have old CDs and iTunes files I’ll never use again. It’s okay. Media changes.