Maverick Old Farts

I agree with RichT47, Same age and problems. When I got my 25 Lariat AWD it seems my dealer had more important things than how to explain things to an "old fart" . Mostly it was trial and error I know about 20% of what options the computer, car, thinks I should know. One of the things that pissed me off was the elimination of the CD drive, while I travel I always listened to "books on tape". After trial and many errors I figured out that I can copy the CDs onto mt Mac computer, one at a time, to an empty folder than change the names of the files to something simple like if the "BOT" has 12 disks I list the file as 01 (disk # 1 than each file on that disk with an alphabet A. It should look like this disk 1 file (1 0A) through disk 12 file 13 (12M). once you have all the disk files renamed. Save it to the music program on the Mac. highlight all the files you entered, Go to the "file" tab in the top line drop down to the "convert" sub menu and select "Create an AAC Version". after that you will have two of each file names. Highlight only the files that do not ens in AAC and delete only those files. you will now have your "BOT" files ready to copy on a flash drive and play on a USB A or the USB C. One last thing is to make sure that your flash drive is formatted as a "FAT32" , Ex Fat or MS-DOS (FAT)

Nice job on the converting. I have about 12,000 songs in my Itunes library. A tip I learned a long time ago is you can import your CD's into itunes making them WAV, MP3, AAC or a few other formats. Once converted and in itunes, just drag them on to a flash drive. Pretty quick. Change the import settings first, in Edit, Preferences, General Tab, import settings. Here is a paragraph I grabbed off a search.
Yes, you can easily import music from standard audio CDs into iTunes (or the Apple Music app on newer Macs) by inserting the disc, and iTunes will automatically offer to rip (import) the tracks, converting them into digital files (like AAC) for your library, allowing you to listen without the CD in the drive. If you see ".cda" files, you must use the import function, not drag-and-drop, to get actual music files.

I do miss my CD player, too. Had one in my 20 Lexus RX350 but not in my new one. I now play my oldies off a usb drive on which I copy ripped music from my CDs. I put my usb drive in my 26 Mav Hybrid Lariat and after figuring out where the radio was, it picked it right up--showing all 1000+ songs on the drive. The large usb drives 32gb or larger will work if formatted to FAT32.

yeah, not me so much... Took me a year to figure out how to get my i tunes back.

I copied all my Johnny Dollar cds to a flash drive, so when my wife and I take a long trip we can listen to those in addition to the oldies that I have stored on my flash drives. I do miss my cd player--I may have to try my portable cd player and see if it will work. And as my eyesight gets a little worse with each passing year, I may have to resort to books on a jump drive.

Maverick Old Farts

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