Installed USB CD Player in the Maverick

[Ozarkbeard]

... With CDs you'll listen to an entire album as was intended...

And you can still listen to an entire album as it was intended, when ripped to another lossless format, (like flac or ogg) and played from your phone or other storage device.

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[MavTime]

And you can still listen to an entire album as it was intended, when ripped to another lossless format, (like flac or ogg) and played from your phone or other storage device.

Of course but it is much easier to change artists or albums when streaming or having them on USB or media player or phone. Plus it is much easier to slap in a CD than it is dealing with Streaming UIs or voice assistants or tons of folders or songs on a USB.

 

[Joe Strummer]

Bring back the 8 track I say

 

[dochawk]

t's debatable whether you still have the legal right to have those rips if you no longer own the physical media.

Err, no, not debatable at all.

You just plain don't.

A copy of a cd you own is well within fair use; one of something you don't isn't arguable.

Bring back the 8 track I say

I had my '72 Caddie convertible for a couple of weeks before it occurred to me that something of that era should have have an 8 track.

I went out to the garage, and, sure enough, the dial flips up to push 8 tracks in.

I figure I'll build a cartridge with a bluetooth transceiver to take music from my phone. Either use something like the faux-cassette adapters to pass the sound, or send the whole unit to one of those places that puts modern guts into classic car stereos. And I'll add an LCD screen on the protruding part of the cartridge to show the title of the album playing!

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

Bring back the 8 track I say

Cassettes were much easier on the physical tape than the 8 track.

Pulling from the center and rewinding to the outside.
My 8 tracks always pulled apart where the ends were spliced.

Cassettes were more like reel to reel.

 

[oysterville]

Err, no, not debatable at all.

You just plain don't.

A copy of a cd you own is well within fair use; one of something you don't isn't arguauable.

Anything is debatable, but some things are highly unlikely to be successfully defended in a debate.

The legality isn't at all ambiguous. However, the person who I was addressing seems to be suffering a rectal impactment about the issue so I won't stress them further about it.

 

[Bob The Builder]

What's a CD?

 

[Jeff D.]

What's a CD?

I know it's being referred to as something that's old, so I'm thinking it might be "Cave Drawing".

 

[dochawk]

What's a CD?

a big improvement over an AB, but now obsoleted by the EF.

 

[PSchiefelbein]

Just a heads up. CD's remain popular with the classical music crowd, of which I am a proud member. While I could transfer my CDs to a flash drive, I'm afraid this would represent years of work which I do not have left. In addition, classical works are often 3-4 or more movements long and nothing is more frustrating than getting only a single movement or getting them in the wrong order. In addition there are endless details to catalog so you can compare performances when you want. At 74, it's much easier to grab what I want off the shelf, listen, and put it back in its place when I'm done. Each to their own, but I'm sticking with my CDs.

 

[sprubs]

What do you do if you don't have a computer or a laptop? As we don't.
If I have to buy a CD drive, plus a PC or laptop. Why don't I just buy one CD player that I can put in my truck? And save the time and money it takes to convert the CDs to a flash drive.

I agree that would be a lot of effort but I'm shocked that anyone would choose to go without some kind of PC/laptop. A lot of required things in life are a real PITA to do on a smartphone. I need my big screen and full sized keyboard.

 

[sprubs]

Just a heads up. CD's remain popular with the classical music crowd, of which I am a proud member. While I could transfer my CDs to a flash drive, I'm afraid this would represent years of work which I do not have left. In addition, classical works are often 3-4 or more movements long and nothing is more frustrating than getting only a single movement or getting them in the wrong order. In addition there are endless details to catalog so you can compare performances when you want. At 74, it's much easier to grab what I want off the shelf, listen, and put it back in its place when I'm done. Each to their own, but I'm sticking with my CDs.

I'm not telling you to do anything different but what you've got here is not factually correct. I can only assume it's due to ignorance from having never ripped a bunch of CDs for this purpose. Every time you think about listening to a CD you could rip it. I assume the CD about an hour. You can rip it in about 2 minutes. Typically, the ripping software pulls all of the necessary metadata to attach to the files or you can run another app after the fact to do this very quickly on all of the files. I have whole albums ripped and they play in the original album order. No issues!

 

[rclee]

A lot of folks can't wrap their head around the fact that, some people do not have constant cell service or unlimited data plans. We still have landlines. I don't assume everybody does. I know better.
I thought I was doing good when I got rid of my old fashioned PC and laptop.
I have around 100 CDs.
It would take around 5+ hours to load those onto a flash drive, if I had a PC or a laptop, which I don't.
My wife's choir director gives them CDs to practice songs. Luckily her Escape still has CD player.

Glenn, I have to ask, are you on this forum via cell phone only?

 

[monkdeth]

Been meaning to post this. Back in June I finally decided to try one of these USB CD drive that I’d seen a few positive YouTube reviews on. I have a lot of cds and primarily do the majority of my listening to them in the car. So when I got my Maverick back in February, and knew it wouldn’t be coming with one, but had the 90 days of SiriusXM I decided to enjoy that and then look into a cd drive.
So I purchased this one: https://a.co/d/eLVnaIq and it’s worked great ever since. The only real issue is the adhesive strips don’t stick well to the type of plastic underneath the center control cluster so my dad fashioned a little wedge to keep it from falling and to help the strips stick and since then it’s been great.
Keep those CDs spinning!

Cool!!!!

 

[Blokcar]

Very cool, very retro - i just tossed my collection of CDs (about 500 of them)

same. they were never used, scratched and I had all them downloaded to the cloud already. Some were even staring to have the holographic areas scratched and unplayable. I would have never done that to vinyl but cd's are just obsolete today imo.

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