Installed USB CD Player in the Maverick

[SLingbarT]

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.

How do you pay your bills? With a cell phone? I couldn't live without my PC's, plural for many.

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[sprubs]

"Sbrubs",
I like to be to being comfortable when I'm online.

Whether I'm sitting on the couch, in the shed, outside enjoying the cool mornings with a cup of coffee.
I enjoy the convenience of a phone, computer, price scanner, camera, video and audio recorder...etc.
in my pocket.

Just because I only use a phone doesn't mean I sacrifice a keyboard or a mouse.
You just have to think outside the tower.

I've even considered one of these mini PCS.

Keyboard is a nice addition.

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

How do you pay your bills? With a cell phone? I couldn't live without my PC's, plural for many.

I pay all my bills through auto pay
except for my MasterCard which only carries my online purchases. That one is paid through check and snail mail. That forces me to review my purchases.
For anything else I use the setup below.

I have considered getting a Mini PC fits in your hand. I just don't know if I'm going to or not.

 

[einstein57]

I’ve been considering using a usb CD player as well. I take long trips through remote areas pretty regularly. Ever since I upgraded my stereo, sonic signature changes from audio compression has reared its ugly head even with lossless streaming services like Qobuz due to the fact CarPlay and android auto throttles the bit rate to “CD quality”. Doing an A/B audio comparison from the streaming lossless service to a usb device with a FLAC or even ALAC is very noticeable. When I do a A/B comparison in my other car with CD player and compare it to USB it’s a minimal difference that I normally would not perceive while driving and paying attention to the road. I wish the Maveric had a 3.5mm aux so I could play high res streaming through a DAC. Not to mention you are forced to use forscan to program the radio to be able to scroll through the USB library while in motion. Not everyone is savy enough or has a windows PC to do the programming. Guess I’ll just have to either add an audio input switcher to my amps to accept audio from a DAC or go through the pain staking process of finding high res audio files and uploading my entire CD catalog.

 

[colinl]

If you have a smartphone and a library card, download the Libby app. Thousand of audiobooks for free.

there are many community libraries online that you can join without having to go in-person to visit them.

 

[olderbudwiser]

Is it easy to convert 8track and cassette tapes to a flash drive?

 

[First Sergeant]

Hmmm I don't have a way to convert my CD s to flash. I may just look into this CD player.

Download and install Itunes (free) on computer. Don't put CD in the computer just yet! On main screeen at top left select Edit, preferences, General tab will be open. Select import settings and change to MP3, Now, put CD in tray and songs should automatically import as MP3 to a playlist. Take cd out, put in USB stick and move songs to the USB. If you need help shoot me a DM and we c an help!

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

Download and install Itunes (free) on computer. Don't put CD in the computer just yet! On main screeen at top left select Edit, preferences, General tab will be open. Select import settings and change to MP3, Now, put CD in tray and songs should automatically import as MP3 to a playlist. Take cd out, put in USB stick and move songs to the USB. If you need help shoot me a DM and we c an help!

As I mentioned in previous posts. We don't have a laptop or PC anymore.
I only use my phone.

 

[McSwine]

:insert another tired 8 track/cassette joke here:

 

[AzureBlueBill]

.... Not to mention you are forced to use forscan to program the radio to be able to scroll through the USB library while in motion. Not everyone is savy enough or has a windows PC to do the programming....

Please let me know what to change in Forscan to enable the USB scrolling while in motion. Never found that answer anyplace. Thanks.

 

[First Sergeant]

As I mentioned in previous posts. We don't have a laptop or PC anymore.
I only use my phone.

Sorry Glen Baker, did not see that, so my advice is no good to you! Hope you can find a good CD player, I'm sure they are out there. I see some folks on here are having issue with the CD player staying attached. For things like that I use a Velcro, but it is literally an industrial version of the stuff. Comes in a big roll. It is difficult to pull it apart right in front of you. I used it on my motorhome sliding closet door when I had a broken latch. Took both hands / arms to get it open. Good luck

 

[dochawk]

Hmmmm, I wonder what the odds are of finding a USB 8-Track player…

Going the other direction, the Bose stereos in 90s Cadillacs actually have solder pads on the circuit board for an auxiliary input, which wasn't implemented. However, adventurous folks have discovered that if you connect wires to those, and feed it an input, AUX takes its turn in the rotation. I'm planning on doing this to my '97 and/or '99.

I like to be to being comfortable when I'm online.

until I saw the knee for scale, I thought that was lipstick . . .



I can't imagine being comfortable on a screen that small! I find reading books on my large iPhone when I don't have my iPad an annoyance, and don't like the iPad for online. I feel I'm roughing it on this 13" M3; the smallest screen I've had in 25 or 30 years!

Just because I only use a phone doesn't mean I sacrifice a keyboard or a mouse.

I can't imagine being comfortable on a screen that small! I find reading books on my large iPhone when I don't have my iPad an annoyance, and don't like the iPad for online. I feel I'm roughing it on this 13" M3; the smallest screen I've had in 25 or 30 years!

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

Going the other direction, the Bose stereos in 90s Cadillacs actually have solder pads on the circuit board for an auxiliary input, which wasn't implemented. However, adventurous folks have discovered that if you connect wires to those, and feed it an input, AUX takes its turn in the rotation. I'm planning on doing this to my '97 and/or '99.




until I saw the knee for scale, I thought that was lipstick . . .



I can't imagine being comfortable on a screen that small! I find reading books on my large iPhone when I don't have my iPad an annoyance, and don't like the iPad for online. I feel I'm roughing it on this 13" M3; the smallest screen I've had in 25 or 30 years!



I can't imagine being comfortable on a screen that small! I find reading books on my large iPhone when I don't have my iPad an annoyance, and don't like the iPad for online. I feel I'm roughing it on this 13" M3; the smallest screen I've had in 25 or 30 years!

I enjoy reading but only Real Books with paper pages. I have never had to wear glasses. I guess that's a plus.
I've had the big monitors. That was the main reason I hated apple
In the late 70s when apple computers came out. They were all-in-one unit..
No choice of monitor size. I wasn't going to let Steve jobs tell me what he thought I needed. Plus the proprietary nature of Apple products.
Yes, I know that apple makes superior products.

 

[dochawk]

I enjoy reading but only Real Books with paper pages.

That used to be my strong preference. I didn't like the first readers I tried.

The Books app on the iPad, though, put a lot of effort into the page turning. You grab a spot, and the page pulls from that spot, the paper flexing realistically. Pull it partway across, and on the back of the page you can see traces of the ink on the front side, which move with the page.

It sounds silly, but it *really* helps with the illusion. And a few years ago, kindle on iPad apparently switched to the native animation engine for this; it made a huge difference.

I have never had to wear glasses. I guess that's a plus.

uhh, yeah.

I first got reading glasses in law school. No correction for the right eye, and the slightest possible for the left, as it turned out. The page was actually clearer without the glass in the way, but my headaches went away. But now, well . . .

I've had the big monitors. That was the main reason I hated apple
In the late 70s when apple computers came out. They were all-in-one unit..

I don't think apple made any all in ones until the Macintosh in 1984.

And while my 1989 Mac SE/30 had the same 9" internal, I also had a 17" external for it (*huge* for the time, with a tube something like two feet deep. And then it had a problem, so I called about the warrantee. "Send it back in the original packaging" Huh? there wasn't any; it came on a shipping pallet with cardboard wrapped around it and a boxtops. "*groan* One of those!" )

 

[Guv]

Ohhhhh next I want to see an eight-track player..... Lol

I have plenty of old match books to fold up and jam in there.
I had a 76 F-100 sb that was stolen and recovered.
They stole:
Mags and tires
Holley 4bbl carb
Saddle blanket seat cover and…..
AC DC Highway to Hell 8 track tape

They left the crappy Kraco 8 track player! Took the ONE tape that would play, Bastards!
It did need an old match book though.

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