I want a CD player

[Slate]

I have one of these.

Has both types of USB, one on each end. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandis...1486.p?skuId=6421486#anchor=productVariations

They have several sizes. I have the 512GB version.

To be honest, unless you have a playlist, having 1.21 gigawatts of songs isn't helpful.

Lots of programs out there can rip your CD's, iTunes is probably the easiest that I have used, I am sure Android has something similar. With the storage sizes as they are, I would rip at the highest bitrate or go lossless (flac) like others have mentioned. BTW, you can still use iTunes to rip and manage your music, will need to use another app to load the MP3's on your android though.

I have Siruis XP both in the Jeep and streaming on my phone, as well as Apple Music, but that is all streaming. I do have several playlists on my phone with the songs downloaded so I can still listen even if I can't get a satellite signal.

I would most likely recommend you use your phone, so much easier to manage your music, manage your playlists and organize your songs. Really easy to connect, in fact, I would connect usb and use Carplay so you can use the interface to push and play which songs you want to hear.

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[GATORB8]

The Hank Jr. song plays in my head everytime you guys call yourself dinosaurs.

 

[JJ_WA]

Android phone.

You can still use iTunes to rip the videos, then connect your 'droid to your computer to transfer the files. When ripping them be sure to select the highest quality you can (depending on your USB/phone's storage capacity). You can also use Microsoft's Media Player to rip the albums then transfer the MP3 files over.

 

[bruzen]

Call me a dinosaur. I had a hard time switching from cassettes to CDs back in the day (I still have a lot of cassettes stashed somewhere). And now (while I love my new 23 JLU) I don't have a CD player. I like to go on road trips and listen to CDs. I have Sirius, and I have Pandora, but I'd like to be able to know what I'm listening to.

Does anyone know of a CD player you can connect to your 8.4 radio like you can do with your phone and have it play through your speakers.

They make cd players with bluetooth. Worth a try.

 

[ArmyRN]

The Hank Jr. song plays in my head everytime you guys call yourself dinosaurs.

Oh yeah. I'm sure I have this on cassette. I remember driving around in my old F-100 listening to the tape (habits old and new). I've also got the CD - brings back memories listening to it driving my other Jeep which has a CD player.

hank williams jr - dinosaur - YouTube

Warning to any sensitive types out there - this song isn't exactly politically correct. Get over it.

 

[pablo_max3045]

Google music was dead before my Jeep was built

It's just called youtube music now. Though I assume you know that and just want to be pedantic.
just go to music.youtube.com and drag whatever you want on the screen. Then you can find it under your library. I have like 20GB on there.
Supported file formats for uploads include FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, and WMA.

 

[ArmyRN]

usb-integrated-add-on-cd-player-for-2018-jeep-wrangler

Yeah; maybe something like this. I checked with them to see what makes this one so special to work with our Jeeps. I asked:

I'm looking at this USB integrated add-on CD player for 2018+ Jeep wrangler. What makes it so special for this Jeep vs. being a universal type add-on CD player?

Their response:

It is only confirmed to work directly with about 100 different vehicles without requiring any additional parts to make it work.

In my google search after I started this thread (search: USB CD player) I've seen similar looking units that supposedly just plug into your USB port. Some of them have very poor reviews though.

I should probably just get a USB stick and try copying a CD or two and see how that works first (my laptop has a disc reader). I'm taking a road trip from WA to FL after the summer, and would like to have my favorite dozen CDs along with me to listen to.

 

[ArmyRN]

It's just called youtube music now. Though I assume you know that and just want to be pedantic.
just go to music.youtube.com and drag whatever you want on the screen. Then you can find it under your library. I have like 20GB on there.
Supported file formats for uploads include FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, and WMA.

Don't assume I know anything.

 

[Canucklesammich]

For the right price, I'd be willing to furnish you with an appropriate in-vehicle navigation system:

 

[AFD]

Agree 100%. The problem with a CD player is that it will skip when any kind of rough road is driven on. Any road with bumps and your music is jumping/skipping etc.

If you rip it from your CDs and make mpeg files on your PC, you can put them on these super small USB "sticks". Here's an example of one I use for my old cowboy music. 64gb and it's so small, its hard to get your fingers on it to pull it out of the slot. 64gb is about 91 CDs, and they make them with more capacity than this one.

Do you happen to know if the Verbatim Nano will fit in the front USB port with the flap/cover the whole way down?

Was looking at that one and the Lexar Jump S47 (LINK) and couldn't tell if one was shorter than the other, or if there's anything else even more low-profile on the market right now. My center console is already being used by a wireless Android Auto adapter, which sometimes flakes out while I'm driving (easy enough to switch sources to other USB vs trying to reboot shit). Really wish all vehicles came with at least 2 hidden USB ports.

As an aside, I've been using Exact Audio Copy to rip my CDs to uncompressed WAV, then use the RazorLame frontend GUI with the most recent/stable LAME MP3 encoder to convert to 192VBR (sounds close enough to 320CBR to my ears) and then use Mp3tag to tag the metadata from filename and embed the album cover art. Been doing this for decades and it takes a bit of time, but the software is all free/open-source and the results are clean, consistent and very organized. Ripping multi-disc audiobook CDs this way absolutely sucks, though.

 

[ArmyRN]

Do you happen to know if the Verbatim Nano will fit in the front USB port with the flap/cover the whole way down?

Was looking at that one and the Lexar Jump S47 (LINK) and couldn't tell if one was shorter than the other, or if there's anything else even more low-profile on the market right now. My center console is already being used by a wireless Android Auto adapter, which sometimes flakes out while I'm driving (easy enough to switch sources to other USB vs trying to reboot shit). Really wish all vehicles came with at least 2 hidden USB ports.

As an aside, I've been using Exact Audio Copy to rip my CDs to uncompressed WAV, then use the RazorLame frontend GUI with the most recent/stable LAME MP3 encoder to convert to 192VBR (sounds close enough to 320CBR to my ears) and then use Mp3tag to tag the metadata from filename and embed the album cover art. Been doing this for decades and it takes a bit of time, but the software is all free/open-source and the results are clean, consistent and very organized. Ripping multi-disc audiobook CDs this way absolutely sucks, though.

Ok... I understood maybe less than half of this.

 

[ArmyRN]

Sorry Paul, you might be the only one in 2023. Time to catch up!! I'll also bet I'm older than you.

G. ?

Not a contest I'm wanting to win. I'm a young 62 (63 in July).

I'm slowly getting caught up, although I'm kicking and screaming the whole time.

 

[AFD]

Ok... I understood maybe less than half of this.

Lol, yeah. It's actually not difficult at all. Just a bit involved and time consuming if you own a PC or laptop with an optical drive. I'm sure there's quite a few other all-in-one software options that are infinitely easier to work with, but I'm just a little picky about my files and formats compared to what iTunes has to offer. If anyone else is a techie, I'd highly recommend it as a workflow, but probably not otherwise.

The hardest part imo was spending countless hours encoding different samples to test on various equipment and deciding which bitrate was acceptable to my ears without wasting too much storage space (not as big of a deal these days, now that thumb drives aren't maxed out at 8GB).

One thing I do miss about not having in-dash CD/DVD players is that I can't just burn random MP3 mixes with tons of files on a single disc. Was pretty convenient back when stereos supported this, but still didn't include USB input.

 

[COBill]

Get a Spotify subscription and then connect through car play. You won't regret it!

I'm unfamiliar with where in the Spotify app you insert your CD, please enlighten me.

 

[COBill]

If you use an iPhone you an use Itunes to rip all the CDs to a computer and put them on your phone. You will have all your albums on you all the time.

That's not what he asked.

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