rubiria
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Or how about a MiniDisc Player…? Hell, I would haul my record collection and hook up my Technics 1200 Turntable to my Head Unit instead….I'm looking for a cassette deck with auto-reverse for my Wrangler.
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Or how about a MiniDisc Player…? Hell, I would haul my record collection and hook up my Technics 1200 Turntable to my Head Unit instead….I'm looking for a cassette deck with auto-reverse for my Wrangler.
I loved my MiniDisc player, came with the braided headphones that would never get twisted and tangled up.Or how about a MiniDisc Player…? Hell, I would haul my record collection and hook up my Technics 1200 Turntable to my Head Unit instead….
Please dumb this down for me. 'rip'. I have a Lenovo windows computer, an Apple 12 pro phone, and a couple of disc drives laying around. Also own a lot of cd's I love. Where can I go for a step by step procedure to get my favorite songs on a USB stick. Please only mention a format you would recommend, give the hardware I already own.The UConnect doesn't work that way. You can pump audio into it with the analog jack, but if you want to see song information and control tracks, you either need to Bluetooth it or run audio files off a USB drive.
Just rip your discs and pile your music onto a USB stick. The days of CDs in modern vehicles are over.
https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+media+player+rip+music+from+cdPlease dumb this down for me. 'rip'. I have a Lenovo windows computer, an Apple 12 pro phone, and a couple of disc drives laying around. Also own a lot of cd's I love. Where can I go for a step by step procedure to get my favorite songs on a USB stick. Please only mention a format you would recommend, give the hardware I already own.
Thanks,
SHOJEEP (All my cars up till now had a cd player, and I never had to learn)
Thanks. This helps alot. My computer doesn't have a cd slot, so I will hook up an auxillary drive. Sound quality is important, so I will stay with the highes kbps available.https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+media+player+rip+music+from+cd
There are bazillions of resources on how to do this and many different ways to go about it, so pick your poison. However, if you want to keep it as simple as possible, I'd just fire up Windows Media Player, pop a disc in your computer, and click the Rip CD button. WMP should automatically acquire album and song data, create the appropriately titled folder of the disc into your Music folder, 'rip' all the tracks as MP3 files, and dump them into it. Copy that entire folder onto a USB stick and boom, you're done.
UConnect supports all common modern audio formats, such as MP3, M4A, and FLAC, so you shouldn't run into any compatibility problems with your files. However, when ripping to MP3, I recommend using the highest bitrate to retain as much audio fidelity as possible. You're always going to lose a little bit of quality by going with a compressed format, but a 320kbps song will sound much better than 128kbps. You can configure this from the Rip Music tab in the Options menu.
You can get really nuanced when it comes to meta data, though, and that's where programs such as Mp3tag come into play. However, I wouldn't mess with this until you're comfortable with ripping your music in general and have a handle or organizing your files. WMP does a decent job for what it is and is a good place to start.
Okay, so I get my songs on a usb stick. How do I get my jeep to play them? I'm guessing nothing will happen if I just put the usb stick into the usb port. Thanks again for your help.Thanks. This helps alot. My computer doesn't have a cd slot, so I will hook up an auxillary drive. Sound quality is important, so I will stay with the highes kbps available.
I bought one of these last week and tried it in my '21 F150 (also no cd player) It works perfect. Sound quality is excellent and I can control which songs I want to hear using the factory screen. Hopefully, it will work as well in my Jeep, if it ever shows up.I found a single disk player on Amazon that states it will work in the Jeep.
Citreal OE Integrated Vehicle CD Player for Car Via USB Radio Connection Portable CD Players with USB Connector Cable USBCDPLAY https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099WD5JVX/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_BEBCN3W6GZK9RHNE9N48
10 second anti skip, that was legit. I remember my older brother got his Kenwood with 10 second A.S. and he thought it was better than sliced bread. I was bummed I didn't have one. I saved my yard money and the next year got a Kenwood with 45 second A.S. AND it had a window on top so you could see the disk spinning. Who's got the cool sh!t now!?Oh, I traded in my Marlboro Miles to get my portable CD player. It has 10 second skip protection as well! Downside, it needs to be plugged into a cassette player.... (This was a true statement, in 1997).
I used "Media Monkey". It also can do MP3 tagging and album art. I have a thumb drive with 40GB of music. Jeep indexes it fine, can access all of it with voice command. It takes a while to really clean and review a collection.https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+media+player+rip+music+from+cd
There are bazillions of resources on how to do this and many different ways to go about it, so pick your poison. However, if you want to keep it as simple as possible, I'd just fire up Windows Media Player, pop a disc in your computer, and click the Rip CD button. WMP should automatically acquire album and song data, create the appropriately titled folder of the disc into your Music folder, 'rip' all the tracks as MP3 files, and dump them into it. Copy that entire folder onto a USB stick and boom, you're done.
UConnect supports all common modern audio formats, such as MP3, M4A, and FLAC, so you shouldn't run into any compatibility problems with your files. However, when ripping to MP3, I recommend using the highest bitrate to retain as much audio fidelity as possible. You're always going to lose a little bit of quality by going with a compressed format, but a 320kbps song will sound much better than 128kbps. You can configure this from the Rip Music tab in the Options menu.
You can get really nuanced when it comes to meta data, though, and that's where programs such as Mp3tag come into play. However, I wouldn't mess with this until you're comfortable with ripping your music in general and have a handle on organizing your files. WMP does a decent job for what it is and is a good place to start.
Good news!! 1956 Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge, and Plymouth models--could handle 45-speed records as well as 7-inch records in the new 16-2/3 format (https://www.cnet.com/news/chryslers-in-car-phonograph/).Or how about a MiniDisc Player…? Hell, I would haul my record collection and hook up my Technics 1200 Turntable to my Head Unit instead….
I haven't used WMP in forever, either, but the fact it supports FLAC is even better.Then, my Windows Media Player (never used in five years) recognized the burner, and I got to work downloading a favorite music CD. Used 'flac' as recommended and the download went seamlessly.
Plug the stick into a USB port and pick that port from the UConnect Media screen. It doesn't matter how you have them organized in folders, either. It'll scan the entire drive and play all the audio files on it that it supports. At this point, you can randomize what it plays, choose by album or artist, etc.Okay, so I get my songs on a usb stick. How do I get my jeep to play them? I'm guessing nothing will happen if I just put the usb stick into the usb port. Thanks again for your help.
Now if I just had my Jeep......I haven't used WMP in forever, either, but the fact it supports FLAC is even better.
Plug the stick into a USB port and pick that port from the UConnect Media screen. It doesn't matter how you have them organized in folders, either. It'll scan the entire drive and play all the audio files on it that it supports. At this point, you can randomize what it plays, choose by album or artist, etc.