Portable CD player?

[Mrs B]

Hello all, I know it's been asked before but please can anyone tell me if they have successfully fitted/used a portable cd player in their MG ZS? No I don't want to put my hundreds of cd's onto a stick (tried it) and no I don't want to pay Spotify for music I already own! So please, can anyone tell me of a portable cd player that works in my car? I tried one that I already own and it won't work in the car. I really miss my music in my car. Many thanks in advance.

 

[mystreet]

Not got one, but this may work, needs to be paired to the car/phone via Bluetooth.

https://amzn.eu/d/8Wu99ZR

 

[BOB353]

I really doubt that the head unit would have the ability to play an archaic device such as a CD. I think my last radio to play CDs was about 20 years ago so since then I have had my full collection on USB and with 50,000+ tracks played on random it just keeps rolling them out.

I fail to see why you would want to be changing CDs every half hour or so.

 

[DBedford]

You could burn your music onto a USB thumb drive !

 

[Mrs B]

Sadly I don't have a few months to spare putting it all onto usb and then having to laboriously change every title to force it to put albums together and not stick everything in a random fashion on a usb! Yes I tried it, far too tedious. Life is too short and all that!

 

[BOB353]

Life is too short to be changing CDs every 30 minutes, plus it's unsafe to do while driving.

I started ripping my CD's about 20+ years ago. You can fit about 74 minutes of music on a 650 MB audio CD, or about 150 MP3 files on the same sized disc. Some CDs can contain 700 MB of music. A DVD can hold 4.7 gigabytes (GB), almost five times as many songs as a CD.

So basically a CD can hold 150+ songs, using mp3 format. I then figured out that my CD player could play mp3 tracks from a recorded DVD disc, a DVD can hold 4.7 gigabytes (GB), almost five times as many songs as an mp3 CD.

You can rip your CDs using Windows Media Player (WMP) which will take 2-3 minutes, and then download the artwork and track details to save the mp3 details.

WMP will store each album in a separate folder for each CD. I normally store mine under "Music/Artist/Album".

Most mp3 players allow you to play a singe Album at a time, shuffle mode (Random play) within a album, or my preference of shuffle all.

Once you have this setup on a memory stick you will probably never touch another CD again.

WMP is a bit clunky to use and I am certain others can suggest better programs to use.

If you want to contact me about this, you are welcome, I could even send you a stick with my 3,500 track collection to get you going.

For the little effort, you will be very happy with the end result.

 

[salty]

Sadly I don't have a few months to spare putting it all onto usb and then having to laboriously change every title to force it to put albums together and not stick everything in a random fashion on a usb! Yes I tried it, far too tedious. Life is too short and all that!

Agree.

Life is too short to be changing CDs every 30 minutes, plus it's unsafe to do while driving.

I started ripping my CD's about 20+ years ago. You can fit about 74 minutes of music on a 650 MB audio CD, or about 150 MP3 files on the same sized disc. Some CDs can contain 700 MB of music. A DVD can hold 4.7 gigabytes (GB), almost five times as many songs as a CD.

So basically a CD can hold 150+ songs, using mp3 format. I then figured out that my CD player could play mp3 tracks from a recorded DVD disc, a DVD can hold 4.7 gigabytes (GB), almost five times as many songs as an mp3 CD.

You can rip your CDs using Windows Media Player (WMP) which will take 2-3 minutes, and then download the artwork and track details to save the mp3 details.

WMP will store each album in a separate folder for each CD. I normally store mine under "Music/Artist/Album".

Most mp3 players allow you to play a singe Album at a time, shuffle mode (Random play) within a album, or my preference of shuffle all.

Once you have this setup on a memory stick you will probably never touch another CD again.

WMP is a bit clunky to use and I am certain others can suggest better programs to use.

If you want to contact me about this, you are welcome, I could even send you a stick with my 3,500 track collection to get you going.

For the little effort, you will be very happy with the end result.

S'pose it's each to there own. With music.
Whatever does it for the individual.
Vinyl records are very popular again, who'd have thought. It's not all about technology this, technology that. Enjoy ya Music whichever way you want.

 

[Mrs B]

Agree.



S'pose it's each to there own. With music.
Whatever does it for the individual.
Vinyl records are very popular again, who'd have thought. It's not all about technology this, technology that. Enjoy ya Music whichever way you want.

Yes it's odd isn't it that youngsters nowadays prefer old,scratchy vinyl records - my 21 year old buys up classical LP's on vinyl from charity shops and loves them! I find that weird but each to their own! I've always liked cd's better as they're so easy and no peering at a screen being distracted, trying to find the album you want from a huge list. I was used to a cd changer of course which I just loaded up before a journey and it just played through in the order I'd set. Happy days!

 

[BOB353]

Yer, everyone to their own, can't wait for indas turntable to come soon the market

One other option with memory stick is that you can create playlist that will play music of you choice so if you want to play some Bee Gee, followed by Elton John and maybe some Beatles, save the list in you preferred sequence and that is how it will play.