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.