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re: Is it time to stop including CD players in autos?

Posted on 1/3/22 at 8:30 am to
Posted by SpotCheckBilly
Member since May 2020
6625 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 8:30 am to
I still use them and all of our cars have CD players. They don't take up much space, and no one makes you use them. One of our cars even has a cassette player. Actually, my truck did too, until I upgraded the electronics.
Posted by farad
Member since Dec 2013
9893 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 8:32 am to
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Well what the heck am I supposed to do with the 643 CDs I own?

I'm witch you...
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
65036 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 8:35 am to
I have a 2021 Ram 1500 Bighorn and it does not have a CD player. My wife’s 2021 Hyundai Palisade doesn’t have one either.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Tittleman's Crest
Member since Feb 2009
52899 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 8:36 am to
No one needs a cd player anymore...until they do.
Posted by Tempratt
WRMS Girls Soccer Team Kicks arse
Member since Oct 2013
13571 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 8:37 am to
integrating a cd player into car system is not a big deal.


People are stupid when it comes to music and sound.
They're perfectly happy with a facsimile of a song in the form of an MP3.
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
65036 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 8:37 am to
quote:

Well what the heck am I supposed to do with the 643 CDs I own?

I'm witch you...


Hold on to them for 20 years. That’s about how long it will take them to become “retro” and “ironic” and hipsters will pay whatever you ask for them.
Posted by Tempratt
WRMS Girls Soccer Team Kicks arse
Member since Oct 2013
13571 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 8:47 am to
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If it is a song I know, I can’t stand to listen to it, Sirius/Xm is especially bad.


Complete crap for music. Works great for spoken word.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
91194 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 9:11 am to
My 2020 Sierra doesn’t have one
Posted by Colonel Angus
Member since Aug 2007
1653 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 10:29 am to
I bought a 2003 vehicle one time that still had a cassette deck in it. That blew my mind.
Posted by LZ83
La
Member since Sep 2016
17406 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 10:33 am to
My 2016 Ram does not have a CD player.
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 10:35 am to
I didn't think mine had one until I was playing with the infotainment screen and realized that there was a CD input. I started looking at the dash and there was a thin slot just above the infotainment screen. None of the usual CD logos or markings, just a slot with a nondescript eject looking button buried in with all the other buttons below it.

If there is no CD inserted, CD input doesn't appear in the normal progression of inputs when you press the change input button from the steering wheel, though you can set it to an empty CD player from within the infotainment screen. If I hadn't stumbled across that CD input buried in the infotainment menu, I'd never have known there was a CD player in the car.
Posted by GuidoVestieri
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2021
788 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 11:25 am to
What's a cd?
Posted by USMEagles
Member since Jan 2018
11811 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 11:28 am to
Simmer down, Scout.

Subarus still have a CD player standard, as far as I know. They have Android Auto / Crapple Whatever, too
Posted by carhartt
Member since Feb 2013
7742 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 11:31 am to
One came as an option in my 2014 truck. It’s had the same CD in it since 2014. I usually stream Pandora. So I honestly forget I have the CD player. Mainly because it’s in the center console under the arm rest.
Posted by FCP
Delta State Univ. - Fightin' Okra
Member since Sep 2010
4814 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 11:43 am to
I bought a 10 disc changer that played MP3s for my 2001 Jeep. That shite was the bomb! We were just coming out of prime Napster, and I had a shite ton of music that I was able to cram onto 10 CDs. I played road trip tunes solid from BR to Montreal and back that year.
Posted by HoustonChick86
Catalina Wine Mixer
Member since Dec 2009
57494 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 11:48 am to
I still use mine every now and then. Used it a few months ago to listen to the new Dolly Parton CD they were handing out at Dollywood when we were leaving. The Bluetooth in my 4runner is a bitch to set up and you have to redo it everything you start the car so I just gave up, so will do CDs on roadtrips every now and then when I don't feel like finding radio stations. Listened to a few on the way back to BR for Christmas.
Posted by LZ83
La
Member since Sep 2016
17406 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 12:04 pm to
The good ole days.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
99719 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 12:40 pm to
no
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
20563 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 1:30 pm to
Nothing has better sound than my trusty 45 player.

Doesn't work the best on Louisiana roads though.

Posted by DivotBreath
On the course
Member since Oct 2007
3524 posts
Posted on 1/3/22 at 1:40 pm to
When I bought my 2015 JGC Overland it was an option but it would take half the center armrest console space … no thanks.

Hell, the center stack is all screen these days.
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