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Originally Posted by SabresFanInSA
To be fair (speaking as someone closing in on 50) it takes about 2-3 minutes to rip a CD to MP3 (or whatever audio format you want) to ultimately put hundreds of CDs on a thumb drive and never have to carry a cd again
Well, I'm a (relatively) young dude with conservative tastes, tech-wise. Guess there's a term for folks like me: Luddite, possibly?
A Ford representative told me that Ford and some other manufacturers are phasing out the CD players in favor of thumb/flash drives that take up less space leaving room for additional electronic devices an/or larger dash screens.
I remember the Lexus LS was one of the last cars offering a tape/cd player combo. Given the demographic that buys those cars, it's not surprising.
Insult aside, I drive a Lexus LS and I love my 6 CD changer (there's no tape player). In fact, when I went shopping in 2014, the very reason I went with a CPO 2012 was because they took the CD changer out in 2013 (that, plus the ugly new grill and stupid Nav mouse). The reason I like it is that I have 2 cars and a boat. My Porsche is a 2005 and it has no ability to play from a phone or an Ipod or anything else. My boat has a CD player, but has a similar lack of other options. This, plus I hate trying to f*ck with an Ipod or phone while I'm driving. In fact, in LA even touching your phone will get you a ticket. Having CDs allows me to upload them to my desktop computer and my phone and then use them in other places.
Actually, this is the same reason I buy DVDs. I can't "stream" movies from my boat when I'm sitting in Catalina harbor, but I can always pop in a DVD for movie night.
Insult aside, I drive a Lexus LS and I love my 6 CD changer (there's no tape player). In fact, when I went shopping in 2014, the very reason I went with a CPO 2012 was because they took the CD changer out in 2013 (that, plus the ugly new grill and stupid Nav mouse). The reason I like it is that I have 2 cars and a boat. My Porsche is a 2005 and it has no ability to play from a phone or an Ipod or anything else. My boat has a CD player, but has a similar lack of other options. This, plus I hate trying to f*ck with an Ipod or phone while I'm driving. In fact, in LA even touching your phone will get you a ticket. Having CDs allows me to upload them to my desktop computer and my phone and then use them in other places.
Actually, this is the same reason I buy DVDs. I can't "stream" movies from my boat when I'm sitting in Catalina harbor, but I can always pop in a DVD for movie night.
But if you had spent more time fiddly-dicking around with computers, that would have taken up the time you spent earning the money to have a Lexus, and a Porsche, and a boat at Catalina (one big enough to have "movie night"!). So you see, you wouldn't have had this problem if you had just spent more time doing things like burning CDs onto thumb drives.
It floors me in an age of Pandora and Spotify that this is even a topic. Just plug your phone into your car radio and go. No need for a flash drive or ripping cd's at all. I don't get why all the complexity everyone is creating.
It floors me in an age of Pandora and Spotify that this is even a topic. Just plug your phone into your car radio and go. No need for a flash drive or ripping cd's at all. I don't get why all the complexity everyone is creating.
My car is a 2016 and it has a cd player. However, the first time that you put a cd in the player it rips it to an internal storage drive and you no longer need to physically use that cd ever again. I think I have used the slot a couple of times in two years, mainly out of curiosity. I borrowed a cd from a neighbor to test the cd ripper function.
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My car is a 2016 and it has a cd player. However, the first time that you put a cd in the player it rips it to an internal storage drive and you no longer need to physically use that cd ever again. I think I have used the slot a couple of times in two years, mainly out of curiosity. I borrowed a cd from a neighbor to test the cd ripper function.
You borrowed a CD from a neighbor??
K-Man to Doc Brown! K-Man to Doc Brown! Things are worse in 2018 than we thought!!
Seriously though, that ripper function sounds cool. Does it automatically add meta-data(Title/Artist/Year/Genre etc) to the rips?
Still, it is good to have CDs waiting for you back at home.
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