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You can buy a portable CD player and use the Auxilliary input if you have one, but I have not seen one with a USB or MP3 output.i also see new cars with a cd, might have been a cd delete.
Make sure you are checking the specs. Some vehicles that do not appear to have CD's actually have them. They are not those obvious slots or flaps, but more like a stylized decorative strip that is actually the CD opening. You go to load a CD and suddenly some decorative stripe illuminates revealing a ultra slim slice in the unit. So, check carefully. Since CD's are no longer the main input source, the manufactures aren't making the openings so pronounced as they use to.
Looking at new cars and I realized that many don't have CD players but instead they have USB and MP3 ports.
Question: Can I buy a portable CD player that plugs into one of these ports and then plays out over the cars speakers?
just curious, how come you don't want to copy the discs to a file, and put that file on a usb thumb drive?
It will take a few minutes per cd, and cost $10-$20 for a thumb drive. Not only is it a lot easier to use once you do this, its easier to do while driving, and your cds and files will keep there quality.
But to try to answer, I would think your head unit would have an auxiliary input (probably in the back). You could then run a cord to a cd player that had a headphones jack.
Theres a good chance your stereo if it has usb and mp3, that it would have Bluetooth. Another way you might be able to play it off a phone, or if you have bluetooth and a way to connect cd, but the reality is CDs are a dying technology. Digital is just much more efficient, keeps its quality, takes up less space, and if you put all your music on a thumb drive.. if it gets lost or stolen, you just buy another one for $10 or $20, copy it and good as new.
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Originally Posted by Rabrrita
Make sure you are checking the specs. Some vehicles that do not appear to have CD's actually have them. They are not those obvious slots or flaps, but more like a stylized decorative strip that is actually the CD opening. You go to load a CD and suddenly some decorative stripe illuminates revealing a ultra slim slice in the unit. So, check carefully. Since CD's are no longer the main input source, the manufactures aren't making the openings so pronounced as they use to.
+1, my stereo does, the entire face comes down to make the cd input visible.
The vehicle in a question is a 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited with the 8" Nav.
I think I'm getting old since I can still remember 8 tracks being optional. I don't have any of those but I do have piles of tapes and stacks of CD's. I think MP3's are a pain but then again I listen to Talk and Sports radio for the most part but it would be nice to have the CD option.
I think Chrysler is the main manufacturer that has eliminated the CD player. Most other brands still have them. Eventually, CD players will probably follow the cassette and 8-track into automotive history.
My '14 and '16 Grand Cherokees didn't come with CD players. I didn't want it and don't miss it. 32gb USB stick and bluetooth streaming Google Music from my phone.
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