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EDIT: The only reason why I still had it at this point was because I could use it with other apps. However, now that my Spotify Subscription is cancelled, it doesn't work with anything. It's mildly infuriating because today, I can't still use it with other apps like I was able to yesterday.

Please don't make the same mistake I made. No one should buy this.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (14 children)

This type of shit is why I just want a vehicle with a CD player that can hold multiple discs. Then I could just burn my favorite music onto a few discs and not have to worry about not having paid to have access to the music I want and don't have to worry about a song I dislike popping up randomly.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

...or with a usb/sd port, there's no need to go back all the way to 90s/2000s tech for simple offline music playback

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hey dont dis 90s/2000s tech a cassette deck with an aux jack is rather versatile.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My car has a SD card slot that it will read music off of. The first week I had it, I loaded up a disc with as much music as I could. I haven't switched it out in 3 years.

It has been quite nice. Until this post, I had almost forgotten where my music was coming from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of car? Stock radio?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

2017 VW golf, and yeah stick. The SD slot is hidden in the glovebox.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One that can take a USB storage device or an SD card would be much better. Same result, but no messing around with discs and it can hold way more music.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

this is what I did.
Used SpotDL to download my entire spotify library, put on USB, now I have my whole library available, even if my phone is dead

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of better ways to do that like for me I typically ether just plug my phone into the line in port or if there isn't one I just pair my phone and play mp3s off of my MP3 player app and if your car demands you use a service just get a Bluetooth radio transmitter so your car thinks it's just listening to ordinary radio

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For $100 you can buy an aftermarket Android head unit with Android Auto / Car Play support, or add $100 more to buy a nicer version.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that's precisely what they don't want because any day, it could be bricked by one of several companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But an android head unit is more open and less susceptible to cloud companies stopping their service because its media player can work offline with local media, and you can still sideload apk into the unit even if play store no longer work on the unit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A good solution 20 years ago but bluetooth and music files saved on your phone is a much nicer solution now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have done a2dp Bluetooth streaming for well over a decade now and it still works just fine and isn't married to any app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You might really enjoy Plex + Plexamp. You own the library and choose your media but you don't burn CDs and can instead stream/pin (for offline) songs or playlists like you'd expect from a paid music service.

They offer a decent car interface as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

MP3 CDs hold about 120 songs, which is pretty much the perfect amount to be able to curate while also not have to swap out discs too often.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or 5 Meatloaf songs. I like his music but it would be nice if he could have figured out how to write a less than 20 minute song.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

High tech from the 90's :-D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CDs skip when you hit bumps. Just use a thumb drive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

CDs skip when you hit bumps

Is your deck is from a dollar store lol

You could buy portable DVD and CD players back in 2005 that would keep playing without a hitch even if you dropped them. Admittedly this was mostly down to them caching the content in RAM and spinning down to save battery power...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is your CD deck from a dollar story.

I haven't used a CD deck in over a decade. I literally don't know how CDs would even sound in my car's deck, because it's a dead technology. I genuinely cannot believe anyone in a developed nation would still purchase a CD.

So yeah, probably?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get ya on the dead tech but for your info skipping on bumps stopped being a limitation on cds 20 years ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I was pretty poor 20 years ago or id have been super jazzed about that.

TIL tho and I appreciate ya teaching me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only reason to purchase a CD nowadays I think is memorabilia, or to support an artist/group.. aside from that it's pretty much as you say, physical media is a dying format.

Vinyl is an outlier, but even then modern vinyl players are noticeably worse than ones manufactured several decades ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or a very solid way of backing up important stuff like family photos, because no burglar in their right mind would steal a DVD from your home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That Sony S2 life.

The skip protection on those things was unbelievable, and they were built like tanks.

Mine took a spill out the back of a pickup on the freeway and kept working like a champ.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I got an old beater with a tape player and discovered they make Bluetooth adapters just like the old fm adapters i used years ago. Combined with a gig hdd dedicated to music on my phone and it feels like the old days again of burned cds and pirate bay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just get songs from fileshares and play on a DAP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My vehicle has a usb port. I never run out of music and I can listen to whatever I want.