i would imagine that would work. stick the thumb drive into the port and the truck stereo should be able to play it. worth testing with one CD first before you go thru the hassle of ripping your whole collection.
A few thoughts to share after getting a new car and having some issues with this: - If you rip your CDs to a format, consider a lossless format like FLAC rather than MP3 as the quality you think is "Fine" today likely won't be in the future and you're going to have to repeat the process of ripping... - If you copy the files to a thumbdrive, make sure it meets the car makers requirements, in my case it required the thumbdrive be under a specific size and of a specific file system type (Fat32). - If you're an Amazon Prime customer check out Amazon Music - it's an included service that provides a lot of great music you can download to your phone and skip all the stuff above. - Don't forget about Pandora for your phone as well, its a song shuffler, but the more you use it the better it gets.
A few thoughts to share after getting a new car and having some issues with this: - If you rip your CDs to a format, consider a lossless format like FLAC rather than MP3 as the quality you think is "Fine" today likely won't be in the future and you're going to have to repeat the process of ripping...
I dont understand this
Did you just call me fat?
Im not
My understanding of pandora type shit is that i have to pay to download shit and they dont have everything available i want anyway. I already have upwards of 450 cds, dont want to pay to download the shit. And i want to be able to just play whole albums.
If you have an iPhone, you can pay $25 a year to upload all your ripped CDs to the cloud and play it all through your phone to your Bluetooth in your car. You need to use iTunes to upload it. Use a good program like Exact Audio Copy to rip to MP3. You can do lossless for the best quality, which is FLAC, but converting CDs to 320 kbps is close. Don’t rip it less than this. Bitrate is important. I have a huge library but don’t do flac. Although, the songs in my library match up to theirs and play lossless for me since they don’t store my actual file. I do have a lot of live concerts that also upload.
When you "Rip" a CD you can save it to many formats - some have quality loss (MP3 for example), some do not (FLAC) - Lossy formats create smaller files allowing you to fit more songs on a drive, but at a lower quality. https://www.techadvisor.com/how-to/audio/how-rip-cds-flac-3690344/
Every time you format a disk you have to pick a file system type, as long as you stay under 32GB you're probably going to get the Windows 32bit File Allocation Table (Fat32) format
Pandora is 100% free (with commercials), the only cost to you would be the data rate to download the songs as they play.
No one will be able to tell the difference between a well-encoded MP3 at 320kbps and a lossless format. MP3 gets a bad rap for the lazy and low bitrate files that were circulating a the turn of the millennium.
I pay 4 bux a month for ad-free Pandora
Seconding here. Let me answer some of your questions and go into detail...
CDs are basically straight digitized music with no compression at a very high quality. It takes up roughly ten megabytes per minute of music, which is why a CD with over a half-gigabyte of capacity can only hold one album.
The original suggestion was, when you first rip the music, you store it in FLAC format. This uses a "lossless" compression format, which means it contains the exact same information as the CD does. Unfortunately it can only compress by roughly half, so it still requires five megabytes of space per minute of music. You'd want to keep a copy of this data somewhere, and make your working copies off it.
MP3 is what's called a "lossy" compression format. It uses psychoacoustics and essentially deletes some of the details of the music that humans are unable to hear, and only stores details for the frequencies you can. This allows you to compress it down to one megabyte per minute of music, more or less. The optimal level of compression depends on your hearing and on the equipment it's played on, and your opinions will change over time.
Further, when you make a playlist for your car, you'll probably want to do some volume equalization, so you're not constantly fiddling with the volume control while you're driving. A lot of compression software gives the option to automate this so you can quickly do this to your entire collection, but you may want to tweak those levels for specific songs or redo the equalization with different options.
By keeping the original data from the CDs in FLAC format, it gives you the ability to redo your working copy, or create different working copies for different use cases.
Don't worry about lossless formats like FLAC except for archival reasons; the file sizes are huge. MP3@320kbps is "full quality" for all intents and purposes; you will not be able to tell the difference, and no one else will, either. You can further strip down file size using a variable bitrate algorithm that compresses various silent or white noise portions of songs to a higher degree, while utilizing higher bitrates in portions that have more musical complexity. v0 or v1 are most often used in this type of encoding. In general, I find that variable bitrate algorithms can sometimes leave something to be desired and are not worth the slight drop in file size from full 320.
Use LAME MP3 encoder. IMO, the best way to rip music is using the Foobar2000 audio player with LAME as a plugin.
He wants to play them on a modern car stero. It's 100% not going to support FLAC, a 128kbps vbr MP3 is going to be supported pretty much anywhere.
My four year old Kenwood plays FLAC without issue, so does the OEM headset in my month-old '22 CX5
FLAC is open source, if anything I would expect that to make it easier for manufacturers to include in a firmware release.
That's interesting that the OEM unit plays FLAC. That must be something recent, my 2018 will only play MP3. I'm sure it plays apple shit too, but who cares about that.
I don't really count replacement units, cars are getting to the point where you can't replace the OEM head.
I have used Spotify since 2007. The ability to create my own playlists was a huge reason why i started. That faggots leave for their own feelings is why I've stayed.
I've never had a subscription either, it's been free and has shaped how I listen (shuffle mode) which is fine because I never tire in hearing the same order over an dover.
It's also included in most displays these days...giving a cool visual on long trips.
You could try a youtubetomp3 downloader if you want to manually get songs but it would cut out the need to buy/rip CDs then copy them.
No don’t do this, they are low bitrate MP3 in most cases.
I already have the cds. Downloading hundreds of albums would be expensive im sure.
Fair enough. I just do this when I want to make a mixed album instead of listening to the same band/songs
Here's a CRAZY idea: install a CD player in your car.
Aside from something like what was proposed before, that id have to mount sonewhere hoakey, thats not an option. Its not like the old days where you can go to fucking car toys or whatever and have them swap out the stock stereo with whateverthefuck cd player sony xplod or some shit. The radio/ infotainment thing in the truck is so tied into everything, you just cant do that. First thing i looked into.
You can buy cigarette 12v lighter adapters that you can put a usb stick in and it'll send out fm in a small bubble so you can just tune into it with your radio.
If you have a USB port somewhere, chances are it will support the FAT32 file structure, if you're really lucky it will recognize the exFAT structure. Some manufacturers enforce the iTunes model, meaning that all of your music is going to need proper tags such as album, track number, and etc. Others will allow you to play by folder, so tagging is less important. One car I remember seeing, a Honda something-or-other, read the contents off the disk in the order in which they were written, which was a pain in the ass. I assume that's because the infotainment intern at Panasonic was lazy and Honda was cheap, and they didn't want to spend the extra $0.01 allocating enough memory and program space for an alphabetizing routing.
Modern Windows machines will format a FAT32 drive up to 32GB, you can format a FAT32 drive with third-party tools up to about 200GB, which is where FAT32 becomes unworkable.
A 32GB flash drive formatted as FAT32 is pretty much recognizable in any device these days. The other option is to use the media connector on your radio and connect it to a phone via Bluetooth. Use something like Flacbox for iOS or Mortplayer for Android to get a folder play experience.
Your car MAY be able to play them right off a small hard drive but remember that car stereos are built as cheap as possible, and giving them too much to do (such as reading a 1TB directory table) could potentially cause lag and slowdowns, or even lock the thing up because it can't process everything properly. 32GB @ 128kbps is going to give you a lot of music to listen to, and they're so cheap you can keep a couple of different mixes in the glove box.
Yup. Either way.
So if i put it on an sd card and put it in my phone, would i control the music from my phone or can i make that shit pop up on the trucks screen from my phone too?
If your car supports Android auto or Apple car play you can control it on the car's screen.
If it's an iphone prepare to be frustrated as you're not allowed to pick music from your phone. You have to speak it to Siri. Assuming you know the name of all 20,000 tracks in your collection by heart, and Siri understands you when you say them, it might be ok. Otherwise it makes the iPhone a useless paperweight in the car.
Ive got an android. And my cds im ripping, im manually typing in the names of the artists and albums, but not bothering with the names of the songs. Fuck that. But yeah i can use android auto with my truck, ive just never tried it
If your truck has android connect and will connect with your phone you can use your truck screen, but IU don't know what ya have. It will play on your phone either way.
More than likely. Usually have to "pair" the device first. Easy peasy, just plug it in and see.
So if i do it on a thumb drive will the list of albums just show up on the trucks screen? Just realized if i went that route i couldnt rock out and charge my phone simultaneously. Seems like a disadvantage.
Thumb drive is the easiest. I ripped all my cd's years ago, 60k songs. Dont know what kind of vehicle u have, my Ford F150, I just leave it on random play.
Its a 21 silverado
You don't have a "cigarette lighter" outlet in your car? (Not that most can take a cigarette lighter any more...) You can buy a car USB adapter for less than $10 that'll plug into it.
Oh cool, so the thumb drive thing is still an option then. Wasnt sure if i had one, had to go check. Never used it and it has a flip open cover on it so i didnt even realize it was there. Had the damn truck for since january of last year and didnt even remember i had that. You can see here, next to the usb port my charger is plugged into, is a smaller port. Fits the end of my charger that plugs into my android. I think its called a usb c but im not sure. Wonder if that might give me more options somehow on how to do this shit. Cant really think of why it would be there. Must be useful for something. https://pic8.co/sh/iawkj3.jpg
I haven't tried in ages, but I seem to remember winamp being able to do so.
Thanks, but i really dont want to have to find somewhere to mount that. And it would need to be plugged in. And requires an app. Lot of silliness there. Im already ripping my shit. Seems like just having it all on my phone would be easier. Just not sure how it works, or if just a thumb drive would work or what.
Just rip the songs then put them on your phone and use Bluetooth. If your phone came with a media player app it should work fine. Otherwise you will need to get one.
So ive never used bluetooth anything. Serious im a retard about that kind of shit
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