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I know this seems very basic to most people but ive largely shunned technology, or change in general. I still buy cds. I dont know shit about mp3s or bluetooth or any of that. Problem is my new truck doesnt have a cd player and i want to listen to my shit instead of satellite radio. So right now im going through the tedious proccess of ripping all of my cds onto an external hard drive. After i do that, if i can copy it all onto a thumb drive, can i just plug that fucker into my dash and my shit will show up on my "infotainment screen" or do i need to put it all onto a micro sd card, put that in my phone, and hook my phone up to the truck?

I know this seems very basic to most people but ive largely shunned technology, or change in general. I still buy cds. I dont know shit about mp3s or bluetooth or any of that. Problem is my new truck doesnt have a cd player and i want to listen to my shit instead of satellite radio. So right now im going through the tedious proccess of ripping all of my cds onto an external hard drive. After i do that, if i can copy it all onto a thumb drive, can i just plug that fucker into my dash and my shit will show up on my "infotainment screen" or do i need to put it all onto a micro sd card, put that in my phone, and hook my phone up to the truck?

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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.