2009 Ford Taurus SEL. I tried to hook up a cigarette lighter to battery clamp adapter to my car a while back and it sparked and after that it gave me “CD error” on the radio LCD display and my CDs were stuck in the 6 CD changer and could not be ejected. Right now I’m just living with it but I may want to fix it in the future. I could get a used unit, but if I’m going through all the trouble I might as well upgrade it. The thing is, I still like having a CD changer. (Btw it’s one of those ones that are built into the radio with one CD slot hole, not the ones in the glove box or the trunk). Does anyone know any good aftermarket radios that have Apple CarPlay AND a CD changer and preferably connects to Sirius XM as my car came with it (even though I don’t use it it’d be nice to have if I ever decide to use it or sell the car). If you know one but you’re not sure if they have one that fits my car, that’s ok too go ahead and post and I’ll see if they do
Friend CD's are dead , they can't even give them away anymore...
@thdesha i have tons that I've hauled back to the states from my family's home country. digital copies aren't for sale and ripping would be very time consuming and downgrade the quality. I'd rather just throw in my 6 CDs and go
@thdesha Heck I have probably about 1000 8-track "Stereosonic" tapes here, and players in most of my cars. Vinyl has been back for years now (I buy new vinyl releases frequently), and it looks like even cassette tapes may be on the way back. What's "dead" for you, friend, is not necessarily dead for everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSBQC85ZLEE
technology has made cd's obsolete and a pain to deal with. you cant leave them long term in the car they get scratched and cd's players are notoriously problematic, for the price of one cd you can get Spotify and listen to anything you want to anywhere on any device.
@thdesha I've never used "Spotify", don't know much about it. I prefer physical media but never really got into CDs. Records and tapes have always done the job for me.
listen to anything you want to anywhere on any device
Well not anywhere unless you have satellite internet… besides I like paying once for my music and not a monthly subscription. If I ever go flat broke I can still have music, or sell it for about a meal per CD. Streaming only gives the artists a small fraction of money, whereas buying an album supports artists a lot more. And a large portion of my music is foreign music that can’t be found on Spotify anyway. I’ve used CD’s for years and I can tell you they do not scratch easily. If you think that then you’re just abusing them. CD players maybe the early one in the 90s and early 2000s when they started putting them in cars were problematic, but they’ve come a long way since then. Anyway we’re getting a bit off topic here so let’s just agree to disagree 😄
and downgrade the quality
If you convert them correctly, there is no humanly discernible change in quality. Digital formats have no defects and never degrade. In my experience, CD's were always skipping and the players were always failing.
Well I don't know of those because almost everybody is giving up with CD players these days. Good luck though
You could rip your CDs to MP3s (I use Audacity software, which is free) then put the music on your phone in various playlists or folders, then play that music on your stereo via CarPlay - or wherever you are/go via bluetooth. I have several thousand songs on my phone this way. Note that it is legal to rip songs for your personal use, illegal to distribute/sell them. Note, I have found Crutchfield.com to be a good source for car audio.
@glen_stet i don't like having my phone full of music that's one of the reasons I like the CD changer. not to mention it's a lot of work. and some of my CD's are foreign so it's not like i could just buy a digital copy
Get a CarPlay head unit with an USB input (to access your music files). Local storage has moved way past CD changers. A small 16gb USB thumb drive can hold 4000 mp3s. Even inexpensive head units offer Bluetooth, USB.
@hixster My current radio has 1st gen Bluetooth (SYNC by Microsoft, what a throwback right?) and USB input. But as I answered to @glen_stet ripping CD's is a lot of work especially given the number of them that I have.
@hixster CDs also use CDDA which is higher quality than MP3.