Am I the only one who thinks Jeep should’ve included an in dash CD player?

[aceisback]

Vinyl outsold CDs last year if I read correctly.
I have a small box I can plug into the output of my turntable, and use Audacity to rip vinyl to computer file.

Guess I’m gonna have to DuckDuckGo. Does this Audacity save the soul of vinyl when it converts it or whatever it does?

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[ShadowsPapa]

Guess I’m gonna have to DuckDuckGo. Does this Audacity save the soul of vinyl when it converts it or whatever it does?

IMO, it sounds like it came from vinyl. You could knock out some of the pops and cracks or leave things just as it comes off the vinyl.

 

[eaglerugby04]

Free stuff is usually worth that you paid for it.

Thats the truth. Kids like to kick me off when they start a stream on Alexa since its a one stream account as well.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

most are not in the middle of nowhere! .

Best rethink that.
I worked IT for government for years (and before that, IT for Principal Financial Group) - with offices all over the place, hours apart. Biggest complaint - lack of cell connectivity. And it's all over the country. Even my son complained about iffy cell reception where he lives - in FLORIDA. I've dealt with studies and research and lived the lack of connectivity. Those who have it think everyone does. It's just not true. Even in the center of Mason City, Iowa, I mean 2 blocks from the main hospital - there was iffy cell reception.

But I do agree with your second part - if you don't have the access, there ARE other ways!
Today's technology and massive storage on devices no larger than your fingernail, phones that have better processors and more storage than some computers from only a decade ago........... if you want your music, you can have your music.
No reason to think outside the box (* I hate that phrase as it invokes thoughts if idiot managers - there IS NO FREAKIN' BOX!)
All that is needed these days is truly mainstream - and available at WALMART.

 

[syreeves]

You mean 11 years ago?

I had a tape deck in my 2003 land rover and a 6 disc changer on the floor under the passenger seat. Was a $2400 factory option back in 2003. The CD skipped like crazy and the changer fuction only worked on the last three discs. Then it crapped out the first time I got water in over the sills. But the tape deck was still going strong at 180K miles before I got rid of it to buy my JTR. On the way home from the dealership I realized I forgot to ask about the CD player and called my sales person to inquire as to the whereabouts of the slot (DO NOT GO DOWN THIS PATH - THIS IS A FAMILY FRIENDLY FORUM) and she she paused for a moment before asking me if I understood how internet music works... while my daughter cringed and laughed at me at the same time.

Anyway. SIRIUS is fine except having to pay for the rest of the life of the vehicle. Internet radio is fine as long as you have a signal and lets be honest - we have jeeps to get away from signal sources...

But solid state memory music will do me just fine and should last for the vehicles lifetime. But PITA.

 

[MPMB]

Best rethink that.
I worked IT for government for years (and before that, IT for Principal Financial Group) - with offices all over the place, hours apart. Biggest complaint - lack of cell connectivity. And it's all over the country. Even my son complained about iffy cell reception where he lives - in FLORIDA. I've dealt with studies and research and lived the lack of connectivity. Those who have it think everyone does. It's just not true. Even in the center of Mason City, Iowa, I mean 2 blocks from the main hospital - there was iffy cell reception.

The US lacks so bad in cell service. In my area, which is an hour from Seattle/Bellevue job center, we have all the creature comforts of a metro area (except Chipotle). Until you have to go use your cell data. Even though call coverage is 3+ bars, once you go pull up a webpage, the speed is atrociously slow - and I've had dial-up.

When the power goes out here, my phone is basically useless.

As far as the music media goes, I haven't used a CD in a vehicle since... 2006-ish. Not sure of the last CD I bought. So much easier to get digital music services. We use Apple Music.

I hate the scratches in vinyl.

 

[SwampNut]

Does this Audacity save the soul of vinyl when it converts it or whatever it does?

No, it's a digital demon hell-spawn that steals the souls of toddlers for your musical amusement, and will also go chase grade-schoolers with your snowblower when you're not looking.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

The US lacks so bad in cell service. In my area, which is an hour from Seattle/Bellevue job center, we have all the creature comforts of a metro area (except Chipotle). Until you have to go use your cell data. Even though call coverage is 3+ bars, once you go pull up a webpage, the speed is atrociously slow - and I've had dial-up.

I've had dial-up since the days when you could download market reports and read them - at some leisure - as they came in.

Here's a tip on the "bars" on your phone - that's not data related. What that indicates is that your phone has heard from a tower and the tower signal comes back at you at that relative strength (bars are sort of like saying "how bad was the pain on a scale of 1 to 10" because it means different things at different times on different phones)
Anyway, your phone tries to locate a tower. A tower responds, your phone says it responded with a certain relative signal. That tower is using how many watts - while your phone on a limited battery with a limited antenna is only able to signal at a fraction of that power.
So while the tower signal to you may be good, your phone can't muster that sort of power - so 3 bars may still be iffy. A lot of it varies with the phone, battery, antenna in the phone.

There is NO broadband where I live - meaning no cable, no DSL, no fiber. We have to rely on cellular data/wireless. My phone may have some decent data abilities while the home router struggles to pull a signal in. And when the power goes out, we typically lose cell service in the area, too - or at least it's more spotty than usual.

Today is a fantastic day! I haven't seen the RSRP that low in - well, ever? (lower is better)
Even that number many folks would say - sucks.
And we normally see 2 to 3 bars tops. Must be the cooler drier air??

By the way, USCC is the only company that works in much of Iowa - they cover far more and better in this state than the others, regardless of the lies in the ads for others claiming best coverage. The proof is in the fact that others want to smash their phones and gripe about service when they come to this area. We aren't THAT much in the sticks - we're still Polk County, Iowa.

 

[SwampNut]

There is NO broadband where I live

You know Starlink is fully capable and supported where you are, right? And it's FAST, and super stable.

 

[dcmdon]

I ripped all my CDs and put .wav files on USB stick. This works great at first, but, after a few months, the USB sticks start acting up and screwing up the radio. Usually a reboot is necessary and a new USB stick. The quality of these USB sticks for daily usage is terrible.

It could be worse. I have CDs that I bought in the 80s that I paid $15 1980s dollars for that are starting to break down. They can't be played at all.

 

[Higher_Ground]

I wouldn't mind one, that's for sure. I would rarely use it.

I just don't have that many CDs any more. I'm not sure where most of them disappeared to. I know at one point I had most of them stolen out of my trunk. A lot of the ones I burned are scratched beyond repair... and let's be honest, not exactly music I want to listen to all the time.

I was cheap/broke (you know, a kid). I got my first computer in 1998 in 7th grade. Before that I had a Sony Walkman and a handful of cassettes. When Napster hit the stage I was there to reap all the glory for myself. Sure, my hard drive was only 6GB and we had pretty terrible dial-up but I was discovering classic rock, underground rap, and everything in between.

I had my Winamp playlist with ~800 songs. I loved that program. You could drag and drop songs in whatever order as they were playing and also queue them within that playlist. To this day I haven't seen any other audio program offer that sort of functionality.

Well as you guys might imagine, trying to transfer and keep up with .mp3s and the like over and over again got tiresome. External HDs were lost or failed. Much like my CDs, eventually I was left with only a fraction of the digital music I once enjoyed.

So know I'm relegated to streaming music. I've found a lot of artists I like that I would've never discovered (many times a decade or later after the music was made). I don't like the ads and it gets repetitive, but that last part certainly applies to any physical albums you own too. When I find an obscure artist I check apps like Bandcamp to see if they have an album I can purchase. I used to get the CDs mailed to me.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

You know Starlink is fully capable and supported where you are, right? And it's FAST, and super stable.

We've had satellite internet and dropped it like a rock when they charged us 200 bucks to come and replace a modem that went bad in under a year.
Winter - it kept dropping link (snow and ice) and our normally frequent heavy rains (except for this year) meant constantly dropping links - or at least speeds way down.

I don't know of Starlink's company policy - but when we had satellite internet, you had a limit of xx gig each month - split into DAILY limits and if you exceeded that limit that day like with computer OS updates, etc., you had nothing usable as it throttled to speeds lower than dial-up.
My neighbor gave up his satellite TV for similar reasons - a really cloudy day with dense fog meant iffy reception.
We both got tired of having to remove ice and snow from dishes.
Iowa climate is a different animal. There's a lot of atmosphere and weather it's got to get through. Heck, our air can be so dense and heavy with humidity it even impacts TV and cell signals at times.

Unless they have resolved all of the satellite issues I put up with for a couple of years - which I can't see happening since it's weather related and even GPS can't always find a signal some days, they'd have to give a free trial for 6 months at their own expense (and be cheaper than it was 5 years ago)

Satellite has left a really horrible taste in my mouth, it was the worst internet experience ever. I was so happy when I could rip that dish down off the roof and throw it in the trash.

I'd be ok if the cost was reasonable, the bandwidth was not tracked daily but had a big monthly allotment, and it was solid on our extreme weather days and if their equipment went bad, they didn't charge to replace it.

 

[Eaglebob]

I dump cd’s and audiobooks into my laptop then dump those into my ipod touch, then bluetooth into stereo. Sounds like a lot of work but not really, and i get a lot of it from libraries as long as i only use them for personal use.

 

[SwampNut]

We've had satellite internet

Nothing you know about the old system applies to the new one. That's why Starlink is such a game-changer; terrestrial quality of service but anywhere. My friends who have it are 100% satisfied.

 

[NightFog]

While we are at it, how about:

Mini-Disc
DAT tape
Cassette tape
8 Track (Yes some one mentioned it already.)
Zune (Though I hate MS, it was out there.)
Reel to Reel!! (That would look so retro on the dash!!)

I knew a car audio guy that took apart a portable DVD player, before any mobile ones were around, and custom installed it in the system. Looked factory made. No 3D printers then either. Only worked well parked but no one else had one.

Man I miss the old days of audio, like when it was common to go to audio stores with actual listening rooms. Car, home what ever. Best Buys listening area for Klipsch is an aisle in the store. WTF

Don't forget 4 track tape

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