# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 305
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6082 "2025-03-19T21:49:18Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > How do you pronounce the year 2004? > > SOX WlN! No, that was 2005. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6083 "2025-03-19T21:50:27Z")
I have never owned a car with a CD player (which is fine with me). My previous car (a 2007) had a cassette player, for which I had an adapter with an aux jack. My current vehicle has Bluetooth/USB/whatever else cars have nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6084 "2025-03-19T22:01:43Z")
No CD player. But it has a place on the dashboard to plug in a USB drive. So I can load a drive up with gobs of music, plug it in, and call up anything I want either through the touch-screen menu or by voice command. My previous car, which I drove for about twenty years, had a CD player. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6085 "2025-03-19T23:15:38Z")
Not only does my car have a CD player, but I sometimes use it. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6086 "2025-03-19T23:55:02Z")
The car i drive doesnā€™t have a CD player. But the other one we own has one. It makes a fine way to mount a phone. (I have a phone mount that slides into that slot.) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6087 "2025-03-19T23:56:49Z")
Our cars (2019 and 2020) have no CD player. Which is okay, as we have no CDs. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6088 "2025-03-19T23:57:41Z")
Thatā€™s what prompted this poll. I also use the CD slot to mount a phone cradle. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6089 "2025-03-20T00:00:45Z")
My car is a 2023. No CD player or option to get one. Good thing too. I got rid of all my CDs. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6090 "2025-03-20T00:08:01Z")
I guess Iā€™m on the opposite extreme. My car has a CD player and I use it regularly. I own an extensive CD collection and still buy CDā€™s. If I bought a car without a CD player, Iā€™d pay to have one installed. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6091 "2025-03-20T00:12:15Z")
My 2013 Honda Civic has an Aux jack as well as Bluetooth: the former is far more convenient: just plug in my music player and off I go. Oddly, unlike my 2006 Civic it has no USB drive connection (which in that car was in the glove compartment). I dislike Bluetooth because of the loss of fidelity and the pain/time wasted setting up the connection each time I drive, but Aux jacks are going the way of the dodo it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6092 "2025-03-20T00:12:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I own an extensive CD collection and still buy CDā€™s. I liked the CD era (perhaps weā€™re still in it). I had a fair amount of CDs. I donā€™t have any these days, nor a place to listen to them. Iā€™m not enough of a ā€œmusic personā€ to need them anymore. A little Pandora or SXM radio and my needs are met. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6093 "2025-03-20T03:19:42Z")
I still have my CDs (and some cassettes), but no place to play any of them. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6094 "2025-03-20T03:35:47Z")
I have a slight preference for buying CDs when possible, which, TBH, is less and less so as time goes on. Not that I play any of them in my carā€™s CD players, but Iā€™ll still rip them (I have drives for the computers) and store the files on my tablet, NAS, computer, and phone. So still have a few hundred CDs and 7-8 days worth of MP3s. Which I burn ā€œMixā€ CDs every year or so. Still, thatā€™s for around town normally, for any trip longer than 20-30 minutes or so, I attached a Bluetooth adapter to my 2007ā€™s aux port and play from my phone in the aftermarket wireless charging phone dash mount. The variety and voice controls, along with the navigation make it the superior choice for longer drives. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6095 "2025-03-20T14:09:43Z")
I still have lots of CDs around, all for use in the car. I donā€™t like any of those groups/bands and couldnā€™t find any all-woman bands in the 80s that I did like. (funnily enough, X-Ray Spex disbanded in 1979, then intermittently reformed starting in 1991). ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6096 "2025-03-20T14:11:19Z")
My Camry is 21 years old and came with a CD and cassette player and AM/FM radio, all of which still operate and all get used. As if that werenā€™t a bountiful enough array of choices, I got an 8-track player and mounted it under the dash. Iā€™ve been playing that a lot lately. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6097 "2025-03-20T14:13:00Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > I got an 8-track player and mounted it under the dash. I miss that satisfying ker-chunk when you hit the button to move to a different track. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6098 "2025-03-20T14:30:00Z")
I wish I had made more money while not having had less fun. I should have bought all the comics, including then-old ones, I could lay my hands on until they started to be worth money; then sold most of them and bought Berkshire-Hathaway at 20-something a share. (I should also have recognized that somebody specific was indeed making passes at me in college. I donā€™t know whether that would have been fun in the long run; but it would certainly have been fun for a while.) Didnā€™t vote in that one. It reads to me like I have to pick either fun or money but canā€™t have both. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6099 "2025-03-20T14:51:01Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Didnā€™t vote in that one. It reads to me like I have to pick either fun or money but canā€™t have both. Iā€™ve had both, also didnā€™t vote. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6100 "2025-03-20T15:25:26Z")
I was looking for the ā€œLove ā€˜em both!ā€ option on the Bangles/Go-Goā€™s poll. Tough choice, but I had to give it to the Bangles because Susanna Hoffs. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6101 "2025-03-20T15:40:09Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > > [@Hatchie](#): > > > > I got an 8-track player and mounted it under the dash. > > I miss that satisfying ker-chunk when you hit the button to move to a different track. Oh man, not me! ā€œ_and sheā€™s buy-uy-ing, a stair-air - **ā€¦KER-CLUNK!..** - way, to heavenā€¦_ā€ mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=304) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=306)