I just bought a fancy new car radio from Best Buy. Supports Mp3 data files, subfolders etc. Ripped and burned 5 Martina McBride Cd’s, Randy Travis Hits (2 cd), and a Kathy Matea hits cd. :eek: That’s got to be 8 freaking hours of music on a cd. I encoded them at 180 VBR (the standard setting for DBPowerAmp). I should have bought one of these miracle players years ago.
Is there any reason to remove the CD from the player? With 8 hours I’ll have new music every day when I drive to work and run errands. For at least a month or two.
Will it hurt the cd player to leave the cd in the tray?
I had been plugging my Mp3 player into a special adapter for my old radio. A nuisance. Always worry about it getting stolen or lost. I’m going to make four or five data cd’s. That’ll hold every song on my mp3 player.
I wasn’t sure if having a cd in the player would make the motor spin? Usually when you insert a CD it spins up to speed and plays. I’m not sure what it does if the CD is in the tray when the car starts. Does it spin up then?
I didn’t want to be driving down the road with no music playing and wear out the cd player motor.
I know when Windows boots it will read any cd’s or dvd’s in the trays. But then it spins down until you read something on that drive.
It’s so noisy in a car that you can’t hear when the cd is spinning. It’s different in the house with a PC. I hear it spin very clearly then.
I had an eight track in two different cars and then a cassette in another car (if even had auto play for side 2). Installed them myself. I quit buying after market radios in my last couple of cars. The standard factory radio I had was AM/FM and I just lived with that ever since I bought this van in 2000. It’s hard to enjoy a car radio with kids in the car. So I never really missed having a CD player.
Since you put it in the poll, I don’t listen to CDs in my car, even though it can play MP3s and WMAs. I plug my iPhone into it and never, never, have forgotten to take it with me when I leave the car.
Flatlined has been ranting about her car CD player eating library audiobook CDs, but that’s been while they’re playing, not when she shuts off the car. Still, may be a good reason to at least eject the CD when you shut off the player. When I listened to cassettes, I always ejected them.
An answer probably wouldn’t be universal across all players. Perhaps you could find out from the manufacturer. Or when the car is parked, close the windows to make it as quiet as possible, turn on the ignition but don’t start the car and insert the CD.
If you can hear it spin up, wait a while without hitting Play. You might hear it spin down.
I never was very impressed with car cd’s. A cassette typically held 2 albums. mine auto switched to side two. So I had 90 minutes of uninterrupted music. (90 min was the length I always bought)
A Audio CD held 45 minutes to maybe 55 minutes depending on the length of the album. I really felt cassette was a better option in the car. I didn’t want to fumble around inserting cd’s while I drove.
that all changed now that data CD’s are available.
Congrats on your new stereo, and to answer your question there is no problem leaving the CD in the tray for however long you want.
But, I have to ask if you are trying to rival PSX’er in technology.
My 2006 came with a stock stereo that plays MP3 CD’s. My two boys (17 and 18) got fed up with it and installed a “modern” unit that doesn’t have a CD input. It connects to all of our phones with Bluetooth, the USB port, the HDMI port, or we can just use Pandora.
I was perfectly fine that the old one could tune into the couple of FM stations I listen to.
I haven’t put a CD into my car stereo in years.
I now just use bluetooth to stream music from my iPhone to the car stereo. I have access to all 10,000 tracks anywhere I can make a phone call.
I have been playing mp3’s through my old factory stock Am/Fm radio for several years. Some gadget you plug into the cigarette lighter plug that transmits FM. Works ok on the highway after finding an unused frequency. Too many radio stations in my city to use it here. I get interference every time I make a turn onto a new street.
Finally got fed up enough to spend a couple hundred for a better radio/cd player.
I may even get a wild hair up my ass and buy a smart phone. Maybe Someday.
My cell phone does what I need for now.
Did you put paper labels on the disks? That would be a reason not to leave them in. The labels can come unglued from humidity and jam up your player when you try to remove the disk.
I leave CDs in the stereo all the time. Though I don’t copy MP3s to a CD - I get the actual CD. Mostly because of better audio quality but also because I enjoy listening to albums in full and you can get some really great deals on used CDs from Amazon (cheaper than their MP3 counterparts and I can burn them at a higher Kbps than the MP3 you purchase online).
I’ve been making travel MP3 Cds ever since we got a car that supported them. Having an iPod, smart phone etc would be even easier, but the disc work great.
However, the most recent batch of discs themselves don’t seem to last. They get skips and dropouts. Might be the pack of blank CD-ROMs just doesn’t like the desert heat. My older (6 year) discs work fine, but the two year old ones are already showing dropouts.
I bought a new (to me) car almost two years ago that links to my phone, where my music is, via Bluetooth. So I don’t have to hook it up or anything. I’m always either listening to mp3s from my phone or to the radio, so I’m not actually sure I’ve ever used the CD player at all.
I quit buying after market radios in my last couple of cars. The standard factory radio I had was AM/FM and I just lived with that ever since I bought this van in 2000. It’s hard to enjoy a car radio with kids in the car. So I never really missed having a CD player.
