Who uses their CD player anymore?

02suburbanZ71 · March 17, 2015

I use mine. Not often but every now and then when I get a new CD I'll drive around with it for a bit. I suspect I'll probably stop once I get a new iPod and get my digital music collection in order....I need to re-rip my collection to itunes because I don't like the low bit rate I chose the first time I did it years ago. Also I always buy my music on CD first because I want the option of maximum audio quality (you currently can't download lossless digital music files like FLAC), and I generally don't support corporate ownership over my music files. I like having physical backups I can put on a shelf and do with them what I please. Contrary to popular belief, you don't really own the music you buy from iTunes. What I mean by that is you need a valid apple ID to move the files from one machine to the next. You also need Apple to stay in business. Not that they're going anywhere but if they did, your music collection is done you have no way to certify the files and make them play anymore. I'm speaking legally here of course. There's always ways to find a work around or a hack but it's the premise of the legal model that I don't support. I also use Pandora for my radio style listening. SiriusXM is a waste of money these days with services like Pandora and Spotify.

I'm 30 FYI.

I totally agree with you about the CD quality. It does sound best

Spurshot · March 17, 2015

Nearly 20 years ago, I was in a 4x4 truck going down a dirt road with a stock trailer full of horses behind and the CD was skipping from the rough road and getting full of dust. I said to a friend that some day there would be solid state memory, like RAM, that held our music in our trucks and there'd be no more skipping. Less than 10 years later, that partially came to pass...the MP3/iPod players came around and they could plug into most vehicles with "aux" inputs.

They can ditch the CD player. Mine hasn't seen a disc since I bought it a year ago.

Silverado-Hareek · March 17, 2015

I totally agree with you about the CD quality. It does sound best

Yep that's because it technically is the best. Any digital music file you download is compressed in some manner. Going by memory, a track on a cd plays at around 1440 kbps/s and the highest MP3 bit rate you can get is 320 kbps/s. Apple I think offers some "Apple Lossless" options for some music but again that's Apple owned and not an open source file like FLAC. I currently maintain 2 digital music libraries on my computer: 1) a FLAC only library for listening around the house and an iTunes library of compressed audio for my iPod (my old broken iPod rather...I need to get a new one). My process is basically to buy a CD and then immediately rip it to both the FLAC library and iTunes library and then I put it on the shelf. I mostly listen to music off my computer at that point.

02suburbanZ71 · March 17, 2015

Yep that's because it technically is the best. Any digital music file you download is compressed in some manner. Going by memory, a track on a cd plays at around 1440 kbps/s and the highest MP3 bit rate you can get is 320 kbps/s. Apple I think offers some "Apple Lossless" options for some music but again that's Apple owned and not an open source file like FLAC. I currently maintain 2 digital music libraries on my computer: 1) a FLAC only library for listening around the house and an iTunes library of compressed audio for my iPod (my old broken iPod rather...I need to get a new one). My process is basically to buy a CD and then immediately rip it to both the FLAC library and iTunes library and then I put it on the shelf. I mostly listen to music off my computer at that point.

When i burn my itunes music to a cd i set it as lossless. The store cd's sound much better than burning them off itunes, even with lossless enable

Dirtbiker · March 20, 2015

Ha ha. Came across this topic. I still buy CD's. Have never downloaded a song. I am actually sad because my last truck had capacity for 6 cd's. A single player sucks lol.

Guess I am old school. Still remember carrying around a case of cassettes

TheTunaHunter · March 20, 2015

Have yet to put a CD in since I bought the truck in May 14'......

LTZTom · March 20, 2015

I don't even know if my CD player works .

txchevy4ever · March 20, 2015

Have yet to put a CD in since I bought the truck in May 14'......

I haven't purchased one since about 2003...

KMGZ400 · March 20, 2015

I use the cassette player in my suburban almost every day. Thats why i wont upgrade the radio because i wont be able to use it anymore. I also use cd's almost every day

What do you listen to on cassette? Cassettes were garbage I can't imagine anyone would enjoy using them

KMGZ400 · March 20, 2015

Music CD's are obsolete.. With phones, iPods there is no need for CD's. They take up space and scratch easily. I'm suprised they haven't stopped putting them in cars, I'm sure the time will come very soon

02suburbanZ71 · March 20, 2015

What do you listen to on cassette? Cassettes were garbage I can't imagine anyone would enjoy using them

Marty robbins, lee greenwood, patsy cline, loretta lynn. Audio books too. Also it does sound very good by the way, so do my CD's.

crafferty · March 20, 2015

I only use my CD player to play Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama after the Crimson Tide win football games. So I basically use it every Saturday during the fall ;) I really need to get off my lazy butt and upload my music to the 64GB Class 10 SD card I purchased months ago.

RadoRage · March 20, 2015

I have one CD (RATM) that I put in the player. Its become a bit of a tradition that when I buy a new vehicle, I move the CD to the new one. It never comes out otherwise.

redwngr · March 20, 2015

Yep that's because it technically is the best. Any digital music file you download is compressed in some manner. Going by memory, a track on a cd plays at around 1440 kbps/s and the highest MP3 bit rate you can get is 320 kbps/s. Apple I think offers some "Apple Lossless" options for some music but again that's Apple owned and not an open source file like FLAC. I currently maintain 2 digital music libraries on my computer: 1) a FLAC only library for listening around the house and an iTunes library of compressed audio for my iPod (my old broken iPod rather...I need to get a new one). My process is basically to buy a CD and then immediately rip it to both the FLAC library and iTunes library and then I put it on the shelf. I mostly listen to music off my computer at that point.

Reminds me I still have a collection of 'ripped' vinyl - played once and copied to cassette.

We've moved twice and raised/shipped out the kids since the last recording was made. I don't think they ever saw the (expensive) turntable set up and running.