Books on disk
We listen to Audible books as we travel cross country. So we had a CD player in our F350. However that spontaneously combusted and the truck we are looking at a 2018 RAM 2500 does not have a CD player...
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ReneeG wrote:
I listen to audiobooks all the time and use to take along a portable CD player, but now I download audio books using my library card from their online library using the Libby app. It's the best thing!
OPs new vehicle as pretty much as all new vehicles, CD players have been eliminated and never coming back..
The choice now days is to use a USB flash drive with downloaded audio files in MP3 or WMA format plugged into the vehicles radio USB port or use some sort of external player (IE portable MP3 player, portable CD player or place audio files on a smart phone) that connects via BlueTooth..
To me after yrs and yrs of using "portable" devices in vehicles they are a real pain and hassle to use while driving. Get in the vehicle, start the vehicle, start the player, connect the player, power the player, fuss with small buttons and screens on the player, charge the player..
When you get to destination, turn off the player and so on, some remember the last place you were listening to, but many do not..
The newer vehicles HAVE a MP3 player built in, they have a USB port for that purpose, all you are missing is the USB flash drive..
Rip the CDs to MP3, copy the files to a USB flash drive and bam.. You have your very own "juke box"..
The only main rules are to put each CD album (or audio book) into it's own folder, do not just copy them to the root of the drive.
Now how hard is that?
Give your CD player a goodby hug and put it out to pasture, it deserves good long rest.. Even finding a store that sells CDs have all but vanished. Last time I looked at Walmart their CD sales area was one little bin with maybe at best 50 discs.. You basically have to mail order them..
Perhaps we should all demand that manufacturers put 8 track players back in?
