Cd's into zip drive so I can play them in new car

2oldman wrote:

way2roll wrote:
I am not sure how a car stereo would read a zip drive. The point of a zip drive - when they still made them - was to compress files on to a ZIP disc so you can store more data than diskettes.

I thought a zip file utility was something completely different. No?

Don't understand your question. Zip drives were made primarily by Iomega. They required ZIP discs. There were a few utilities you could use to write files to them - Iomegaware was one, WINZIp was another etc. I can still hear that click and buzz as they worked.

ZIP drive

I doubt the OP is talking about a ZIP drive though as no one has used these in over a decade. I would guess he's referring to a flash drive or USB drive. Windows has a built in program to rip CD's into various media, most commonly MP3. But there are a lot of programs out there to do that. But you don't "zip" an MP3 to a flash/USB drive. You rip the songs from the CD and save them as MP3's. Anything "zipped" commonly means compressed, and I don't think too many stereos can unzip- or decompress data files and then play them.

Semantics I cam sure. OP probably wants to know how to get songs from a CD to a portable drive compatible with their stereo.