CD's to Thumb drive - new car with no CD player

others have given you good advice. I just thought I might offer this.

If you have blue tooth in your radio then you can connect her phone to the radio and play anything she has on the phone without wires.

I used MediaMonkey to put all of our CD collectiionon on one of these by genre. It works great and just stays in the auto's USB port, small enough that it is not at risk of getting damaged. I like to listen in "random" mode.

As I recall Windows Media Player will let you RIP at least some CD's.. I used to have software that more or less did not care busted the bits out of all forms of copy protection and let me save anything to thumb drives... (I recorded my daughter's performances for her use and had to have that stuff to deal with the recordigns I personally made of her performances)

That said.. This is what I use... I have a "line in" adapter for my radio, this lets me use an external CD player.. Of course I have yet to find an external CD player I liked,, Every blessed oen of 'em was too sensitive to bumps in the road and the like.. not at all like the dash radio in the RV.

BUT... For 50 bucks I got a portable DVD player at Dollar General a couple years back... Dang thing is not even bothered by multiple rail road tracks!!!!

What I'd really like to see in a portable CD player is a gig of buffer.. Put in the CD and it loads the puppy at like 400x playing speed, then returns head to rest.. stopps the motor, and you can play kick ball with the player (inside the ball) and never miss a note.

What complicated solutions to a simple problem.
The poster says there is an aux connection.
Solution. Any device that uses a head phone can be pluged into the aux connection with a cord that can be bought at any electronic store. So yes you can play CDs, audio tape, 8 track and even phonograph records if you so desire.
Myself, I have converted every thing to MP3s and use that connection for listening.

What kind of car doesn't have a CD as an option?

Verizon charges data for it. I have to listen to the oldies though when I do my daily walk.:)

Salem
YES..

unless you have some plan option that specifies streaming music is included

If you listen to Pandora, yes you will use your data plan. If you listen to music saved ob your phone you will not use your data plan.
Edit:
Come to think of it, I think T-Mobile does not charge your data plan to stream Pandora or Netflix.

If you plug your smart phone directly into the USB and listen to music, such as "Pandora," will you be using data from your phone's plan?