This is a little of an offshoot from my post on XP, but here goes....
When was the last time you played a physical CD in your car?
Note... this is NOT "a CD that I ripped and play back on my audio player". I'm talking about an actual physical CD that you take to your car and played.
For me, it was last September on my Chevy Malibu. I was going on a week-long road trip, and purchased some audiobooks on CD. I tried my CD player which I hadn't used in quite a while, and the player jammed up. The cost to fix the player was going to be $300, verses the $100 I spent to put in a FM modulator and play it back through a portable device.
Now, I did purchase a new car last week, and I did test out the CD player just to make sure it works. But, I was more interested in the Bluetooth connection and the auxiliary audio input in the car than the actual CD player.
Sometime in 2013.
Additionally, almost all of my music from iTunes is from a CD put into the computer.
About three weeks ago. My Hondoo doesn't have a cassette player, and my iPod only works with a cassette adapter. I'm too cheap to buy one of those radio things, so I burned one CD to get me through those times where there was nothing interesting to listen to on the radio.
Whenever my CD changer broke last year. I have both a 12-disc changer and a cassette player (Pontiacs are weird), but the cassette player doesn't work well with my iPod adapter. It periodically spits it out, saying the tape is jammed. :crazy:
Not that I use the iPod much anyway - it's probably been two or three years. It's pre-iPhone, and I don't have a smartphone either.
So, I still listen to music like it's 2006. In the car: radio for now. On the computer: iTunes or YouTube playlists.
I make data CDs and play those, it's like having a 60-CD player.
Don't laugh, I played some Christmas music on a CD in my work van just a couple days ago.
:wow:
Quote from: Jardine on April 06, 2014, 05:30:07 PM
Don't laugh, I played some Christmas music on a CD in my work van just a couple days ago.
:wow:
I honestly crave Christmas music the most in May/June, and sometimes again around Labor Day.
If we're requiring that it be *my* car, then the answer is two weeks ago on the way to and from the Delmarva meet. If any car will do, I played plenty of CDs on the way to and from Nashville last weekend.
I keep a decent sized box of CDs in my car. Some of them original from the record companies, some of them burned CD-Rs. I normally don't listen to music when driving locally but when I go on road trips, this is where my music comes from. I do not own an mp3 player other than my computer, so in the car CDs are my only option.
Yesterday, only because I haven't driven today. I prefer CDs to digital in the car.
A couple months ago: language CDs (Bahasa Indonesia) from the library. But the new car has bluetooth audio, so I get music from either the radio or the phone
I really don't remember. It's been a while. I don't own an mp3 player, so I play CDs when I travel. Like Anthony, I don't listen to the radio or a CD when driving locally. Sadly, I haven't taken a road trip in quite a while.
Couple of weeks ago. I played a little bit of the most recent Van Halen CD while on my way from a work-related meeting to the office.
One of my cars (a 2000 Tahoe) has a cassette player in it. Last time I used it was playing an old Beastie Boys tape about the time MCA died. The quality of the sound was surprisingly good.
My newer car has a CD player and an aux port which I plug my iPhone into. I can listen to radio stations from all over the world on it or run Pandora or play MP3s, which is very cool.
About 2 weeks ago. I bring in a few CDs when I need particular music in my life.
Friday. I haven't driven anywhere yesterday or today.
Quote from: Takumi on April 06, 2014, 05:52:32 PM
Yesterday, only because I haven't driven today. I prefer CDs to digital in the car.
CDs are digital.
Three and a half years ago. Then I switched to a vehicle with a radio with a non-working cassette deck, no working display, an AM/FM button that switches only to AM, and a clock button that switches it back to FM. Also no working bass, treble, or balance.
I've driven 50,000 miles like that and have no real complaints.
For me, probably some time in mid-March, during a particularly boring part of my trip to the St. Louis meet via Brownsville TX and Deming NM (maybe US 54 in NM headed northeast, which was pretty dull). I usually don't listen to anything while driving, except for news and political commentary on satellite radio, and traffic/weather reports on satellite or AM. It takes a lot of boredom, plus not much on the news channels (Saturdays, mid-day other days of the week), to get me to call up one of the six music discs (car) or three (truck) I keep loaded in the CD changers.
Probably sometime in 2012. I just haven't had a need for them. First of all, I haven't driven since August except when I was on break, and all of my short-distance trips go through reliabe radio markets (Iowa City/Cedar Rapids, Quad Cities, Peru/LaSalle, Chicagoland).
Just yesterday. Except that it is an mp3 disc i ripped from other CDs I own. The car AM/FM/SiriusXM/CD/mp3/Auxiliary/USB port radio plays mp3 discs up to 255 songs per disc.
Today, now that I've driven somewhere :spin:
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CDs are digital.
I mean as opposed to using my phone or MP3 player in my car's aux jack. I just prefer physical media when possible.
Never. My car only has a cassette tape player, but I never use it, either.
About a week ago, but that's just a coincidence. I have six burned CDs loaded into the in-dash changer as a backup in case I don't have my phone on me or don't have it plugged in for some reason, but I basically never listen to CDs.
But getting to the spirit of the question, I haven't been actively using CDs in about ten years. When I started driving around 2000, I had a 1990 Subaru Legacy, and coincidentally, that car's factory stereo had an aux jack–though for its era, the jack was intended for a Discman or MiniDisc player if you hadn't opted for the built-in CD player. I got my first iPod in 2002, but I pretty quickly stopped lugging my CD wallet out to the car when I went anywhere and just plugged in my iPod instead.
Now, it makes more sense than ever to play everything off my iPhone–in addition to saved tracks, I can stream music from Pandora, listen to live radio or podcasts, and more importantly, keep my phone charged so I don't have to worry about the battery lasting all day.
Quote from: Brandon on April 06, 2014, 10:10:58 PM
Just yesterday. Except that it is an mp3 disc i ripped from other CDs I own. The car AM/FM/SiriusXM/CD/mp3/Auxiliary/USB port radio plays mp3 discs up to 255 songs per disc.
My stereo supports a format called DVD-Audio, along with AM/FM/XM/CD/cassette. DVD-Audio flopped as a commercial format, but I have software to burn my own discs. The advantage to that is I can burn lossless music in either CD-standard resolution (16-bit/44.1-kHz) or in high-resolution (generally 24-bit/88.2- or 96-kHz .FLAC albums purchased from HDTracks.com), and if I use CD resolution (ripped to .WAV) I can fit substantially more than a single CD's worth of music on one disc due to the higher storage capacity of a DVD while not sacrificing sound quality due to lossy compression.
I store them all in these sleeves I get from Staples because then they fit nicely in the drawer underneath the stereo. I think I have about 20 discs in there, maybe four of which are CDs and the rest DVD-Audio. That's enough music to go across North America and back without repeating anything.
I only have a few commercial DVD-Audio discs. Listening to high-rez multichannel audio in the car is an interesting experience. In theory, it's easier for the audio engineer to make multichannel work in a vehicular environment because the seating positions are fixed, unlike at home. But road noise, coupled with the need to focus on driving, makes it a little bit pointless. It IS interesting to use the recording of the 1812 Overture released by the Telarc label to demonstrate one's system, however (this applies at home, too)–the sound of cannonballs flying past the passengers' heads makes for a fun time.
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8 years ago maybe? Around the time I first got a satellite radio subscription. Nowadays is always satellite radio or audio streamed from my iphone over Bluetooth (podcasts, pandora, albums, etc.).
I always preferred the XM radio myself, but my wife has some CDs in both our cars she'll play on occasion.
Quote from: Jardine on April 06, 2014, 05:30:07 PM
Don't laugh, I played some Christmas music on a CD in my work van just a couple days ago.
I just took down my Christmas Trees from the front yard April 2. I have them arranged nicely, and light red & white approaching Valentines Day, and green & white approaching St. Patricks Day, so they don't look too out of place.
Were CD's those late 20th century creations where the music would momentarily stop whenever your car hit a pothole?
Yes, when I bought my first car 16 years ago it had a CD player that skipped each time the car went over rough surfaces. Earlier car CD players were even worse, especially before someone had the bright idea of fitting a buffer that allowed uninterrupted play whenever the car bounced too much. At least cassettes were more robust in that sense unless the tape started to tangle which many of mine did even though they were quality TDK chrome and metal tapes.
All the above is ancient history for me as I've been using USB in my last three cars. The convenience of not having to constantly change discs or tapes is the real winner. My latest laptop has no CD and I've not missed it one little bit. CD will go the way of other physical media eventually with just a niche market surviving.
Last week; I bought Pearl Jam's latest album and haven't taken it out to be ripped for my MP3 collection. I still buy new CDs about 5-6 times a year, and I'll also borrow albums from the library. I rarely wait to get home to listen to them.
But usually, and especially on road trips, day-long jaunts, and travel...it's all iPod.
Quote from: Truvelo on April 07, 2014, 02:30:58 PMAt least cassettes were more robust in that sense unless the tape started to tangle which many of mine did even though they were quality TDK chrome and metal tapes.
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2 Type II's were my usual tapes and oh-so-sweet FeO
2 Type III's were reserved for the really good albums. I think I saved a couple of Type I's for radio-use only. I still have a tape-deck clock radio, and most of my cassettes have survived amazingly well...I threw out a bunch because nobody wanted them, saving maybe 10% of them. Haven't had a cassette deck in a car since 2009; it had a working cassette deck but no working CD player, which necessitated the iPod.
About a month ago while using my Mustang. Nothing good was on the radio (including Sirrius/XM satelite at the time), so I placed one in and played it.
Quote from: Truvelo on April 07, 2014, 02:30:58 PM
Were CD's those late 20th century creations where the music would momentarily stop whenever your car hit a pothole?
Yes, when I bought my first car 16 years ago it had a CD player that skipped each time the car went over rough surfaces. Earlier car CD players were even worse, especially before someone had the bright idea of fitting a buffer that allowed uninterrupted play whenever the car bounced too much. At least cassettes were more robust in that sense unless the tape started to tangle which many of mine did even though they were quality TDK chrome and metal tapes.
All the above is ancient history for me as I've been using USB in my last three cars. The convenience of not having to constantly change discs or tapes is the real winner. My latest laptop has no CD and I've not missed it one little bit. CD will go the way of other physical media eventually with just a niche market surviving.
Isn't USB that 20th-century thing that physically attaches devices for some odd reason?
Quote from: Pete from Boston on April 07, 2014, 04:40:21 PM
Isn't USB that 20th-century thing that physically attaches devices for some odd reason?
and gives charge. sweet, sweet charge.
until my i[diot]Phone can last more than 2 hours of vigorous use on a single battery charge, or we adopt Tesla's wireless power scheme, I'm sticking with wired connections.
I don't even have a CD player in my car. I just plug my iPhone in and play Spotify.
Quote from: algorerhythms on April 06, 2014, 11:23:50 PM
Never. My car only has a cassette tape player, but I never use it, either.
Ditto.
not since 2008 when I got my current car and could control an iPod with the car's radio.
about 15 minutes ago
I use my cassette player occasionally (very occasionally!) because I have a bunch of mixed tapes I've never transferred to DVD-Audio. None of them will fit on a CD because I always used C-90, C-100, or C-110 tapes, and transferring them is tricky because I got really good at using the tape deck's pause button to eliminate the gaps between tracks (this means I have to sit there with the remote listening in real time to insert the track breaks onto the CD). It's easier to listen to the cassette instead....and, for that matter, in the '88 RX-7 the CD player is broken but the tape player works. But I suppose some of those mixed tapes date back to around 1988 so I ought to transfer them using CD-RW discs while the tapes will still play!
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 07, 2014, 08:53:03 PM...I always used C-90, C-100, or C-110 tapes...
Using such thin tapes in a car is asking for trouble. A C-90 in Type II or Type IV form was my limit.
Quote from: Truvelo on April 08, 2014, 10:37:30 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 07, 2014, 08:53:03 PM...I always used C-90, C-100, or C-110 tapes...
Using such thin tapes in a car is asking for trouble. A C-90 in Type II or Type IV form was my limit.
Never had a problem in 30 years!
Quote from: Road Hog on April 06, 2014, 07:34:10 PM
One of my cars (a 2000 Tahoe) has a cassette player in it. Last time I used it was playing an old Beastie Boys tape about the time MCA died. The quality of the sound was surprisingly good.
My newer car has a CD player and an aux port which I plug my iPhone into. I can listen to radio stations from all over the world on it or run Pandora or play MP3s, which is very cool.
I have a portable CD player with an adapter so I can play CD's on my car's tape player.
Either that, or I burn the MP3's to a data card and use my portable MP3 player ;)
This morning. Guess I'm old-fashioned.
Reo Speedwagon -- "Good Trouble" (1982)
For the evening commute it will be Rush -- "A Farewell to Kings" (1977)
my truck has a CD player, so yesterday.
it's a burned CD, though. I think the last time I played an original pressed CD that was the format in which I purchased the music was 2006. it was Sisters of Mercy's "A Slight Case of Overbombing".
I think the death of the CD is like the death of Paul McCartney or the death of Mark Twain.
Quote...the report of my death was an exaggeration.
QuoteI wasn't really dead.
Your friend here is only mostly dead. That means he's still partly alive.
Yesterday...I have a 6-disc changer in the glovebox plus a single disc player in the dash.
Quote from: algorerhythms on April 09, 2014, 11:50:03 AM
Your friend here is only mostly dead. That means he's still partly alive.
With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do...Go through the floormats and look for loose change.
My '97 Tahoe has a 6-disc CD changer that still sounds just as good as when I first bought it.
Quote from: formulanone on April 09, 2014, 12:01:27 PM
Quote from: algorerhythms on April 09, 2014, 11:50:03 AM
Your friend here is only mostly dead. That means he's still partly alive.
With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do...Go through the floormats and look for loose change.
Except that's not what he said: he distinctly said "To Blave," which we all know means "to bluff." So you're probably playing cards, and he cheated!
I always have a CD loaded into the CD player of my car, but rarely actually play it, since I have Sirius XM in my Hyundai Elantra. However, I did play one of Pearl Jam's greatest hits CD's on Thursday night on the way home from work.
The truly weird thing is that since the day I got my car in September last year, I've had my radio on FM I think a grand total of 6 times.
Quote from: Rushmeister on April 08, 2014, 11:43:01 AM
This morning. Guess I'm old-fashioned.
Reo Speedwagon -- "Good Trouble" (1982)
For the evening commute it will be Rush -- "A Farewell to Kings" (1977)
You can borrow mine if you want the true old-fashioned experience.
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I have one of those somewhere, too.
We have a few 8-tracks, and we also have a player for them stuck in our self-storage unit. Haven't used it in many, many years.
I actually have a little suitcase that holds something like 25-8 tracks. I rebuilt a player some years ago but haven't unpacked it since I moved last year. One of these days I'll pair that with an old hi-fi I'm trying to find a stylus for.
Last time I played a CD in my car was...oddly enough, Friday, but that's the exception to the rule. I keep about 5 CDs in my car if I need them for one of the following reasons:
1. My iPhone radio transmitter stops working (I have a decent one that I put in "international mode" so that I can listen to it on 87.7)
2. The radio sucks
3. I'm getting tired and need "sing along" music to keep me awake
Currently in my car: Death Cab for Cutie - Plans, Mariah Carey's greatest hits, Whitney Houston's greatest hits, Francesca Battistelli - My Paper Heart deluxe edition (she's a Christian singer).
My CD player has been wonky as of late, so I've left Francesca in and don't plan to take her out until the CD player randomly decides to eject her.
Yesterday afternoon.
Quote from: Rushmeister on April 08, 2014, 11:43:01 AM
This morning. Guess I'm old-fashioned.
Reo Speedwagon -- "Good Trouble" (1982)
For the evening commute it will be Rush -- "A Farewell to Kings" (1977)
And tonight it will be Rush -- "2112" (1976).
Tomorrow I think I'll revisit 1990 with Killer Dwarfs -- "Dirty Weapons" and the Firehouse title album. Rock on.