Enjoying her new SS...

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by jshaf

Rip all you music to your computer hard drive at 320 bit rate then buy a 8 or 16 GB flash drive for cheap and put it all on it. once you start listening to music on a flash drive I doubt you will have much use for a cd player.

Transferring your music to a flash drive is probably the easy part, assuming that there are no copyright protection difficulties to get past and that the process itself doesn't lose too much.

The long term question is whether the interface for finding and selecting what you want to play is comfortable for the user to have to work with, and it's hard to beat inserting a specific CD in the slot where this is concerned. For example, not everybody is at all comfortable with touch screens or issuing voice commands.


Norm

[DocMartens]

Originally Posted by Bad@ssCamaro

there will be another guy by to formally Welcome you with a big Fridge and about a food fight that could break out

lol

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Originally Posted by Jalberdi99

welcome to C5, i bet you wish u had one of this inside.

.....i have several of those inside.....

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Originally Posted by NASCR3

I have a 32 gig flash drive with my entire music catalog on it, over 2400 songs and only 16 gig used. If you don't do XM, which I love and recommend highly then this is the hot setup.

Originally Posted by Q'smuscle

Nice .Congrats and welcome ! I have a CD player in my 13 , the dealer hookedup because I didn't want the car without it.

Originally Posted by blessedhellride

welcomen

Originally Posted by BeastMode13

Looks good!

Originally Posted by SMITTY8

You'll become addicted to C5.....and get plenty of ideas on the way. Congrats

Originally Posted by Dznts

Very nice, congrats!!

Originally Posted by rjdapilmoto

And there it is!!!!!! Post #22
Welcome! And enjoy your new car!!!

Originally Posted by PalmerGA

I didn't like the idea when I first got my '13, but now I love it. Paid a few bucks for a 10GB flash drive and put ALL my favorite CDs on it. So easy and you just leave it plugged in and change the Source on your MyLink screen and pick the tunes you want. Very convenient.

Originally Posted by DFWZ28

that is a super nice car. and i am in my 50's and still would prefer a cd player as i have ton's of cd's

btw...for you younger generation, how do you burn the songs or cd's to your flash drive? do you have to buy the cd on itures or ? then use a burner software.

Good question!

Originally Posted by Angrybird 12

ITunes can actually copy and create MP3s from your personal CDs and from songs you buy on ITunes. I have done it many times. BTW I am 60...

Originally Posted by SWAT

Welcome, nice ride. Use an IPod.

Originally Posted by jshaf

Rip all you music to your computer hard drive at 320 bit rate then buy a 8 or 16 GB flash drive for cheap and put it all on it. once you start listening to music on a flash drive I doubt you will have much use for a cd player.

Originally Posted by mcbeth15

Congrats! Enjoy the ride!

Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

Transferring your music to a flash drive is probably the easy part, assuming that there are no copyright protection difficulties to get past and that the process itself doesn't lose too much.

The long term question is whether the interface for finding and selecting what you want to play is comfortable for the user to have to work with, and it's hard to beat inserting a specific CD in the slot where this is concerned. For example, not everybody is at all comfortable with touch screens or issuing voice commands.


Norm

Thanks to all for your welcome!
Looks like i will be picking up a USB flash drive.
Whether or not i can download music to it remains to be seen; don't know if my computer can do that but i will give it a shot!

Bob

[menendez1293]

Originally Posted by 2012-1822

I loaded up 185 songs on a flash drive right before I bought my car. Put it in at the dealership, haven't removed it yet. Kind of rotate between that and the radio. A hint, they have these low profile ones at Best Buy and other places that barely sticks out at all, like a quarter of an inch, you won't even know it's there.


Pretty sure this is the one I have.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-...&skuId=3613558

Dang Best Buy is overpriced, paid the same amount for my 32Gb one at walmart.

[oldfriend]

first mod
remove that bird drop from the left side of the trunk lid

[jshaf]

Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

Transferring your music to a flash drive is probably the easy part, assuming that there are no copyright protection difficulties to get past and that the process itself doesn't lose too much.

The long term question is whether the interface for finding and selecting what you want to play is comfortable for the user to have to work with, and it's hard to beat inserting a specific CD in the slot where this is concerned. For example, not everybody is at all comfortable with touch screens or issuing voice commands.


Norm

or you can go to the menu on the radio and select what ever album you want and play it just like your incerting it in to the HU with a CD only with out having to have the CD and case and a case to hold all the individual CD's. just way easier carrying a Flashdrive in your shirt pocket or just keeping it pugged in inside the center console.

[jshaf]

Originally Posted by menendez1293

Dang Best Buy is overpriced, paid the same amount for my 32Gb one at walmart.

they also have the PNY 8gb attache ones in a three pack for about 20 bucks that are pretty small also. average person probably doesn't need any more that 8GB but there so inexpensive I just load certain types on each one with tons of room to spare.

[Angrybird 12]

Found one of these on eBay for $13.99 16gb. They are very small.

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Originally Posted by Angrybird 12

Found one of these on eBay for $13.99 16gb. They are very small.

Kool. Check it out.

J.C. TN.? Ever get out near Piney Flats?

On another note, hooray for you overcoming the big c!
My wife is a c***** survivor.

Bob

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by jshaf

with out having to have the CD and case and a case to hold all the individual CD's. just way easier carrying a Flashdrive in your shirt pocket or just keeping it pugged in inside the center console.

No argument there at all. On a data per unit volume basis I can't think of anything else that comes even close.

But how many times would you scroll through about 600 CD titles, one line at a time on the display, before that got old? Not that it'd fit on less than handful of 32G flashdrives anyway, so you have to wait for each new drive to be recognized and read. Don't forget to put your reading glasses on every time, too, which is a consideration that OP is likely familiar with but which rarely occurs to most folks younger than about 45.


Norm

[Angrybird 12]

Originally Posted by klaatu barada nikto

Kool. Check it out.

J.C. TN.? Ever get out near Piney Flats?

On another note, hooray for you overcoming the big c!
My wife is a c***** survivor.

Bob

Yep, we used to go to Pardners Bar-B-Q a lot. Not so much any more.
Glad to hear your wife beat the big C.

[Hot Tamales]

Roll the windows down and listen to the engine.