External add-on CD Player with USB Plug and Play

[Andrew4Supra]

Located a simply plug and play external CD Player by plugging into the cars usb port. Thus allowing one to play CD's when a car like the Supra doesn't offer such. I know many manufacturers are phasing out CD players.

Link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB9YKRJF?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_BXEYNJ1Q4ZRFS0Z5SRWG

Yeah I'm a bit old school and still like my CD's. I know many now use Spotify, etc. I have the satellite radio active but get bored and they now seem to have more talk radio between songs than before. Annoying to me.

Has anyone added one of these to a Supra?

Seems small enough to hide it discretely in the car.

Thoughts?

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[Stinger2supra]

Nope. I have Apple Music. It has Lossless audio. And almost every cd ever made at my fingertips. With zero commercials.

 

[razorlab]

Nope. I have Apple Music. It has Lossless audio. And almost every cd ever made at my fingertips. With zero commercials.

Exactly. Why even have CDs now. I can understand vinyl records (which I do have and continue to buy) but CDs are like laser discs and dvds. Why.

 

[kaj]

CDs??? For real?

 

[XtremeMaC]

For some road trips I ripped music into mp3 and some YouTube videos into mp4 for the little one and just stuck them onto a USB.
Enable in motion playback to get idrive to play videos.
Dunno how tech inclined you are but ripping CDs into mp3 is like 2 second job. (well more like 30 mins, but simple configure once and wait for the process)
Or just become a pirate.

 

[BMWAF]

Located a simply plug and play external CD Player by plugging into the cars usb port. Thus allowing one to play CD's when a car like the Supra doesn't offer such. I know many manufacturers are phasing out CD players.

Link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB9YKRJF?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_BXEYNJ1Q4ZRFS0Z5SRWG

Yeah I'm a bit old school and still like my CD's. I know many now use Spotify, etc. I have the satellite radio active but get bored and they now seem to have more talk radio between songs than before. Annoying to me.

Has anyone added one of these to a Supra?

Seems small enough to hide it discretely in the car.

Thoughts?

While I am done with physical media, I refuse to stream media so have some idea where you are coming from. MP3 FTW. Arrrrrr.

Just thinking about it, you could probably just try any old USB CD/DVD Player made for connecting to a PC and see if it will work.

I have a USB CD/DVD Burner which I was going to connect up to test for you.. but I realised that I don't actually have any physical discs to test it with.

I'm now curious to see if the Supra can read discs this way. Interesting.

 

[J29DB03]

Have a feeling you already know this but you can always add your CD’s to a USB drive and then import that to the car itself. It will then all be in the car without having to plug in the USB. Blew my mind when I realized it. No more having to fumble trying to change a CD or leave a USB in the slot to cook.

 

[BMWAF]

Have a feeling you already know this but you can always add your CD’s to a USB drive and then import that to the car itself. It will then all be in the car without having to plug in the USB. Blew my mind when I realized it. No more having to fumble trying to change a CD or leave a USB in the slot to cook.

Not to hijack the thread but doesn anybody know exactly how much internal storage the car has?

 

[J29DB03]

Not to hijack the thread but doesn anybody know exactly how much internal storage the car has?

Never looked it up but can say I have probably 20+ CD’s worth of songs, which probably isn’t really all that much, and didn’t run out of space. For some sort of measurement.

 

[DarkZupra]

 

[NINaudio]

Located a simply plug and play external CD Player by plugging into the cars usb port. Thus allowing one to play CD's when a car like the Supra doesn't offer such. I know many manufacturers are phasing out CD players.

Link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB9YKRJF?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_BXEYNJ1Q4ZRFS0Z5SRWG

Yeah I'm a bit old school and still like my CD's. I know many now use Spotify, etc. I have the satellite radio active but get bored and they now seem to have more talk radio between songs than before. Annoying to me.

Has anyone added one of these to a Supra?

Seems small enough to hide it discretely in the car.

Thoughts?

I still buy CD's as I like to own my media, but I rip them to FLAC for home use and MP3 for car/mobile use. While it can be a daunting process at first if you have a large collection, ripping a single disc takes 2 or 3 minutes, so once you're done any new stuff is super quick to add to your digital collection. I have hundreds of albums on a 64gb low profile USB thumb drive that I just leave plugged into the car.

 

[NINaudio]

Not to hijack the thread but doesn anybody know exactly how much internal storage the car has?

I don't know the exact answer, but it's definitely less than 64 gb, as it told me there wasn't enough room to transfer all the music from my USB stick.

 

[BMWAF]

I still buy CD's as I like to own my media, but I rip them to FLAC for home use and MP3 for car/mobile use. While it can be a daunting process at first if you have a large collection, ripping a single disc takes 2 or 3 minutes, so once you're done any new stuff is super quick to add to your digital collection. I have hundreds of albums on a 64gb low profile USB thumb drive that I just leave plugged into the car.

I considered doing this but as I keep all the music on my phone, Carplay takes care of it.

 

[NINaudio]

I considered doing this but as I keep all the music on my phone, Carplay takes care of it.

Ahh, yeah, I keep a bunch of my music on my phone too, but I'm an Android user.

 

[SunshineSupraMan]

I agree that mp3s suck. I can’t stand the way they sound, even at ridiculously high sample rates.

Our cars play FLAC files as well (at least my 2022 does). You can put 100’s of CDs on a USB drive that barely sticks above the USB slot. I don’t think a human can distinguish a FLAC file from a CD WMA file on our cars stereos. FLAC can have album art etc…

Or you could go with native CD WMA files on a USB, but you would not have title, track, album art, etc…

I use the stick when I want to listen to a specific song or album, but mostly I stream. I feel your desire to stick with physical, but figuring out how to wire a CD player is probably going to be more challenging than it sounds.

This is coming from a guy who tore apart my center stack trying to figure out how to replace the wireless charger in the charging tray with an Apple Mag safe wireless charger yesterday. I don’t think replacing the existing phone charger (and gps extender) is possible in any reasonable way.

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