External CD Player

[SomeBlondeGuy]

Has anyone used an external CD player in their Stinger?

And I don't mean just a CD Walkman.
I tried using mine and it doesn't save where the CD left off when you turn the car off. Plus, it skips a lot over bumps.

And no, I don't want to rip my CDs onto a USB using the FLAC format or even MP3 or WMA.

I still enjoy the feeling of playing music off of a CD. That's the one thing I don't like about newer cars, even if CDs are considered going the way of the dinosaur. I will continue to buy CDs until they are no longer made.

There are plug and play external CD players designed specifically for cars.

The CD will remember where it left off and it even shows the track info on your car's factory display. You can even change tracks with your steering wheel controls.

I know they're not cheap, but I just want to make sure that such a player would be compatible with the Stinger before I buy one.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Test it first before you buy.

I was bummed that the Stinger had no CD player. But in almost no time I had moved my ripped CD files from my 'puter to a USB stick and never looked back.

 

[davkiz]

WTAF

 

[SomeBlondeGuy]

WTAF

????

 

[Blueangel]

????

I’m guessing he thinks it’s a stupid question

 

[OhioStateStinger]

I’m guessing he thinks it’s a stupid question

CD players and 8-tracks are almost the same things these days. I still have 200 CDs gathering dust in my closet, but I just Spotify up and stream whatever I want to play. It is so much less complicated than having a giant book of CDs in the car.

 

[Blueangel]

CD players and 8-tracks are almost the same things these days. I still have 200 CDs gathering dust in my closet, but I just Spotify up and stream whatever I want to play. It is so much less complicated than having a giant book of CDs in the car.

Agreed!!

 

[SomeBlondeGuy]

I’m guessing he thinks it’s a stupid question

Yep.
So instead of ignoring the thread he has to add that worthless reply.
Here's one for him:. SMH

 

[Kamauxx]

Yep.
So instead of ignoring the thread he has to add that worthless reply.
Here's one for him:. SMH

Are you purchasing from the internet? If so, you should have plenty of reviews to read through before buying. Those reviews should give you a good idea if it'll be compatible with the hardware in your car. There isn't anything proprietary in the Stinger's infotainment. It's actually the same base system used in Fortes, Souls, Optimas/K5s, Sonatas, etc etc etc. I'm not sure how they work but if it matters, the OS in the Stinger is, IIRC a version of Android 4 (possibly 6) so during your search if you see OS requirements make sure you select something with 4.0 or later.

 

[davkiz]

Stopped using anything other than these since ca. 2004.

 

[DTD]

Agreed!!

Why not just rip the CD's and put in electronic version and put on a flash drive? Won't the Stinger play WMA?

 

[MerlintheMad]

Why not just rip the CD's and put in electronic version and put on a flash drive? Won't the Stinger play WMA?

I have MP3 and WMA files on my USB stick.

 

[SomeBlondeGuy]

I have MP3 and WMA files on my USB stick.

I heard there's a downside to WMA files.
I'd love to put FLAC files on a USB stick but I'm not sure if our systems can read them.

 

[davkiz]

FLAC is compatible.

 

[SomeBlondeGuy]

FLAC is compatible.

Know of any good programs for Windows PC that are free, that I can use to rip my CDs to the FLAC format?
I'm running an older version of Windows which still has Windows Media player, but there is no option for FLAC, just WMA.

 

[RedCal]

While I would strongly recommend that you switch to a good streaming platform... but if you are hell bend on using a USB stick.... MediaMonkey is a good, and free program that rips to FLAC

 

[LordShadow]

Foobar2000 is a great player for FLAC and any other media files you wish that is a windows program. It will also rip CDs.
Also, VLC Media Player will do this. Both have very strong community support and documentation.
There is no "downside" to Wave files other than their size and they are compatible universally. These, like FLAC are also uncompressed.

Hope this helps.

 

[SomeBlondeGuy]

Foobar2000 is a great player for FLAC and any other media files you wish that is a windows program. It will also rip CDs.
Also, VLC Media Player will do this. Both have very strong community support and documentation.
There is no "downside" to Wave files other than their size and they are compatible universally. These, like FLAC are also uncompressed.

Hope this helps.

I believe WMA and Wave are not part and parcel.
Isn't WMA compressed like an mp3, and Wave the raw format that's on a CD?
I heard that FLAC files sound almost as good as Wave but are compressed...

 

[RedCal]

FLAC is what is called Lossless compression ie you don't lose anything in the conversation whereas MP3's for example are lossy.. frequencis are discarded during the conversion

 

[narsnail]

I use Pulsar through Android Auto; I just keep all my files on my phone, FLACs are big but most modern phones have tons of storage. It will play both FLAC and WAV files. Not to mention you can get giant MicroSd cards depending how much music you have. You should still be able to connect a modern phone to an older version of windows, it should be able to recognize the storage and you just move the files onto the phone. The ripping the CD and moving them onto your phone would be the most time consuming part. You can also do this with a USB stick, you just lose the AA (or apple) functionality.

I've used VLC before, not to rip cds, but it works great and is free. That would be my suggestion. Sorry it's not specifically what you asked, but once you have your music collection ripped it can be backed up and preserved. I don't trust CD's, DVDs etc but I'm a 90s baby so I understand the nostalgia of a CD.