How does everyone play music these days? I must be missing something!

chrisw

Will your car radio control the ipod/iphone? I bought a 64Gb ipod touch with a smashed screen for £15, put all my music on it, and I leave it connected to the car permanently, using the radio controls to operate the ipod.

Cornucopia

It sounds like the OP is connecting the iPhone with a 3.5mm audio connection.

RumRat

GunJack wrote: »

This is why people like you and me still need a pc/laptop with a CD/DVD burner on it, a decent ripping program, and create your own CDs for in the car....none of the services mentioned above have the sort of stuff I listen to (which are mainly smaller bands who may not have been around for long, and release everything DIY anyway) so cd burning is essential

New cars don't even come with a CD player.......
Forward to the future......;):D:cool:

ripplyuk

My car's 2 years old, so quite new. It came with just a CD player though we could have upgraded to the infotainment/Bluetooth stuff for a cost (I wish I had now!). There's no USB, just the round pin type. When I plug in the iPhone, I can control the volume using the car radio controls but nothing else.

I'm not sure what type of music I want. I like all sorts of things and friends have said my taste is 'a weird mix of everything'. I've bought about 3 songs on iTunes in the last couple of years but I only found those whilst watching movies and liking one of the songs.

I think signing up to Spotify premium and buying a new smartphone with a memory card would probably be the simplest solution (and I do need it to be idiot proof). It just seems so expensive when I'll probably only download a few songs a month.

DoaM

ripplyuk wrote: »

just the round pin type.

That's probably the AUX input to the car's entertainment system. (What we used to call "the stereo". )

ripplyuk

I can't blame my ignorance of all this on age, as I'm not really that old. I don't think so anyway 😁.

My friends and I all had mobiles when we were at school as teenagers. Though they were basic non-smart phones. I was given an MP3 player for Christmas one year but I ended up having to get someone else to put music on it for me, as I gave up trying.

GunJack

RumRat wrote: »

New cars don't even come with a CD player.......
Forward to the future......;):D:cool:

Another reason to only spend £3-400 on a car then, I can put my radio/cd/usb player in it ;D

spud17

Reet GJ?

My latest car doesn't have a cd player........... still got the original cassette/radio fitted, and it will stay like that.

ps. from my first van still have Radiomobile 1070 MW/LW 5 push buttons for storing stations, £17:eek:, around a weeks take home pay in 1974.

Cornucopia

@OP: I think your issue is not so much the technology, but the fact that you do not know what music you like, and therefore need a service to offer you a selection of things.

Spotify Premium is expensive, especially if you'll be getting a new phone and maybe mobile data upgrade just for that.

I'd be tempted to have a browse through the CDs in Poundland (yes, they are only £1). You could have 10 CDs for the price of one month on Spotify.



If your car is only 2 years old, it's quite likely that it can play Data CDs as well as music ones. I had a previous car like that. I could burn a Data CD which held 12 normal CDs worth of music on it, and therefore managed to squeeze my entire music collection into a single CD wallet.

I think in your position, I'd be seeking out a more technically-minded friend/relative and asking for help getting this sorted out.

Mr_Toad

GunJack wrote: »

This is why people like you and me still need a pc/laptop with a CD/DVD burner on it, a decent ripping program, and create your own CDs for in the car....none of the services mentioned above have the sort of stuff I listen to (which are mainly smaller bands who may not have been around for long, and release everything DIY anyway) so cd burning is essential

Amen to that!

PS I'm never allowed to choose the music at parties as apparently I'm just too weird.