spiritof67

I just got through reading a half dozen reports of C7 owners using essentially a Walkman in their cars to play CD's. I won't bother getting into GM's "millennial" tilt in removing CD players from cars millennials can't afford and don't want, like Corvettes; what I am interested in is if anyone has yet found a viable add-on CD player for this car. And before anyone selects a hand release, please don't suggest that I do more work (i.e. "rip", "stream", "download" etc.) just to hear music I already own. I'm looking for a CD player for this car. Has anyone found one?

L8ter

This topic has come up in a few threads. Unfortunately I can't remember anyone coming up wth a way to play CDs.
Everyone is just transferring their music to thumb drives. It takes little time, but you can carry an enormous amount of music on one stick.

defaria

I remember when the got rid of the cassette player... bastards!

Steve_R

I wish I could find a good under dash 8 track player.

Seriously OP, put all your CDs - that you already own - on one small memory stick and use it in your C7 while your CDs stay at home. Wanting to carry around a bunch of CDs when there is a much better solution makes no sense.

Bucknut2006

I'm an owner of a massive CD library and still buy them to this day. That being said, there will not be a good alternative for the C7 since any input method would be inferior to ALAC is you prefer lossless audio. Ripping CD's is something you should be doing anyways to mitigate the potential loss of your collection. I would recommend encoding them with something like FLAC and storing a backup off site. Once you have that process down, you can easily convert them to a more favorable format that can be easily transported to your cars.

robert miller

Rebel Yell

spirit, the 2013 truck I bought has both the CD player, and the USB ports for flash drives. At first I though I would never use the USB crap, and didn't even know how to use the thing anyway. Then a more Tech savvy friend showed me how it was done, and now I use the drives nearly all the time. It is really easy, and you can find the flash drives on sale for as little as $2.99 for one that will hold everything you have with room left over. Heck, I even ask my neighbors 15 year old for help at times. Try it, and I think you will like it as there doesn't seem to be an easy way to put a CD player in these Vettes.

Foosh

Most baby-boomers I know figured out how to load their CDs onto iTunes years ago. Now they stay in boxes in the basement.

Rooster OG

Get a CD player like this:

https://www.amazon.com/GPX-PC101B-Po...able+cd+player

Then get a cord to go from the headphone out jack on it, to go into the aux jack located in the center console.

spiritof67

Doing work,i.e. transferring my CD's to a thumb drive which will require me to purchase an offboard CD burner, iis not really "a much better solution" when I already have the CD's, in my view.

spiritof67

Yeah, we don't know each other and I have about 500 CD's I am looking at right now. And I don't have a basement. Sorry to skew the demographic! But I admire those intrepid enough to sit around working to hear music they already have paid for as a recording.....

spiritof67

I am already driving a $70,000 sports car with an expensive Bose sound system through which I am playing a Walkman, thanks. Talk about a rolling anachronism! The problem is that the C7 sound system is so overcomplicated you cannot link any other outside system with it. I was hoping for a CD player that I could mount on the drivers' side of the console and use the AUX input to power it, but it looks more and more like that ain't gonna work...

spiritof67

Looks like there is no alternative, doesn't it? What a nose job, GM. Try and try to sell that lame Serious Radio (the Elvis Channel, really?) but eliminate the CD player. Nice.

direct007

If you want to have less work for yourself and want access to a music collection larger than you could ever own..I highly recommend Apple Car Play or the Android equivalent. Simply plug in your phone, press the little button on the steering wheel and request the song you want to hear. Best thing since sliced bread. No messing with CD, downloads, ripping, thumdrives, it's the easiest way to hear anything you want.

Steve_R

You do know, I assume, that very few new cars come with CD players?

Do you not own a PC or laptop with a CD drive? If so you have no excuse except "I don't wanna" for not putting your CDs on a memory stick. I grew up with 8 track players in cars, then cassettes, then CDs and I figured it out. It's not hard.

Boiler_81

Most any PC should have an optical drive which is all you need. The benefit of having all 500 of your CDs on one thumb drive is worth going through the effort in my opinion.

defaria

I'm curious, with 500 CD's, don't you find it a bit distracting to have to fumble through 500 of them to find the one you want and put it into your CD player WHILE DRIVING!!!!. Or perhaps you leave some of those CD's at home and the one you want is not there. How exactly is that a superior experience to having all of your music on a thumb drive and plugged into the car for easy access? I don't know about you but I would find such an experience to be really poor and I could not justify wanting to keep CD. If you rip them with a lossless format they sound the same, it's much more convenient and you have access to everything! But you seem to want to insist on staying with old technology that offers an inferior experience and is difficult to use. I wonder what you reason for clinging to the past here is as IMHO it doesn't appear to be a win-win....

dbaker

Seems to work better(on another car) for the USB drive to be formatted to Fat32 and not NTFS...or so it did for me.

Mp3's play well.

\db2

JRYELLOWCORVETTE

I can't imaging driving my C7 while drinking coffee and talking on the cell phone and fliping through a bunch of CD's to find the right one!

C7HOORAY

Easiest thing ever! Just get a small portable CD player that runs on AA batteries and a small 3.5mm cable and plug into the port in the armrest! i did it for a while and it works great, but the USB stick is fine too. You can buy those little portable players on Amazon for cheap all day long!

Enjoy!