I didn't see any responses to this one but I think I remember although my memory's a little hazy; uh, what was the question? Oh yeah the match books were there for when the Doors came on and played "Light My Fire"; no that's not it; for Hendrix "Purple Haze", no,now it comes back! It was to stabilize 8 track cassettes in the player to keep the dreaded warble at bay and the awful vibration of plastic against plasticized metal. Simply slip the match book between the cassette and the tape player opening; removing the roach clip was optional

 

I have both, last time I used them was on a 79 Honda Civic in 1980 something. Crap, just realized I'm a Geezer!!!

 

So I put 20 songs on a flash drive.

12 show up on the RAM - Only 6 show up on the Vette.

Any advice besides just listening to the ones that show up?

(They all work when plugged into the computer...)

Sarge

 

I need to get one of my daughters to do this for me!

There are a whole plethora of trucks and SUVs that cost just as much or more than the c7!




I realllly need to do this!

Sounds like me in my c3. The original radio is still in the car, but there are no speakers.

Sarge...I'm the girl who showed up to take delivery of my new c7 with CDs for the long ride home. Yeah, I had no clue there wasn't a CD player.

 

I didn't know, either! I wanted the car, I bought it. I had no reason to be reading about the cd player (or the lack thereof!) before taking delivery!


I'm just terribly impressed that you put songs on a flash drive, something I've yet to even attempt after 3 yrs of ownership.

 

And it bugs me every time!

 

That's the attitude this Country needs these days!
We didn't have no fancy e-leck-tronicks on the wagon train from St. Louie to Cheyenne.


If we weren't a singin, we were busy pulling ticks off each other and collectin arrow heads.

 

Yep, I missed it. Is that for 45's only? That's too much work!


I need to be able to play 33 1/3 for complete vinyl enjoyment.

 

I sing when going to work. Keeps me awake. Now for another rendition of "OLD FOLKS AT HOME." Not, rock for me.

 

Crap. Pick one up thats "1TB".

It won't work?

I've got a S6 Edge phone but for security issues (client data access) - I can't use it for this purpose.

Ripping a few songs off each of a few thousand CDs sounds like a terrible loss of shooting and drinking time.

I've got Amazon prime and Sirius accounts - Can I just download from them...?

Sarge

 

I had the no CD chat with a guy at the Auto Show in NYC yesterday. I'll tell you the same thing I told him.

I have a huge CD collection, had a huge collection of LP's before that with a wonderful stereo system with multiple turntables, CD players and a mixer. It all changed when my wife bought me a CD recorder. Before we "burned" 'em on the PC, the recorder was a stand alone component. After "burning" hundreds of albums to CD, along came the iPod. Now all of the CD's had to go on the PC to put them on the iPod. Now it's the cloud...so if it's on the PC you can distribute to your devices for 24 bucks a year with iTunes Match.

The 12 thousand songs go from the PC to the cloud for access from up to four devices. I use my phone, my ipad and two PC's so I can take my music wherever I go.

My phone with the nav and music apps, paired with car play, which you get in all GM vehicles, is just the latest step in the evolution. Haven't been hacked, nothing has been stolen...if the government or whomever is listening or tracking me (which they do with ezpass anyway) they're definitely bored to tears (and I work in the media).

But I have my music and what I need to integrate my life with my driving. We have some marvelous tools to work with, we just have to select what we need to do the job we desire. And as I write this, I think of the handful of times I used the CD player in the last three Mercedes I had before buying the Corvette. It's part of the reason I bought my C7, I didn't need a back seat anymore...I can say the same about a CD player...

 

I think, like the SD card for the PDR, if you get large memory sticks you have to format the stick a certain way before the car will recognize it. Try formatting it with a FAT32 format.

That of course may be confusing for some, if so, pass the stick to one of your computer friends and say you want it formatted FAT32 (or post what computer system you have and we can try to walk you through it).

 

Angels Envy is great tasting Bourbon

 

Amazon prime music will play perfectly through bluetooth. Takes 5 seconds to set up.

 

I'm using a 128GB in my car, 1 for music and 1 for PDR, works great

 

Your first problem was you paid $80K for a pickup....

 

Didn't have a choice - The wife picked out a $130k Fifth Wheel.

Not too many trucks can safely haul and stop a 20k lb camper...

 

Actually only took about 6 hrs to load about 100 CDs onto a few flash drives.

And they even work...

Thanx to everyone who chimed in -

Johnnie Walker Blue and LaFlorDominicas are my treat...

Sarge

 

Thanks Sarge for playing along, and not turning into a cry baby like some members who have posted similar threads in the past. Congrats on getting your flash drives setup.

Also, think about the prior suggestion to stream your Amazon Prime music through a smart phone connected to your car. It's another alternative to get access to your music without the time invested to move to flash drives.

 

Well, lemme say this about that.

I get books on CD from the library. It is IMPOSSIBLE to listen to these which are ripped to MP3 files. The infotainment system reorganizes the order of the MP3 files in some unknown order. It even ignores the folder structure on the USB drive.

I had software to merge all the MP3 files into a big, honking 12 hour MP3 file and that had potential. The problem then was if the playback got interrupted, the all knowing infotainment system began at the beginning of the MP3 file again with NO WAY to locate to where it left off. If you were 10 hours into the MP3 file, you had to re-create a new MP3 with the last 2 hours.

I would really, really like an answer to this problem, if anyone here has one.

I tried loading stuff on my Android phone with Windows Explorer but the playback software doesn't seem to have a navigate function so I can find the damn files.

WTF does this stuff have to be sooooooo difficult?